vs. the GOP/MAGA supporters of Israel, who have been accusing Carlson of anti-Semitism. The author particularly takes issue with Carlson's failure to object to the treatment of Christians in the Middle East:
Tucker Carlson, who is now weeping on camera over Gaza and accusing Israel of genocide, has been largely silent on the systematic elimination of Christianity from the region where it was born. The Gulf states he regularly defends house Christians almost exclusively as migrant workers with no path to citizenship, no right to build a church, and no legal protection for their faith. That is not coexistence. That is a caste system with petroleum revenue.
The word genocide was invented to describe what the Ottoman Turks did to Armenian Christians beginning in 1915. Raphael Lemkin coined it specifically to explain why there is a unique category of evil when a state attempts to erase a people group entirely. The Turks went from subjugating Christians as second-class subjects under Islamic law to attempting their complete physical elimination. That is the act the word was invented to name.
Tucker has nothing to say about that. He has nothing to say about Iraq's Christians. He has nothing to say about Nagorno-Karabakh, where 100,000 Armenians were ethnically cleansed from their ancestral homeland in 2023 with barely a week of international coverage. He is moved to tears by Gaza. He invokes Rwanda. He says Israel tried to murder as many civilians as it possibly could. This is not analysis. This is the performance of moral concern, selectively applied in a direction that serves a specific ideological agenda, dressed up as prophetic courage.
Real courage would be speaking the truth about Muslims in the Middle East.
And there's where the author shows his right-wing ass: He might have some fair points about Tucker Carlson, who is also full of crap most of the time, but his real beef is about the Muslims and their treatment of Christians. Don't forget, this dude is an evangelical Christian pastor, and that whole theology is tied up with Israel and Christian Zionism. I'd stay well clear of this can of worms.
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