Right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson has accused conservative influencer Laura Loomer of “slander” and demanded she stop alleging he is antisemitic, intensifying their months-long feud. In a rare statement on X, Carlson responded to Loomer after she claimed his language incited a car-ramming attack on a Michigan synagogue.
Carlson said he rarely reads her “filth” and likened it to “pornography,” adding that her post aimed to “blame me preemptively for violent attacks on American Jews.” He insisted he “abhors violence against innocents” and denied any suggestion he told his audience to “know where their local Chabad is” to prepare for an attack.
The dispute follows Carlson’s promotion of a theory that Israeli soldiers wore “Third Temple” patches supposedly given by Chabad, implying the war with Iran was motivated by a desire to rebuild the Temple. The Combat Antisemitism Movement said this “elevated an antisemitic incitement narrative,” while Rabbi Yaacov Behrman called it “dangerous blood libel.”
Loomer, a close ally of Donald Trump who has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” accused Carlson of trying to “sabotage” Vice President JD Vance’s campaign and later claimed he was “trying to get Jews killed.” The feud has been exacerbated by differing stances on the US-Israel war with Iran, with Carlson opposing the strikes and Loomer supporting them. Trump has distanced himself from Carlson, saying he “lost his way,” while Marjorie Taylor Greene has endorsed Carlson for president.
