NETANYAHU, ARAFAT, RABIN and NAZA and MAMDANI

On November 4, 1995 a fanatic right wing gunman assassinated the Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. In retrospect that was an example of an historical contingency comparable to the assassination on June 28,1914 of Archduke Ferdinand, of Justice Quartus de Wet on June 12, 1964 not sentencing Nelson Mandela to death after being found guilty of sabotage and conspiracy against the apartheid government and the gunman shooting Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968. While all these catastrophic derailments are examples of how the future was reordered. Jay H. Ell will focus on Rabin and the role that Netanyahu played. 

 Netanyahu since 1995 is still around claiming that Mayor Mamdani has become the real threat to all Jews while a documentary NAZA  allegedly "proves" genocide. And hijacking... is once again in the news. 

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RABIN AND ARAFAT - OSLO ACCORDS

In the early 1990's there was an optimistic mood in Israel. They had survived the War of Independence, Six Day and Yom Kippur wars and for practical purposes the First Intifada had been squashed. The surrounding Arab nations no longer provided an existential threat. Although in1979 the Ayatollah had pledged Israel's destruction, he had not as yet conjured up, trained and armed proxies that would later become the spearhead of the attempt to eliminate it. The principal danger then was Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, (PLO), He had introduced terrorism mainly in the form of hijacking to the world stage on a scale never witnessed before. However he was weakened and was tending to what was left of a six year long Intifada, (The First). 

On July 22, 1992, Israel elected the first Israeli born Prime Minister, Yizhak Rabin, in fact for the second time, to negotiate a peace for a country that had known none. Momentous peace talks with Yasser Arafat followed and the Oslo Accords, were agreed to. This barely more than a year after Rabin assumed office. The latter were then announced signed and sealed at White House at two meetings in September 1993. with President Clinton presiding. A year later the two leaders in addition to Foreign Minister Peres received the Nobel Prize for Peace. In that same year further talks took place in Cairo extending what was to be a gradual process of peace between the two peoples.

The Oslo Accords achieved fundamental agreements that were never to be followed through. These included recognition of Israel as a State and self rule in Gaza and the West Bank with the legitimatization of the PLO. At this stage Benjamin Netanyahu entered the scene. Like his father he was dead against Palestinians permanently occupying Gaza and the West Bank. 

NETANYAHU - RABID OPPOSITION TO RABIN

In 1994 Bibi Netanyahu was part of a demonstration against Rabin where a coffin was paraded with a noose while offensive signs dominated the environment. On the coffin the message screamed, “Rabin is killing Zionism”. Netanyahu's opposition hardened and became uglier as the leader of the opposition he stood on a balcony while crowds below yelled curses at Rabin. They waved posters of him in a Nazi uniform with an Arab kafiya on his head. His widow Leah Rabin, singled Netanyahu for creating the environment that led to the death of her husband and never forgave him, snubbing him publicly at his attempts to show sympathy.  

It is again one of those vagaries of history why Netanyahu succeeded Rabin and not Peres in the 1996 election. However in the next Ehud Barak won one of the rare clearcut victories in Israeli politics sending Netanyahu to the political wilderness for a decade.

Barak followed up with another attempt at a two state solution in 2000.This time Clinton outright blamed Arafat for rejecting the deal. The United States President subsequently remonstrated with the PLO leader that he had marred his Presidency.  While there was a counter narrative put out by Arafat as to why he reneged on the second Clinton attempt there was none on the first. That initiative was halted as a result of the Rabin death Arafat argued and Leah Rabin corroborated his version of events.

LEAH RABIN AND ARAFAT AND THE PEACE PROCESS

While Leah Rabin rejected Netanyahu’s denials of culpability she had every reason to support Arafat’s contention that he was committed to the peace plan. The PLO leader made a secret visit to her within days of the assassination in her apartment in the North District of Tel Aviv. He had wanted to attend the funeral but security concerns overrode that objective, So he flew in under tight security from Gaza by helicopter for a 90 minute condolence visit. He shared with the widow that her husband was “a hero of peace and a personal friend”. She responded that “ my husband regarded you as a partner in peace”. 

