Posted on 02/26/2026 3:16:34 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Tucker Carlson’s recent visit to Ben Gurion Airport, which Carlson billed as his “fact-finding” trip to Israel, has provoked a storm of criticism. He met with American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, insisting that Israel mistreated Christians, and refused to listen to Huckabee’s rebuttal.
Now one of the leaders of Christians in Israel, Shadi Khalloul, has also taken Carlson to task. More on his response to Carlson can be found here: “Israeli Christian Leader: Tucker Carlson ‘Doesn’t Want the Truth,’ Endangers Christians Elsewhere by Lying About Israel,” by Debbie Weiss, Algemeiner, February 19, 2026:
Firebrand podcaster Tucker Carlson drew a barrage of heat from Israelis after claiming he was “detained and interrogated” during a brief stop at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday, with former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calling him “a chickens**t” and “a phony” and an Israeli Christian leader describing him as “an enemy of Israel” for lying about the country’s treatment of Christians.
Shadi Khalloul, founder of the Israeli Christian Aramaic Association and a former Knesset candidate, accused the former Fox News host-turned-far-right conspiracy theorist of “destroying Christian-Jewish relations” all over the world and “endangering the persecuted Christian community in the Middle East” by portraying Israel as hostile to Christianity…
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I have no idea what “Christian stints is Jewish,” but please don’t tell me, Cowboy. Enough already. Genug shoyn.
CHRISTIANITY IS JEWISH
My experience with Christian Palestinians in the ME and Haiti through the fairly famous mourra family and the various prominent families of that ME ethnicity in Mississippi like Davids and Maloufs and Saiks and Iupes and so on is that generally speaking they are for lack of a better distinguishing description
“Whiter looking or more Caucazoidal than most Muslim Arabs I’ve known
It’s not hubris to know the Bible. What’s my downfall? Rome gonna force me to recant? Why don’t you put your money where your mouth is? Go fight your jihad for Jew hatred? Join the Muslims like the Roman Church!
You’re talking to a bad faith actor who just hate Jews and will always find fault.
Don’t bother.
The Catholic Church has not joined the Muslims.
There are heretics in charge. It happens periodically. They will be replaced.
The Church will continue serving Christ.
Hopefully we won’t dig the current occupant of the papal office up after he dies and put him on trial, but his crap (and the crap of the globalist with cushy jobs in the Vatican) are exactly the kind of garbage that caused schisms before, so he might deserve it.
“”He’s playing the part he’s paid to play.
Our ever present trolls here do the same.””
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Exactly.
“Open Doors International, a Christian NGO monitoring the oppression of Christians, listed the top 78 countries in which Christians suffer in 2024. Israel was ranked 78th.
The root cause of Christian persecution in Israel as “increasing religiosity among Arab Muslims” and “a sharp increase in crime rates among the Arab community in Israel.”
The 2026 numbers are here. Israel fell off the list:
https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/
The complete 2024 Israel report:
https://www.opendoors.org/research-reports/country-dossiers/WWL-2024-Israel-Full-Country-Dossier.pdf “
I just want you to know your linked article was read by me and several others. Very interesting. I was not familiar with this group, but they seem to do thorough work.
It seems like you have hatred of Catholics in your heart. I will pray for you. Vade retro me, Satana.
Sirhan Sirhan is a Palestinian Christian for what that’s worth, and he murdered RFK because he was furious over Kennedy’s vocal support for Israel in the 1968 campaign.
I thought Sirhan probably had been a recent immigrant at the time he killed RFK but he actually had lived in SoCal since 1956. A friend of mine knew him from Santa Anita Racetrack where they both had worked as stablehands. He said Sirhan was very quiet and never really talked to his coworkers.
Is he still alive?
The relations between Jewish and Christian citizens (particularly Arab citizens) of Israel has come a long way from the late 1960s.
In that day, there were a lot more Christian Arabs in purely Arabic neighborhoods. As the Christian Arabs got more affluent, they moved to largely Jewish neighborhoods (because crime and religious persecution of Christians is bad in Arab neighborhoods). So you inevitably become more friendly.
There was also a weird kind of Stockholm syndrome among Christian Arabs when they lived among Muslim Arabs. They had to prove their “Arabness” by being more hostile to Jews than Muslim Arabs. This largely faded a generation ago.
Anyway, Sirhan was a product of his time.
The only real beefs I’m personally aware of is:
(1) constant tension among the Armenians in Jerusalem with certain of the local Hasidic factions (who hate everyone that is not them, including Jews). A lot of this has to do with the drug trade and who controls what (on both sides).
(2) in the same area, there are Jews for Jesus people who (allegedly) lie about being Jewish and mix among Hasids. I really don’t understand the disputes, but I’m sure it’s some combination of Hasids calling them heretics and general anger at pretending to be something you are not. Me, I think people need to not worry what other people do or believe.
“Is he still alive?”
He is. Sirhan is 81 and still a guest of the California prison system.
The Manson girls and Sirhan are about the only ones that Newsom won’t put back on the streets. In Newsom’s case that’s entirely out of fear of bad publicity.
The number of Christian groups that visit Israel must be huge. Some, like Calvary Chapel that originated here in SoCal, used to be more pro-Israel than actual Israelis. They may still be.
The native, historic Christian populations inside Israel are something entirely different and they are going to have their own complicated history.
People outside of Israel exploit it for their own purposes. It pulls American domestic politics and foreign policy into the mix for a lot of reasons.
No kidding
Were I Jewish
I’d be weary of the attention
The open anti Jewish vitriol especially on the left where it’s damn strong and less nuanced is alarming given recent history
That we booomers grew up inundated with unlike those under say 40 who didn’t
I’m surprised more lefty Jews haven’t flipped
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