Having various opinions on @Israel is normal, but opinions should be fact-based. The host in a recent interview I did kept using term "illegal occupation" & I kept correcting her. I hope that host will watch this!
“So do not dare propose that ‘Israel Never Truly Wanted Peace with Palestine’. If anything, we wanted it too much. So now, it is your turn to answer the question: When did you ever truly want peace with the one Jewish state?”
(my 10 min speech with English captions from the Oxford Union Debate):
It is very hard to express how disappointed I am.
I’m just so disappointed.
It’s hard to put into words how disappointed I am.
You want to give people the benefit of the doubt and then they just let you down and disappoint you.
It’s really hard having expectations. I don’t recommend it.
My life is governed by moral clarity.
This is a clip from my talk at Harvard University, where I demonstrated just how isolating and disempowering the hijab and niqab can be.
On the rare occasions Muslim women are allowed to leave their fundamentalist homes, they are forced to interact with the world through a veil of isolation - even expected to hide their voices from “strange” men.
And yet, many in the West insist the niqab and hijab are apparently “empowering”.
Just one day inside this body bag would undoubtedly change their minds.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE — Tucker Carlson claims that a sect of Judaism called Chabad is ultimately behind the military strikes on Iran.
This might be Tucker's most absurd claim to date.
And it's yet another shot at Trump.
Why? Well, @jaredkushner & @IvankaTrump have belonged to Chabad in DC, and Kushner helped lead the U.S. negotiations before the strike began last week.
As for Tucker's rant about Chabad — which he helpfully spelled for his viewers — it is beyond preposterous.
It's also dangerous — Chabad buildings and events have repeatedly been targeted by terrorists.
For example, the horrific massacre last December at Bondi Beach in Australia, where 15 were murdered, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, was a Chabad event.
Tucker explained in tonight's monologue that the "real" reason for the strikes on Iran — meaning why Israel, in his telling, is forcing the U.S. to help topple the Mullahs — is to launch a "holy war" for the purpose of destroying the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem, in order to rebuild the Third Temple at the same site.
And who does Tucker claim is behind this insidious plot — and thus the military campaign he called "evil"?
Chabad.
As anyone active in Jewish life knows, Chabad focuses on outreach to its own local Jewish community, particularly to more secular Jews who don't feel connected to a standing synagogue.
But because Chabad is not known to almost anyone outside of the Jewish community, it makes for an easy target of dark conspiracy theories.
That's why Candace Owens has made Chabad into a villain in her increasingly unhinged rants.
But here is why this theory is as crazy as it is dangerous.
Chabad is a loosely-knit collection of synagogues (and related community/educational centers), each run by a Rabbi and his wife, who stay in a given community or neighborhood typically for life.
Far from being structured like, say, the Catholic Church, each Chabad House raises its own funds.
Tucker's "logic" for his outrageous allegations is that Chabad wants to bring about the building of the Third Temple, known in Hebrew as the beit hamikdash.
But... how does Chabad actually to bring about the building of the beit hamikdash?
Through acts of kindness. Truly by doing good deeds in order to "merit" God rebuilding the Jewish holy site.
In fact, Jews have for prayed for the rebuilding of the beit hamikdash — every single day — since shortly after the destruction of the Second Temple almost two thousand years ago.
It is literally part of Jews' daily prayers.
But it has nothing to do with tearing down an Islamic holy site, let alone starting a holy war.
It's a prayer asking God to return us to the elevated state of spirituality that existed during the time of the Temple, and more importantly, for Him to send "Moshiac," or the Messiah.
That Tucker would turn ancient Jewish prayers into some kind of sinister plot that is responsible for a very real and ongoing military campaign should be shocking.
Sadly, though, it's not.
But that doesn't mean that it isn't dangerous.
Real people and actual families go to Chabad synagogues, and little kids across the U.S. and in other countries attend Chabad schools and preschools.
It takes just one person already on the fringes to use this kind of rhetoric as justification for violence.
That's not speculation. It has happened again and again — just in recent years.
Yet Tucker is so blinded by his desire to take a swipe at Jared and Ivanka — because he knows he can't attack Trump directly — that he simply doesn't care.
🚨As of yesterday, the Islamic regime opened up the Internet at around 30% connectivity. Forced to do it for their own interests as the country was near to complete paralysis.
As such, hundreds of videos have now come through on the telegram channels. I’ve seen about 10% of them. I have now stopped.
We always knew what this regime was capable of. The cruelty, savagery and barbarism that I am seeing now is on a different level. It is not just the foreign militias hired by the regime from Iraq and Afghanistan to do their dirty work. It is also Iranian security forces against their fellow countrymen, unarmed civilians.
The numbers being killed each day is increasing at such an alarming rate it is beyond shocking. Bodies are piled up on the streets of the major cities in black bags like garbage. Equally staggering is the silence and inaction by the international community.
Hitler tried to exterminate the Jews. What we are witnessing in Iran in real time is a government trying exterminate a segment of their own population that that does not agree with them. Even if it’s the majority, there is no stopping them.
What gives people in Iran hope is us not looking away. But most importantly - in the brief moments the internet allows them - to glimpse messages of support from people on here. Because it make them feel less lonely.
All eyes on Iran.
#R2PforIran (responsibility to protect R2P)
#IranMassacre
@marklevinshow The global left, communism, so-called human rights defenders, and their organizations have shut their eyes to the crimes of the Islamist terrorist mullahs’ regime.
They neither see٫ nor hear the chants of @PahlaviReza .
This is employer-driven “human rights.”
100,000 Iranian-Canadians in Toronto brave a snowstorm in order to protest the Islamic Regime.
Why?
Because when I tell you Iranians are fighting for their survival, that’s not hyperbole.
Protests in Tehran Jan 13, 2026. Estimates that over 1 Million Iranians are in Tehran tonight demanding the end of the Islamic Regime.
They are unarmed, and the Regime is intentionally shooting to kill, but they return in bigger numbers each night.
Bravest people alive. 🦁☀️
After screaming this for years, I can’t believe it’s taken 12,000 Iranians murdered by the IRGC—to the world’s deafening silence—for people to finally see that the whole human rights movement & its social justice warriors was a gigantic, spectacular farce.
I feel so fucking sick
Heartbreaking photos are emerging from Iran. This woman discovered her loved one among hundreds of the those killed. Morgues are overflowing, and bodies are being stored in warehouses. Down with the brutal regime of the Islamic Republic, and shame on those who had the power to act but chose to look away.