Crybully Tucker Carlson Claims Detained At Ben Gurion Airport – US Embassy and Israelis Deny
The master anti-Israel manipulator pulls a cheap stunt.
Tucker Carlson is leading an information war against Israel and has been since October 7. He’s become very close to Qatar, where he plans to buy a home.
Not only that, he actively stokes hostility to all Jews by blaming Jews for the problems of Christians in the Middle East including in areas under Palestinian Authority control, even though Israel is the one place in the Middle East with a permanent and growing Christian population. (Some Gulf states import Christian workers but they are not citizens and there is no real community.)
Tucker regularly platforms people to make similar accusations blaming Jews for what Muslim Arabs do to Christians.
Tucker is vile and manipulative leading me — once a huge fan of his — to ask, What Happened To Tucker?
Tucker just traveled to Israel to interview U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, who had called Tucker out for Tucker’s false portrayal of Israel’s treatment of Christians.
Tucker traveled by private jet to Ben Gurion Airport, where he snapped a photo with Neil Patel, who co-founded the Daily Caller with Tucker and is CEO of Tucker Carlson Productions, which is worse than Al Jazeera in its anti-Israel propaganda.
Greetings from Israel. pic.twitter.com/1uBWvqBNST
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 18, 2026
Tucker interviewed Huckabee at the private jet VIP terminal, then ran to a friendly reporter — who used to work for Tucker — at The UK Daily Mail to claim that he and his crew were detained and interrogated.
Carlson exclusively told the Daily Mail that shortly after the interview, Israeli officials confiscated his passport and hauled one of his colleagues off to an interrogation room.
‘Men who identified themselves as airport security took our passports, hauled our executive producer into a side room and then demanded to know what we spoke to Ambassador Huckabee about,’ Carlson told the Daily Mail.
‘It was bizarre. We’re now out of the country.’
High drama, but false according to Huckabee, the US Embassy, and the Israelis.
Thanks @EFischberger for a more accurate report. EVERYONE who comes in/out of Israel (every country for that matter) has passports checked & routinely asked security questions. Even ME going in/out with Diplomatic Passport & Diplomatic Visa. https://t.co/UbblLiznMO
— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) February 18, 2026
Israeli Airports Authority:
Contrary to the reports, Tucker Carlson and his entourage were not detained, delayed, or interrogated.
Mr. Carlson and his party were politely asked a few routine questions, in accordance with standard procedures applied to many travelers.
The…— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) February 18, 2026
Tucker Carlson is a coward and a liar. He built his whole brand on criticizing Israel, but when he finally "visits," he refuses to even leave the airport.
One hour on the tarmac? He knows seeing the truth in Israel would ruin his propaganda. He behaves like an agent for the… pic.twitter.com/ttuDgj51ZZ
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) February 18, 2026
My take:
@TuckerCarlson is a pussy.
I wrote about my “interrogation” when leaving Israel back in 2016 –
Do I look dangerous? (Wait, don’t answer that.)
I must have at about 3 a.m. Israel time as I entered Ben-Gurion Airport for my 4:50 a.m. flight to Boston through Amsterdam.
As I entered the terminal, long before the security checks, I was pulled aside by some guy I didn’t even notice before, and asked to empty my pockets and open my bags on a table. I then was asked a series of question. I don’t even remember what they were.
I was allowed to go, and then went through the usual security checks other passengers go through.
I’m still trying to figure out which profile I fit:
(1) Dazed and Confused middle-aged guy wandering aimlessly while seemingly on a mission.
(2) Strangely-shaped traveler with possible false “pregnant” belly concealing contraband or explosives.
(3) Sunglasses at night? Step aside, let’s talk, Mr. Bond.
So what do you think?
. @TuckerCarlson is a pussy.
I wrote about my "interrogation" when leaving Israel back in 2016 – https://t.co/mQynesiBZ1
Do I look dangerous? (Wait, don’t answer that.)
I must have at about 3 a.m. Israel time as I entered Ben-Gurion Airport for my 4:50 a.m. flight to Boston… https://t.co/eI7XRgIP9y
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) February 18, 2026
Tucker gets to play victim, and avoid speaking to Israeli Christians who were ready to set him straight. What a coward.
I invited @TuckerCarlson to take advantage of his upcoming visit to Israel and meet our thriving Christian community – to see with his own eyes the people and realities he speaks about so confidently and so often on his platform.
