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Tucker Carlson’s recent visit to Ben Gurion Airport, which Carlson billed as his “fact-finding” trip to Israel, has provoked a storm of criticism. He met with American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, insisting that Israel mistreated Christians, and refused to listen to Huckabee’s rebuttal. Now one of the leaders of Christians in Israel, Shadi Khalloul, has also taken Carlson to task. More on his response to Carlson can be found here: “Israeli Christian Leader: Tucker Carlson ‘Doesn’t Want the Truth,’ Endangers Christians Elsewhere by Lying About Israel,” by Debbie Weiss, Algemeiner, February 19, 2026:
Firebrand podcaster Tucker Carlson drew a barrage of heat from Israelis after claiming he was “detained and interrogated” during a brief stop at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday, with former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calling him “a chickens**t” and “a phony” and an Israeli Christian leader describing him as “an enemy of Israel” for lying about the country’s treatment of Christians.
Shadi Khalloul, founder of the Israeli Christian Aramaic Association and a former Knesset candidate, accused the former Fox News host-turned-far-right conspiracy theorist of “destroying Christian-Jewish relations” all over the world and “endangering the persecuted Christian community in the Middle East” by portraying Israel as hostile to Christianity.
“The truth is exactly the opposite,” he said, describing Christians in Israel as enjoying freedom and equal opportunity.
In Khalloul’s telling, Carlson is choosing scenes and storylines that travel well online, then skipping the reporting that might complicate them.
“Tucker Carlson doesn’t want the truth. The truth doesn’t exist in his lexicon,” Khalloul told The Algemeiner.
Earlier this month, Khalloul invited Carlson to a tour of Christian communities and holy sites in Israel, including a meeting with his brother-in-law, the head of the Maronite Church of Israel, but received no response.
“If he [Carlson] was really willing to help, he would come interview us, hear our views, our narrative,” Khalloul said, adding the podcaster would then be able to “expose the oppression of Christians in Lebanon, in Iraq, in Syria, and under the Palestinian Authority by a radical Islamic propaganda agenda,” rather than “talking about me and my community as being persecuted by Israel.”
Christians are persecuted, to varying degrees, everywhere in the Middle East save in one place — the state of Israel. It is only in Israel that Christians enjoy the same political, social, and religious rights as the majority population. But Carlson didn’t want to be confronted with the evidence of that equal treatment; he refused Khalloul’s invitation to meet with Christians and to hear their views on how they are faring as citizens of Israel. Ηis antisemitic mind was made up, and he didn’t want to hear anything that might undermine his views on Jewish malevolence toward Christians.
He [Khalloul] pointed to anti-Christian violence in Syria, including a recent church bombing in Damascus, and to the arrest of Maronite official Moussa el-Hajj in Lebanon after he was arrested by Hezbollah operatives at the Lebanese border carrying money and medicine sent from Israel’s Christian community.
In Syria, the Christian population has plummeted from 1.5 million in 2011 to 300,000 as of 2024, driven by persecution from jihad groups, including the Islamic State (ISIS). Anti-Christians violence, including church bombings, has occurred in Damascus, in Tartus, and in villages in the Suwayda Governorate. Attacks on Christians continue under the jihadist regime, and Christians continue to leave the country.
In Lebanon, Christians were the majority — 56% — of the population in the 1932 census, but the pressure from hostile Muslims has over time caused many Christians to leave the country for Europe and North America, and now Christians make up only one-third of the population.
Christians may not practice their faith in Saudi Arabia; no churches are allowed; expat nurses who quietly sing Christmas carols in their own apartments, behind closed doors, have been promptly booted out of the country.
In Libya, arsonists set fire to the main Coptic church in Benghazi, and a bomb destroyed a Coptic church in Misrata. Other major attacks on Christians took place in Tripoli. Libyan Christians have been sentenced to prison merely for possessing Bibles.
In Iraq, the Bishop of Irbil, Bashar Warda, has warned that the church in Iraq is “on the edge of extinction.” In 2003, there were 1.5 million Christians in Iraq; that number has now sunk to 250,000.
