Antisemitic media personality Tucker Carlson has unleashed what is arguably his most insane conspiracy theory yet, arguing that the war with Iran is tied to a supposed Chabad plan to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild the Bais Hamikdash (Third temple).
During an episode of his podcast, Carlson questioned why some Israeli soldiers had been photographed wearing patches depicting the Third Temple. He suggested the imagery signaled that the real goal of Israel’s war was the destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque on Har Habayis.
“How did all these guys wind up wearing patches suggesting the point of this war was the destruction of one of the holiest places in Islam and the rebuilding of a temple that is totally anathema to Christianity?” Carlson asked his audience.
Carlson then answered his own question by pointing to Chabad.
“This has been going on a long time in public through, in part, the efforts of a group called Chabad,” Carlson said.
“Chabad has been pushing in a pretty subtle way, unless you look carefully, for the reconstruction of the Third Temple,” Carlson told viewers.
Carlson’s insane attempt to link Chabad to the controversial patches rests on zero evidence.
“It seems like, from the reading we did recently, that those patches actually came from Chabad,” he said.
No document, report, or source was provided.
The patches Carlson referenced are associated with “High On The Har,” a Temple Mount activist group advocating increased Jewish access to the Temple Mount. The group has no organizational relationship with Chabad. The connection between the patches and High on the Har is publicly documented and easily verifiable.
Carlson’s argument instead leaned heavily on a video clip from Yosef Mizrachi, a figure widely criticized by mainstream Jewish leaders — including the Novominsker Rebbe — after Mizrachi denied the Holocaust – in a story covered etensivly on YWN in 2016.
In the clip cited by Carlson, Mizrachi said that if it were up to him he would allow a missile to strike the Dome of the Rock as a pretext for Israel to take control of the Temple Mount.
Carlson presented the remark as evidence of a broader ideological push tied to Chabad — despite Mizrachi having no leadership role in Chabad and despite the absence of any documentation linking Chabad to the patches.
Carlson’s claim also clashes directly with Chabad’s – and all of mainstream Judaism’s – theology, which teaches that the Third Temple will be rebuilt only in the messianic era and not through human political or military action.
In other words, the movement Carlson accused of quietly pushing for the destruction of Al-Aqsa explicitly teaches that the rebuilding of the Temple is not something Jews are meant to carry out themselves.
Carlson’s remarks drew a sharp rebuke from billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who warned that rhetoric tying Jews to conspiracies about holy sites could fuel real-world violence.
“@TuckerCarlson has reached a level of absurdity that is going to get someone killed,” Ackman wrote on social media. “He needs to stop this now. Someone who knows him well needs to intervene or he will have blood on his hands.”
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He’s just exposing himself more and more. Soon enough the only ones that will consider him relevant is the KKK.
Bob Grant would call him Sick and getting sicker.
What did HE drink this Purim?
As.long as he doesn’t call Madmani a cockroach he is free to say whatever he wishes. If he does say ut though, he may even have to apologize!
Perhaps YWN should do a more appropriate story and explain why this is not nuts and in fact, he is going according to the divine script. Tucker cannot say what Tucker wants to say, he is being fed words by the heavens. This has all been predicted and laid out for us. We are supposed to realize this is what is going on and our lives are not supposed to continue as normal. The Geula is really immanent now. It’s not just words.
He clearly lacks knowledge about Jews and Judaism, but he you should throwing the “antisemite” label around when he has stated numerous times that does not hate Jews and has not done anything to indicate that he does.
Also, RABBI Mizrachi never denied the Holocaust. And he apologized for the hurt afterwards. You really should stop the hate and motzi shem ra.
Rabbi Mizrachi correctly pointed out that Hitler YM”S is not a poseik, and his rule of one Jewish grandparent means that, therefore, a good number of those “Jews” murdered were not actually Jewish. That is not “denying the Holocaust”.
Raise your hand if you don’t want the rebuilding of the third temple. Isn’t he terrible for exposing those religious Jews who hope and pray for the Messiah and pray that he die.
1) Chabad Lubavitch considers their Temple on Eastern Parkway as the Beis Hamikdash.
2) Perhaps he is confusing the High on Har patches with the Moshiach patches of some Chabad Lubavitch soldiers.
Tucker is mixing up Chabad with the Daati Leumi. What he’s saying is much closer to the Religious Zionists positions.
Why mention Rav Mizrachi?
You still haven’t got over your hate for him?
Yes the framing of many of his lectures is not appetizing or politically correct, but facts can’t be changed.
Nowhere did he say that 6 Million people identified as Jews by the nazis were killed (to them it made no difference if one was or not halachically, they only cared about their real esav soneh lya’akov), what he said was many of those were not halachically Jewish, which simply put, is true.
To comfortably throw out a number “1 million” may be ignorant and some may even say arrogant, but you have to remember that is where the frame “taking out of context”. He is a fire’y Rabbi, one that is the diametric opposite of politically correct, and will say what he thinks, not caring what people will say about him, and that is why he has such a big following and a great connection with many Gedolim today, some of whom actually sent him into this line of work he does.
