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Antisemitism is about many things, but it’s usually about much bigger things than the Jews. That is one of the things that makes antisemitism different from any of the conventional bigotries.
Marxists and Communists, beginning with Marx himself, used antisemitism to define capitalism as an evil and oppressive ideology. “Money is the jealous god of Israel before whom no other god may exist,” Marx argued. “The god of the Jew has been secularized and has become the god of the world.” Marx disliked the Jews, despite his ancestry, but he hated capitalism more.
And he wanted everyone else to hate it by associating capitalism with the Jews.
The Nazis, who borrowed much from the Marxists, used the same attacks on capitalism, but they also had a larger cultural agenda and made use of an even more militant antisemitism to replace the moral principles of Christianity with a neo-pagan racial modernism in which the disabled would be killed, marriage would be swapped for genetically compatible breeding programs to create a ‘master race’ and Jesus would become an Aryan warrior myth.
Like many modernist radicals, including Marx and Voltaire, Hitler believed that the best way to get at Christianity was by going after its biblical roots to make the Jews the objects of contempt and hatred, and to ridicule everyone opposed to his program as being in thrall to the Jews.
The current antisemitism is also rarely about the Jews. Both the woke left and the woke right are using antisemitism to sideline party establishments by painting them as complicit with Israel.
And any other policies they don’t like.
It needn’t be antisemitism and one of the best recent examples came from Tucker Carlson advocating for the Marxist drug cartel regime in Venezuela targeted by President Trump.
“The question is why are we doing this, why are we so opposed to Nicolas Maduro?” Tucker asked, putting on his best baffled face, wondering why we’re targeting Cartel de los Soles run by socialist drug dealers, before suggesting that it’s because Venezuela doesn’t have gay marriage. “This whole project is Globohomo,” Tucker then suggested to his audience.
Does Tucker really hate gay people? One of his favorite guests is Glenn Greenwald, a Brazilian gay socialist, who, like Marx, is of Jewish ancestry and full of contempt for the Jews. He has bragged about his “gay producers”. (One of Tucker’s producers, Justin Wells, who founded the Tucker Carlson Network, was accused of kissing a man and grabbing his genitals.)
But grasping for some thin excuse to defend a Marxist drug dealer, Tucker blamed gay people.
And the Jews couldn’t stay out of it for long. One of Tucker’s guests, Douglas Macgregor, a retired military defense consultant, claimed that Maria Machado, the opposition leader in Venezuela, will “move the Venezuelan Embassy to Jerusalem” at the behest of “a small group of billionaire oligarchs.”
Does that mean Tucker Carlson hates Jews? Shortly thereafter, Tucker brought on Robert Amsterdam, an international lawyer and former Marxist, who was a registered foreign agent of the Maduro government in Venezuela and a former representative for an Islamist butcher of Christians in Nigeria, to deny the Christian genocide in Nigeria. Amsterdam is Jewish.
‘ZOG’ and ‘Globohomo’ are just useful excuses for Tucker to defend the otherwise indefensible on behalf of special interests and agendas that are all too obvious when you study his guests.
After Oct 7, Tucker attacked the Americans talking about a “foreign tragedy” because “over 100,000 Americans die every year of fentanyl.” Now Tucker promotes the idea that Trump fighting drug cartels is a Jewish conspiracy or a gay conspiracy and dead Americans don’t matter anymore.
Much like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene or Rep. Thomas Massie, pretending that they’re at war with some Jewish conspiracy, instead of President Trump who stunted their career ambitions, Jews are a useful distraction from the things that political hacks don’t want to talk about.
And so rather than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about Trump blocking her run for governor of Georgia, she developed a sudden interest in Gaza which she couldn’t find on a map and repeats lies about genocide in sufficient quantity to get her a guest spot on The View.
But Tucker’s cynical games matter because he’s become the epicenter of the debate over antisemitism. And the debate isn’t really about antisemitism. When Christians argue about the Jews, they’re really arguing about Christianity. What really set off the recent explosion was Tucker’s attack on evangelical Christians, saying how much he hates “Christian Zionists”.