In Egypt, the Christian Copts are not allowed to repair old, nor build new, churches, and Copts are subject to intense discrimination in hiring and promotion for jobs in academic institutions, in the government, and in the military.
In Gaza, when Israel handed over Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005, there were 5,000 Christians living in the Strip. Today there are only 500, a decline of 90%.
Most telling of all, in 1949, there were 34,000 Christians in Israel, while today there are 185,000, an increase of 550%. Christians in Israel are thriving.
Very few people think for themselves. Most just go with their preconceived notion of how things are or believe whatever bs narrative is fed to them. I am continually shocked at how few people will do any of their own research at all to verify claims. I suppose Tucker knows very well this is the case, as he pretends to be half-retarded and is “just asking questions”.
I think sane people can see that Christians don’t fair well in majority Muslims countries. However, there are more Christians living in Qatar than Israel, which is quite surprising. Maybe that’s a good sign of things to come.
For the most part Christians and Muslims are treated fairly in Israel. Of course, we can point to isolated incidents of Israeli’s spitting at Christian clergy, or vandalism of churches by some Israeli’s, but those incidents don’t represent the country.
I’d like to hear from some other leaders in the Christian community of Israel for their point of view.
Those in Qatar are apparently almost all guest workers not people from there or living there as citizens
Those Christians in Qatar are almost all foreign workers who have few rights or protections. So it’s more a sign of how things remain.
How did Christian areas like Bethlehem become slime?As an indirect form of suppression and targeted oppression Israel allowed slimes in Bethlehem to squat in Christian homes, on property and takeover. The Christians were given no legal recourse after and during being shunted off their land and were buried by government bureaucracy. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Might as well have been a program.
Must have been embarrassing to have the town where Jesus was born celebrated every year. Of course Christians are always the biggest enemy of the left. It’s probably the true root of the targeting, but prejudice is not confined. It must have been horrible to have everything stolen from you and know your government is enthusiastically complicit and you are unprotected. To know your community is losing generations of its history and that the anchors to that history are all but destroyed.
Israel should stop with the constant polishing of it’s turds/resume. It’s not like the times of Josephus, well really, only between Jews, Druze and Christians, but the residue of history is still in the background and probably only sane, especially for the Jews after their recent treatment. Reading the history given by Josephus lays to rest the idea that one group is not capable or has never committed heinous acts. Bethlehem is another and fairly recent.
Apparently, Tucker shares closer ties with the mainstream media propagandists. He doesn’t seem to know anything about how Christian’s are being treated in other Middle Eastern countries and in Africa.
I guess such a coddled, narcissistic sociopath just can’t be bothered with the facts. After all, rules don’t apply to him, having a conscience is always optional and now it seems only useful in conjuring up his defense of Islamic barbarity.
He has dubious ” friends” like Putin and the Tate brothers. Andrew and Christian Tate, identify as “high value men” whose only discernible value is money and violating women to get it is just the cost of doing business. Andrew converted to Islam and he has Sharia law to quote in freely justifying violence, rape and the imprisonment of women keeping his sex business thriving and the newest Bugatti in his driveway while he resides in Dubai (and young, females who came to Dubai to work in hospitality are forced into prostitution and their “employers” confiscate their passports upon arrival; a victim-rich population).
Tucker has the finesse of a young, awkward pubescent boy. His high-pitched laugh alone bespeaks his underlying tension and a need for male approval. Qatar did their homework before getting a lock on him. Money, prestige, a home in Qatar, his ignorant acceptance of the totalitarian rule of Sharia law along with his biblical ignorance of both Judaism and Christianity; the operational tools of his trade. Causing the untold deaths of innocents using his big mouth to vilify Jews and Israel is straight out of brainwashing-propaganda 101. He’s an easy mark for ruthless men and we are witness to how men like him becoming mouthpieces for evil continues having disastrous results for those being marginalized. It is revolting that his visionary range goes no further than the halls of Qatar. If he hasn’t yet converted to Islam, looks like that might just be around the corner. He will have to confront his love for dogs…Islam HATES dogs, Christians, Baha’i, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Druze, Alawites, Jews, the Yazidis and any other faith belief systems. Bow down Tucker Carlson to the most violent, misogynistic pedophile-rapist who is Islam’s self-proclaimed prophet and whether you have figured it out or not, your new master!
