UNZ: 01-07-2025,
Recently, Tucker Carlson’s interview with Senator Ted Cruz went viral. What grabbed people’s attention, raising alarm in respectable circles but fanning enthusiasm in the alternative/dissident political sphere, of course wasn’t Cruz’s fanboy ruminations about Israel(as that sort of thing is dime-a-dozen among politicians of both parties) but Tucker’s pushback and counter-argument, as well as his refusal to be pigeonholed as an ‘Anti-Semite’.
Over the years, virtually everyone in the so-called Mainstream Media has either nodded along or remained silent upon politician after politician professing their utmost fealty to Israel, Zionism, and Jewish People in general. While Carlson didn’t go far enough, his eagerness to press upon Cruz to explain himself(as beholden to another country) signaled a seismic shift in the political discourse regarding Jewish Power and its impact on US foreign policy.
Even though it was refreshing to watch a popular media personality challenge what passes for conventional wisdom(or an article of faith) among US politicians and deep state operatives on matters pertaining to Israel, there was disingenuousness on the part of Carlson as well as of Cruz. While it’s true that Oozie Cruzie tried to imply that Carlson is an ‘Anti-Semite’, Carlson’s heated response wasn’t entirely convincing. Not that Carlson is indeed an ‘Anti-Semite’ but that the term has lost all meanings, not least because Jewish Power now labels as ‘Anti-Semitic’ just about anything that calls foul on bad Jewish behavior. Now, if ‘antisemitism’ means blaming Jews for everything and/or crediting Jews for nothing positive,