What is very apparent (in my opinion), as a Sefaradi, I was brought up to never attempt a discussion about the Holocaust with older people, and even when discussing it to be very careful, as since MOST of my family was not affected by it (I did have some ashkenazi ancestors who were affected) I cannot fully understand the mindset and trauma and aftershock trauma that people still suffer from today.
And this he (Rav Mizrachi) may be lacking, but lets say this, Rav Avigdor Miller ztz”ll was also not so liked by many in his time due to his stance on the war, but is universally accepted today (interesting note, his book divine madness was not printed for many years due to this very concern).
Rav Mizrachi holds the same position, BUT
1. because he is openly, directly and most of all unapologetically politically incorrect, people simply cannot stomach him, and
2. Since he is Sefaradi, UNDERSTANDABLY it may be seen as particularly offensive/insensitive for him to state – in public, his opinion on the matter, when he did-(/may have) not suffer like his other Ashkenazi brothers did.
To go tying him to Carlson kind of just aligns YWN with Carlson’d style of outrageous conspiracy ideas, (that notwithstanding that Rav Mizrachi may not have to always say everything he thinks of)…..
@ujm,
Chabad can very easily be misinterpreted with mizrachi/dati leumi, as their stance in 2026 towards israel as a state etc is basically in line with the dati leumi beliefs….
@ujm,
sorry not all of Chabad, but the ones that make their voices the most heard, loudest etc…
HaKatan – OK, shkoyach, we agree that being an anti-Zionist doesn’t automatically make one an antisemite. That doesn’t mean Tucker isn’t an antisemite, or at least a total looney-toon. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and interviews ducks, and hangs out with ducks, and believes in the crassest and most cliche stereotypes and conspiracy theories that the most messed up ducks believe in, then it may in fact be a duck.
The fact that it never crosses your mind that it’s either Qatar or turkey pulling his strings with a much higher paycheck than Fox News is puzzling. He’s not speaking his own words he’s just trying to increase the bank account for whichever his handlers pull
Ultimately, for many decades now, Christians and Muslims the world over have been realizing the honest truth that their religions were only meant as temporary avenues of converting the gentiles to the Kingdom of Israel. In order to do that (without them realizing the GlobalJewishDomination), we needed to invent replacement theology to trick them into converting.
The events of the last century have shown (and continue to show) that the God of Israel is Truthful and Loyal Forever, and Israel will be victorious at last.
The Temple will be rebuilt and the whole world will finally throw in the white towel.
This is why Christians and Muslims have been fighting against Jews for decades, trying to convert them and / or kill them, to prevent this eventuality. This is a fact. Simple fact.
As the truthful eventuality becomes more and more obvious, the gentiles will split into two parts. Those that embrace Israel (evangelicals and many Arabs today), and those who will fight tooth and nail until their end. These are Messianic times. And the Temple will be built by human hands. Donald J Trump is the most probable candidate, to be honest. (2nd would be Netanyahu). Apocalyptism is pure stupidity. It is imagination. Reality is Truth. That’s what matters. The truth is better than any Apocalyptic belief.
The only reason most Jews today won’t admit this, is because the Rabbis told us to be quiet about it (after Shimon Bar Kochba), so we can survive in exile.
The truth will be revealed soon. Which gentiles converted for Real (and truly embrace the Kingdom of Israel – could be Christians / Muslims / Noahides or other. Doesn’t matter). And those that were tricked by the Jewish conspiracy known as “replacement theology”, created to convince the gentiles it’s ok for them to hate jews, allowing them to be tricked into converting.
These “converts” are not real Christians/ Muslims, rather pagan gentiles who were tricked by the Jewish conspiracy started by Paul (the most Kniving Conspiring Jew Ever), to make them think we aren’t trying to control the world, so that they convert and we now have the Global Kingdom.
Their words and actions reveal the truth.
They don’t want jews to control the world. Thats why they hate us. Their too stupid to realize that their religions were invented by jews to control them, without them realizing that we’re controlling them, because otherwise they wouldn’t convert.
Ya, guys, I know it’s mind blowing. But it’s the ONLY truth which properly explains all of history.
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Does anyone else think he resembles Hitler?
Yaakov Yosef A:
He has had a Chabad (as it happens) guest on his show, and has explicitly stated that not only does he consider it forbidden to hate any group, including Jews, but explicitly stated that he has “always gotten along well with” observant Jews and mentioned how “they learn talmud” and that he has “never had any problem with them”.
If that is your banner of antisemitism, then Klal Yisrael is B”H doing really, really well.
Let him say whatever because he will. It’s like talking to a sweater. Regardless, his ilk is the one spreading disinfo and it would not be a surprise at all if it were to be discovered his is a CIA operative strewing discord to create a climate of fear, chaos and instability within the community and without. Unfortunately there are so many uninformed people, who don’t know the basics of world history that they ingest this as truth 101.