Someone needs to explain how… saying Jews mistreat Christians is going to…
1) “Endangers Christians Elsewhere by Lying About Israel”
2) “endangering the persecuted Christian community in the Middle East”
…
Are the Jews going to put Christians in danger all around the world?
I thought the Jews were kind to Christians? What’s the message here?
It’s confusing… or a lie?
Well, satanic luciferian liar and 9/11 Truther Sumsrent pops up again.
“ Someone needs to explain how… saying Jews mistreat Christians is going to…
1) “Endangers Christians Elsewhere by Lying About Israel”
2) “endangering the persecuted Christian community in the Middle East””
You don’t want to have it explained to you because you are a dishonest liar. But I will do so anyway.
Firstly: Carlson isn’t just lying about Jews in a vacuum, which would be bad enough. He is specifically lying to whitewash the likes of the Taliban, Hamas, BIJ, and so forth, who hav all caused the collapse of what Christian communities their regions had by aggressive imposition of Dhimmitude or even in the case of BIJ outright seeking annihilation of the local Christians.
“Are the Jews going to put Christians in danger all around the world?”
No, but the people Carlson is carrying water for will, much as the Fulani Jihadis have in Nigeria and the Muslim Brotherhood have worldwide.
“I thought the Jews were kind to Christians? What’s the message here?
It’s confusing… or a lie?”
It’s not confusing, you are just stupid and dishonest.
Are you an idiot?
These are the words of… “one of the leaders of Christians in Israel, Shadi Khalloul”
So forget what Tuckers motives are… this is a “Christian leader”…
Therefore explain how saying… Jews mistreating Christians in Israel endangers Christians everywhere in the world?
Are you saying… Christians are in danger by muslims because Jews treat Christians badly?
What hogwash !! satanic worshiping muslims don’t need a reason to attack Christians. And certainly not because of Jews doing so…
Do you have a brain? Then use it !!
PS… Who are you?
“Are you an idiot?”
Perhaps, since I bothered to waste time responding to you. But compared to you, I am not. After all, I am not daft enough to be a 9/11 Troofer and Al Qaeda apologist.
“These are the words of… “one of the leaders of Christians in Israel, Shadi Khalloul””
So forget what Tuckers motives are… this is a “Christian leader”…”
Firstly: I don’t need to interrogate what Tucker’s motive are, his motives are less important than the truth of his claims. The problems he and you run into is that his claims are nakedly dishonest and easy to debunk.
Though Secondly, I should note that Tucker has a track record of blatantly lying and helping to peddle the lies of others like Holocaust minimizer and Neo-Nazi Darryl Cooper, and Holocaust denier and Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, as well as the Qatari dictatorship and the Narcoterrorists of the PSUV.
The point is that he had his rear handed to him by both Mr. Kalloul and Ambassador Huckabee.
“Therefore explain how saying… Jews mistreating Christians in Israel endangers Christians everywhere in the world?”
Again, that’s not how the case. Even if Jews were as viciously guilty of mistreating Christians as Sunni and Shiite Muslims are (and they’re not), the reach and power of Jews is far more limited. Good luck finding many in Indonesia, Afghanistan, or Chechnya. In contrast the Muslim mistreatment of Christians is indeed a danger to Christians worldwide.
Period. Full Stop.
You cannot argue this point. Therefore you try to deflect. And while I could say plenty about my issues with Israeli law’s dysfunctions and quasi-Ottoman millet like confessional boxings, and the atrocities of the likes of the Kahanites, I don’t bother. Because those have very little to do with the subject at question (and are probably not things you or Tucker know or care about anyway), and are being used to whitewash the likes of Hamas and the IRGC.
