Mike Evans. JPost, April 15, 2026.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-893058
Tucker Carlson mirrors Father Coughlin’s antisemitism. Tucker Carlson’s antisemitic rhetoric: A dangerous echo of Father Coughlin . His tactics, his rhetoric, and his fixation on Jewish conspiracy theories follow the Coughlin playbook, line by line.
Carlson hasn’t just echoed Dugin’s worldview, he has amplified it. He claimed that Netanyahu seeks genocide, going so far as to kill entire families, their descendants, and even their animals. He argued that Netanyahu, the Israeli government, and the IDF believe it is acceptable to target people based on their bloodline. According to Carlson, they are labeled “Amalek,” a term he says the prime minister invokes repeatedly.
In reality, the phrase “Remember what Amalek did to you” is traditionally used during Holocaust Remembrance Day as a call to remember the atrocities committed against the Jewish people. It is not a call for genocide; rather, it is a reminder to never forget the evil that was done...
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Begin with the archetype: Édouard Drumont, the 19th-century French journalist whose 1886 bestseller La France Juive (Jewish France) sold over 100,000 copies and birthed modern political antisemitism in Europe. A failed writer nursing deep animosities toward the Third Republic and its liberal order, Drumont channeled his resentments into a sprawling conspiracy theory. Jews, he thundered, were not citizens but a racial cabal of greedy Semites—mercantile, treacherous, and bent on dominating France through finance, media, and politics. Aryan purity versus Jewish corruption: this was his racial gospel, cribbed from earlier cranks but amplified by his newspaper, La Libre Parole. When the Dreyfus Affair erupted in 1894—Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer, falsely accused of treason—Drumont’s paper broke the story with venomous glee, branding it a Jewish betrayal. The result? A decade of hysteria that exploded in 1898 into dozens of violent antisemitic riots across France and especially Algeria. Jewish shops were smashed, synagogues attacked, men beaten in the streets. Economic boycotts followed; legal scapegoating became national sport; physical terror became routine. Drumont, elected to parliament on this wave of hate, settled his scores with the Republic by making Jews its supposed puppet-masters. His “talent” did not debate—it incited. It turned abstract prejudice into actionable contempt, paving ideological roads that later extremists would march down with even deadlier intent.
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