Posted on 06/02/2026 11:15:08 PM PDT by Milagros
ISRAEL — An Israeli Christian leader and a prominent American Jewish pundit on Monday night pushed back on efforts on the political right, especially in the United States, to defame Israel and dismantle Judeo-Christian unity, exposing what they described as the malign motivations of some of the world’s most watched online personalities.
In a sit-down discussion at David’s Harp Hotel in northern Israel, Shadi Khalloul and Josh Hammer castigated the notion that Israel oppresses and marginalizes Christians, an assertion popularized by far-right podcast hosts Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
Khalloul, founder of the Israeli Christian Aramaic Association and a former Knesset candidate, suggested that Qatar has possibly paid Carlson to spread falsehoods about the Jewish state, noting a broader Qatari effort to ruin the reputation of the Jewish state through infiltrating popular media and trusted institutions such as university curricula.
“One of the conditions” to accept Qatari money, according to Khalloul, “is to speak badly about Israel and Jews in order to weaken the state of Israel.” He argued that support from the broader Christian world is “essential for the state of Israel.”
Carlson, who in December revealed his plans to purchase a home in Qatar, has regularly accused Israel of persecuting and even killing Christians, despite the fact that they enjoy freedom and equal opportunity in the Jewish state.
In February, Khalloul invited Carlson to a tour of Christian communities and holy sites in Israel, including a meeting with his brother-in-law, the head of the Maronite Church of Israel, but received no response.
Khalloul argued on Monday night that Muslim-majority areas such as the West Bank are “more dangerous” for Christians than Israel, calling attention to the mistreatment they face in public venues. Conversely, he added, Israel treats Christians with dignity and respect.
“You will not be able to walk freely in markets without being harassed by Muslims,” he said. “It’s a culture in which they do not know what respect is. Unfortunately, I don’t know why.”
Khalloul cautioned that the Islamic world’s campaign against Israel is part of a larger crusade against Western civilization, contending that Islamists will not relent until they eventually capture Europe.
“Under [the Islamic world’s] holy doctrine, whatever was conquered by them in the 7th century, and it was occupied by them, should not come back to the original people. It becomes Islamic land,” he said.
“By the way, Spain was conquered for over 700 years,” he added.
However, Khalloul lamented the rise of what he called “Jewish extremists” in the West Bank, arguing that the documented attacks by settlers harms Israel’s image and inflames tensions with the global Christian community.
“They close progress to all of us. They make damage to the Israeli reputation even though they don’t represent even a half of a percent of the population,” he said.
Khalloul also revealed that he’s helping spearhead a project to build the world’s only town catering to the Aramaic Christian faith, an opportunity he contends only the Jewish state makes possible.
Meanwhile, Hammer, senior editor-at-large of Newsweek and host of “The Josh Hammer Show,” lamented the rise of antisemitism on the American political right, describing it as part of a broader effort to weaken Western civilization as a whole.
“The attempt to fracture the ecumenical biblical alliance that built the West is ultimately an attempt to tear down America and the West itself,” he said. “This information operation is the greatest gift that China, Russia, Islamism, and America’s other greatest foes could ever ask for. It is, in short, evil — and it must be confronted head-on and stopped in its tracks before it takes us all down.”
Hammer, who is Jewish, stated that Carlson and Owens are both operating as chaos agents to demoralize the American right and undermine US interests.
Carlson and Owens, two of the most famous and popular right-wing commentators, have spent the better part of the last three years, in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, using their platforms to attack Israel and promote antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Carlson has repeatedly platformed Holocaust deniers, cast doubt on the characterization of Hamas as a terrorist group, downplayed the extent of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, and accused Israel of “apartheid” in the West Bank and “genocide” in Gaza.
Owens has been far more aggressively antisemitic, calling Judaism a “dem0nic” and “ped0philic” religion and accusing Jews of hunting and murdering [sic] Christians.
Hammer took aim at widespread allegations on social media that Israel intentionally bombed Christian churches or prevents Christians from engaging in religious practices in the Middle East. He said that these falsehoods spread like “wildfire” online with the explicit purpose of harming Israel’s reputation.
Hammer noted that these allegations often lack context, omitting the well-known practice of Hamas repurposing Christian churches as military operations centers in an attempt to goad Israel into striking them.
Thanks. Sadly FATHER GOUGHLIN (Tucker) has also fans who will push his garbage here on forums.
*Father Coughlin
Someone like Naftali Bennett replacing Netanyahu would reset the dynamic. Bibi is toxic.
If so, that is only a ‘fraction’ of the picture.