This letter was sent a week ago to every email… pic.twitter.com/lcBiecCtUx
— Shadi khalloul שאדי ח'לול (@shadikhalloul) February 17, 2026
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Carlson has proven himself to be a total fraud.
Exactly right.
Not all LSD outcome are positive
Pretty much done with Tucker. Once you prove that you don’t deserve trust, it’s very difficult to get it back. Tucker should know that. Too bad. He was once an ally.
Agreed. How a once such perceptive individual could become so deluded is astonishing.
This is odd behavior, even in comparison to TC’s other wacky antics of late. Might be time for an intervention.
Or, a brain MRI.
It’s now out in the open. Trump has already stepped in, but it won’t help. Carlson crossed the Rubicon and no going back. Another Jew hater pretending to be an authentic Christian. Better described as an authentic weasel. What would Jesus say about his ways? Are you watching and listening Vance?
Not all LSD outcomes are positive
You can say that again!
And DID!
😁
Misplaced comments are permanent around here… 🙂
I showed Mike Flynn the photo of teenage TC with Jerry in May of ’94…
TC hadn’t gone off the deep end yet and was featured in the Flynn movie
Maybe the truth lies somewhere in the middle. No one can ever know, and it’s a nothing story. What can be said is that Tucker was a bonehead to squawk about it. He was not harmed and should have known that this would be fresh fodder for calling him the reincarnation of Hitler.
I never watched him much because he rambles on and laughs and talks like a girl.
Should have just shot him down, Whoops. Mistakes happen. Just a ask former Captain Will Rogers III.
Well either there are a couple of TC fans or someone is lamenting the waste of an air-to-air missile. I suppose it’s possible for a fan or relative of Rogers to be commenting here. BTW: Rogers never was really punished for his ship shooting down the Iranian airliner although he never made admiral.
I find myself wondering if he has a brain tumor. I used to watch his show every night. Lately he’s just absurd. What happened?
Is there something in the Twitter water?
So many seem to have gone insane.
“What happened”
He got him some of that Qatar money for bashing Israel and liked it.
Could be, even he doesn’t believe all he spews but, HE IS FLYING AROUND THE WORLD IN A PRIVATE JET.
I never thought I’d see the day where WAJ calls someone a pussy on twitter.
It is the Chinese Year of the Fire Horse. You can expect to see many wild stories this year, and we are in for quite the ride for the next year news-wise.
He actually commented on another thread. First time Ive seen that.
I too was once a fan. I have no idea what happened, pursuit of money, fame and relevance, brain tumor, or something else. The dude has jumped the shark and I can take him no more seriously than AOC or Jazzy Crockett.
Count the severe personality changes in the news recently.
Tucker. Kanye. Candace, MTG. Fetterman. Tulsi. Drudge. Russell Brand. Greenwald,
Confounding standard conspiracy theory, they don’t ALL hurt the same side (conservatives).
There is something behind this, but I don’t yet know what,
Even my tinfoil hat is bumfuzzled.
But I just can’t believe this is normal distribution.
Might as well through Bill Mahr into the mix.
It’s all the fluoride in the water. It’s contaminating our precious bodily fluids.
Nah. Maher is just a guy who can feel the wind shift and hear the tumbrels rolling. He hasn’t changed in any important way, he’s just building hardcover in a new direction.
He’s become very close to Qatar, where he plans to buy a home.
You have to be kidding me!
Vance better distance him from TC for TC, or he can kiss his future Presidency good bye
And just 2 years ago most of us were TC fans
TPUSA has to stop inviting him
What Happened To Tucker?
“What the F**k Happened to Tuck?”
What the F**k Happened to Tuck?
He quacks like a duck
Are we really stuck with this cuck
With this clown?
This spouter of guck stuck to the shoes of the viewers of his nightly spewing of muck?
Yuck!
You’ve lost fans so, good luck,Tuck
You suck, so pack your ruck and leave for Qatar.
LOL! The Israelis have been “interrogating” visitors since the 1970’s. I visited in the late 70’s when I lived in Saudi Arabia and they asked a ton of questions and then kindly declined to stamp our passports so we could get back into Saudi. Does Tucker think he deserved special treatment?
The Israelis interrogate travelers in preference to rendering them naked with “security” viewers as we do. They claim their way produces much better results detecting terrorists than ours, I’m willing to believe them, because the success rate of ours is about as flat as highway striping.
