Tucker Carlson Mounts Full-Throated Zohran Mamdani Defense

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Tucker Carlson mounted a full-throated defense of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) in Thursday morning's edition of the former Fox News host's newsletter.

Under the sub-header, "Jews for Mamdani," Carlson wrote the following:

You saw the campaign attacks against Zohran Mamdani.

He's a socialist! True.

He's a communist! Possibly true.

He's an antisemite! Wait, what?

Is the incoming mayor a fan of Israel? Does he want America to fight its wars? Not particularly. But a Jew hater? That's a different conversation. We've never seen anything to suggest he falls into that ugly camp. Because he doesn't. He plainly said so yesterday, during his victory speech, and numerous times throughout the summer and fall.

That didn't stop the ethno-narcissists from slandering him as some sort of dark force plotting to install the Fourth Reich in America's largest city.

Carlson went on to argue that "The Jewish voters who backed Mamdani did so because they knew the antisemite attacks were lies. They had the brains to see through the bullshit," and that "America's Israel First caucus needs antisemitism."

"It's their only hope at convincing taxpayers to keep shipping their hard-earned fortunes to the Netanyahu government," he added after that latter assertion.

INCREDIBLE. "Jews for Mamdani" is today's commentary from Tucker Carlson—and it's the most most illuminating he's ever been on this subject (and the fact that, very conveniently for everyone involved, his definition of antisemitism doesn't include wanting to murder and genocide… pic.twitter.com/GQ8EoyWVVe
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) November 6, 2025

Many have expressed concern over Mamdani's views due to his reticence to criticize Hamas, questionablestatements about the October 7 terror attack on Israeli civilians, the ominous connections he's drawn between the NYPD and IDF, and his promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he visit the Big Apple.

As for Carlson, he has indulged a number of anti-Semiticsentiments over the last few years, even going so far as to make what was widely seen as a crack about the Jews during Charlie Kirk's memorial earlier this fall. Most recently, he invited white nationalist Nick Fuentes — arguably the country's most infamous anti-Semite — on his show for a friendly chat during which Fuentes inveighed against "organized Jewry in America."