During his Middle Eastern tour, Tucker Carlson slammed U.S. funding for Israel, citing claims that Jewish extremists spat on Christians.

OMG Tucker Carlson just exposed that the US government is funding a regime that allows Jewish extremists to spit on Christian clergy and you won’t see this in TV pic.twitter.com/efGzTZ9A7v

— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) February 5, 2026

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Ruthie’s farm lends a hand to teens in need, and they found their own helping hand when these cowboys came to the rescue.

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The abbot of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem was asked by staff at the Western Wall to cover his “really big and inappropriate” cross.

In a video that was shared by Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper, the worker can be heard telling Nikodemus Schnabel that his cross is “really big and inappropriate for this place. It’s a Jewish place, you need to respect that.”

Forschungsministerin @starkwatzinger erlebt am Mittwochmorgen in Jerusalem mit, wie Abt @PaterNikodemus auf dem Platz vor der Klagemauer (außerhalb der Gebetszone) aufgefordert wird, sein Kreuz abzunehmen. Die Offizielle sagt, es handele sich um eine neue Regelung. @derspiegel pic.twitter.com/Zy1GxBVCRP

— Christoph Schult (@schultchristoph) July 19, 2023

Schnabel responded that the request was “very harsh” and “not respecting” his rights.

“This is not a provocation. I’m an abbot. This is my dress,” said Schnabel. “The cross is part of my dress code, I’m a Roman Catholic abbot. You want me to not dress as my faith tells me I should dress.”

Schnabel later wrote on Twitter: “The unfortunately not so nice end of a nice tour of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is painful to see how the climate in this wonderful city is changing more and more for the worse under the new government. Jerusalem is big enough for everyone!”

The Western Wall Heritage Foundation apologized for the incident.

“The Western Wall is open to all. It should be emphasized that there are no regulations regarding this matter at the Western Wall Plaza,” a statement said.

“The usher approached and politely asked if it would be possible to cover the cross to prevent any discomfort, as has recently occurred in the Old City, out of a desire to respect both the visitor and the site. When he refused, access to the site was obviously not denied, and the usher respected the decision and continued on her way.”

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Dr. Jerry Pillay, tapped to head WCC, urged Christians to “resist” the “ambitions of Israeli Jews.”

By World Israel News Staff

A Presbyterian minister who has repeatedly slammed Israel as an apartheid state and called Zionism a racist and violent movement was elected to head the World Council of Churches (WCC), sparking concern among Jewish advocacy groups and pro-Israel organizations.

The WCC represents 352 churches of various denominations and 580 million Christians  from 120 countries.

Dr. Jerry Pillay has compared Zionism to apartheid in his native South Africa, and called on fellow Christians to “resist the empirical ambition of Israeli Jews,” according to a JNS report.

In a number of public statements and letters, Pillay has expressed support for the BDS movement and insinuated that Christians should follow his example.

In 2016, Pillay bemoaned the “exclusionary and violent character of the Israeli Zionist project,” adding that the state was created via a conspiratorial “Jewish leadership” collaborating with European colonialists.

Pillay dismissed Jews’ historical ties to Israel, as well as a continuous Jewish presence for hundreds of years in the land, instead framing the modern state as a place where settlers abuse “the indigenous people of the land.”

Currently, Pillay is a dean at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and will assume his role as the General Secretary of the WCC in January 2023.

“For too long… the WCC — while invoking its recognition of anti-Semitism as a sin in the aftermath of the Holocaust, which culminated centuries of Christian anti-Semitism — has been complicit in a predominant contemporary strain of anti-Semitism,” wrote David Michaels, B’nai B’rith’s director of United Nations and Intercommunal Affairs, in a Medium post shortly after news of Pillay’s appointment went public.

“That strain, responsible for fueling attacks against not just Israelis but often diaspora Jews, consists of singling out the world’s only Jewish state for vilification and discrimination, while turning a blind eye to the delegitimization, dehumanization and unending violence targeting the nearly half of the Jewish people who call Israel home.”

Michaels added that “the WCC has stigmatized Jewish nationalism but not Palestinian nationalism, encouraged punitive actions against Israelis but not their adversaries and demonized the Middle East’s only pluralistic democracy but not an array of the world’s most utterly vicious regimes.

“Now, the WCC has elevated Rev. Pillay, who is on record with especially strident, simplistic ideological extremism on Jews and the Jewish state,” Michael said.

“He will, of course, like nearly all those guilty of prejudice, deny this bigotry — even while discrediting Jews’ right, unlike other marginalized or beleaguered groups, to call out such animus.”

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