The choice is clear.
Tucker Carlson has never hidden his hostility and twisted obsession toward Israel, Jews, or anyone who stands with them. Recently, though, his anti-Jewish rhetoric reached a new level.
He is now elevating voices that not long ago were considered too extreme and shameful to be heard anywhere outside the shadows. Carlson has hosted several individuals with established antisemitic records, but the clearest example came when he hosted Nick Fuentes on his podcast—a Holocaust-denying, Hitler-praising, white nationalist, who calls for the defeat of “global Jewry.” For more than two hours, Carlson gave him a platform to rant about “organized Jewry” controlling America, to praise Stalin, and to smear Republicans who support Israel as victims of a “brain virus.”
Carlson didn’t challenge, counter, or elucidate his own views for the audience. He simply amplified Fuentes’ vile Jew-hatred.
Carlson also gave a platform to Darryl Cooper, an extremist historical revisionist, who argues the genocide of Jews in WWII was not a deliberate extermination plan but a logistical failure. Cooper claims Winston Churchill might be the “real villain” of WWII, rather than Hitler.
Carlson interviewed Jackson Hinkle, who describes himself as an “American Conservative Marxist-Leninist” and proponent of “MAGA Communism”, who is pro-Russia, strongly anti-Ukraine, pro-Iran, anti-Israel, and spreads conspiracies.
Carlson normalizes and legitimizes these extremist voices because they reflect his own beliefs. His goal is to popularize them within the conservative movement.
By doing so, Carlson has forced conservatives into a moment of truth.
Just as I introduced the Israel Test to expose the moral collapse of the left, the conservative movement now faces the “Tucker Test”: They must choose between standing with Carlson or standing with moral clarity.
The test has already illuminated who’s up for the task. Several conservative voices openly condemned Carlson. Senator Ted Cruz issued a clarion call to the right when he said, “If you sit with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool and their mission is to defeat ‘global Jewry,’ and you say nothing, you are complicit in that evil.”
On the other hand, the Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin Roberts, rushed to defend Carlson as “a close friend” and labeled his critics a “venomous coalition.” The irony was hard to miss, since the Heritage Foundation was behind Project Esther, a national initiative that claimed to combat antisemitism.
Sadly, like Roberts, a growing number of influential figures in the conservative movement are failing the Tucker Test.
This is not solely about Israel or the Jews. It is about Carlson’s effort to pull the conservative movement into dangerous waters of conspiracy and paranoia. It mirrors what has happened on the left, where the center’s collapse opened the door for figures like Mamdani and other extremists to push their agenda away from mainstream values.
Like the Jew-hatred of the Islamo-Leftist alliance, Tucker’s first targets are Israel and the Jewish people. He promotes isolationism, consistently arguing that American support for Israel harms the United States. He portrays “Christian Zionists” as diseased and offers platforms to isolationists who want America to abandon its allies and retreat from its role as a global leader.
For decades, Republicans supported Israel because they believed it was morally right and strategically vital. They recognized Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East that shares America’s values. Over the years, many American leaders acknowledged the fact that “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.” --->READ MORE HERE
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