Kasim fact-checks Tucker Carlson’s claims about Christians in Israel that he made while on his field trip to Jordan. He discusses how influential voices are distorting the reality of religious freedom and the Christian experience in the Jewish state. He separates fact from fiction, highlighting where real Christian persecution exists in the Middle East, and explains why truthful reporting matters for believers who stand with Israel.
The CUFI Action Fund also had something to say of Tucker Carlson this week, as it looks like his Middle East tour will include a trip to Israel.
Tucker’s Choice
Tucker Carlson, disgraced former CNN contributor, disgraced former Fox News host, tenth runner up in the third season of dancing with the stars, and ally of the terrorist-backing regime in Qatar, is going to Israel.
Look…. Despite what Tucker, Candace, AOC, and that purple haired pro-Hamas co-ed at your local “smart kids” school all have said, Israel is in fact a free country. Of course they’re letting him in.
The visceral reaction one may have to the idea of a man who has so clearly branded himself a Jew-hater heading over to the Jewish state in an effort to further his demonization of the Jewish people is understandable. But, consider the curious case of Kasim Hafeez.
Kasim is the Director of Digital for Strategy for CUFI. He was also raised in a virulently antisemitic environment, and had, at one point, committed himself to supporting Israel’s destruction. But, Kasim, and if you know him this will come as little surprise, was not content being told how evil the Jewish people were; he wanted to see it with his own eyes.
And, Israel, being a free country, allowed him to enter. What follows is a fascinating and moving story, which you can watch by clicking here, but, spoiler alert, Israel changed Kasim.
Perhaps God will bless Tucker as he did Kasim, perhaps not. Either way, we asked Kasim to offer a few thoughts on what Tucker may want to do while in Israel: “First stop must be the Western Wall. That’s about as close to where God’s interaction with mankind began as we can likely get in this world. Then, go to wherever the Israelis would have you sit, and watch the video compiled of Hamas’s atrocities on October 7th, and then go to Yad Vashem. Perhaps then he will begin to understand just how far he’s fallen and thereby begin the arduous, vital and magnificent ascent.”
Tucker Carlson can choose to go on an anti-Israel tour of Israel; one, frankly could do the same in the U.S. or any other free country. The associated and predictable propaganda will not be difficult to develop.
Alternatively, Tucker can land in Israel and breathe that magnificent air with a s softened heart an open mind and while considering that which is presented in Deuteronomy 30:19.