They actually profile travelers instead of pretending a woman in her 80’s is the same threat as a man in his 20’s. I didn’t mind all the questions because I knew how important it was they get it right considering the level of hostility they face.
What’s wrong with being a crybully? That’s practically Israeli doctrine.
Go ahead and downvote.
“Go ahead and downvote.”
Gladly.
More like Seemore Butzhole. Just sayin’
What you are seeing here is an operation by the Republican establishment on behalf of DeSantis in 2028. The GOP needs to fracture the so-called MAGA voting bloc in order to put RdS in the White House to save the globalist business model that existed since the end of WWII that Trump is systematically trying to erase. And to do that, they need to create a pressure point — manufacturing an “Are you For or Against Israel” purity test is the tactic they think is going to work.
If you support what Trump is doing, this is a preview of a carefully coordinated psy op against you.
Fracturing the GOP would pretty much guarantee a democrat winning in 2028.
Please don’t bring the same negative, unfounded narratives from Sundance at the Conservative Tree House here. As a reader, I find his writing frustrating. In my view, it lacks clarity and is often wordy. Sometimes, his points are hard to follow, and I notice gaps between his claims and the evidence he provides.
I do not take his comments at face value, especially his criticisms of Gov. DeSantis. Even after the governor responded quickly with post-Irma repair, recovery, and restoration efforts to Southwest Florida, where Sundance also lives, he remains obsessed with the Sea Island group, which allegedly funded the Governor’s run for the 2024 GOP presidential primary. What still dumbfounds Sundance is that Trump likes and trusts DeSantis, and so do I.
Years ago, I flew to Israel for a conference and to accept an award presented by Shimon Peres. I received exactly the same treatment that Tucker described. It was normal, impressive security. I’m not Jewish, but Tucker is a putz.
Carlson should not have any media coverage, period.
countries in the middle east in particular will put you through the ringer
so carlsons agenda here might be echoing hillarys
we were under attack
The Washington Post debunked this claim days after Clinton made it.
Old news footage reveals that there was, in fact, a greeting ceremony at Tuzla Air Base when Clinton landed. She met an 8-year-old Muslim girl who read her a poem, and video of the landing shows Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, calmly walking away from the plane and then greeting people on the tarmac:
Republicans have some educating to do:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/17/exclusive-poll-tucker-carlson-joe-rogan-charlie-kirk-dominate-in-popularity-among-republicans/
to not know levin is to miss out on valuable teachings most of the time
Mark Levin received a 39.7% favorability score with
44.8% percent of Republicans saying they had never heard of him or had no opinion
IMO it is the reverse. The establishment, neocon, chamber of commerce types within the GoP really haven’t come to terms with the make-up of the GoP electorate and the policy preferences of the center/right populism which is MAGA/Tea Party/Perot movement that forms the modern GoP base.
America First puts the old presumptions out the window. Every ‘ally’ and/or alliance is gonna be evaluated on a net cost/net profit basis with a growing insistence that these Nations adhere to basic Western Civilization; free speech, rule of law, protection of children. It also means the USA doesn’t automatically owe any Nation our support, not economic, diplomatic nor military.. Every Nation who is willing to earn our support can do so, while those who arrogantly believe our support is a duty/moral obligation or somehow exempt from this b/c they are ‘special’ should be dropped like a rock.
As a practical matter that means no Nation which raises and maintains tariff or non tariff trade barriers to US exports is gonna be a ‘most favored Nation’. Each military alliance is gonna be reviewed and if the alliance has a net cost to the USA across military, economic and diplomatic domains then we may choose not to maintain it and that applies to EVERY Nation.
I was referring to
1) The never heard of scores
2) TC’s antisemitism
Republicans need educating on those.
IMO TC seems more of a conspiracy theorist re Israel and those in the USA who are strident Israel supporters than purely anti Semitic, though he may very well be both.
My opinion but everyone needs to get a grip and recognize that:
1. Israel became a Nation State in ’48 and definitely in ’49 at the end of the war of independence.
Corollary to that is the question of Zionism has moved beyond theoretical debate and became reality on the ground and argument about Zionism at this point is a waste of time. Israel is just as legitimate a Nation as every other.
2. The USA isn’t obliged to offer continuous open ended support to ANY Nation to include the State of Israel…or the UK for that matter.
