The 'just asking questions' camouflage

It never took too much effort to figure out that someone was antisemitic, because, in the past, they came right out and said it. Whether through the use of a derogatory term or stereotyping Jews, the language was quite recognizable and the attitude glaringly obvious.

But in 2026, the art of subtlety and nuance has been perfected by podcasters, who cleverly camouflage their antisemitic sentiments by innocently saying they’re “just asking questions.” 

By employing this “journalistic style,” they can frame their questions in a way that sounds as if they are simply inquiring as to “whether a libelous accusation is true.”   

Knowing that blaming Israel outright could damage their brand, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan, instead, found a way around it, by taking on a more acceptable tenor. They simply repeat a super-charged allegation without taking ownership for it. That way, they can claim to search for the truth by “just asking questions.”

This supposedly benign phrase has been used ad nauseum by Carlson, who engages his guests in his highly controversial theories. Even when debunked, they are regurgitated by him in the next interview.  

Oddly, he failed to “ask questions” when interviewing Palestinian pastor, Isaac Munther who accused Israel of “occupation, as well as having committed genocide, war crimes, human rights abuses and apartheid.” Nor did Carlson invite anyone to offer a rebuttal to the outrageous claims made by Munther, who has who has a reputation of being a harsh critic of Israel. Hasn’t Tucker said that he just earnestly wants to know the truth? Or is Munther’s distorted version good enough for him?

He also suffered from a deplorable lack of curiosity when conducting his two-hour interview with the well-known antisemite, Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, as reflected in his failure to deeply probe the outrageous charges included “the corruption of American politics and culture was blamed on Jews.” 

Referring to them as “a stateless people,” he went on to opine that “Judaism is incompatible with Western civilization.” He also asserted the tired “dual-loyalty trope” claiming that the first loyalty of Jews is to their homeland, supporting the notion that Jews cannot be trusted as true patriots to their countries of birth.

Clearly, Fuentes has never polled American Jews to ask if this theory holds water, because most of them, who are already third or fourth generation Americans, would quickly tell him that they’ve never visited Israel, have no particular connection to the land or feel more loyal to it since they are in no way involved emotionally or otherwise.

Nonetheless, no questions were shot back to the dishonest provocateur, whose many defamatory characterizations went unchallenged.

Piers Morgan also claims to “just be asking questions.” When interviewing anti-Israel guests, not only does he offer them a platform, to spread their venomous views, but he has often invited them back, knowing that there is a large audience for this kind of poison. It’s no wonder that his “Piers Morgan Uncensored” podcast, aired since April, 2022 has caused his popularity to skyrocket.

His anti-Israel guests have included Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef, who vilifies the IDF, journalist/broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, who has repeatedly alleged that Israel has committed war crimes, British rapper, Lowkey (Kareem Dennis), known for his outspoken anti-Zionist views, American journalist Abby Martin, who has accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and genocide, British Muslim activist, Mohammad Hijab, also a vocal critic of Israel as well as Gazan doctors.

While it’s true that, on occasion, he has pushed back on these guests, Morgan has often stated that his own views dramatically changed shortly after October 7, as he began to see Israel’s military rigorously defend their country, seen by him as an unnecessary incursion into Gaza.  It didn’t matter that terrorists were embedded into the local population, from where rockets were being fired, killing and wounding Israeli citizens.

How did he expect that we’d root out the enemy who were willing to imperil their own people for the sake of killing ours? 

If he, like Tucker, is “only asking questions,” why didn’t he bring on members of our military brass to defend our right to protect the citizens of Israel? They may have convinced him that his opinion was antithetical to the survival of the Jewish homeland. Because when bloodthirsty terrorists are indoctrinated from birth to assume the job of annihilating Jews, the only way to stop them, without killing off the entire population, is to fight them on their turf.

That is the nature of war. The fact that innocents may die is the sad but unavoidable consequence of what happens when the enemy is determined to complete their mission.

Having been born well after WWII, Piers has never had to personally confront anything like that, so it’s easy for him to be critical when he will, likely, never have to worry about being hunted down and murdered just for his ethnicity.

Megyn Kelly is also “just asking questions.” Playing the victim card, she is flabbergasted how anyone could ever accuse her of being an antisemite. But when you contend that fighting Iran - a nation which has, for decades, threatened the U.S., dubbing them the Great Satan that needs to be destroyed - is “Israel’s War,” how else can the popular journalist/podcaster be viewed.

Similar to Tucker, in that statement, she is acceding to the claim that, had it not been for Israel’s prime minister, the U.S. wouldn’t have participated in the war against Iran. Those who take that position, essentially view Israel and the American Jewish lobby as the cause for pressure being placed upon the Trump administration, unduly influencing them to enter a war which they claim has no bearing on America.

Where are her questions for the President, Secretary of State or Secretary of War, all of whom saw an imminent threat to the U.S.?

Of course, Candace Owens is in her own category, since she doesn’t even claim to ask questions. Her toxic conspiracy bombs are hurled as uncontested facts. But no one is fooling anyone.  The thinly disguised cover of “just asking questions” is nothing more than a poor attempt at camouflaging the antisemitic sentiment of cowards who pretend they aren’t really against Israel!