Tucker Says Netanyahau is Worse than Hitler | WATCH
Tucker Carlson’s comparison of Netanyahu to Hitler goes viral on X following a pre-recorded interview on U.S.-Israel relations. Despite Carlson's focus on non-interventionism, his claims regarding historical records of the Holocaust have triggered a massive backlash from both sides of the political aisle.
In the interview with Clayton Morris on his show (titled "Israel’s Sinister Agenda to Use the U.S. Military to Defy Trump’s Plan for Peace"), Tucker Carlson criticized Benjamin Netanyahu's repeated references to "Amalek" (a biblical enemy of the Israelites) in the context of Israel's conflicts with groups like Hamas and Iran. Carlson interpreted this as Netanyahu calling for the literal extermination of an entire bloodline or people, which he described as genocidal rhetoric.
Here's the key excerpt:
"For a head of state to say out loud, 'Our job here is to kill everybody, including their children, because the bloodline itself must be extinguished'... You know, I'm very opposed to Hitler, okay? Just saying. I don't think Hitler ever said anything like that. But I'm serious—and he killed a ton of people, including a ton of Jews, of course—but I don't think was Hitler ever on the record saying we need to exterminate every single member of a specific bloodline? Netanyahu just said that last week, and he's said it many other times. This is bonkers."
Carlson argued that Netanyahu's language (in his view) went further than what Hitler publicly stated on record about extermination tied to bloodlines. This comparison has drawn heavy criticism for downplaying Hitler's rhetoric and actions.
Historical records show Hitler did explicitly call for the annihilation of Jews as a race. For example:In a January 30, 1939, speech to the Reichstag: "If international finance Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, the result will be not the Bolshevization of the earth and thereby the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."
In a November 8, 1942, speech in Munich: "You will remember the Reichstag session at which I declared that if Jewry succeeded in bringing about a world war, the result would be the annihilation of Jewry in Europe. This prophecy is now being fulfilled."
But Tucker doesn't trouble himself with facts anymore.