Tucker Carlson recently interviewed Nick Fuentes on his show. During the program, Tucker — unsurprisingly — argued that Israel is bad, wrong, and evil because, among numerous other things, it believes that if you are born Palestinian, you are not human.
This is a vicious and grotesque lie.
Israel does see Palestinians as human — and that is exactly why Israel sacrifices the lives of its young men and women in war to try to spare Palestinian lives (going door-to-door in searches instead of carpet bombing, for example). The IDF’s unprecedented moral efforts on this score are documented here. This is precisely why Hamas uses its own children as human shields — KNOWING that Israel values Palestinian lives, which Hamas and Islam do not.
The real issue in terms of what Tucker is discussing is that Israel gauges a horrific truth in its fight for survival: that from the moment Palestinians are born, a death cult brainwashes and indoctrinates them to hate and kill Jews. That is the issue, and it poses a horrific problem for Israel. That problem is Islam.
Connected to this problem is the sobering reality that Palestinian mothers celebrate their own children’s “martyrdom” — especially when they die in any process that involves the killing of Jews.
We are still waiting for Tucker to devote a show to this particular phenomenon.
All of this explains why Hamas terrorists — and the Palestinian civilians who joined them in the savage attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023 — were ecstatically calling their parents to brag that they had raped/mutilated/killed Jews, and why their parents celebrated in exhilaration upon hearing that news. This “dynamic” is rooted in myriad Qur’anic verses, and in the genocidal Hadith: Sahih Muslim 6985 — a Hadith with which 73% of Palestinians agree.
THIS is the issue that Tucker avoids and distorts. THIS is the issue that Tucker hasn’t had a show about.
Tucker Carlson is also a self-avowed Christian, but he is yet to have a program about the persecution of Christians under Islam, or to have guests such as Robert Spencer, Aynaz Anni Cyrus, and Bosch Fawstin, who can explain to him how and why Islam inspires and sanctions the persecution of Christians and unbelievers.
Tucker has yet to have a show on how Muslims kidnap Christian girls in Pakistan and force them to convert to Islam. He is yet to have a discussion on how Islamic texts inspire and sanction these Muslim rapists and kidnappers as they engage in this crime against humanity. He can invite FrontPage Mag contributor Uzay Bulut, who documents these Islamic atrocities, on his show to discuss these aspects of Islam.
He would do these things if he were a Christian who really cares about Christians.
It’s also interesting — if that is the word to use — that as a Christian, Tucker attacks Israel and U.S. support of Israel while completely ignoring the Christian theological perspective of the role Jews play in salvation and in Christ’s return, which Catholic convert and author Roy Schoeman explains and documents in Salvation Is from the Jews: The Role of Judaism in Salvation History from Abraham to the Second Coming.
One wonders what Tucker thinks about the fact that Jesus taught and worshiped in the Temple, and called it “my Father’s house.” (John 7:14; Matthew 21:12–13).
What does Tucker think about the fact that Jesus observed the Sabbath? (Luke 4:16).
What does he think about the fact that the Last Supper was a Passover meal (Seder), and that Jesus and His disciples gathered to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt? (Luke 22:7–15; Matthew 26:17–19).
One also wonders if Tucker will ever invite Brant Pitre onto his show to discuss his book, “Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper.”
Maybe during that discussion Tucker can ask Mr. Pitre about Paul’s teaching that God’s covenant and promises to Israel are everlasting and have not been revoked. (Romans 9–11).
Perhaps we shouldn’t hold our breath waiting for answers to these questions – and for these hypothetical developments to transpire.
But the pertinent and pressing question remains: What does all of this say about the real impulses and yearnings that motivate and inspire Mr. Carlson?
