This will be the first of many blog posts here IYH on the Times of Israel website. In order to introduce myself, I will not write about the “two-week ceasefire” with Iran just yet. First thing I wanted to do was establish my baseline as a Jew living in Jerusalem after decades in America. In order to do that I want to repost an article from my substack I wrote about a month ago when Tucker Carlson made a claim about the Jews currently living in Israel which needed to be answered properly. The following is my response, I hope it makes you think and as always would love to hear your thoughts.

When I lived in America, I used to wake up at 3:30am to drive to work which left me little time to watch Tucker Carlson live at 8pm on Fox News. Instead, I would listen to his show in podcast form the next day while working in my office. He was funny, poignant, engaging and willing to call out hypocrisy when he encountered it no matter the party or subject matter. It seemed to me this was his appeal, or as they say today his “superpower”.

I believe it is fair to say, those days are long since gone. I’m not much into name calling because I think it’s the last resort of the weak. But allow me to vent for a moment and call it as I see it. He has since become a stooge. A hack. A shill. And most of all, as much as he feigns surprise at the accusation, an anti-semite.

With that in mind, I turned on his interview with United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. I tried to give Carlson the benefit of the doubt hoping to recover the broadcaster who kept me company during those quiet mornings for almost a decade. Sadly, what I found was a childish, combative, shallow, low hanging-fruit Jew hater who was clearly out of his league. He lacked depth, clarity of thought and intellectual honesty. It truly seemed like he believed he was the only beacon of morality left whose job it was to enlighten a world blinded by its most evil enemy. The State of Israel and its inhabitants. The Jews.

Sitting opposite him, Ambassador Huckabee was a picture of maturity and control. He dealt with each interruption, obtuse logic and gaslighting question like the total professional that he is. While I didn’t feel sorry for him, I did feel he had given a chunk of his life, which he can never get back, to a petulant child intent on underscoring his Bona Fides for his Jew-hating fan base.

I do wish I could have been in the Ambassador’s ear to offer him a little help with some of the nonsense he was having to deal with. I would have started with the long-since-debunked “Jews living in Israel now are actually from the Khazars” theory. I want to add that as someone who constantly reminds us of his Christian beliefs and professes to have studied the Bible, Carlson knows scant nothing in it. To answer........

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