Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli attacked conservative journalist Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night for recent interviews with controversial guests.
"Congratulations to Tucker Carlson for becoming the leading platform for fringe Holocaust deniers, conspiracy theorists, and blood libel enthusiasts who oppose the State of Israel," Chikli said on social media.
Carlson hosted Jeffrey Sachs on his Monday show, who claimed that the collapse of the Syrian regime last Sunday was orchestrated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a thirty-year campaign to remake the Middle East.
Israeli-driven foreign policy
Sachs claimed that US foreign policy was being driven by Israel, and America had gone to war with Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Sudan at Netanyahu's behest.
"The United States goes to war on his behalf," said Sachs.
Israel sought to establish a "greater Israel," according to Sachs, bringing down any government that supported Palestinians. Sachs claimed that the supposed "Greater Israel" project meant either controlling or annexing the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights or in a more extreme version, seizing all the territory from the Nile to the Euphrates River.
Northeastern University Associate Professor and security expert Max Abrhams on X slammed Sachs as a "liar" on the basis of his theory, in which he claimed that after September 11 General Wesley Clark was shown a document that the US would go to war with seven countries on Israel's behalf. Abrahms cited a recounting of the event by Clark, noting "He never says anything about Israel, Jews or Zionists."
Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak criticized Sachs for describing Syria as a "normal, functioning country” in 2011, noting that the Baathist government had already killed tens of thousands of citizens in earlier civil unrest.
Other Conservative journalists slammed Sachs as an anti-American communist and questioned why Carlson invited him onto his show.
"He's a major supporter of communist China and he believes the U.S. should not dominate its rivals and should not lead the world," Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra said on social media. "He endorsed Marxist Jill Stein for president in 2024."
Tablet Magazine issued on X a scathing criticism of Sachs as "a failed economist who claimed he had the secrets to eliminating global poverty, got exposed as a fraud, and has reinvented himself as anti-American, anti-Ukraine, anti-Israel stalwart who lies constantly as he has continued to take in millions and millions of dollars from George Soros."
Carlson had previously courted controversy when he hosted writer Darryl Cooper, who claimed that the death of Nazi prisoners of war and political dissidents was because of poor planning and logistical issues, rather than murder.
Cooper also argued that former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was the chief villain of World War Two rather than Adolf Hitler.