Yoram Hazony, founder of National Conservatism and a key intellectual influence on JD Vance, explains why he says Tucker Carlson has become the right's biggest antisemitism problem.
In this wide-ranging Jerusalem Post interview, the philosopher and Edmund Burke Foundation chairman maps the three warring camps inside today's Republican Party: the nationalist mainstream he says Trump built, the shrinking "liberal wing" of figures like Nikki Haley and Ted Cruz, and a small but agenda-setting "alt right" he argues turned from fringe to force when Tucker Carlson left Fox in 2023. Hazony doesn't soften his language: he calls Carlson's show a platform pushing the idea of Jews as "a demonic force in history," and reveals that Carlson personally asked to speak at NatCon in Jerusalem, a request Hazony refused.
He also offers a counterintuitive defense of JD Vance. When Vance calls Israel "one of our top allies, like Britain and France," Hazony argues, Jews should embrace it rather than mourn the loss of the old "love-bombing" style of Bush, Clinton and Biden. It's a generational shift, he says, and a warning about what happens if Jewish outreach to the new right never gets done.
