I’m sorry to bring you yet another story about everyone’s favorite right-wing traitor, Tucker Carlson, but he is once again demonizing the Jewish state, this time while accusing the Trump administration of ignoring an alleged attack on an American citizen by Israeli settlers. What he did not provide was the full story.
On Thursday, Carlson posted a video on X that he said showed three alleged Israeli settlers nearly beating an American to death the previous week. He accused the Trump administration of “blowing off” requests for help, tagging the official White House account, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, and Huckabee’s senior adviser, David Milstein.
Ambassador Huckabee, this is unreleased video of an American who was beaten almost to death last week by Israeli settlers. You know his name because he came to you for help, but you blew him off. That’s disgraceful. Do your job. @GovMikeHuckabee @SecRubio @davidamilstein @WhiteHouse
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 29, 2026
But of course, Carlson, in his effort to demonize the Jews, left out the important details. First, no one in the released footage was clearly identified; the video alone did not establish who was being attacked or by whom. Second, Ambassador Huckabee quickly responded with the missing details, leaving more questions about the incident, and Carlson’s version of it, than answers.
According to Huckabee, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem’s American Citizen Services unit (ACS) has never been able to speak directly with the alleged victim. Instead, officials have communicated with his son in Chicago, who “has repeatedly asked that he be the only person with whom we speak.”
On October 19, ACS received an email from the son alleging that settlers had attacked his father at his home in Turmusaya and that he was being treated at Istishari Hospital in Ramallah. Officials called the son and requested his father’s contact information, which, according to Huckabee, he was unwilling to provide. A follow-up email that day went unanswered.
On October 20, officials sent another email, called the son twice, and called the hospital, again without an answer.
On October 21, the son emailed to say his father was undergoing surgery. During a subsequent call, he promised to provide contact information for another family member, but officials never received it. He also said he did not want to pursue the matter with local authorities and requested assurances that relatives traveling from the United States to the West Bank would be allowed through the airport.
After another conversation, the son emailed officials thanking them for their “time, support, and assistance during this difficult time.” ACS again requested local contact numbers so officials could speak directly with his father or uncle, but none were provided. The son sent another email that day seeking assurances that his mother and brother would be allowed entry, along with medical reports and photographs showing his father’s wounds.
On October 23, officials called the hospital but could not reach the father.
On October 26, they called the son again, received no answer, and left a message asking whether his mother and brother had arrived and requesting their contact information. According to Huckabee, that request also went unanswered.
Please follow this entire thread. Tucker Carlson is deranged. He accuses me personally of ignoring a US citizen allegedly attacked in Judea/Samaria by Israelis & says I "blew him off." Tucker knows how to contact me, but he'd rather make unfounded accusations than get facts. Here is a timeline of Embassy Jerusalem American Citizen Services' interactions on this case. We have never been able to speak directly to the father, (name redacted) who was allegedly injured in an attack by settlers, only to his son in Chicago, (name redacted). The son has repeatedly asked that he be the only person with whom we speak with. 19 Oct – ACS received an email from (son) alleging his father had been attacked at his home in Turmusaya by settlers and was now at Istishari Hospital in Ramallah. We called the son in Chicago the same day and asked for contact information for his father which he was unwilling to provide. We followed up the same day with an email to (son). 20 Oct – We followed up with another email to (son) asking for contact information. (Son) asked us to call him. We called the son twice that day and there was no answer. We called the hospital in Ramallah several times but were unable to reach anyone. 21 Oct – Received another email from (son) saying his father was undergoing surgery at the hospital. We called the son in Chicago who said he would send contact information for next of kin in the WB which we didn’t receive. He stated he didn’t want to pursue the matter with the local authorities and said family members would travel from the States to the WB and wanted assurances they wouldn’t be denied entry at the airport. 22 Oct – We spoke again with (son) who subsequently wrote in an email…”Thank you for taking the time to speak with me and for your understanding regarding the tragic incident involving my father. Thank you again for your time, support, and assistance during this difficult time.” We responded in an email that we would like to speak directly with his father or his uncle and asked for local contact numbers. We didn’t receive any numbers. We received another email that same day saying his brother and mother were traveling to the WB from the States and he wanted assurances that they would be allowed in. We also received medical reports and photos passed to us from the son showing the wounds of his father. 23 Oct – We called the hospital in Ramallah but were unable to reach the father. 26 Oct – We called the (son) in Chicago, but no answer. We left a message asking if the brother and mother had arrived and contact numbers for them. We haven’t received a response or contact numbers. Tucker, you can apologize when you find your conscience & acknowledge the facts.
— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 29, 2026
So rather than the situation being ignored by American officials, it seems it was not only taken quite seriously, but may itself have been phony, with such an uncooperative relative and still no proof of the account Carlson was so eager to promote.
There is also a broader problem with Carlson’s argument: even if the attack happened exactly as alleged, the actions of three individuals do not establish the guilt of an entire country or prove that an administration condoned them. Carlson is quick to turn individual allegations into sweeping indictments of Israel. For all his appeals to Christianity and America’s founding ideals, he seems to have little use for that of individual responsibility. Hold the attackers responsible for their actions. Hold officials responsible for their own.
When the goal is to use an allegation to condemn Israel and attack the Trump administration, however, those "values" become quite inconvenient. But when the goal is not to defend the United States but to co-opt its ideals in service of your own political agenda, intellectual consistency is simply asking too much.
