MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime sounded a lot like Tucker Carlson over the weekend.
Consider the following lines and references involving recycled antisemitic tropes and conspiracies and ask yourself who said it: MS NOW or Carlson?
- “There has been reporting linking Jeffrey Epstein with Israeli intelligence agencies.”
- When talking about the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC)’s involvement in a political race, referring to the organization as “The Israel Lobby” – a pejorative suggesting the organization, which advocates for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, is a dark and overly powerful influence on foreign policy.
- “Netanyahu has demonstrated over the years that he has the ability to talk American presidents . . . into doing what he thinks is best for him and for Israel” – the evergreen trope of Jewish control – more recently morphed into the leader of the one and only Jewish State controlling the United States.
All three quotes came from MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime on Feb. 7 – 8, 2026. But full credit for correctly answering requires recognizing that Tucker Carlson has conveyed these same sentiments, particularly since his migration into what is now called the “Woke Right.”
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Ayman Mohyeldin Spreads Epstein-Mossad Conspiracy Theory
On Feb. 7, 2026, MS NOW host Ayman Mohyeldin stated, “There has been reporting linking Jeffrey Epstein with Israeli intelligence agencies.” Mohyeldin speculated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s denial of the claim was “not going to silence those who have been combing through these emails” and finding “multiple links between [Epstein] and Israel through various causes, people associated with Israel, the former Prime Minister and agents.”
If by “reporting” Mohyeldin meant anti-Israel propaganda outlets – such as Iranian State Media, suspected-to-be-Qatari-backed Middle East Eye, and Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency, then the claim tracks. But even Qatari propagandist outlet Al Jazeera – which regularly treats outlandish conspiracy theories about Israel as fact – acknowledged that whether Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset was not something it could establish. The New York Times has gone further, describing alleged Epstein-Mossad ties as a conspiracy theory. The Times columnist Ross Douthat added that the charge was “largely manufactured by paranoiacs and attention seekers and credulous believers.”
Tucker Carlson is widely credited for popularizing the Epstein-Mossad conspiracy theory in the United States. Carlson was fired by Fox News in 2023 after the network had to pay $787 million due to false statements he made on air. Since leaving Fox, Carlson has platformed both notorious antisemite Nick Fuentes and Nazi apologist Darryl Cooper on his podcast, suggested Israeli connections to 9/11, and in 2024, claimed he was mauled by demons. This is the ideological company Mohyeldin’s rhetoric keeps.
No one disputes Mossad is mentioned in the Epstein files – as are the CIA, UK Intelligence, and the KGB. Israel is mentioned in the Epstein files, but less frequently than Russia, China, Canada and France.
High-School Grad Who Never Held a Job, Cameron Kasky, Talks About the “Israel Lobby” on MS NOW
Cameron Kasky co-founded two gun control advocacy organizations after surviving the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland High School in Florida but stopped organizing protests in 2019.
Since then, the anti-Israel, Jewish, “dues-paying member” of the Democratic Socialists of America completed a few semesters of college and has held no full-time jobs. After a brief two-month campaign, Kasky dropped out of the NY-12 Democratic primary race in early 2026, following travel to the West Bank with a new aim to stop Israeli “settler violence.” On X, Kasky also suggested he believes Epstein to be a Mossad agent.
Nah guys Israel said he wasn’t and they don’t lie about this stuff https://t.co/imEABGSoyN
— Cameron Kasky (@camkasky) February 8, 2026
Apparently, this résumé was sufficient for MS NOW to welcome the newly self-styled “human rights advocate” as a commentator.
Over the weekend, Kasky discussed AIPAC’s role in a recent New Jersey democratic primary. In maligning the organization, he referred to AIPAC as the “Israel Lobby.” On X, Kasky admitted to an obsession with the organization. In addition to calling the State of Israel “fundamentally illiberal,” he erroneously described AIPAC – whose contributors and members belong to both parties and whose mission it is to build bipartisan support for the U.S.-Israel relationship – as right-wing, nationalist and an arm of MAGA.
There is little doubt Kasky borrowed this descriptor from a book embraced by both the far-left and far-right. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, argues the “Israel lobby” influences U.S. foreign policy through manipulation. Critics have alleged the book traffics in dual-loyalty, antisemitic tropes and those of Jewish power and control. In political discourse, the term “Israel lobby” has been used in the same way as the book to suggest a secretive, powerful and perhaps undemocratic influence over U.S. policy. By contrast, referring to AIPAC as a “pro-Israel lobby” is both accurate and descriptive.
Tucker Carlson platformed Mearsheimer on his podcast recently, as the two ranted about the power of the Israel lobby and Mearsheimer advanced the genocide libel (among other wildly outrageous Israel-related claims) during the two-hour conversation.
MS NOW Geopolitical Analyst Bobby Ghosh Alleged Netanyahu Controls American Presidents
Bloomberg Senior Editor Bobby Ghosh also appeared on The Weekend: Primetime to discuss the Middle East over the Feb. 7 – 8, 2026 weekend. While Ghosh has not been known to make overtly anti-Israel or antisemitic statements, he has subtly expressed his preferences. Examples include telling readers in October 2023 that he first visited Gaza during the “so-called Second Intifada.” Eleven months later, Ghosh questioned whether it was “kosher” for Israel to have launched the pager attack against Hezbollah.
The subtle suddenly became overt when Ghosh made the claim that “Netanyahu has demonstrated over the years . . . the ability to talk American presidents . . . into doing what he thinks is best for him and for Israel.” Ghosh’s trope on MS NOW follows in the footsteps of the antisemitic cartoon The New York Times published and the trope espoused by the Financial Times and The Guardian following the U.S. involvement in the 12-day Israel-Iran War in June 2025. Mohyeldin certainly did not push back on Ghosh, as he, himself, engaged in the same trope in June 2025.
Both the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League have written about the classic antisemitic trope Ghosh advanced: the accusation that America is doing Israel’s bidding.
Tucker Carlson, in September 2025, alleged that Prime Minister Netanyahu had bragged about the control he had over U.S. leaders.
By spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and exaggerating Israel’s influence over America, MS NOW commentators Mohyeldin, Kasky and Ghosh echo themes popularized by right-wing antisemite Tucker Carlson. The similarities in their hate-fueled imaginations realize Deborah Lipstadt’s horseshoe theory of antisemitism. As the former Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism explained, “the far-left and the far-right are closer to one another on the issue of antisemitism than they are to the center.”