Washington Times: Suggestion Jeffrey Epstein Was Mossad is an Anti-Semitic 'Blood Libel'

Tucker Carlson and other members of the isolationist, so-far-right-they’re-becoming-left camp are a collective dog with a bone when it comes to Israel and the Jews.

The most recent bandwagon onto which they have jumped in an effort to get everyone else to find the Jewish people as loathsome as they do: the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

Last week at the Turning Point USA summit, the former Fox News host said that “every single person in Washington” thinks the convicted sex offender worked for Israel, “running a blackmail operation.”

“I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t think that,” he continued. “I don’t know any of them that hate Israel. But no one feels they can say that.”

Why don’t they “feel” they can say as much? Those familiar with Mr. Carlson’s recent rants about Jews and Israel can probably fill in the blanks: because the Jews control the world, of course. It’s a trope Mr. Carlson danced around during the remainder of his Turning Point USA speech, in which he also hinted that President Trump supporter and hedge fund CEO Bill Ackman had Epstein connections. (Mr. Ackman is — surprise, surprise — Jewish.)

Then there’s the fact that former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett immediately dismissed the Epstein-Mossad connection.

“As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty: the accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” he posted on X. “Epstein never worked for the Mossad.”

EXCLUSIVE: Married Israeli politician Ehud Barak is seen hiding his face entering Jeffrey Epstein's NYC townhouse as bevy of young beauties were also spotted going into mansion - despite his claim he NEVER socialized with the pedophile and his girlshttps://t.co/wQBJDkfVzt

— HomerB (@HomerB33) July 16, 2019

Though Mr. Carlson would surely like to believe otherwise, nothing is groundbreaking about alleging that a rotten person who happened to be Jewish was engaged in a larger, nefarious conspiracy by a global Jewish cabal.

It’s just the centuries-old blood libel dressed in a bow tie.

In 1171, and for many years after, it was the claim that Jews use the blood of Christian children to make matzo; today, it’s Tucker Carlson’s evidence-free allegations that a Jewish pedophile was a spy for the Jewish state.

[...] Epstein was a despicable human being, but his Jewishness and any affection he might have had or support he might have shown for Israel do not make him a Mossad agent.

It’s time for Mr. Carlson and his acolytes to move on.