US Amb. Huckabee warns: Anti-Israel mood among some in GOP is ‘concerning,’ foreign actors fuel anti-Israel voices

U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, expressed some of his sharpest warnings yet against anti-Israeli voices in the Republican Party (also known as GOP), in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News.

Meanwhile, his warnings coincided with the start of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, which turned into the latest arena of what some are now calling a “civil war” among the American right over support or wholesale rejection of Israel.

Talking to Israel’s most popular TV channel, Huckabee said, “I’m concerned about the anti-Israel mood among parts of the Republican Party, especially young people.”

The issue has been the subject of numerous debates among leaders of the Republican Party and the broader right-wing movement in the U.S. in recent months, as popular figures like former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson and media personality Candace Owens have vocally turned against Israel.

“It’s dangerous. I’m not ignoring it. They make much more noise than they actually have influence, but it’s worrying,” Huckabee said.

Several recent polls indicated that among younger Republican voters, support for Israel is falling while antisemitic sentiments are on the rise.

Huckabee also added a chilling warning, “I think there is involvement by foreign entities that are fueling anti-Israel voices even on the American right.”

This issue has recently received some attention as a new feature on 𝕏.com, formerly known as Twitter, revealed the country or region where an account is based.

Several anti-Israeli propaganda accounts that were purporting to be right-wing Americans concerned with Israel’s conduct in Gaza were shown, in fact, to be based in Muslim countries like Pakistan.

Tucker Carlson, whose massively popular show on 𝕏 has hosted avowed Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes and several other antisemitic conspiracy theorists, as well as the rabidly anti-Israel UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, has recently been dubbed “Qatarlson” by his online detractors after repeatedly praising the Gulf emirate before participating in a Doha conference and vowing to purchase an apartment there.

The feud over Israel dominated this year’s AmericaFest by Turning Point USA, the first after the murder of its founder and vocal Israel supporter, Charlie Kirk.

Ben Shapiro, the founder of conservative media outlet DailyWire, used his speech to blast “charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty,” naming Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Steve Bannon as “frauds and grifters.”

While Shapiro's speech didn’t focus on Israel, much of the recent discussions have focused on conspiracy theories involving Israel that have been peddled, particularly by Carlson and Owens.

“The people who refused to condemn Candace’s truly vicious attacks and some of them are speaking here tonight – are guilty of cowardice,” Shapiro said, adding later, “If you host a Hitler apologist, Nazi-loving, anti-American piece of refuse like Nick Fuentes … you ought to own it.”

In a Q&A session after his speech, Shapiro was again confronted by a young man with a conspiracy theory about the mistaken Israeli attack on the American ship USS Liberty in 1967, which Owens and other online voices have publicized in recent years to show Israel’s ostensibly enmity toward the U.S.

“F*ck you Ben Shapiro and the midget horse you rode in on.”

Candace Owens, responding to Ben Shapiro’s speech at Turning Point USA, mainlines unquestionable Neo-Nazi propaganda, including dangerous Talmudic conspiracies.

Keep in mind that every episode of Candace’s show is… pic.twitter.com/9Dn5gjUINu

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 20, 2025

Candace Owens, who in the past worked with Shapiro before creating her own podcast show that has 5.7 million subscribers on YouTube, responded to her former boss’s speech by accusing him and Israel of being involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

“Every time Ben speaks I feel more certain Israel is involved in 9/10z. He’s just way too invested in Charlie’s murder. He never liked Charlie and he’s now suddenly pretending he had a duty to defend his legacy. Ben only cares about Israel’s interests. So Israel is involved,” she wrote.

On her podcast, she went on to accuse the Jews of being responsible for the American slave trade and she repeated antisemitic lies about the Talmud while brandishing a copy of August Rohling’s 1871 Der Talmudjude (The Talmudic Jew), a pamphlet that was discredited in its time but has since become a source for fabricated Talmud quotes, and a key inspiration for the Nazi-era antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Sturmer.

It’s wild that Candace is pushing August Rohling’s 1871 “Der Talmudjude (The Talmudic Jew)”—one of the foundational texts when it comes to fabricated Talmud quotes, and a key source of lies for Der Sturmer.

At the time, an Austrian rabbi debunked the fake quotes in print—and… pic.twitter.com/ZPyGUNMM62

— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) December 20, 2025