3. ‘Christians’ who claim that other ‘Christians’ are under some religious duty to support the State of Israel are whack a doodles. Our current Ambassador to Israel falls into that category. I personally stop listening to the people who make those claims on every other issue b/c they’re IMO, nuts.
4. Every Nation has flaws and pointing out those.flaws in good faith isn’t a bad thing, it ain’t evil and is in fact legitimate, even necessary. What’s not legit is to lie, embellish or twist facts in bad faith to either promote or denigrate gov’t actions. Nor is it legit to jump feet first with ad hominem attacks of ‘ists, isms phobes’ in fact for many today those sorts of attacks cause the loss of credibility of person making the attack.
Lots of people younger than Boomers are very skeptical about a great many things, some of which Boomers take for gospel and offer up ‘that’s the way we’ve always done it’ or ‘that’s how it is’ when their preconceived notions and generational presumptions are challenged. That’s understandable for the Boomers for whom there wasn’t much disagreement over most of these policies. To explain this I’d say think of every policy as a job interview/investor funding pitch where each policy, even long standing ones that older generations may take for granted, must constantly be reevaluated and prove themselves worthy of support. NATO is emblematic of this, created to oppose Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact but still exists 3+ decades after the fall of the Soviet Union? We can argue if AN alliance or multiple alliances should be in place to respond to the post Cold War threat environment but that’s not the same as automatic validation of NATO filling that role. They gotta sell us on it not take it for granted.
its the “religious duty” to support any and all freedom loving people/countries
unfortunately, the mindset is that wwjd means becoming slaves via
turn the other cheek,theory
if we listen to that nonsense
jesus never said
be slaves
I can agree with those 4 points.
The problem with 4 is with those pointing out Israel’s flaws. They almost never do it in good faith. They want the country gone and a good many want the Jews dead as well. You can easily tell this by the way they frame everything. They are haters through and through. Of course the same can be said of many who point out US flaws.
DC,
No strawman please, I despise the WWJD mentality. If one person can declare X to be a religious duty then another can declare Y to be a religious duty. I’m not interested in participating in any of your proposed crusades but if you wish to go abroad and bloody your sword on heathens, infidels or others to impose your religious beliefs or satisfy the requirements of your faith please feel free, but do so in your name, not mine and definitely not in the name of the USA.
In any event what you choose to declare to be a religious duty doesn’t become an obligation for an entire Nation, especially not one founded on freedom of religious belief/expression precisely b/c there were/are multiple denominations and religions with different religious views.
Under the wrong conditions someone with a fairly well compensated Personality Disorder can quickly deteriorate. For narcissists it can start with a minor snub that threatens their sense of entitlement and their demands to be worshipped. Once triggered they can get very irrational and often act out by dramatically retaliating in a manner that destroys any chance for compromise and reconciliation. This can look a lot like what we are seeing here with Mr. Carlson, and the outcomes are usually the destruction of empathy, profound alienation, and sometimes even descent into madness.
Beginning with TC, Candace O-(as in zero)-Wins and Grandma Groyper, there sure have been a lot of formerly well-respected MAGA pundits that have crossed over to the Evil Side in the past year.
I wish PDJT and JD and the rest of their administration (along with TPUSA) would hurry up and denounce these fools and consign them to the ashheap of history. I think they’ve shown their true, vile selves and having them on our side can do none of us any good. Let them all spew their filth on MS NOW or CNN; those are the kind of “networks” they would fit right in on!
I hope he moves to Qatar and stays there.
This man has changed so completely that I believe he MAY have something wrong with his brain. Possibly a brain tumor ? He is even saying that he plans to move to Qatar. People who do a complete 360 as he did usually have had something happen to their brain !
Yet another case of thinking you are special until you aren’t
I’ve always liked Carson It certainly possible that some Israeli airport personnel were rude ir brusque with him, and others were friendly ( the ones he hugged). It is also true that Catholic Churches have been vandalized by israelis, specifically Jewish religious activists and zealots, and the government has not done much about that, and neither has the US government. . So far I don’t see any evidence presented that Tucker Carlson has been untruthful.
Of course you wouldn’t. Blind hero-worship sheep are blind hero-worship sheep. He (Carlson) posted the questions asked. They were the same questions you get going into most first world countries, like Australia, New Zealand and the United States if you’re coming in from a Foreign country.
Carlson makes me ill.