Tucker Carlson ripped for peddling conspiracy – Business News
Commentators are slamming Tucker Carlson for peddling the conspiracy idea that COVID-19 was made in a means that rendered Jewish people proof against the lethal virus.
On the Monday episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show,” the host introduced up Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s baseless declare that COVID could possibly be “tailored” to have more hostile results on particular teams of people.
Jewish organizations have extensively condemned Kennedy’s crazed idea, which was first reported by The Post.
Tucker Carlson and his visitor, creator and researcher Andrew Huff, peddled the conspiracy idea that COVID-19 was made in a means that rendered Jewish people proof against the lethal virus. The Tucker Carlson Show/YouTube
Carlson’s visitor, creator and researcher Andrew Huff, stated it was “scientifically true,” including: “There was a finding in a scientific publication that two different populations … of people of Jewish ancestry — depending on which line they’re from — one was more heavily impacted than the others.”
Carlson chimed in to clarify that Huff was referring to “Sephardic/Ashkenazi” Jews.
Some of the backlash towards him for entertaining the conspiracy idea with Huff — who beforehand labored for EcoHealth Alliance, a lab that studied viruses — got here from fellow conservatives.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) sarcastically wrote on X about Jews working the Chinese lab that the White House considers the purpose of origin for the virus.
It’s not the primary time Carlson has confronted allegations of antisemitism. The Tucker Carlson Show/YouTube
“Wait– the Jews were running the Wuhan Institute for Virology?? Who knew?” he wrote with a woozy emojii.
RedState.com author Bonchie famous that anybody nonetheless pushing theories about COVID being created by Jews is a “clown.”
Ah yes, it was the Joooos who created Covid-19 and never, you recognize, the Chinese in China, the place the illness orginated, in a lab, managed by the Chinese. I’m sorry, however in the event you’re nonetheless doing the “he’s just asking questions” factor, you are a clown. https://t.co/4kz3JZFIOM— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 21, 2025
It’s not the primary time Carlson has confronted allegations of antisemitism. Jewish teams and Israeli media shops lately accused the ex-Fox News host of stoking antisemitic conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Right-wing commentator Arynne Wexler wrote on X: “And Europeans blamed the Jews for the Black Death. That led to massacres. We’re talking thousands of Jews slaughtered, burned alive, entire communities annihilated. Tucker isn’t creative, he’s copying centuries-old blood libel.”
Eyal Yakoby, a latest University of Pennsylvania graduate who sued his alma mater over claims of antisemitism, voiced his outrage, too.
Workers at a Wuhan lab in 2017. AFP through Getty Images
Huff beforehand labored for EcoHealth Alliance, a lab that studied viruses. AndrewHuff.com
“Covid-19 was created by the CCP, but rather than ridicule the CCP, Tucker has managed to blame the Jews somehow,” he wrote on X.
The backlash towards Carlson was first reported by Mediaite.
