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Israeli Christian Leader Refutes Tucker Carlson’s Claim of Alleged Christian Persecution in Israel
X ^ | 02/17/2026 | Shadi Khalloul

Posted on 02/20/2026 5:13:11 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski

I invited @TuckerCarlson to take advantage of his upcoming visit to Israel and meet our thriving Christian community - to see with his own eyes the people and realities he speaks about so confidently and so often on his platform.

This letter was sent a week ago to every email address listed on his website. Not a single response. For someone who claims to care so deeply about the Christians in the Holy Land - @TuckerCarlson, your silence is deafening…

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TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: carlson; cuckertarlson; israel; quckerqatarlson; tucker; tuckercarlson; tuckerqatarlson
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Christians are thriving in Israel. They have more rights than any Muslim country on earth.
1 posted on 02/20/2026 5:13:11 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski

So much hate for Israel, for me it indicates a person not to be trusted, left or right that kind of hate for the people of the Bible is clearly against God.


2 posted on 02/20/2026 5:17:38 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Jesus Christ was harassed by most of the Pharisee Jews during his ministry. Read the Gospels if you doubt this. From what I understand, similar harassment of Christians occurs today by the Conservative Jews in Israel, who seem to have taken up the mantle of the Pharisees—but not nearly as bad, to be fair.


3 posted on 02/20/2026 6:35:45 AM PST by rod5591
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Tucker Carlson has lost all credibility at this point. He was always what I refer to as a country club Republican but he was clever and honest and open to ideas.

I was watching a podcast recently and Howard Kunstler was one of the panelists. They were discussing Tucker and his unfortunate metamorphosis. Kunstler said he didn’t personally know Tucker but given what’s been going on with him lately he truly thinks Tucker has mental problems because its hard to understand how someone could change so radically. I tend to agree.


4 posted on 02/20/2026 6:36:54 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Qatar and Abu Dhabi were Christian kingdoms until they were ethnically cleansed by Arabian Muslim cultists.


5 posted on 02/20/2026 6:45:50 AM PST by montag813
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Gaza once had 64 churches. Only 8 remained when Israel left Gaza in 2005. And just THREE remain today. Funny how Tucker isn’t curious about what happened to them.


6 posted on 02/20/2026 6:47:31 AM PST by montag813
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To: montag813

Exactly! In 2005 when Israel still controlled Gaza, 5000 Christians lived peacefully and successfully in Gaza. Today, after 20 years of Islamic persecution, 800 live day to day as HAMAS human shields.


7 posted on 02/20/2026 6:58:13 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: rod5591

Not true. Have you been to Israel? Talked to Christians there? I have. You’ve been propagandized by the Tuckers of this world and full of Shiite. What Muslim country allows Christians to run for office, vote, start churches, practice there religion openly?


8 posted on 02/20/2026 7:01:28 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Sorry, but this is untrue. Messianic Jews are persecuted in Israel.


9 posted on 02/20/2026 7:22:19 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

You are assuming a lot that isn’t true. I don’t listen to Tucker. I read about issues, I don’t waste time listening to podcasts or watching the tube. No I haven’t been to Israel, but I researched the issue of Christians in Israel, and what I wrote in my post was based on my research. And I have spoken to Christian’s who visited Israel and were harassed by Conservative Jews there—not every day but it happens. Just like it happens in the US. And yes your right that Israel treats Christian’s better than Muslim nations do, but I never said they didn’t.


10 posted on 02/20/2026 7:30:12 AM PST by rod5591
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I tend to believe those that are saying Tucker is stretching/bending the truth. It would be stupid for Israel to harass Tucker.

Tucker is getting more attention and this feeds and excites a certain portion of his audience.


‘Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.’
‘Every crowd has a silver lining.’
P.T. Barnum


11 posted on 02/20/2026 7:33:38 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Is it not true that no one may evangelize any Israeli under 18?


12 posted on 02/20/2026 7:55:55 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: cowboyusa

I have not seen or experienced this at all. Are they killed? Churches shut down? No! Israel is full of Messianic Jews and growing each day


13 posted on 02/20/2026 8:14:29 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: LS

You are probably correlect. I need to look into it. There are some paranoid orthodox. However, Messianic Jews do significant proselytizing throughout the country. Their numbers grow each day!


14 posted on 02/20/2026 8:16:56 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

True, that does not mean that they don’t face persecution. Persecution added the 1st century Messianic Jews


15 posted on 02/20/2026 8:25:46 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Skwor

Asking questions that should be asked isn’t hatred or antisemitism. No foreign government should exercise influence over US policy.


16 posted on 02/20/2026 10:12:39 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: mrmeyer

Tucker was not asking questions, he lied about how he was treated, his lie likely stems from his antisemitism.

The video clearly showed what he claimed never happened.


17 posted on 02/20/2026 10:15:11 AM PST by Skwor
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