Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on Jews-as-Snakes as His Fuentes Video Tops 20 Million Views

Establishment Republicans are putting “Israel first,” complains Carlson, who spoke at 2024 Republican National Convention

An “anti-Semitic poster” from France in 1900 depicting Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish army officer wrongly accused of spying, as “a monster with the body of a dragon and multiple snake heads,” according to the National Library of Israel.

“Antisemitic propaganda poster produced by the Christian Socialist Party of Austria for the 1920 national election. It shows a vicious looking hybrid head of a Jewish man and a vulture on the body of a snake squeezing the lifeblood from a crowned Austrian eagle,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family.

Tucker Carlson’s newsletter from October 31, 2025, which could one day be an exhibit in an antisemitism museum along with the other images.

Hours after the president and CEO of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, posted a video defending hate-hoster Tucker Carlson from what he called “the globalist class” and “the venomous coalition,” Carlson himself, in an email commentary headlined “Banish the Serpents,” doubled down on the classical antisemitic metaphor of Jews as snakes.

The commentary begins, “We love Donald Trump. We campaigned for him last year, attended both of his inaugurations, and would do it all again if given the chance.” It goes on, “The tragedy of the Trump story is that both times he’s taken office, usurpers in the GOP have engineered calculated efforts to steer his administrations away from their campaign promises in favor of the traditional establishment Republican agenda. That program is the precise opposite of what MAGA hat-wearing voters want.”

It goes on, “America First? These fake Republicans are totally against it. They’d rather put Ukraine and Israel first, and the United States somewhere between 22nd and 39th, if we’re lucky.”

The commentary goes on, “Starting foreign conflicts that have nothing to do with our country? Are you kidding? It’s not just what they live for; it’s all they live for. Have you heard from Lindsey Graham lately? He’s fully committed to wars with Iran, Venezuela, and probably any other non ‘ally’ you could find on a map. And he’s far from alone.”

Carlson also attacks the Republican-controlled House of Representatives for passing the Antisemitism Awareness Act. That act tells the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights take into consideration the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism when reviewing or investigating complaints of discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.

Carlson writes, “The House recently passed a bill mind-numbingly equating criticism of a foreign government to prohibited discrimination and harassment. There’s nothing more American than the freedom to critique your rulers. Anyone who says the government should block citizens from expressing hostile views about another country’s leadership clearly has no regard for the First Amendment.” The newsletter, which mischaracterizes the legislation, hyperlinks to the bill.

One can certainly understand why Carlson might be worried about a government crackdown on antisemitism.

Carlson’s October 27 interview with racist antisemite Nick Fuentes has amassed 16.9 million views on X and 4.4 million views on Google/Alphabet’s YouTube. That doesn’t count listens on Spotify, where the Tucker Carlson show is No. 3 on the list of top podcasts in the United States, or on Apple Podcasts, where Carlson is the no. 15 top podcast in the U.S. For comparison’s sake, Fox News’s primetime stars attract almost 3 million cable viewers, and President Trump’s State of the Union address attracted a reported audience of about 36.6 million viewers.