Like Marx and Hitler, Tucker was trying to slur Christians he didn’t like, by tying them to Jews. And he succeeded in getting his targets to fight the debate on his terms, as being about the Jews, than being forced to admit what he actually dislikes about the Christians he’s targeting.
For a talking head who’s constantly been in front of the camera since I was in high school, Tucker is good at making insidious accusations by way of ‘just asking questions’, but terrible at explaining what it is he really believes and what his agenda is. And that’s good because Tucker has supported most of the things, from the Iraq War to COVID lockdowns, that he later opposed.
But two themes have emerged from his post-FOX shows: that America is evil, having developed ‘demon-inspired’ nuclear weapons to kill Christians in Japan, siding with Churchill the “terrorist” instead of the well-meaning Hitler, faking the moon landing and killing drug dealers for ‘Globohomo’, while the people we think are our enemies, Communists, Ex-Communists and Muslim terrorists, including Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah, drug cartels, are actually the good guys.
Saying it out loud makes it sound like Marxism by way of Art Bell and Code Pink which is exactly what it is, and that’s why Tucker doesn’t say it out loud, he talks about the Jews.
Tucker’s feelings about the Jews are between him and his gay producers. What matters isn’t that Tucker is pushing antisemitism, in this current phase of podcasting almost all the cool kids of podcasting are doing it because it’s politically safe and financially lucrative, but why he does it. The problem with Marx wasn’t just that he slurred Jews as greedy, but that he was doing it to advance a theory of socialist totalitarianism that would cost hundreds of millions of lives.
Ditto for Hitler who killed six million Jews to justify a larger conflict that killed over 70 million.
Tucker isn’t really attacking Jews, he’s attacking Christians. The Jews, like his gay producers, are a means to an end. That’s why Tucker is comfortable bringing on a Jewish ex-Marxist and registered foreign agent for the Venezuelan narcosocialist regime to deny that Muslims are exterminating Christians in Nigeria. This crazy quilt of agendas may seem to be chaotic insanity, like Tucker’s claims about UFO’s and demon claws, but there is a method to the madness.
The individual claims, like regime change in Venezuela as a gay Jewish plot to have gay marriage and move the embassy to Jerusalem, are meaningless noise, but they are part of a larger pattern whose goal is to reshape how we think and what we talk about. Much like Candace, Tucker throws out nonsensical accusations to control the conversation and divide us.
The individual lies and accusations don’t matter, the trajectory and the total effect of them do.
The social media networks promoting the myth of a Gaza genocide operated out of China. Code Pink, now a Chinese front group, disrupted Congress and staged protests. Does Communist China care about Gaza? Much like the USSR before it, which created the whole mythical ‘Palestinian’ narrative, antisemitism is a useful issue even for a country with no Jews.
The USSR’s obsession with the ‘Palestinian’ cause and Communist China’s obsession with Gaza were ways of tearing apart America and the West. And that’s still the end goal.
The vast majority of organized antisemitism is coming from movements and people trying to tear apart America by associating its institutions and policies with the Jews. When Tucker pushes WWII historical revisionism, it’s not because he actually cares about the Nazis or the Holocaust, but because, like the 1619 Project, he wants to revise American history to make us seem evil.
What sorts of people do that? Enemy operatives and radicals who want to burn down a society.
Antisemitism is a term invented by a German socialist nearly 150 years ago. Wilhelm Marr created the term ‘antisemitism’ and founded the League of Antisemites. Marr was also a one-time Marxist and atheist whose ultimate objection, like Hitler and Marx, was to Christianity.
“Humanity was Judaised by Christianity,” Marr wrote, closely echoing Marx’s critique of the Judaization of capitalism, “Judaism rules the world!”
When you hear that message, that Jews run the world, understand the real message within, that America and Christianity must be torn apart and destroyed because they’re really run by the Jews.
