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Antisemitism is about many things, but it’s usually about much bigger things than the Jews. That is one of the things that makes antisemitism different from any of the conventional bigotries.
Marxists and Communists, beginning with Marx himself, used antisemitism to define capitalism as an evil and oppressive ideology. “Money is the jealous god of Israel before whom no other god may exist,” Marx argued. “The god of the Jew has been secularized and has become the god of the world.” Marx disliked the Jews, despite his ancestry, but he hated capitalism more.
And he wanted everyone else to hate it by associating capitalism with the Jews.
The Nazis, who borrowed much from the Marxists, used the same attacks on capitalism, but they also had a larger cultural agenda and made use of an even more militant antisemitism to replace the moral principles of Christianity with a neo-pagan racial modernism in which the disabled would be killed, marriage would be swapped for genetically compatible breeding programs to create a ‘master race’ and Jesus would become an Aryan warrior myth.
Like many modernist radicals, including Marx and Voltaire, Hitler believed that the best way to get at Christianity was by going after its biblical roots to make the Jews the objects of contempt and hatred, and to ridicule everyone opposed to his program as being in thrall to the Jews.
The current antisemitism is also rarely about the Jews. Both the woke left and the woke right are using antisemitism to sideline party establishments by painting them as complicit with Israel.
And any other policies they don’t like.
It needn’t be antisemitism and one of the best recent examples came from Tucker Carlson advocating for the Marxist drug cartel regime in Venezuela targeted by President Trump.
“The question is why are we doing this, why are we so opposed to Nicolas Maduro?” Tucker asked, putting on his best baffled face, wondering why we’re targeting Cartel de los Soles run by socialist drug dealers, before suggesting that it’s because Venezuela doesn’t have gay marriage. “This whole project is Globohomo,” Tucker then suggested to his audience.
Does Tucker really hate gay people? One of his favorite guests is Glenn Greenwald, a Brazilian gay socialist, who, like Marx, is of Jewish ancestry and full of contempt for the Jews. He has bragged about his “gay producers”. (One of Tucker’s producers, Justin Wells, who founded the Tucker Carlson Network, was accused of kissing a man and grabbing his genitals.)
But grasping for some thin excuse to defend a Marxist drug dealer, Tucker blamed gay people.
And the Jews couldn’t stay out of it for long. One of Tucker’s guests, Douglas Macgregor, a retired military defense consultant, claimed that Maria Machado, the opposition leader in Venezuela, will “move the Venezuelan Embassy to Jerusalem” at the behest of “a small group of billionaire oligarchs.”
Does that mean Tucker Carlson hates Jews? Shortly thereafter, Tucker brought on Robert Amsterdam, an international lawyer and former Marxist, who was a registered foreign agent of the Maduro government in Venezuela and a former representative for an Islamist butcher of Christians in Nigeria, to deny the Christian genocide in Nigeria. Amsterdam is Jewish.
‘ZOG’ and ‘Globohomo’ are just useful excuses for Tucker to defend the otherwise indefensible on behalf of special interests and agendas that are all too obvious when you study his guests.
After Oct 7, Tucker attacked the Americans talking about a “foreign tragedy” because “over 100,000 Americans die every year of fentanyl.” Now Tucker promotes the idea that Trump fighting drug cartels is a Jewish conspiracy or a gay conspiracy and dead Americans don’t matter anymore.
Much like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene or Rep. Thomas Massie, pretending that they’re at war with some Jewish conspiracy, instead of President Trump who stunted their career ambitions, Jews are a useful distraction from the things that political hacks don’t want to talk about.
And so rather than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about Trump blocking her run for governor of Georgia, she developed a sudden interest in Gaza which she couldn’t find on a map and repeats lies about genocide in sufficient quantity to get her a guest spot on The View.
But Tucker’s cynical games matter because he’s become the epicenter of the debate over antisemitism. And the debate isn’t really about antisemitism. When Christians argue about the Jews, they’re really arguing about Christianity. What really set off the recent explosion was Tucker’s attack on evangelical Christians, saying how much he hates “Christian Zionists”.
Like Marx and Hitler, Tucker was trying to slur Christians he didn’t like, by tying them to Jews. And he succeeded in getting his targets to fight the debate on his terms, as being about the Jews, than being forced to admit what he actually dislikes about the Christians he’s targeting.