BTW – if anyone wants peace, healing, love, harmony, stability, and end to all strife, conflict, crime, pollution, toxins, hate, evil and corruption, they would probably want the Third Temple to be built – and the faster the better.
B”H
Well,
The Lubavitcher Rebbe is a King.
The Rebbe’s goal since day one is only one, to bring moshiach.
And we need to fight this as a war.
That’s why he founded the tzivos Hashem, which Jewish kids are the soldiers and we all know that ??? ??? ??????? ?? ??? ??? save the Jews around the world daily.
He made Tanks for Mivztoim.
And most importantly, he opened “Jewish bases” around the world, that are fighting the darkness every single day.
B’ruchnius, Tucker Carlson is right, moshiach wants to come down and rebuild the 3rd Beis Hamikdash. I do find astonishing that Hashem Made a goy come to this calculation and understanding.
>>>He clearly lacks knowledge about Jews and Judaism, but he you should throwing the “antisemite” label around when he has stated numerous times that does not hate Jews and has not done anything to indicate that he does.
Mr HaKatan. If you are going to bend over so far backwards to be dan L’kaf zchus, try doing it for other Jews instead of limiting such contorted reasoning to defending antisemites while pouring endless vitriol on other Jews.
You can just as easily say about the “Zionists:. They clearly lacks knowledge about Judaism, but you should not be throwing the “antifrum” (or worse) label around when they have stated numerous times that they do not hate Judaism etc..
@smerel,
I may be politically incorrect for saying this, but if you take the two examples you mentioned 1. TuQatar Carlson and 2. zionists, you may find the difference to be a bit different:
Notwithstanding his maniac farfetched laughable conspiracies, what has Carlson actually done that is anti-Semitic?
1. Denying the Holocaust or the extent of it, may be disgustingly insensitive, or ignorantly oblivious of history, but it is still not anti-Semitic per se.
2. To state that Jews (whatever group) want to rebuild the Bet Hamikdash is also not anti-Semitic per se, we all want the Bet Hamikdash to be rebuilt.
Now to say that Jews want to do this because we want to take over the world etc, that would be anti-Semitic, and there are enough age-old conspiracies surrounding that idea that he hasn’t really touched upon (from what I know, if he has let me know and I am ready to retract what I say, I am writing this based on the above….)
Besides, the israeli soldiers that were wearing moshiach pins, if that is what he meant by patches, were probably chabadskers themselves…
End point is, does making the points he made, in of themselves clarify him to be an anti_semite or just another wacko weirdo ignoramus with too big an audience?
Now, for zionists.
Yes, and yes again, you may be right for some secular Jews, but in many cases-may describe themselves as zionists, but don’t hate Judaism (which only reveals their (maybe innocent) ignorance about either zionism or Judaism as you can’t love two extreme opposites that hate each other, unless you are either ignorant, or twist one of the two in order to make it as if they are “compatible”).
That is the sacrifice of zionism, those that are so confused, they have no inkling of the depth and truth of either Judaism or zionism, enabling them to say they are both, or do not hate the other….
However, assuming HaKatan in all his comments meant the following (and please confirm this HaKatan if it is true), than no you cannot make such a comparison.
Whilst Carlson has made outlandish, crazy wacko ignorant statements, or even maybe true ones but the wording used was crazy and ignorant, they were not anti-Semitic per se, whilst the fathers of zionism, their leaders from age old have engaged in some of the worst anti-Semitism, however much some want to whitewash history.
From herzl ym”sh reassuring the pope he will help convert all Jews to christianity, to achad ha’am ym”sh, jabotinsky ym”sh (the current prime ministers “rebbi”), ben gurion ym”sh and all of them, describing Jews as filthy, long nosed, maushels, bacteria, infested, viral infections, etc etc, all terms you thought only nazis and the soviets used….. These are openly anti-Semitic. Until today, there are those in the political system in israel that are “truly” worried about religious Jews trying to take over israel and the world, and trying to “stop” them from doing so.
Now compare the two and what I see is
1. TuQatar Carlson= crazy maniac ignorant conspiracist desperate for an audience (crazy but not anti-Semitic by itself).
2. zionism= an age old tool to dispose of Judaism and replace it with a hegelical mix of nationalistic machojudiasm to be rid of all those dirty filthy Jews (a very much clear and diabolical form of anti-Semitism).
>>>I may be politically incorrect for saying this, but if you take the two examples you mentioned 1. TuQatar Carlson and 2. zionists, you may find the difference to be a bit different:
The differences you claim all boil down to little more than personal beliefs of yours about people. And then an extensions of those beliefs to assign collective guilt to people who weren’t born until decades or even a century after those people died. That in itself is true antisemitism. Putting that aside the point remains. If when it comes to Tucker Carlson you are willing to bend over so far backwards and use such painful logic to put him in a positive or at least neutral light you should at least be doing the same for other Jews.