Tucker Carlson, Columbia, Hillsdale Stoke Jew-Hate With Anti-Israel Lies

“Neocons…pushing for war,” says email from Trump campaign hanger-on

A promotional image for a Tucker Carlson episode that did a fine job of demonstrating why Fox News made a correct decision when it got rid of him.

Online video personality and former Fox News star Tucker Carlson was a fixture of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, with speaking roles at the fourth night of the Republican National Convention and at Trump’s pre-election Madison Square Garden rally. So it’s concerning to see Carlson use his influence to spread vicious, outlandish, conspiratorial lies about Israel.

In a video posted last night to Elon Musk’s X platform, Carlson hosts a Columbia University professor, Jeff Sachs, who says that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and “neocons in the U.S.” are “dragging the United States into countless wars in the Middle East.” Sachs says the “Netanyahu wars” have resulted in “a million or so deaths” and cost America $7 trillion.

“Netanyahu, I regard as one of the most delusional and dangerous people on the planet, and he has engaged the United States so far in six disastrous wars, and he's aiming to engage us in yet one more,” Sachs says in the Carlson video. “We are engaging in war on Israel’s behalf all over the Middle East.”

Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs in a 2024 picture by Gabriella C. Marino that is made available for use by Sachs on his website.

“Israel has driven so many American wars,” Sachs says. “These have been at huge cost to the United States, cost of trillions of dollars, cost geopolitically, but somehow we gave away our foreign policy to Israel years and years ago, and it's been absolutely devastating.”