Tucker Carlson’s Obsession with Jews Reflects a Hostility to America
Why Israel, Ukraine, and Winston Churchill became his enemies.
July 30, 2025
Why Israel, Ukraine, and Winston Churchill became his enemies.
When his television career began in 2000, Tucker Carlson was a clean-cut, media-savvy representative of the mainstream right. Back in 2019, Mosaic noted that he was flirting—or perhaps more—with anti-Semitism. After leaving Fox News in 2023, his anti-Semitism has become both more explicit and obsessive, combining isolationism, Nazi apologetics, anti-Israel libels, nativism, religious chauvinism, and conspiracism. James Kirchick takes a close look:
Why Israel, Ukraine, and Winston Churchill became his enemies.
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When his television career began in 2000, Tucker Carlson was a clean-cut, media-savvy representative of the mainstream right. Back in 2019, Mosaic noted that he was flirting—or perhaps more—with anti-Semitism. After leaving Fox News in 2023, his anti-Semitism has become both more explicit and obsessive, combining isolationism, Nazi apologetics, anti-Israel libels, nativism, religious chauvinism, and conspiracism. James Kirchick takes a close look:
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