 

The evidence that this was not performative was argued by Arafat in an interview with Time at his headquarters in Gaza, where he claimed, “They were more than friends”, that they spoke regularly by phone and they had another special channel, a person who connected them. The sit down meeting came a week after Rabin’s assassination and it seemed. “…as it was a year….The man paid with his life for the peace of the brave”. Arafat hinted at coordination between the fanatics on “..both sides”. 

Arafat stated that he was now worried about the peace process. In the discussion it was noted that neither Netanyahu nor Hamas signed the agreement. However he believed Peres who was part of the agreement would deliver but Netanyahu intervened. In 2000 the PLO leader rejected Barak's effort. There were two other major initiatives made one by PM Sharon in unilaterally ceding Gaza to the Palestinians but Hamas won the election so there could be no unification. The other by Olmert in 2008 which Mahmoud Abbas declined.

AND THEN THERE WAS ONE - BIBI NETANYAHU AND NAZA

So now it is back to this decade who was the only one left of the original dramatis personae, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was clinging onto power. Sadly the world has turned against Israel rather than its Government. Also the Jews in the diaspora are being blamed as well. Antisemitism is at another peak in history. The scapegoat narrative today is that the Jews generally are the oppressors and the Palestinians are the oppressed. To add to the drama now is the emergence of a documentary purporting to “prove” Ethnic Cleansing entitled NAZA.

NAZA details that an AI application was used to inflict civilian deaths, “collateral damage” in attacks on Hamas. The production won a “Special Prize” in a film festival in Venice. At the conclusion of the viewing there was a standing ovation for 25 minutes. There were several reasons why such a revelatory documentary would be immediately accepted at face value. The enormous destruction of Gaza, Israel’s ongoing presence nearly three years into the war and the  reporting of the Gaza Ministry of Health of over 70,000 deaths, the overwhelming number being non combatants.

The authoritarian overreaction of Netanyahu to the two directors of the Gaza story became the story itself. He claimed that they were “….contributing to fuel global antisemitic sentiment…… The defamation prompted him to propose doubling the fines of those defaming the military and stripping individuals of their citizenship”. The two involved were born in Israel and very soon it became obvious that Netanyahu was giving the documentary world wide attention. This would have just become a boutique production in one of the plethora of these events, notwithstanding that it was backed by the UK newspaper The Guardian. Now everyone wants to see it! 

The problem with the reception of the audience and subsequent condemnation from no less than the Prime Minister of Israel is that there is counter narrative from one of the founders of the NAZA system which has been ignored. The lead story in The Times of Israel, (September 17, 2026), by former Lieutenant Colonel Sarit Zahavi was headlined “The filmmakers mistook the IDF’S system for limiting civilian casualties as something far darker. They should have asked me ; I helped build it.”

She continued, “A little less than 20 years ago, (Ehud Olmert was Prime Minister) I was one of the founders of the unit within the IDF that deals with warning populations on the other side of enemy lines and preserving civilian lives… I would have explained that the chart shown at the beginning of the film’s promotional material is not a ‘killing chart’, but rather a planning chart for a target identified as being used by Hamas……it’s purpose is whether to strike at all, who in the command echelon is authorized to approve the strike….In stark contrast (to what the film purported to represent),….’NAZA 500 - collateral damage’….. means that action must be taken to reduce the collateral damage…both Hamas and Hezbollah deliberately place their rockets and headquarters in the heart of civilian areas…it is precisely the IDF’S efforts to preserve lives….namely evacuation warnings and tracking evacuation status that have been interpreted as ‘ethnic cleansing’…ignoring the scope of terror infrastructure exposed inside and beneath villages in both Lebanon and Gaza in almost every house….”.

