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Posted on 02/24/2026 5:22:20 AM PST by Words Matter
Controversial conservative political commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson made several false statements during his Feb. 18 interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
He claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s family did not speak Hebrew and had no historical ties to the region.
This is incorrect: the leader’s paternal grandfather, Nathan Mileikowsky, was a Zionist rabbi who delivered sermons in Hebrew—uncommon at the time—and ensured that his family spoke the language at home.
His father, Benzion Netanyahu, born in Warsaw, was a historian of medieval Jewish history who spoke Hebrew fluently, taught Hebrew literature and served as editor-in-chief of the Hebrew Encyclopedia.
Netanyahu’s mother, Tzila Segal, was born in Petach Tikvah and spoke Hebrew as her native language. While the family has Eastern European roots, they were members of the Zionist movement, with documented Hebrew usage and ties to the Land of Israel dating back generations.
[Jewish brothers propel US hockey team to gold medal in 2-1 win over Canada Feb. 22, 2026] [Mike Huckabee handles Tucker Carlson’s ‘Gish Gallop’ with grace Feb. 22, 2026]
Carlson also claimed that Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s “pedo island,” while, in fact, he did not. The slander appears to stem from a 2014 Epstein email, released by the Justice Department, that falsely listed Herzog as a potential guest.
Under the threat of legal action, Carlson on Sunday retracted his claim that Israel’s head of state had any links to the convicted child molester.
Another allegation made by Carlson was that Israel intentionally attacked the USS Liberty in 1967, knowing it was an American vessel. However, all 10 official U.S. investigations—including those conducted by the Navy, CIA, NSA and congressional committees—as well as three Israeli military inquiries, concluded that Jerusalem did not know it was a U.S. vessel.
Instead, the incident was found to be a tragic mistake resulting from misidentification amid the chaos of the 1967 Six-Day War. Jerusalem apologized, paid compensation to the families of the sailors who were killed, and the United States officially accepted the incident as an error.
Carlson further claimed that Israel sold American secrets obtained from Jonathan Pollard to the Soviets. But U.S. investigations, including a 1987 CIA damage assessment, found no proof that Jerusalem transferred the information to Moscow; Israel has consistently denied the allegations.
Carlson then asserted that Netanyahu had “attacked” his children. In reality, Netanyahu has never mentioned, much less attacked, his family.
While Netanyahu has slammed Carlson’s views, including in statements and messages through intermediaries, suggesting that some of his rhetoric veers into antisemitism, he never referenced his family.
Carlson also claimed that Qatar has more Christian citizens than Israel. In fact, while some 400,000 Christians live in Qatar, they are primarily migrant workers on work visas; there are virtually no Christian citizens.
By omitting the fact that Christians in Qatar are non-citizens and subject to strict restrictions, such as limitations on public displays of crosses or church bells, Carlson’s claim is misleading.
The Jewish state, by contrast, counts some 185,000 Christians among its residents, most of whom are citizens with full political and social rights.
Israel’s Christian communities have grown consistently since the state’s founding in 1948, and members enjoy freedoms not available in Doha.
Sharp declines in Christian populations have occurred—primarily in Palestinian Authority-controlled cities such as Bethlehem, which has been under P.A. control since 1995, not within the pre-1967 lines.
Beyond these lies and libels, Carlson refuses to acknowledge that Israel has a right to exist.
When repeatedly challenged on this point by Huckabee, the podcast host declined to affirm the Jewish state’s right to exist, and instead preposterously suggested that Israeli Jews take a DNA test.
“Who are [Abraham’s] descendants now?” he asked Huckabee. “How do we know who they are? “What you’re saying is that certain people have a title to a highly contested region. They own it in some deep sense. So I think it’s fair to ask: who are they and how do we know?”
The U.S. ambassador responded that if people worship the same God and follow the same Bible, pray toward Jerusalem and seek to return there, “does that not give you a little bit of a clue as to who they are?”
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Tucker Carlson has succeeded in making himself the headline. This is what “celebrity” is today. Notice me! Click! Watch! Send me money, via ads and such. But watch me! I’m supposed to be the topic, the headline and the star of the show.
Has there ever been a movie made on the USS Liberty? Sounds like a good project for Mel Gibson.
Seems to me the Stupid virus has infected Tucker.
Wish he had not said “official records”… as in “party line records”? I never trust the party line. Nonetheless, I’m not tracking this enough to even have an opinion beyond the “official records” thing.
I could wish that “celebrities” had the good sense to file for personal bankruptcy and take up fishing.
Even knowing about the USS Liberty incident is considered an “anti semitic trope” by studio owners and producers and directors in Hollywood.
They have chosen to ignore it instead of spin it—but that could change.
Would Oliver Stone take on the project?
Netanyahu’s party, Likud, had among its origins many Jews that were forced out of Arab countries upon the formation of Israel.
It is a funny things that Jews were expelled by Arab countries which then sought to utterly destroy Israel. Or maybe that was part a plan. To be sure, nowadays, with the Sunni Arabs joining with the U.S., we have opportunities for a new alignment in the region.
Israel is a homeland country; meaning, a place of refuge for an identifiable people. Accordingly, Israel has a law of return.
Germany, at least for a time, was a homeland country. Any person of German descent who spoke German could “return.” Russia, with its “republics” (as distinct from oblasts), has homelands. Our Indian reservations are homelands. Hungary within the EU and Quebec within Canada make the case that they are or should be treated as homelands. (I am sympathetic to their arguments.)
Homelands keep languages and cultures alive, in addition to being places of refuge. In an increasingly global world we should want to preserve the unique histories of us, even as we gain the advantages of trade and mutual defense.
Probably not bloody enough.....
Wish he had not said “official records”… as in “party line records”? I never trust the party line. Nonetheless, I’m not tracking this enough to even have an opinion beyond the “official records” thing.
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“Official” does not mean automatically wrong. What matters is whether the evidence is open and credible. The evidence pertaining to the Liberty is well kown and was heavily vetted and discussed, even before Congress.
Surely seems the nature of celebrity is to be one and in the public eye. Since Google/YouTube AdSesne and podcasts of all sorts and "fund" sites like Patreon, the world's 'celebrities' and 'journalists' and 'analysts' and all seem to cry "donate' and 'buy me a coffee' and 'support my work.'
But the average Joe seems sometimes to become involved in imaginary relationship(s) with some talking heads, and "tune's in every day." Click and donate -- which produce nothing of lasting value -- seem an addiction of the today.
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Tucker is not generating favorable press.
A small point. The Missus and I wouldn't have even known about the whole flap, had it not been for press -- good and bad alike. Some have said there is no bad press, just "spell my name right."
Still, some of the links on these threads did not move us to listen to much of his "talking head on a screen." Ditto with others. I guess we're not consumers of his stuff. Looking forward to remaining the same.
I fear that Howard Kunstler was right when he Recently said he has serious fears for Tucker Carlson’s mental health.
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Tucker is not generating favorable press.
I don’t know much about the USS Liberty beyond the basics that it was attacked by the Israelis. I know that it happened in 1967.
Tucker once excluded the 9/11 attacks by saying (incorrectly) that Muslims hadn’t killed Americans in 24 years. I guess 25 years ago was too far back to consider. But if 2001 is ancient history, so is 1967.
Genesis 12:2-3
King James Version
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
So the apostle Paul was lying in Galations 3 right?
Tucker armored that a demon attacked him. It seems to have entered into him.
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