Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson did not interrupt or challenge his guest during a recent interview when Rev. Munther Isaac, a Palestinian Lutheran pastor from Bethlehem, appeared to hold Christian Zionists responsible for the deaths of "thousands of Palestinians" on October 7, 2023, the date of Hamas's massacre that killed over 1,200 Israelis and took 250 hostages.
In the clip, which has circulated widely on X since Sunday, Isaac ties evangelical Christian support for Israel directly to the casualties on that day amid the ongoing Gaza war. Carlson, who has hosted Isaac on multiple occasions, maintained his characteristic impassive expression and allowed the claim to pass without rebuttal.
Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and head of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, has a documented history of downplaying or reframing the October 7 atrocities. In a sermon the day after the attack, he praised the "strength of the Palestinian man" and described the Hamas assault as "the embodiment of the injustice that has befallen us as Palestinians since the Nakba until now."