There is little doubt that there needs to be an investigation into the conduct of the war, but this explanation exposes the gross negligence of all involved in the NAZA documentary,  The story in “The Times of Israel” raises the issue as to why Netanyahu didn’t tell the world that the production had got it all wrong.. At least he could have argued a point made by the the Lieutenant Colonel as to why no-one in the Israeli Defense Force was asked to comment aa to what NAZA was. Bibi chose rather to politically grandstand and not contradict the premise of the movie and it was left to the IDF to explain. Perhaps he would rather not focus on the fact that it was initiated by Ehud Olmert and he was not going to investigate the conduct of the war Rather he was off to New York to attack Mamdani.

BIBI GOES TO  MAMDANI’S NEW YORK

Netanyahu was off to New York where he immediately began  a running battle with New York Mayor Yohran Mamdani who had originally maintained that he would arrest the Israeli Prime Minister when he arrived in the Big Apple. (Mamdani had not suggested the arrest of the President of Iran who was the country’s representative to the UNO Assembly or Russia’s Lavrov.  All the while he was having tea with another alleged war criminal, the President of the United States).

Instead of ignoring the Mayor, who in the grand scheme of the world stage is a nonentity, Bibi decided to run against him in the October 27 Israeli election using the General Assembly as his stomping ground. Mamdani isn’t on the Israeli ballot or an international leader. The PM said that Israel wasn’t committing genocide because he said so. The delegates in The Assembly walked out in droves before he started. Bibi has a way about him that endears him to no- one. He lives by his wits with unbelievable political and survival skills. So he sneered at those that left, “No moral courage” and invited those that had the moral courage to remain, to leave. 

Meanwhile outside in the streets of New York the demonstrations mumbled. One was “demanding” that the UNO “do something” about antisemitism. (Be careful what you wish for). About a 1000 attended that one which had representatives from every conceivable Jewish Organization. There were about a 1000 at the anti Netanyahu rally with 24 at a pro Bibi support group. The largest, a march was led by the Palestinian Youth Movement where there were “thousands”.

All in all Bibi was not going out with much of a bang in New York. The figure that had created a stir wherever he pitched up was no longer calling the shots. As Bill Clinton once said,“Who the hell does the guy think he is? Who is the world power around here?” It was a far cry from the last visit where he took over the Situation Room and persuaded Donald Trump that they could change the Iranian regime quicker than Putin thought he could overrun Ukraine. His foil now was the Mayor of New York. He screamed from the podium of the world that the Jews of New York fear Mamdani. Jay H. Ell believes they fear Netanyahu far more. (Blog: Israel and Jewish Angst).

AT THE END OF THE DAY

There was one moment in history on 1995 when the stars were aligned in that torn tiny piece of holy real estate in the Middle East. Bibi was central to them imploding before they joined. The climate in Israel was strong enough to carry peace attempts through till 2010  Since then Bibi has stridently gone in the other direction. He has to exit now and a new painful beginning of peace hopefully will start. If it does the world might pick up on the fact that it needs two states to create a two state solution.

What would have Netanyahu done without Mamdani and Mamdani without Netanyahu ? 

Just because many of the countries that are attacking Israel have said and done not much against antisemitism through the ages doesn’t exculpate the Netanyahu cabal for anti -humanitarian behavior. 

Fly El Al!

ISRAEL AND JEWISH ANGST

Within the space of a week, October 27 and November 3, 2026 two elections are scheduled, one in Israel and the other in America. The outcomes of these events are considered inflection points for which type of political system will operate in their respective countries. In more ways than one the results of each will impact the other. Both Trump and Netanyahu would like to continue on their authoritarian agendas while their opponents would like to reverse course. 

In America some Republican influencers are attacking Trump for his never ending war with Iran, having been allegedly persuaded on its necessity by Netanyahu and "Jewish money". (Blog:"It's Always The Jews"). In Israel there are stark divisions between the center and the right. The religious, small extreme right wing as well as the Arab parties add variables as to the outcome of the election. The central debate in Israel is responsibility for the breakdown in intelligence that allowed October 7, 2023 and the management of the subsequent ongoing wars. Both incumbent governments face the dissatisfaction of the economic consequences of the war. Netanyahu has added issues, his management of the hostage crisis, a 100 deaths and thousands injured while certain parts of Israel are still uninhabitable.

