The Anti-Defamation League is facing pushback from some Jewish leaders after the organization called on Fox News host Tucker Carlson to resign.
“Alas, the ADL has become markedly partisan under your leadership,” a group of 1,500 rabbis wrote to ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, urging the group to “discard its partisan preoccupations and undertake an urgently needed course correction.”
The controversy started when Carlson aired a segment accusing Democrats of being pro-immigration because they are hoping to “replace the current electorate” with voters who are friendlier to Democrats.
“I know that the Left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate,” Carlson said. “But they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually. Let’s just say it. That’s true.”
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The segment did not sit well with Greenblatt, who accused Carlson of advancing the theory of the “great replacement,” which he called “a white supremacist tenet that the white race is in danger by a rising tide of non-whites.”
“Carlson’s full-on embrace of the white supremacist replacement theory on yesterday’s show and his repeated allusions to racist themes in past segments are a bridge too far,” he said.
“Tucker must go,” Greenblatt said after the segment.
But the 1,500 rabbis weren’t the only Jewish leaders to jump to Carlson’s defense — former ADL President Abraham Foxman did so, as well.
“Fox is not an anti-Semitic network,” Foxman said. “It’s a lot of things, but it’s not an anti-Semitic network, and it’s certainly not an anti-Israel network.”
Fox Corp. Executive Chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch also defended the network’s host.
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“A full review of the guest interview indicates that Mr. Carlson decried and rejected replacement theory,” Murdoch said. “As Mr. Carlson himself stated during the guest interview: ‘White replacement theory? No, no, this is a voting rights question.'”