For a talking head who’s constantly been in front of the camera since I was in high school, Tucker is good at making insidious accusations by way of ‘just asking questions’, but terrible at explaining what it is he really believes and what his agenda is. And that’s good because Tucker has supported most of the things, from the Iraq War to COVID lockdowns, that he later opposed.
But two themes have emerged from his post-FOX shows: that America is evil, having developed ‘demon-inspired’ nuclear weapons to kill Christians in Japan, siding with Churchill the “terrorist” instead of the well-meaning Hitler, faking the moon landing and killing drug dealers for ‘Globohomo’, while the people we think are our enemies, Communists, Ex-Communists and Muslim terrorists, including Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah, drug cartels, are actually the good guys.
Saying it out loud makes it sound like Marxism by way of Art Bell and Code Pink which is exactly what it is, and that’s why Tucker doesn’t say it out loud, he talks about the Jews.
Tucker’s feelings about the Jews are between him and his gay producers. What matters isn’t that Tucker is pushing antisemitism, in this current phase of podcasting almost all the cool kids of podcasting are doing it because it’s politically safe and financially lucrative, but why he does it. The problem with Marx wasn’t just that he slurred Jews as greedy, but that he was doing it to advance a theory of socialist totalitarianism that would cost hundreds of millions of lives.
Ditto for Hitler who killed six million Jews to justify a larger conflict that killed over 70 million.
Tucker isn’t really attacking Jews, he’s attacking Christians. The Jews, like his gay producers, are a means to an end. That’s why Tucker is comfortable bringing on a Jewish ex-Marxist and registered foreign agent for the Venezuelan narcosocialist regime to deny that Muslims are exterminating Christians in Nigeria. This crazy quilt of agendas may seem to be chaotic insanity, like Tucker’s claims about UFO’s and demon claws, but there is a method to the madness.
The individual claims, like regime change in Venezuela as a gay Jewish plot to have gay marriage and move the embassy to Jerusalem, are meaningless noise, but they are part of a larger pattern whose goal is to reshape how we think and what we talk about. Much like Candace, Tucker throws out nonsensical accusations to control the conversation and divide us.
The individual lies and accusations don’t matter, the trajectory and the total effect of them do.
The social media networks promoting the myth of a Gaza genocide operated out of China. Code Pink, now a Chinese front group, disrupted Congress and staged protests. Does Communist China care about Gaza? Much like the USSR before it, which created the whole mythical ‘Palestinian’ narrative, antisemitism is a useful issue even for a country with no Jews.
The USSR’s obsession with the ‘Palestinian’ cause and Communist China’s obsession with Gaza were ways of tearing apart America and the West. And that’s still the end goal.
The vast majority of organized antisemitism is coming from movements and people trying to tear apart America by associating its institutions and policies with the Jews. When Tucker pushes WWII historical revisionism, it’s not because he actually cares about the Nazis or the Holocaust, but because, like the 1619 Project, he wants to revise American history to make us seem evil.
What sorts of people do that? Enemy operatives and radicals who want to burn down a society.
Antisemitism is a term invented by a German socialist nearly 150 years ago. Wilhelm Marr created the term ‘antisemitism’ and founded the League of Antisemites. Marr was also a one-time Marxist and atheist whose ultimate objection, like Hitler and Marx, was to Christianity.
“Humanity was Judaised by Christianity,” Marr wrote, closely echoing Marx’s critique of the Judaization of capitalism, “Judaism rules the world!”
When you hear that message, that Jews run the world, understand the real message within, that America and Christianity must be torn apart and destroyed because they’re really run by the Jews.
That’s pretty lame, when he is reduced to defending Maduro.
It’s always nice to know that there are people who spend most of their day thinking up things like this and it actually makes sense to them. One of our biggest problems is the tendency to think that people are like us. Myself, I’m starting to ask, (too late) where are all these bat—- crazy people come from? Did the world just suddenly go nuts? The modern left is recruiting Christian allies getting them focused on anything but their own welfare based on the OCD and subliminal hatred of Jews.
