Hazony Accused of Shelving Carlson Antisemitism Explainer, Deepening Right’s Rift

Overview

• An ex-communications director for the Edmund Burke Foundation says the group produced a 15-minute video assembling allegations of antisemitism against Tucker Carlson and that Yoram Hazony refused to release it, as reported by Tablet and Religion News Service.
• At a late-January antisemitism conference in Jerusalem, Hazony had challenged critics to provide a concise, timestamped case proving Carlson is an antisemite.
• Jewish conservatives reacted strongly to the new allegation, with Reason’s Josh Blackman and Commentary’s James Kirchick publishing scathing critiques of Hazony.
• Hazony’s advocacy of faith-based nationalism—including a 2022 call to restore Christianity as the United States’ public culture—features prominently in critics’ warnings that such ideology invites renewed religious hostilities.
• Religion News Service casts the controversy, alongside the ouster of Carrie Prejean Boller from President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission after she criticized Israel’s Gaza actions, as evidence of a wider conservative reckoning in which an antisemitic faction is gaining ground.