Posted on 03/12/2026 6:00:23 AM PDT by fruser1
Nearly everybody called out Tucker Carlson at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s symposium on antisemitism.
Attendees clapped when Senator Ted Cruz of Texas called Carlson “the single-most dangerous demagogue in the country,” and speakers praised US President Donald Trump for recently casting him aside as “not MAGA.”
There was no such praise for US Vice President JD Vance, however, who has made no decisive statement on Carlson, nor on Candace Owens. The two media personalities have come to represent an emerging anti-Israel wing of the Republican party that indulges in antisemitic conspiracy theories and is anathema to the RJC and its rank and file. Vance’s silence has drawn skepticism and growing impatience from some Jewish Republicans.
“I have a concern about Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, but not JD Vance,” said Norm Coleman, national chairman of the RJC and a former US senator from Minnesota.
Coleman said he has known Vance for “many, many years” and has had discussions with him about Israel and supporting the Jewish people. He pointed to Vance’s 2024 speech at the Quincy Institute, an isolationist think tank, on why supporting Israel is in America’s national security interest.
“So he’s been there, he’s spoken out publicly, he’s walked into the lion’s den and kind of stood with the Jewish people and stood with Israel,” Coleman said. “He’s always done that in my conversations with him, and I got to believe it’s the same in his conversations with President Trump.”
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With the Iran war all the cards are on the table.
A decisive victory will make this issue go away.
A quagmire will make it front and center.
In instances like this, it is best to keep your mouth shut. You don’t want to get into a loop of constantly having to focus on the issue where you don’t condemn enough.
Anti-Israel ≠ antisemitic. Israel is a secular country and should be judged by the same standards as any other secular country.
It may make it go away for a few years but next on Israel's list will be Lebanon and Turkey.
We will be faced with the same type of issue in another 6-10 years. Will our government officials still be controlled enough at that point that we will help Israel topple them as well?
There will be some like Tucker who try to stop it and some like Graham, Shapiro, Cruz who will cheerlead it.
This issue isn't going away.
ping
Carlson is just another talking head, among talking heads. [ No fan of talking heads. ] J.D. Vance is a sitting Vuce-President. Big difference.
I will vote for Vance and all he has to do is come out big for America. He isn’t required to show fealty to any other country. I don’t expect a President to backstab friends and supporters either. It is an ugly thing to expect that.
I will not vote for Rubio because he was always with McCain and weak on immigration.
I have never heard Vance badmouth Israel either.
Genesis 15:18
King James Version
18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Operation AIPAC Fury is in full swing.
Can you give next week’s Lotto numbers while you are at it?
And yet it always seems to be held to higher standards.
That is what Ambassador Huckabee said.
Imho he is a dangerous kook—but to each their own.
If those countries become the primary sovereign supporter of Islamic terrorism, yes, we will.
Yeah, the US has no agency, LOL!
Israel has an inordinate amount of attention because the Islamic terrorists attacking them are the same ones that will be coming for us if they are allowed to thrive as they have been doing w/Iran.
Wish anti -White racism got as much news time as anti Jewish racism but that’s never going to happen
“For a population of about 10 million people, Israel gets an inordinate amount of attention and wields a considerable amount of power over America.”
It does now. It didn’t under Obama or Biden. So the difference, for good or bad, is Trump.
And Trump sees Israel’s interest align with ours in wanting to keep in check the most aggressive and virulent sponsors of fundamentalist islam.
And I can go along with that. Though, I wish he would do more about stopping the spread of Islam within our own country, which is gaining steam.
If Vance doesn’t do the right thing because it’s right, then he’s not worth spit anyhow.
The war on white men has been going on for years. Nobody even cared. They have been blamed for everything and discriminated against for jobs and college admissions and scholarships.
I see it getting plenty of attention under Trump as presented by the anti-DEI push.
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