The good news, for what the polls are worth, is that Gadi Eisenkot a former Israeli Chief of Staff has an excellent shot at ousting the governing Israeli coalition and Trump faces a gigantic loss in the November midterms. Both the American and Israeli leaders are charismatic populists who have dominated politics in their respective countries, the latter for three decades and Trump for one. Both are desperate to retain power fearing the investigative aftermath of their regimes. While every move Netanyahu makes now will be questioned by the pundits as to how it plays out in the polls especially as he is involved in multi- front wars. Trump on the other hand is using every means possible to impact the process of the election itself.

THE SURROUND AROUND THE ELECTIONS

The Democratic Party would heave a sigh of relief should Netanyahu be ousted from leadership as there is tension from those who are against America’s support for Israel, including a few who are antisemitic as well, led by an influencer Hasan Piker. In fact a default position of the Democratic Party at the moment is against providing Israel with offensive weaponry and  abolishing their annual subsidy. (Blog: The Democratic Tea Party ).

The Republicans too have a huge problem as their biggest influencer, antisemitic Tucker Carlson is a key supporter of Vice President Vance, the odds on favorite to be The Republican nominee for President in 2028. (Blog: Carlson’s Protocols of Chabad). Then there is Elon Musk, the Republican’s largest donor. Recently when asked on “X” his social media platform, “Are Jews White?”, he went into a bizarre discussion about genetics which basically boiled down to“… I know a Jew when I see one”. (Regardless of what he may say!).

Trump endorsing Netanyahu in the election, as bizarre as this new normal sounds, would have an impact in solidifying the current regime’s coalition. It is the current wisdom that Trump has had enough of his Israeli counterpart even screaming at him, “All the Jews hate you”. There is always a possibility if he feels that Bibi will be victorious that he will wade in and take the credit. Trump answers to nobody and cares naught about the impact of his narcissistic behavior on his Party. 

It is all very complicated and there is a disconnect between the view of the Israelis and 70 percent of American Jews who publicly disapprove of the Israeli regime let alone defend them. There is far more consensus on the right of Israel to exist as a State. The Western democratic world’s stance on the situation is a two state solution. The latter is off the radar for the Israelis following a succession of failed peace talks interspersed by Hamas and Hezbollah attacks on Israel at the behest of Iran. The final nail in the coffin of serious talks between the two parties on a two State solution came when Mahmoud Abbas rejected Ehud Olmert’s generous offer in 2008. More significantly the barbaric attack from Gaza by Hamas on October 7,1923 put to rest politically the two state solution for the foreseeable future. 

Gaza, as an economically viable state was unilaterally handed over to the Palestinians by Prime Minster Sharon in 2005 with Settlers being dragged out by the Israeli Defense Force. Ever since Hamas was elected as the Government in 2007 there have been no further elections. There has been internal strife and a highly repressive regime. At the moment there is a stalemate in peace talks between Israel and Hamas.

There is also the incongruence of those that offer a solution that gives “The River to the See” to the Palestinians. Where will 8 million Jews go? In 1938 at the Evian Conference convened cynically by Franklin Roosevelt 32 countries offered no help to what was obviously to follow in Europe. Other than the Dominican Republic taking in about 1000 Jews the remainder were left to the tender mercies of Hitler initially and Stalin subsequently. In addition it is acknowledged that in the 1948 war initiated by the Arab nations following the establishment of partition by the United Nations, 800,000 Palestinians were either displaced, left voluntarily or were forced out. Exactly the same number of Jews were expelled from Arab countries.

It also has to be realized that where were Jews supposed to go post WW11? There was never a time when there weren't Jews in Israel. With the pogroms, Nazism and Stalinism they went to Israel in their thousands.Where were over a million Russian "refuseniks" supposed to emigrate. The Balfour Declaration and the subsequent UNO partition provided an answer.

