Tucker Carlson Ostracized By Others on the Right for Anti-Semitism

November 18, 2025 – Once the undisputed king of conservative media, Tucker Carlson is now facing a stunning wave of condemnation from within his own political camp, with prominent Republican lawmakers, Jewish conservatives, and even longtime allies publicly branding him an anti-Semite.

The breaking point came last week when Carlson released a two-hour friendly interview with white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, followed days later by a glowing sit-down with Holocaust revisionist Darryl Cooper.

Carlson has also repeatedly platformed figures who accuse Israel of orchestrating American foreign policy and has himself echoed tropes about Jewish "elites" engineering demographic replacement in the West.The backlash has been swift and unusually bipartisan on the right.Republican Jewish leaders have been scathing. The Republican Jewish Coalition called the Fuentes interview "appalling, offensive and disgusting," while Florida state Rep. Randy Fine, a Trump appointee to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, declared Carlson "the most dangerous anti-Semite in America today."

Conservative commentator and gay Jewish personality Dave Rubin went further, announcing on his BlazeTV show that he is "done" with Carlson. "I defended Tucker for years when the Left called him every name in the book," Rubin said. "But interviewing Nick Fuentes like he's just some edgy contrarian? That's not 'asking questions.' That's laundering Nazi garbage to millions of people. I can't look the other way anymore."

Ben Shapiro, another prominent Jewish conservative voice, accused Carlson of "smoothing over Fuentes' views to make them palatable to a mainstream audience," warning that Carlson is "normalizing the unthinkable."

Even non-Jewish Republicans have begun to distance themselves. Rep. Dan Crenshaw called Carlson's recent anti-Israel guests "nonsense" and accused him of having an "MO" of defending America's enemies while attacking its allies. Sen. Ted Cruz, in a heated exchange on X, told Carlson his "obsession with needling the Jews" was becoming impossible to ignore.The Anti-Defamation League, long a critic of Carlson, renewed its demand that platforms stop amplifying him, citing a "clear pattern" that now includes blood-libel adjacent rhetoric and Holocaust minimization.

Defenders inside the MAGA sphere remain vocal. Trump himself shrugged off the controversy, telling reporters, "Tucker interviews everybody; people can make up their own minds." Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts accused critics of "sowing division" inside the movement.

Yet the chorus of conservative voices now openly calling Carlson an anti-Semite-Rubin, Shapiro, Fine, Crenshaw, the RJC, and others-marks a remarkable fracture. For the first time in his post-Fox career, Tucker Carlson finds himself not just attacked by the Left, but increasingly ostracized by significant portions of the very audience that once made him the most powerful voice on the American right.