WASHINGTON DC: United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has launched a scathing critique against commentator Tucker Carlson, accusing him of platforming a “dangerous conspiracy theory” intended to delegitimize the Jewish people.
The dispute follows a sit-down interview between the two, which Huckabee claims took an unexpected turn into fringe historical theories.
Taking to the social media platform X to address the fallout, the Ambassador stated, “When I sat down with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, I was expecting a thoughtful conversation and that he would ask questions and give me the opportunity to actually respond—just like he did with the little Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes or the guy who thought Hitler was the good guy and Churchill the bad guy.”
The Ambassador expressed surprise at the line of questioning regarding Jewish ancestry, noting, “What I wasn’t anticipating was a lengthy series of questions where he seemed to be insinuating that the Jews of today aren’t really the same people as the Jews of the Bible.”
Huckabee specifically targeted the “Khazar hypothesis,” a theory suggesting that Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of a Turkic kingdom rather than ancient Israelis. He noted that “the discredited idea that most Ashkenazi or European Jews descended from the ancient Turkic Kingdom of Khazaria is bunk.”
The Ambassador warned that this narrative is “an obvious conspiracy theory” that has been “weaponized by people trying to delegitimize Jews, to strip them of their history, and to call them ‘imposters’ or ‘fake Jews.’”
He added that this idea is “peddled by the likes of Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes” and by “Islamist accounts that make up false smears about Israel non-stop and are run out of countries like Pakistan and Turkey.” Defending the historical and genetic lineage of the Jewish people, Huckabee asserted that “the Jews of today can trace their lineage back thousands of years to Israel and the Jewish people of the Bible.”