ANTISEMITISM, ZIONISM, NETANYAHU AND AFFRONTS AGAINST HUMANITY

By now it is patently obvious that the overwhelming number of attacks on Zionism, a Jewish State, are either coupled directly or indirectly with antisemitism. It is also patently clear that the Government of Israel under the cabal of Bibi Netanyahu is a disgrace -  much like the Administration of America under Trump, and for that matter Putin’s Russia and the Ayatollah’s Iran regime.  All are an affront to humanity. However there is no routine protesting and exhibitions of violence around places of worship of Christian Evangelicals, the Russian Orthodox or Shia Muslims. While October 7, 2023 and the conduct of the subsequent war will be the subject of impartial Commissions if Netanyahu is unseated, the subject of Settler terrorism towards Palestinians on the West Bank and an attempt to drive them out will remain a festering sore on the Jewish psyche both in Israel and in the Diaspora. 

The Settlers' violence is quantitatively far less than the murders of tens of thousand protestors in the streets, less than the deportation of hundreds of thousands in shackles of undocumented persons to dangerous countries while there have been scores of deaths in detention camps, and less than the three year systematic bombing of citizens and civilian structures. Neverless Israel and by association the Jews in the diaspora are the central focus of world attention. It is what it is and qualitatively the attempt to displace and victimize the West Bank Palestinians fits the rubric. It is absolutely indefensible. 

So far Netanyahu has not given very much more than lip service in stopping criminal Settlers even in the face of Trump’s Government representatives registering strong protests. The American Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee visited Palestinian victims last week demonstrating American support.

But back to the Israeli elections.

THE POLLS AND ISRAELI ELECTIONS

The Israeli parliament is called The Knesset. It has a 120 members and elections and parties are based on the set up in original democratic Zionist Council. There are no geographical constituencies as each party draws up a list of candidates and depending on the percentage of votes they obtain representatives are allotted. At the moment the polls show Eisenkot’s Yashari Party ahead of Netanyahu’s Likud by one or two seats. They both have coalitions adding up to 53 seats each. This is 8 short of the 61 needed to form a majority government. 

In a breakthrough event the Arab Party Ra’am have placed a Jewish Israeli Yoav Sagolovich as number two on their list. They are polled at 5 seats. Sagolovich is a former police chief who brought down the murder rate in the Arab residential areas. He is highly respected in that community. Ra’am’s decision gives the go ahead for the Joint Arab List, 9 seats, to look more positively at the current opposition to the Likud Government.

 Now as matters stand at the moment the 14 Arab members would not join the coalition nor would all of Eisenkot’s partners tolerate it but if Eisenkot has the most elected members he would be called upon to form the Government. The Arab parties would not oppose his Government and/or they would certainly not vote for a Netanyahu Government. So it seems highly unlikely that Netanyahu will be Prime Minister again. At best he can hope for is another election where circumstances can alter the electoral map.

The above of course is subject to change and the current Prime Minister is desperate. Besides his legal problems his legacy is at grave risk if an independent commission into October 7 and the subsequent conduct of the war apportions responsibility to him. His wife Sara went onto a supportive TV Channel and implied that Yair Golan, the then Deputy Chief of Staff, knew about the Hamas raid and didn’t inform the Prime Minister! Golan who currently is head of The Democratic Party and a supporter of Eisenkot is considered the hero of that day, rushing to the invasion and rescuing a number of young Israelis from the marauding Hamas. 

Netanyahu’s sycophantic staff maintain that if the Prime Minister would have been woken earlier he would have saved the day! Meanwhile it took him two hours to leave his residence while he waited another hour to contact the Chief of Staff. In fact he had been warned twice. First a general warning by his own intelligence that his attempt to subvert the Judicial system was creating such protests that the country was weakened and susceptible to an attack. Only recently has it been known that days before October 7 he had been "urgently" tipped off by the head of the UAE that Hamas leader, Yawar Sinwar, was preparing a "massive attack".

Sara Netanyahu isn’t the only other member of the family that is an election issue. Their son Yair, an Army Reservist, was in a $5,000 a month apartment in Miami with security for the duration of the war. This is stark contrast to 4 star General, Eisenkot, who lost a son and two nephews in the combat against Hamas and Hezbollah. 