“Like many modernist radicals, including Marx and Voltaire, Hitler believed that the best way to get at Christianity was by going after its biblical roots to make the Jews the objects of contempt and hatred, and to ridicule everyone opposed to his program as being in thrall to the Jews.”
As far I’m concern. Tucker is a true presstitute/propagandist for hire. Compare The Tucker of MSNBC, CNN and FOX to today’s Tucker.. He had different political leanings In every stager of his professional life depending on who was signing his paycheck.. Pay attention to the people who are backing his network. It is crystal clear he’s working on behalf of Muslim Brotherhood aligned Jihadi regimes.
you should trademark that one “presstitute”
Except the far right is defending him and using anti Semitic rhetoric. The hatred they have had for the Jews for centuries is finally being approved of and recognized. The Quran, the bible of Islam says it is a Muslims mission to have all religions convert to Islam or die. The world must fall under Sharia Law. When the time comes the Muslims don’t care if Tucker hates the Jews he will have to convert to Islam or die.
The Jews, the Overseas Chinese, the Armenians, and other highly successful minority groups are hated everywhere they go for being so successful.
The hatred of Free Market Capitalism boils down to the hatred of the good for being the good, hatred of the successful for being successful. Hatred of the intelligent, the talented, the hardworking, for being intelligent, talented, and hardworking.
Read Ayn Rand’s essay “The Age of Envy” and Thomas Sowell’s essay “Are Jews Generic?”
“This hatred is not resentment against some prescribed view of the good with which one does not agree. . . . Hatred of the good for being the good means hatred of that which one regards as good by one’s own (conscious or subconscious) judgment. It means hatred of a person for possessing a value or virtue one regards as desirable.
If a child wants to get good grades in school, but is unable or unwilling to achieve them and begins to hate the children who do, that is hatred of the good. If a man regards intelligence as a value, but is troubled by self-doubt and begins to hate the men he judges to be intelligent, that is hatred of the good.” – Ayn Rand, “The Age of Envy”
“Years ago [I was asked] what can Jews do in order to minimize the hostility they face. I gave a one word answer, FAIL!, because as long as you succeed, you’re going to be hated.” – Thomas Sowell
Hey T it’s way to early in the morning for yet another Randian Lecture.
Bravo for your amazing analysis of peehaps the most evil of plagues which has beem so detrimental to Jews and all. of humanity for ages!
FIRST, please share this invaluable piece with other news organizations like JNS, Breitbart, Fox News.
SECOND, your theory is so solid and correct. it should be mandatory reading for psychologists, sociologists, conservative members of Congress, conservative pundits and newsworthy people, as well as political think tanks – please share!
THIRD and not least important, please share with all of Trump’s influencing advisors – his inner circle, and if possible to Trump himself.
This piece not just exposes Carlson, but verbalized the reason behind other anti-Western civilization thugs who have used antisemitusm as a tool to further their sinister, destructive agendas! IT GIVES DECENT PEOPLE THE TOOLS AND STRATEGIES TO FIGHT BACK!
The ACLU, The Secularists the Humanists Newdow and his Ilk replacing BC and AD with BCE and CE one should read about the funding of the ACLU
Another excellent analysis.
I do wonder though, if you’re giving Tucker too much credit.
My own analysis is really simple:
Tucker finally figured out that the Left always lies, and the GOP Establishment usually lies,
and the Covid Plandemic was a lie …
Hence everything is a lie.
My analysis is not very clever: But it is based on both social media and real-life experiences
of people saying something to the effect of
… the Plandemic (or any of the other Big Whoppers of the last 10 years) was a lie …
Therefore,
… space aliens are real ….
… or the moon landing was a hoax, or chemtrails, or the JFK shooting, or …
I know.
My analysis assumes Tucker is an idiot. Not someone playing 4D chess.
The term “Antisemitism” in this context is a lame dodge to avoid using the term anti-Jewish. After all, Arabs are Semites and most of them are Muslim so why use the term Antisemitism when it’s Jews who are being persecuted by Muslims. Most of Hamas would be of Semitic lineage yet they’re some of the most vile haters of anything Jewish. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a Semite, hated Jews so much that he collaborated with Hitler in the Final Solution of genocide against Jews in Nazi occupied Europe. Call vile and evil acts of persecution of the Jews what it really is: anti-Jewish.
