By now we have probably seen the image from last week in Lebanon of an IDF soldier smashing the head of a statue of Jesus. As wrong as the hammering of the crucifix is, I am more troubled by how Tucker Carlson has used the soldier’s actions as an occasion to demonize Israeli Jews.

On his April 22 Tucker Carlson Show, Tucker says: “Why would an Israeli soldier want to smash the face of Jesus? This is a country (Israel), we are often told, that is a safe haven for Christians in the region. The problem is that (the IDF soldier) got caught on camera and in fact, as it turns out, not only did the guy who did it get punished, but also the guy who filmed it because (for Israel) exposing what the IDF does to the world is the real crime. What does this reflect about the attitudes of Israel itself about Christianity?

These masterfully designed questions are meant to raise doubts about the motivations of Jews as they relate to Christians. With the line—“exposing what the IDF does to the world is the real crime”— Carlson, not so subtly, accuses the IDF of not only smashing a Jesus statue in Lebanon but— wait for it—plummeting the entire world.

On the Facebook page of the Tucker Carlson Show, Carlson answers his question, “Why would an Israeli soldier use a sledgehammer to smash the face of Jesus?” His answer, once again, demonizes Jews: “Because there are a lot of people in Israel who hate Christianity above all.” Here, Tucker falsely characterizes a sizable number of Israeli Jews as seething in hatred toward Christians—a picture cunningly planted in the minds of his nearly 60 million viewers who hang on his every word.

Tucker Carlson has a Jew problem. At Charlie Kirk’s funeral, Carlson used the occasion to demonize Jews during his eulogy for Charlie, accusing Jews of the age-old........

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