There is also one other wrinkle. Netanyahu’s 53 coalition is dependent on two small right wing parties getting the required 3.25 percent of votes to get representation at all. The Religious Zionist Party led by Minister Smotrich which was on its deathbed  has been joined by a right wing fanatic Moshe Feiglin who was so off the charts that Netanyahu had him thrown out of Likud. There is another fringe right wing group led by Brigadier General Winter who too is far right of Netanyahu. His answer to the Gaza Palestinians is “migration” like some others on the right wing slate including the aforementioned Feiglin. Even if Netanyahu had a shot he would have to weld this crowd together. 

Eisenkot is playing his cards closely to the chest. He wisely claims Israel’s threat is its own internal divisions rather than Iran and its proxies. His positive assets include trust, authenticity, his resume in the Israeli Defense Force and his ability to form relationships. Unlike Netanyahu, who comes from Israeli “aristocracy”,  Eisenkot is a first generation Israeli of a poor family who emigrated from Morocco.  

The former Chief of Staff has only been in politics a few years. He joined Netanyahu’s cabinet in a Government of Unity following the October 7, 2023 slaughter. His credibility is only enhanced by the fact that he left in June 2024. As the leader of a newly formed party Yashari, he surprised the pundits by rapidly becoming the obvious choice to replace Netanyahu.  

AT THE END OF THE DAY

For the record there is to a third set of elections this year - on the West Bank. This is for the Legislative Assembly. The Presidential elections are also scheduled for next year. These are the first plebiscites since around 2005 when Mahmoud Abbas was elected President. The outcome of these will also play a role in what follows in the region.

There is plenty of blame to go around for the current Israeli/Palestinian crisis. The Palestinian citizens have been manipulated by their own terrorists and have been used as pawns by the other Arab nations and Iran with about as much help as The Jews received in Europe and Russia the past century.

Israel is experiencing a brain drain. In the past three years nearly 1400 doctors have “been away” for over a year. 

The world wide outbreak of antisemitism more often than not centers around what happens in Israel. Netanyahu has offered naught for comfort. Ironically the Arab citizens of Israel may be poised to play a role in the slow process of healing a nation that, beyond expectation has succeeded militarily, economically and in the scientific and technology fields. It now needs to face reality and take a lesson from it's own Torah, "You shall not abhor an Egyptian as you were a stranger in his land". 

Meanwhile the Diaspora Jews wait in Angst. 

 

CARLSON’S PROTOCOLS OF CHABAD

 

The latest conspiracy theory being peddled by the right wing leader, Tucker Carlson, is that Chabad,- Lubavitch, (Chabad), a deeply religious Jewish sect is responsible for America’s war against Iran. So who is Tucker Carlson, and why is his slander so significant? How does Carlson rationalize his theory? Why is it comparable to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? What is the Chabad movement and why is Carlson’s theory so easily falsifiable? Finally, should Carlson and Hasan Piker, (See blog below), for that matter be conveniently ignored with the other antisemites this election cycle and everyone just concentrate on regime change?  

There is an industrial revolution taking place that threatens the already troubled deeply indebted economic world. That, combined with two unresolvable wars, one in which the Jewish state is considered central to, is the milieu that breeds antisemitism. But onto Tucker and his analysis that can aptly be termed The Protocols of the Elders of Chabad. If the whole Iran quagmire can be blamed on the Jews with Chabad as their agent aided by Trump’s stupidity then Carlson could kill two birds with one stone. Let Jay H. Ell explain.

WHO IS TUCKER CARLSON

Tucker Carlson is the most influential pundit on the far right, in fact Time once named him as such. Up until 2022, he was Fox News leading anchor garnering more viewers than any other TV host. He was axed in terms of a settlement Fox’s Murdoch made with Dominion Voting Machines for spreading lies about their machines in support of Trump’s still ongoing canard that he was crooked out of the 2020 election. Murdoch also shelled out nearly a billion dollars as well. As matters turned out Carlson is now even more influential with his own media company. With subscriptions and comments on social media he reaches tens of millions. For his subscription show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, he captures up to 4 million that tune into his words of wisdom. 

