Conservative podcasting titan Tucker Carlson said he and his staff were detained in Israel on Wednesday following an interview with Donald Trump‘s ambassador to the country.
The former Fox News host flew into Tel Aviv for a sit-down with Mike Huckabee, who challenged Carlson to speak to him directly following an online spat about the country’s treatment of Christians.
Carlson, who also frequently criticizes Israel for its military actions in Gaza, took Huckabee up on his offer.
But as critics and pro-Israel activists began piling on Carlson for purportedly not leaving the airport during his brief visit, he revealed that he was met with hostility in the Middle Eastern country.
Carlson told the Daily Mail exclusively that shortly after the interview, Israeli officials confiscated his passport and hauled off his executive producer 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.’
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The irony. But almost everything in the Abrahamic sects is ironically out of whack. Maybe God is sending a message. I hope Carlson was not exposed to the Havana Syndrome. Doing this to Carlson sort of pulls the rug out from under Huckabee. What is Israel trying to accomplish by insulting Huckabee’s guest and, by extension, Huckabee himself? Kirk’s public assassination seems to have been a very loud warning. Ofc, that has zero connection to this but overt public harassment, murder and disrespect always is performative. Maybe Israel wants Carlson to have a big audience for the Huckabee interview. As they used to say, no press is bad press. Hard to figure this one out. ABN
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