The term “antisemitism” originated in the 1770s, and did indeed refer to Arabs as well as Jews (i.e. to all the offspring of Noah’s son, Shem).
But it subsequently developed in German nationalism (before German unity) as applying to Jews only, since they saw no threat to a new Germany from Arabs (for obvious reasons).
It was taken up by these political writers because their objection was not on fundamentally religious grounds, but on nationalist grounds, which allowed for the possibility of Jews assimilating to German culture). Post-Darwin, antisemitic writers often adopted biological-racist criteria, and no longer saw assimilation as possible.
The word has historically been spelt both with and without a hyphen. The unhyphenated spelling is better, since there is no “semitism” that the antisemite opposes – he is opposed merely to Jews. So the unhyphenated form treats the idea as a single unit, not a compound.
There is a modern tendency, over the past half century, for the “Palestine”-supporting left to troll Israel supporters by returning, disingenuously, to the 18th-century meaning of “antisemitism”. They can then make statements along the lines of “We’re not antisemites -we support Arabs” or “It’s you Israel supporters who are the real antisemites”.
Tucker has always been a media grifter.. He studiously avoids broadcasting his actual views by asking leading questions, then tacitly giving assent to the response.
His tactics have never changed – he has simply become more skillful at pulling it off.
I find his claims regarding his “Christian faith” to be legitimately questionable. He uses this angle as a means toward displaying unearned respectability.
I am a Christian Zionist based on the preponderance of truth throughout the Bible.
I stand with Israel.
Wait, I’m confused. As a Jew, am I a communist or a super-capitalist? It’s all so confusing. And I have such control over the world I can’t even find a good corned beef sandwich where I live.
Or pastrami on rye with mustarrd
“Like Hitler and Marx was to Christianity.”:You left avverb out.
It was there. Wasn’t it?
Carlson isn’t right wing. But he is clearly a Jew-hater.
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You can go deeper and understand the concept of antisemitism in terms of biblical Christian theology. Upon Satan’s fall and judgment after his rebellion against God, he has been given an opportunity to appeal his case. The Jews of the Old Testament are recognized as God’s chosen people and will reign with him in the millennium after Jesus Christ’s return. This is the Abraham covenant. One of Satan’s strategies is to cause God to break his covenant with the Jews by eliminating the Jewish race and thereby render God a liar and/or a false God. Satan will then have proved his appeal against God. Marxist “theology” is, at its core, anti God. Marx was a philosopher before an economic theorist as he is mostly known. His “philosophy” was centered on removing God from human thinking or activity (see Paul Kengor’s book). The historic outbreaks of antisemitism to the point of mass murder are part of Satan’s strategy. Search for “Angelic Conflict” for more information.
I think Tucker doesn’t like Jews. He resents their general support of liberal causes and he resents their success and status in American society. While there is a certain ugliness to bigotry, what makes Tucker so toxic are the reach of his platform and the extent to which his prejudice has led to completely irrational views on foreign policy.
There is a stream of thought that blames the Jews for the Iraq War. This is nuts. The decision to go to war in Iraq was made by the Bush administration and was done on the advice of Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, Bolton, and Rice, none of whom are Jewish. What is more, Jews were on average one of the groups most opposed to the war if not the group most opposed.
This is part of a much weirder view that US military posture is based on the protection of Israel and is the result of Jews controlling foreign policy in the interest of Israel and in direct contradiction of American interests. He seems to believe that if we abandoned US support for Israel, the rest of the world would all live in harmony and American interests would be protected
The US has a military presence in many parts of the globe and they are there to protect American interests and it has nothing to do with Israel. When Iran builds long range ballistic missiles and embarks on an ambitious program to produce atomic weapons grade nuclear material, is it rational to assume they would forego it if Israel didn’t exist. Did Ukraine resist the Russian invasion because its leader happens to be Jewish. Does Tucker believe that Ukraine is fighting the war because its leader is using it to make money. These views are nuts.
BS,, BS, BS, need I say more
Joseph McCarthy would have accused Tucker of being a Communist agent if he was alive today. Change my mind.
If you think like that, it would be very difficult to change your mind.
So many people are victim of poor history, unaware of the truth. I do have a simple solution without spending so much time TO TEACHhistory..