“Are you saying… Christians are in danger by muslims because Jews treat Christians badly?”
No, as I clarified above.
“What hogwash !! satanic worshiping muslims don’t need a reason to attack Christians. And certainly not because of Jews doing so…”
Exactly my point. Shame that’s Tucker’s argument.
“Do you have a brain? Then use it !!”
You first, luciferian liar.
You say… “[you] don’t need to interrogate what Tucker’s motive are”
But that’s all you do!
You also say… I’m and “Al Qaeda apologist” <<< Liar !!!
Is that you Intrepid?
You say… "You cannot argue this point"
No need to… that's not the basis of my comment. My original comment has nothing to do with any comparison!
What is… is… How do Jews mistreating Christians in Israel cause danger to all the Christians in the world!?
How stupid can you be?
It’s the propagation of hatred towards the Jewish people and Israel. Gods Word clearly tells us this will happen in the end times. Also, those that turn against Israel will be cursed. It’s going to suck to be Tucker!
Because it makes it appear as though Israel is hostile to Christianity so other nations take that as cover for them to do the same..
All anyone has to do is pull up the Lakewood NJ videos made by Tyler Oliveria… and see for themselves how Orthodox Jews are rude, unkind, unfriendly, unsociable and taking advantage of public welfare.
No different than satanic islamic neighborhoods…
The point being… Jews can be quite demeaning to those outside their group…
“ All anyone has to do is pull up the Lakewood NJ videos made by Tyler Oliveria… and see for themselves how Orthodox Jews are rude, unkind, unfriendly, unsociable and taking advantage of public welfare.”
All of which puts them in ‘good’ comparison with their gentile neighbors in New Jersey, and none of which amounts to a threat to Christian’s worldwide in sharp contrast to the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood. By all means call them out and push back against them, and when guilty of crimes put them in the dock and convict them. But the idea this is in any way comparable to attempts to exterminate or forcibly convert Christians like what Robert Spencer has detailed in places like Nigeria and Pakistan is dishonest to the extreme.
And you know what they say. Lucifer is a liar, luciferian Sumsrent.
“ No different than satanic islamic neighborhoods…”
Kindly detail the number of Orthodox Jewish terrorists and mass murderers then.
“The point being… Jews can be quite demeaning to those outside their group…”
This is true and not something I deny, after all we are all children of man and deal with the sin, including Jews. But comparing being demeaning to our groups to outright endangering them as Tucker Qatarlson does is stupid and dishonest.
This isn’t about mass murderers or terrorists…
It’s about being pushed out of American communities by Orthodox Jews with 12-17 children per family and milking the welfare and tax systems…
No different than satanic islamic no-go zones in America. Except the non Jews can still shop in the Jewish communities… being treated as outcasts…
“This isn’t about mass murderers or terrorists…”
Tell the martyrs of Bethlehem killed by Hamas or those of Samaria done in by Fatah that.
“It’s about being pushed out of American communities by Orthodox Jews with 12-17 children per family and milking the welfare and tax systems…”
Good luck getting that kind of push from them, especially given how small they are relative to that. But if you want to stop them, report on them for milking the welfare and tax systems like we would with Somali cheats. This isn’t hard.
But you don’t want to actually do that. Instead you want to carry water for Tucker Carlson and his Neo-Nazi and Islamist apologist ilk.
“No different than satanic islamic no-go zones in America. Except the non Jews can still shop in the Jewish communities… being treated as outcasts…”
So in other words entirely different from Islamic No-Go Zones, you just want to claim otherwise. Great contradiction sumsrent.
Do you have a brain? Try using it.
I’m Orthodox. I don’t have 17 kids. The average size of local families is 4 kids or so.
Believe random social media lies and you end up saying stupid things.
It’s what the Orthodox in Lakewood NJ are saying themselves…
12-17 kids per family… with most none of them holding jobs.
I don’t believe they are lying when they’re claiming it themselves in the videos.
I’m Orthodox. And I’m a real person. Not a YouTube video by some social media influencer.
Choosing to believe social media over reality is half the problem in this country now.