SHUT UP!!!! (article, not OP) - Carlson and Owens are **NOT** right-wing.
I agree with your definition
Absolutely. They slipped into accepting assertions not in evidence. Whatever they are, they are non relevant.
Tucker and Candace are not *right* nor *far-right*.
Those two are in a smear campaign to discredit the right.
[Dismantle Judeo-Christian Unity.]
I don’t know that it’s “far-right”
I’d say that it’s “far-LEFT” and
that it serves the “god of this world”
the same “god” of Islam,
That Old Serpent 🐍 Called the Devil and Satan
The Gospel was delivered to the Jews first
and the Apostle Paul spent time in the
synagogues trying to convince his fellow
Jews that Jesus Christ of Nazareth
is in fact the Lord and Messiah.
We should act in likewise fashion.
Further it is Islam that wants to DESTROY
the nation of Israel (”the little Satan”) and
the United States of America (”the big Satan”)
If one wants to understand
the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and
the 2001 World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks
look above 👆⬆️☝️at the previous paragraph.
The Messiah Jesus Christ is Jewish
Most of the Disciples were Jewish
ALL of the Old Testament prophets were ethnically Jewish (or Israelites),
Whenever people wage war on Israel 🇮🇱 and the Jews
they are in the company of Pharaoh and the Muslims.
Now the Pharisees and Pontius Pilate, that is a whole
different matter. We ARE NOT in their company
NOR do we ever want to be.
There is a partial blindness right now so that
the fullness of the Gentiles can receive the Gospel.
Acts 17:2-3
21st Century King James Version
2 And Paul, as was his custom, went in unto them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3 expounding and alleging that it was necessary for Christ to have suffered and Risen Again from the Dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2017%3A2-3&version=KJ21
There is MUCH Divine Revelation in the following passages:
Zechariah 2:8-9
21st Century King James Version
8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: “After the glory hath He sent me unto the nations which despoiled you, for he that toucheth you toucheth THE APPLE OF HIS EYE.
9 For behold, I will shake Mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants. And ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah%202%3A8-9&version=KJ21
Jeremiah 31:37-39
English Standard Version
37 Thus says the Lord:
“If the Heavens above can be measured,
and the foundations of the Earth below can be explored,
then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,
declares the Lord.”
38 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2031%3A37-39&version=ESV
Zechariah 13:6-7
21st Century King James Version
6 And one shall say unto Him, ‘What are these wounds in Thine hands?’ Then He shall answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’
7 “Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man that is My fellow,” saith the Lord of hosts. “Smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn Mine hand upon the little ones.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah%2013%3A6-7&version=KJ21
Acts 9:18
American Standard Version
18 And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and he arose and was Baptized;
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%209%3A18&version=ASV
Jeremiah 31:35-36
21st Century King James Version
35 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the suyn for a light by day, and the ordinances of the Moon and of the Stars for a light by night, who divideth the Sea when the waves thereof roar; the Lord of hosts is His name:
36 “If those ordinances depart from before Me,” saith the Lord, “then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me for ever.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2031%3A35-36&version=KJ21
✝️✝️✝️ 🙏🙏🙏
I no longer watch Tucker, Candice, or Kelly. So it doesn’t affect me.
Bibi is a great figure in history along with Churchill and Reagan.
Liz is going to hell along with all anti Semites.
Bible Verse John 19-——Jesus Sentenced to Be Crucified
19 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe 3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.
4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” 5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”
But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”
7 The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 9 and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. 10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).
14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon.
“Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
15 But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”
“Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.
16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.
If Christ were not killed, there would be no salvation nor descent of Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
It doesn't matter who were the mechanics involved. It was all part of God's plan and it was a good plan.
So you may ask, if it was a good plan, then why did someone like Judas meet a bad end as opposed to receiving some sort of medal?
That would be due to the truth that only he and God knew. Was he evil or mislead? And, keep in mind, repercussions in life are not necessarily the same as Judgement in death.
Take you for example. Are you just a type of Lenin's useful idiot that doesn't have the wit to see the big picture, or are you falsely accusing your neighbors with deliberation towards some foul purpose? Only you and God know for sure.
In the case of Judas, his life of deception led to isolation and suicide. His ultimate judgement remained in God's hands.
What happens with you will be a mystery as well.
The biggest threat and danger to Israel is not from the “far right”.
It’s from the raving lunatic left in the USA, primarily the American Bolsheviks who are self loathing Jews, and run the democrat party and New York Homosexual Times. That is where the real danger lies.
Not even the Muslim Palestinians (Hamas and Hezbollah) are as evil, vicious and cruel as American leftwing Jews.
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