A GODD START WOULD BE TO….. PLEASE NAME THE INNOCENT PERSON That LABLED a COMMUNIST.
McCarthy was right. He didn’t go far enough.
Quite a quixotic view, sir… Never heard that one befo’, namely that Hitler killed the Jews to justify his war on Christianity and—I guess you are implying—his war lust generally. Seems to me the clear evidence shows ‘Dolf’s Jew-hate was thoroughly organic, and ultimately a factor of his vast scientific ignorance and degraded social Darwinism. Doubtless this stuff can get mixed up, but my take is this: people hate the Jews for discovering and presenting a narrative of a God of objective morality—and for claiming to be in league with Him, and His favorite, to boot. No one wants an objective morality, much less an insular group claiming a priority private line to its originator. Throw in the old Christ-killer slander, and poof: two millennia of hate and oppression. Your view strikes me as odd, and potentially dangerous—and BTW, I am not Jewish.
Mr. Greenberg just one I think you can’t top your writings. And I’ve said it a few times to only declare he’s done it again.. this is a major point that you made that very few people understand even with all the history books. I do quote you on sub stack chronicles hoping to bring your readers. Your insight is always amazing. This is a major article and thank you for writing it..
From Marx to Hitler to today’s radicals, hatred of the Jews is never just about the Jews.
Antisemitism is unlike any other prejudice. Racism focuses on a race, bigotry focuses on a group, but antisemitism always points beyond the Jews themselves. It is a weapon — a symbolic and psychological tool — aimed at tearing down the entire moral order that the Jews introduced into history.
As Daniel put it, antisemitism is rarely about the Jew; it is about what the Jew represents to the radical mind.
Marx was not simply attacking Jews.
He was attacking capitalism, tradition, family, and religion — using the Jew as the stand-in.
To Marx, if you want the people to hate capitalism, teach them to hate the Jew, who symbolizes it. Antisemitism became a philosophical shortcut for dismantling the entire Western order.
To understand why antisemitism keeps returning, and why it has spiked again today, we have to understand how radical movements have used the Jew as the gateway enemy in their war against the foundations of Western civilization.
If you’re recommending Daniel’s articles to others, be sure to call him “Greenfield”, and not “Greenberg”, otherwise, their web search will turn up a blank.
Opps that’s what happens when I right in the wee of the morning
Unlike sub stack, no ability to edit
There I go again the spelling I promised to improve next time
Thank you, Frank. I appreciate you sharing the articles
I just found out Marx worshiped the Devil.
This accounts for the Hatred of Jews & Christians in his life.
( You Won’t Believe What Karl Marx Wrote About the Devil )
This is an excellent analysis by Daniel, and needs to be noticed by the Trump administration.
The problem is deep-rooted. Tablet magazine says that a survey of young, junior-level personnel in the administration are sympathetic not only to Carlson, but also even to Fuentes.
Before the November 4 elections this year, the Carlsonites held back from attacking Trump personally, blaming his decisions on “the prince’s wicked advisers”, but after the elections, they are openly turning on Trump, and trying to redefine MAGA in such a way that Trump can be said to have betrayed it.
Both Carlson and Fuentes have said in the past that they did not want Trump elected, and have even spoken of their “hatred” for him. Even if their primary goal is to take control of the GOP by 2028, their second best would be a Democrat win.
Young politically active people in any party tend to be radical
In my opinion, both Jews and Christians need to focus on their mutual enemy.
Who is that?
It’s everyone who hates God, YHWH, the I Am, the only True God. No other god, and certainly not Allah will get you to Heaven.
The Old Testament begins in Chapter 1 of Genesis, verse 26 “Let us…” There is a plurality in God. He is one but comprises God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
And only those who believe in Him in totality will find a place in Heaven. All the rest are destined for Hell, whether they like it or not.
Meanwhile, here on earth, we are embattled by the forces of Satan and at the moment, Satan together with his hordes is winning.
False. “Let us” is an example of the royal “We”. Alternatively, God is including His court of angels. But Deut. 6:4: “The Lord is One”.
Carlson is a child. Smart, but a child. And, unfortunately, a Jew hater.
Carlson is still wet behind the ears and stuck in the Dark