Victor Davis Hanson: Confronting Conservative Antisemitism

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

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Tucker Carlson’s interview with controversial right-wing podcaster Nick Fuentes has snowballed into a bigger conversation that has everyone asking: Does the Right have a serious issue with antisemitism? Victor Davis Hanson explains how conservative icons like William F. Buckley once handled extremists, contrasts that with today’s platforms, and explores why some on the right are now flirting with the same rhetoric on Israel that echoes left-wing sentiments. How should the conservative movement handle this divide? Hanson breaks it down on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” “I think the reason for the rise of antisemitism is an element, the isolationist base of the MAGA movement, felt that it was the driving force and that it was going to be isolationist and we were not going to get involved in the Middle East. And they were very suspicious of so-called, what they call neocons and what they call Christian Zionists. As Tucker said, he hates Christian Zionists over any other people. Even bin Laden? Al-Qaeda? ISIS? I don't know. But they were losing influence. Donald Trump proved that he is not a neoisolation. He's a Jacksonian. Targeted strikes to preserve and enhance U.S. deterrents.” (0:00) Introduction (0:59) The Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes Interview (1:32) The Rise of Right-Wing Antisemitism (7:44) Left-Wing vs. Right-Wing Antisemitism (9:17) The MAGA Movement and Isolationism (11:09) The Importance of the U.S.-Israel Alliance (14:14) Conclusion 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enabling notification: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉More exclusive content are available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com 👉The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's been a lot of controversy recently about anti-Semitism.
0:03.5	This time, it's not the well-known left-wing anti-Semitism,
0:07.3	just on the right.
0:08.2	It came to the fore when Tucker Carlson had an interview with the known anti-Semite,
0:14.1	and at one time pro-Nazi, Nick Fuentes.
0:17.1	Now, the problem was this was not in isolation.
0:19.9	If you want to have an edgy guest, you have to be very careful.
0:22.6	When William F. Buckley on his famous firing line had such people, he took a great risk.
0:29.6	But Buckley did something different than Tucker did, not to give them an unfiltered platform without counter-examination,
0:36.6	but to show everybody that these ideas were not only
0:40.6	dangerous, but could be easily refuted. So Buckley constantly cross-examine them, something Tucker didn't
0:47.0	do, which poses another question. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal.
1:02.2	There's been a lot of controversy recently about anti-Semitism and the threat that it poses to the United States at large.
1:09.5	And it's been very controversial because this time
1:12.8	it's not the well-acknowledged and well-known left-wing anti-Semitism. What we see on campuses
1:19.2	where people are yelling river to the sea, or they're chasing Jews into a library, or they're
1:26.4	tearing down pictures of the Israeli hostages.
1:30.8	What we've seen for the last two years, it's on the right.
1:34.0	And it came to the fore this week when Tucker Carlson on his platform gave an interview
1:41.9	or had an interview with the known anti-Semite and at one time pro-Nazi
1:47.3	Nick Fuentes, very young man, never written much. He's not an activist with anywhere the
1:54.3	audience of Charlie Kirk, but he's well known. He's glib, and Tucker had him on.
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