Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has issued a public call for for Mossad-style action against US political commentators Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, declaring “the Jewish people have to be feared.”
Shmuley’s murderous rant began when he said that Hamas must fear the IDF and that “disgusting, poisonous reptilian Iran has to fear the Mossad.” He then pivoted: “The same thing is true in media. Why aren’t we going after the Candace Owens of the world, the most disgusting reptilian anti-Semite in America? Why aren’t we going after Roger Waters? Why aren’t we going after Tucker Carlson?”
“I am tired of being a scared Jew,” said Shmuley. “I am tired of quaking and shivering and trembling before our enemies. We are going to bring the fight to our enemies.” Watch:
Shmuley’s violent logic is unmistakable. He first celebrates lethal operations that create fear in foreign enemies, then insists the identical approach applies to critics operating in American media and on American soil.
He frames Carlson and Owens not as political opponents or commentators with differing views, but as “enemies” who must be confronted with the same force that Israel uses against its military adversaries.
This murderous rhetoric crosses from heated debate into open encouragement of targeting Americans inside the United States.
Incitement to violence
When a public figure stands before an audience and urges that named American citizens — Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens — be treated as “enemies” deserving the same fear-inducing response Israel reserves for foreign terrorist leaders, the line is crossed between fiery rhetoric and criminal incitement.
These are U.S. citizens living, working, and speaking on American soil. Calling for the fight to be brought to them in the same breath as celebrating Mossad operations deserves serious legal scrutiny.
The full context of his remarks leaves little room for charitable interpretation. Fear over love. Action over restraint. Confrontation of American critics with the same intensity reserved for existential military threats. That is the message he delivered.
And once those words are spoken aloud about specific U.S. citizens, the consequences — legal, moral, and political — must be taken very seriously.