Carlson has broken with Trump and openly supports Vice President Vance for President in 2028. Tucker’s defection, a particularly painful blow to “El Capo” as he sat next to him as recently as July 2024 at the Republican Convention. What is being glossed over is that Tucker has become outright anti- semitic touting a conspiracy much like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion which detailed the Jews control of the world. Antisemitism is the silent byproduct of the 2026 midterm election much as it was low down in Hitler’s list of priorities in the 1933 election in Germany. Tucker has maintained that Chabad, a mystic Jewish Sect for religious motives was behind the Iran war and is pulling all the strings. 

The original Protocols of The Elders of Zion was a pretty sophisticated document with forged minutes of the meetings of The Elders who were closeted behind closed doors at a Zionist Convention. The fact that the forgery and the garbage was meticulously exposed hasn’t to this day stopped antisemites using it as propaganda. It is still a core document in the hate countries, particularly in the Middle East. 

Tucker has his own strategy and differs from the original The Protocols where the Jews controlled the world in every facet. He narrows the objective merely to be the site of the Third Temple. Tucker relies on speculation, connecting odd bits of information, interviewing, without challenging, admitted antisemites and articulating the old trope that “some of his best friends…….”.

 TUCKER CARLSON AND HIS EVOLUTION TO THE CHABAD CONSPIRACY  

The indictment of Chabad as manipulators of the Iran war is bizarre. The logic is ludicrous. Quite frankly it appears to be a hasty attempt to rationalize naked anti - semitism. Chabad is an easy target because they are out front recognizable in the community in their distinctive black garb.

The narrative goes as follows: Chabad are messianic, (as are all the Christian religions); they want the building of the Third Temple, (a public prayer for over 2000 years of most Jewish sects and Evangelical Christians); and a few soldiers in the Israeli Defense Force were photographed with patches on their uniforms with third temple logos. (This is being investigated by the IDF and the patches were disseminated by another organization);. The next link is that Chabad want to build the Third Temple by destroying Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and situating it on that site - that is the motivation for America’s Iran war! (If Chabad want to destroy the holy Muslim sites in Jerusalem surely they should influence Netanyahu et al not Trump!).

Carlson has not produced one jot of evidence with regard to the conspiracy. His theory must be analyzed with his history on the subject of Jews, all of whom he vilifies in this day and age as the murderers of Christ.

The Great Replacement Theory. This is a long time theory of Carlson’s even on Fox but in 2026 he started linking it to Israel and pro Israel supporters. The “Replacement Theory” resonates very ominously with Jews as a result of the Neo Nazi and white supremacist Charlottesville march in 2017 chanting with white torches hoisted, “The Jews will not replace us”.

Criticism of Israeli treatment of Palestinian Christians. April 2024, he calls for Christians to stop supporting Israel. In of itself this is not anti semitic but is highly tendentious.

Interviewing known antisemites and not challenging them. September 2024, Carlson introduces  Darryl Cooper as “..the best and most honest, (Jay H. Ell’s emphasis) and popular historian in America.” What comes next is revisionist history. Churchill is the villain not Hitler. There was no holocaust. Jews died but from starvation because the Nazis never had enough food. This is the way to go. You aim for plausible deniability. Bring on a pundit who mouths your views and you don’t challenge him/her. Dr. El Sayed and Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a few others trot out the antisemite Hasan Piker. 

Interview with Nick Fuentes. October 2025. This is the real deal. Fuentes is an open antisemite no holds barred. He claims unchallenged by Carson that “Organized Jewry in America” are a major obstacle to a Christian nation.  Nor are the Jews part of Western  Civilization. Zionist Jews have a dual loyalty. “Jews are a stateless people and unassimilable……putting the interests of themselves before the interests of their home country……”.  Fuentes, who had dinner with Trump in 2022 further opined  that “Jews are not really white….”. He not unsurprisingly affirmed that “some of his best friends are Jews…” 

Interview with Mr. Fishback, January 2026. Although the interviewee only received 10 percent of votes in the Republican Primary for Governor in Florida his attacks on Jewish Americans were widely circulated not only by Carlson but in the media generally. Carlson noted, "Very soon winning Republicans will all be talking like this".

