Tucker Carlson Sparks Outrage by Allowing Pastor to Blame Christian Zionists for Oct. 7 | WATCH
Tucker Carlson allowed Bethlehem Pastor Munther Isaac to use his platform to sanitize the October 7 massacre. Without a single interruption, Carlson sat silent as Isaac blamed American Christian Zionists for the deaths of "thousands of Palestinians" on October 7th.
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."
The interview continues Carlson's pattern of featuring Palestinian Christian voices critical of Israel, including claims of persecution by Jewish settlers and the Israeli government, while rarely platforming pro-Israel perspectives from the same community.
Pro-Israel commentators, including Joel Mowbray, who first amplified the clip, condemned the segment as part of Carlson's "long & deep pattern" of allowing "dangerously misleading/false allegations against Israel to go unchallenged."