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ADL Warns Twitter Against Working With ‘Obvious Antisemite’ Tucker Carlson

‘HUGE MEGAPHONE’

During his first Twitter show, Carlson described the Jewish Ukrainian president as “rat-like” and a “persecutor of Christians,” two well-worn antisemitic tropes.

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Chip Somodevilla

The Anti-Defamation League has warned Twitter against giving “obvious antisemite” Tucker Carlson a “huge megaphone” after the ex-Fox News star used his debut program on the site to describe the Jewish Ukrainian president as “rat-like” and a “persecutor of Christians.”

“For years @TuckerCarlson slyly wove anti-Jewish conspiracies into his show on...

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