There’s dozen of Jews in these videos… no denying that. Confessing what the situation is…
The video creators might as well tried to convince everyone that Sandy Hook was a hoax…
social media isn’t reality and TV isn’t reality
if you choose to believe the equivalent of the Jerry Springer show, that’s your choice
What’s caught on camera doesn’t mean it’s not reality…
We saw jet airliners fly into the Twin Towers on 911… I’ve never been to NY to verify that it actually did happen.
When several Jews say that the average Jewish family living in Lakewood NJ has 12-17 children… I’m gonna believe them. Why would God fearing Jews lie about that? Why would a whole community lie about that?
Some things are real…
There are always rotten apples inside every ethnic/religious group
Sure… but we’re talking about entire communities…
From my experience and what I’ve seen… Jews aren’t courteous and are stand-off-ish to non Jews.
That may well be, but orthodox Jews tend not to scream something in Hebrew then behead someone or rape indiscriminately.
I’m sure SOME Orthodox Jews are rude, just like some non Orthodox Jews are rude.
“No different than satanic islamic (sic) neighborhoods.” Rudeness kills no one. I have never heard of Jews beheading non believers for refusing to accept Jehovah as God and Moses as His prophet. My understanding is that it is quite difficult to become a Jew. They are not seeking converts.
A Palestinian Christian pastor has another viewpoint:
https://www.bipj.info/truth
He can also be found on X by searching for Munther Isaac.
Ancient Christian churches and villages are being destroyed in the West Bank.
A viewpoint in opposition to Munther Isaac’s is given by Shadi Kaloul himself in an interview conducted by Jon Harris on his podcast called “Conversations that Matter.” This podcast aired on Feb. 20th.
Jon Harris invited Kaloul to be interviewed after Tucker apparently refused Kaloul’s request to be interviewed.
Both Munther Isaac’s and Shadi Kaloul’s interviews should be heard and evaluated. If both men are telling the truth, then there is disparate treatment of Christians by the IDF – something that is not difficult to believe given IDF soldiers are human and this is warfare.
But what I find VERY disturbing is the destruction of Taibeh by Jewish settlers (likely with IDF support). This was the only ENTIRELY Christian Palestinian village.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2025-07/israel-west-bank-jewish-settlers-christians-palestinians-war.html
The Taibeh story is a lie
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-861878
The police finally poured cold water on the fevered narrative: The church walls are unscathed, no smoke ever reached the roofless nave, and investigators are examining a brush fire in an adjacent field, period.
The Vatican spends far too much time cozying up to Islam, not just in Israel, but in Europe where it supports Muslim mass migration
Thank you. I will check it out if possible.
I did some research and you are right. The city spells its name “Taybeh.” Spellings vary in English for research purposes.
There was a fire. Aggressive Israeli settlers are the prime suspects, having motive, means and opportunity as well as some reputational protection from the government. Additionally, the fire complaint is not alone among the allegations of settler violence in Taybeh.
Even Huckabee gave a rare rebuke. I have decided he is a poor, even dangerous ambassador.. He has little acumen for politics.
the church wasn’t burned
Israeli ‘settlers’ are the equivalent of the right in America, they’re hated by the entire political establishment and the media, and the last thing they have is reputational protection, which is why some take the law into their own hands
there are clashes over grazing and farmland land, but most of the past claims broadcast in the media have proven to be lies
Thank you for your reply.
I did not mean to imply the church was burned, but that there was a fire. And I thought “reputational protection” would be given to them by the Israeli government.
I was studying in Israel in 1997. As far as how I was treated as a Christian, well, I may as well been in Mainstreet USA.
Tucker’s motto: Don’t confuse me with the facts.
Christians are persecuted in Israel. haredi spit on them, denigrate the women, and even deny Christians the ability to worship. I have seen it. I have been there seven times. The muslims call the Israelis pigs and then the religious Jews call the Christians pigs. Israelis, clean out your own back yard before you attack Christians. Most Israelis do treat Christians well but the power club, haredis, do not.