Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli attacked American conservative journalist Tucker Carlson for recent interviews with controversial guests.
“Congratulations to Tucker Carlson for becoming the leading platform for fringe Holocaust deniers, conspiracy theorists, and blood libel enthusiasts who oppose the State of Israel,” Chikli said on social media Tuesday night.
Carlson hosted Jeffrey Sachs on his Monday show, who claimed that the collapse of the Syrian regime last Sunday was orchestrated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a 30-year campaign to remake the Middle East.
Israeli-driven foreign policy
“Israel has run American foreign policy in the Middle East for 30 years,” said Sachs. “That’s how it works. Now we have the Israel lobby.”
Sachs claimed that America had gone to war with Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Sudan at Netanyahu’s behest.
“The United States goes to war on his behalf,” said Sachs.
Israel sought to establish a “Greater Israel,” according to Sachs, bringing down any government that supported the Palestinians. The “Greater Israel” conspiracy theory, as described by Sachs, meant either controlling or annexing the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights or, in a more extreme version, seizing all the territory from the Nile to the Euphrates River.
Northeastern University Associate Professor and security expert Max Abrams slammed Sachs on X/Twitter as a liar based on Sachs’s theory, in which he claimed that after September 11, General Wesley Clark was shown a document that the US would go to war with seven countries on Israel’s behalf. Abrams cited a recounting of the event by Clark, noting, “He never says anything about Israel, Jews, or Zionists.”
Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak criticized Sachs for describing Syria as a “normal, functioning country” in 2011, noting that the Ba’athist government had already killed tens of thousands of citizens in earlier civil unrest.
Other conservative journalists slammed Sachs as an anti-American communist and questioned why Carlson invited him onto his show.
“He’s a major supporter of communist China, and he believes the US should not dominate its rivals and should not lead the world,” Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra said on social media. “He endorsed Marxist Jill Stein for president in 2024.”
Tablet Magazine issued a scathing criticism of Sachs on X as “a failed economist who claimed he had the secrets to eliminating global poverty, got exposed as a fraud, and has reinvented himself as an anti-American, anti-Ukraine, anti-Israel stalwart who constantly lies as he has continued to take in millions and millions of dollars from George Soros.”
Carlson had previously courted controversy when he hosted writer Darryl Cooper, who claimed that the death of Nazi prisoners of war and political dissidents was because of poor planning and logistical issues rather than murder.
Cooper also argued that former British prime minister Winston Churchill was the chief villain of World War II rather than Adolf Hitler.