Under the Jewish Spell

By Abe Greenwald

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

 

Tucker Carlson went on Megyn Kelly’s show to claim that Jews practice witchcraft on gentiles. They’ve cast spells on people like Mike Huckabee (Carlson’s example) to gain their sympathy and support. Ironically, Kelly nodded along mechanically, as if she were being mesmerized by Carlson. Of course, robotic deference to anti-Semites is her new business model.

 

Accusing Jews of sorcery and dark magic is an ancient and enduring aspect of anti-Semitism. The idea has been passed down from the Egyptians to the Romans to the early Christians to the Middle Ages to the fictional Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the Nazis to the Jew-haters of the 21st century. Carlson echoes Ilhan Omar, for example, who tweeted in 2012, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel."

 

It's one of the things that separates anti-Semitism from other prejudices. Jews are hated, in part, for having otherworldly powers. There are all sorts of interesting historical and sociological reasons for this phenomenon. For millennia, Jews lived among non-Jews as a separate people with their own religious rituals. And despite their refusal to worship the gods of others, Jews have not only survived an endless string of punishing horrors; they’ve thrived in every profession and intellectual or artistic pursuit.

 

What’s more, they’ve seen the fulfillment of God’s promise in the creation of the modern State of Israel.

 

It’s hard for people to grasp the unique and miraculous story of the Jews without appealing to the supernatural. Those who marvel at it may determine that we really are God’s chosen. Those who resent it cling to fantasies about devilish sorcery and so on.   
   
There’s an additional psychological factor behind the anti-Semite’s claim that Jews cast spells on people. It’s that they, the Jew-haters, can’t quite account for how they’ve become so entranced by the subject of the Jews. They sense in their own single-minded obsession something beyond their will to control. Anti-Semites see themselves falling into a maze in which Jews are hiding around every corner. Their fixation becomes indistinguishable from possession. Carlson, Omar, Candace Owens, and all the rest are, in fact, bewitched by Jew-hatred.

 

Anti-Semitism is undoubtedly a curse. Just look at what Jew-haters become: delusional, paranoid misfits unable to cope with the world as it is. To devote one’s life to hating Jews is to ensure one’s own endless misery. And for this burden, the anti-Semites must blame the Jews themselves. The only way they can do that without admitting to their own wretched state is to project their demons onto philo-Semites and supporters of Israel. Thus, Mike Huckabee is adduced as a victim of Jewish wizardry.

 

Now, take a look at Carlson—red-faced and ranting in an eternal tantrum—and take a look at Huckabee—the very portrait of a contented soul with a blessed life. I have no doubt that the supernatural plays a lead role in the story of the Jews. And God is evident not only in our survival. Just consider what He does to those who hate us—and what He does to those who call us friends.