So that who Mr. Carlson is

WHO ARE CHABAD?

In March of 2026 Carson informed his viewers that, “…the Iran war might have a religious or messianic dimension that Americans were not being told about….”. Before going onto attack Chabad, he conceded that the members were “Nice people”, doing “good things” for the community.

Chabad is a most remarkable phenomenon in recent Jewish history under the leadership of "The Rebbe", Menachim Mendel Schneerson, They have established 3,600 centers worldwide since WW!!. However ever since 1994 with the death of  the "Rebbe" there has been no central organization. Anyway all of the centers are autonomous and have to be financially independent. As mentioned in the blog, “Can the Jews Survive”, Rabbi Schneerson’s main focus was education for which he was nationally honored. In addition his centers were to welcome all regardless of whether religious or not. A million Jews have been said to attend one or other Chabad event whether it a religious service, social or educational event. 

Chabad also are visible in the community erecting large Menorah candelabras around the Festive season. They do not hide their messianism. Hardly the behavior of some secret society starting a war. Carson has not one jot of evidence to make his inferences. His motive cannot be truth seeking. It is rather to add fuel to the fire of the increasing world wide antisemitism.

THE DANGER OF CARLSON’S CONSPIRACY THEORY

Tucker Carlson is positioned to be one of the top influencers of the next rendition of the  Republican Party. While his abandonment of Trump could position him to run for the Presidential nomination, at the moment he is backing Vice President Vance who currently is odds on favorite to win his Party's 2028 nomination. That would make Vance a formidable contender with the additional support of Erika Kirk the CEO of Turning Point, which under her late husband delivered the youth vote for Trump’s 2024 victory. Marco Rubio has stated that he would back the current Vice President should he run for the Party’s nomination. Vance also is a creation of big Tech having received their support to launch him on his political career. Vance and Tucker are reported to have a close relationship. Vance is the most pliable politician imaginable who changes positions depending on the situation.

Without becoming too conspiratorial Vance has to know where Carson stands. In fact in September 2024 the then nominee for Vice President was featured in a lead “New York Times” story reporting that he was appearing on “The Tucker Carlson Live Show which featured a Holocaust denier.” 

AT THE END OF THE DAY

So the major influencer of the Republican Party and at least two very prominent  Democrat politicians have connections with diabolical antisemites and this is being ignored by the media prior to an election. Nobody is denying anyone the right to attack the present rightwing Israeli Government and its conduct of wars. But surely the allegation that the American Jews are responsible, through Chabad, for what could turn out to be a world war merits challenge? Also the alleged motive is to destroy a sacred mosque and erect a Jewish temple is a stretch beyond rational imagination. This the same type of defamation that “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” trolled which was investigated and exposed by “The Times”.

The media need to expose antisemitism which was the hallmark of Hitler and Stalin. Carlson’s “The Protocols of the Elders of Chabad” needs to get a public airing because anyone who has the slightest knowledge of history knows what it could portend. 

If the Democrats lose the Michigan Senate race so be it. It is scary that so many of their electorate voted for someone who had Hasan Piker as a supporter. Incidentally the “workers”, the blacks and the non college degree voters didn’t buy Piker’s venom, it was the rather the “elites” that tipped Dr. El Sayed over the top in the Democratic Primary. (Blog: The Democratic Tea Party). 

Finally. Mr. Piker crossed a line that resulted in the Democratic leadership disassociating themselves from his racism, Hakeem Jeffries Democratic Minority Leader of the House snapped that he was "..Malicious"  in that he claimed that "Jews were inviting violence against themselves by supporting Israel."   

Scary too is what the Republican Party may morph into under the influence of Carlson and Vance.

As the most unJewish Jew of them all, Woody Allen opined, “….if tomorrow someone marches outside a synagogue shouting death to the Zionists - I’ll go outside. Not because I’m brave…..(but) because Jews too many times hoped that madness would disappear on its own. It never disappears. It puts on a suit goes to University and opens a TikTok account”.