{"id":22436,"date":"2026-03-15T23:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=22436"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:45:27","slug":"cruz-calls-out-tucker-carlson-warns-of-antisemitism-on-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=22436","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Calls Out Tucker Carlson, Warns of Antisemitism on the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accused political commentator Tucker Carlson of hating him for being a Christian and warned that his influence threatens to plunge the Republican Party into antisemitism.\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the last year-and-a-half, I have seen more antisemitism on the right than at any point in my life, and it is dangerous, and it risks consuming our party,\u201d Cruz said during a Wednesday interview with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). \u201cI don\u2019t want us to make the same mistake Democrat leaders made a decade ago of just to look the other way and to be silent.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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Cruz, who earlier this week\u00a0called Carlson\u00a0the \u201csingle most dangerous demagogue\u201d in the United States, told CBN that while the former Fox News host \u201cis the most vocal proponent\u201d of antisemitism on the political right, he is just one voice amid a chorus of influencers he claimed are having an outsize role in\u00a0leading young Evangelicals away from supporting Israel.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe target of this operation is you and me. It is Evangelical Christians,\u201d Cruz told Brody. \u201cTucker Carlson has said there is nobody he hates more on planet Earth than Christian Zionists, and he names specifically me and Mike Huckabee.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Cruz was presumably\u00a0referring to comments\u00a0Carlson made during his controversial interview with far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes last fall, when he said he dislikes Christian Zionists \u201cmore than anybody\u201d while labeling their beliefs about Israel \u201cheresy\u201d and a \u201cbrain virus.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Carlson\u2019s interview with Fuentes, who has espoused openly antisemitic, misogynist and white supremacist views, prompted an uproar among conservatives and\u00a0mass resignations\u00a0from The Heritage Foundation, where Carlson started his career.\n<\/p>\n

Carlson later apologized for his statement, saying it was \u201csomething that I really regret saying that I didn\u2019t fully mean\u201d that was made in the context of his opposition to the neoconservative, interventionist foreign policy he once supported, but which he realized was mistaken amid the consequences of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s unfortunate that I am the person he says he hates most on Earth,\u201d Cruz told CBN. \u201cNow, why does he hate me? He hates me, number one, because I\u2019m a Christian, and that is my faith, and I\u2019m not going to run away from it or apologize for it. But he hates me, number two, because I\u2019m a Zionist.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Cruz went on to define Zionism as someone who believes \u201cthe nation of Israel should exist,\u201d and then accused Carlson of wanting to see Israel abolished.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who denounce Zionists want to see Israel driven into the sea,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cThere are 50 Muslim nations in the world. There\u2019s one Jewish nation. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s unreasonable for the Jews to have one homeland when there were 50 Muslim nations.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s unreasonable for the Muslims to have homelands as well, but the Tuckers of the world argue, instead of 50 Muslim nations, there should be 51, and they should remove the Jews from Israel, because they have no right to have a nation,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

Carlson, who has never said he doesn\u2019t want Israel to exist but has questioned Israeli influence over U.S. foreign policy, has\u00a0called Cruz\u00a0a \u201cdumbo\u201d and drawn the lingering ire of the Texas senator since tussling with him last summer over whether the land promises of Genesis apply to the modern nation-state.\n<\/p>\n

During his\u00a0tense interview\u00a0with Carlson last June, Cruz based his support for modern Israel on God\u2019s promise to Abram in\u00a0Genesis 12, though he drew pushback from Carlson when he was unable to cite where in the Bible the passage was or what the population of Iran is, despite his support for going to war there.\n<\/p>\n

In response to a similarly\u00a0contentious interview\u00a0that Carlson had with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee last month, Cruz gloated on social media when Carlson was unsure of the Christian population of Qatar when Huckabee asked him about it.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?!? Tucker doesn\u2019t know the Christian population in Qatar??? How can he possibly have an opinion about them?\u201d Cruz wrote on X, where he posts prolifically about Carlson.\n<\/p>\n

Carlson, who said he personally appealed to President Donald Trump against intervening in Iran, has since called the Iran war \u201cdisgusting and evil,\u201d which prompted rebuke from Trump last week, who claimed, \u201cTucker has lost his way\u201d and is \u201cnot MAGA,\u201d according to\u00a0ABC News.\n<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America \u2013 Ted Cruz, CC BY-SA 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=85304777.<\/em>
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