Tucker Carlson named ‘Antisemite of the Year’ by Jewish civil rights group | EUROtoday

Tucker Carlson has been named “Antisemite of the Year” by a Jewish civil rights group in response to his interviews with a collection of controversial audio system over the course of 2025, most notably white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

The former Fox News host interviewed Fuentes in late October, in the midst of which his visitor attacked “organized Jewry in America,” confused the significance of being “pro-white,” and stated he was a “fan” of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who persecuted Russian Jews.

Carlson himself attacked “Christian Zionists” on the American proper for supporting Israel throughout the identical dialog, singling out former president George W Bush, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, and Sen. Ted Cruz for explicit criticism.

“By an overwhelming vote margin, Tucker Carlson has been named StopAntisemitism’s 2025 Antisemite of the Year,” CeaseAntisemitism founder and govt director Liora Rez informed The New York Post.

“Carlson’s divisive, hateful, and dangerous rhetoric and his repeated glowing interviews with bigots and Hitler apologists have made him the most reviled Jew-hater over the last 12 months.”

The similar group additionally attacked the host instantly after the Fuentes episode aired, commenting: “He uses his platform of millions to normalize antisemitism, from downplaying white supremacy to promoting the antisemitic ‘great replacement theory,’ turning dog whistles into a megaphone for hate.”

The Independent has reached out to Carlson for remark.

In addition to Fuentes, the host has sat down with a number of others this yr who’ve expressed views the group objected to, together with Palestinian pastor Munther Isaac and Darryl Cooper, a revisionist historian of the Second World War.

“When influential figures normalize antisemitic narratives, it contributes to a climate where threats, harassment, and violence against Jews become more and more common,” Rez informed the Post.

“Antisemitism is surging in the U.S. and abroad, and it is increasingly driven by people with powerful platforms… not just by fringe extremists.

“Words don’t kill, but they dig the graves by inflaming hatred and inspiring unstable actors. Words have consequences, and in today’s environment, they can and do pave the way to real-world violence and deadly attacks on Jews.”

Carlson’s choice to platform Fuentes impressed an enormous backlash amongst American conservatives, with Florida Republican Rep. Randy Fine, who types himself “the Hebrew hammer,” calling the broadcaster “the most dangerous antisemite in America” and accusing him of taking over “the mantle of leader of a modern-day Hitler Youth.”

Amid the fast fallout, the conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation was accused of trying to distance itself from Carlson by eradicating his title from a web-based donation web page it sponsors.

Its president, Kevin Roberts, subsequently defended him in a video message, saying, “Christians can critique the state of Israel without being antisemitic. And, of course, antisemitism should be condemned.

“Conservatives should feel no obligation to reflexively support any foreign government, no matter how loud the pressure becomes from the globalist class or from their mouthpieces in Washington.”

Carlson himself was dismissive of the furore, telling fellow Fox alumni Megyn Kelly his critics can “buzz off,” including that he doesn’t have to “prove that I’m a good person” and was “just doing my thing, which is I want to understand what people think.”

President Donald Trump additionally defended Carlson over the interview, saying he had “said good things about me over the years” and that individuals may make up their very own minds about Fuentes, who, notoriously, dined at Mar-a-Lago in November 2022 after being invited alongside to satisfy Trump by troubler rapper Kanye West.

Fellow right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro was far much less sympathetic, blasting Fuentes at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention final week by calling him a “Hitler apologist, Nazi-loving, anti-American piece of refuse” and saying Carlson had “built Nick Fuentes up.”

More surprisingly, Fuentes himself has modified his tune on Carlson since their assembly, saying in a livestream rant earlier this month: “I want this guy to stay the f*** away from me. I don’t know who he is, but I’ll tell you one thing: He is not who he says he is.”

He went on to declare that he had “never met a faker human being in my life.”