RadixJournal - February 25, 2026


No, Virginia, There is No Abraham


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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

164.0625

Word count

868

Sentence count

64

Harmful content

Toxicity

9

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Hate speech

8

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Summary

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Judy and Judy discuss the latest in the anti-Israel campaign by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, who thinks that Jews should take DNA tests to prove that they are not Jewish. They also debate whether or not Christians should be allowed to call themselves Jews.

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00:00:00.000 There is no Abraham. 0.95
00:00:01.480 There's no King Arthur.
00:00:03.040 Hate to tell everyone this.
00:00:05.040 There's no Santa Claus.
00:00:06.640 Okay.
00:00:07.360 So like, this is just absurd.
00:00:10.900 What Tucker is demanding that you could take a DNA test because we cracked the genome.
00:00:17.060 We haven't cracked the genome.
00:00:18.860 First off, there's so much we don't know, but whatever.
00:00:21.620 We've cracked the genome so we can find Abraham and someone's genome.
00:00:26.300 What in the Sam hell are you talking about? 1.00
00:00:29.260 This guy is either in bad faith or he is just a moron. 1.00
00:00:34.700 I just, I cannot stand Tucker Carlson. 1.00
00:00:38.120 These are just the worst ways of criticizing Israel imaginable. 0.94
00:00:44.340 In fact, I don't think I could dream up a worse way of criticizing Zionism than this nonsense that this man keeps promoting. 0.87
00:00:53.440 Yeah, I was going to say that every ancient civilization used God.
00:00:58.300 They're right from God, the conquest.
00:01:01.180 And since, you know, the Bible is only true religion, we have to tiptoe around this and say, oh, what is it? 0.96
00:01:06.900 You are Jews, not just black Israelites in Atlanta.
00:01:09.580 You know exactly what is it you because Tucker has to tiptoe around this because he believes in this exact thing.
00:01:16.160 Yeah, so he thinks it's real, but other claims from other civilizations apparently are fake or something.
00:01:25.700 It's the theology that you yourself just explained.
00:01:29.300 And so I'm very confused as to why we don't do that if you believe the theology that you've just explained to me.
00:01:35.240 Would we do that all over the world?
00:01:37.240 This is the only country in the world that you've said has this covenant with God, that this people have a moral and legal right to the land.
00:01:46.700 What about people who convert to Judaism?
00:01:48.860 Would they have a right?
00:01:50.140 Well, you've just you've just said, I mean, there are not to Judaism.
00:01:53.760 So you just told they can make Aliyah.
00:01:56.140 They may not have.
00:01:57.000 You've just told me that it doesn't matter.
00:01:59.680 Tucker, you told me moments ago, trying to keep track, that it doesn't matter whether or not you believe in God or whether or not you practice Torah, Judy.
00:02:09.280 No, he didn't say that.
00:02:11.420 That is just a total misrepresentation.
00:02:14.500 Huckabee was very clear that it's both and it's kind of fuzzy, but it's it's both.
00:02:21.020 He clearly said that.
00:02:22.780 And Tucker just misrepresents him.
00:02:24.320 He's like, no, you told me that you can be an atheist, but still be a Jew. 1.00
00:02:28.860 He didn't say that.
00:02:31.080 And even someone like Herzl, who was a kind of atheist of a sort or agnostic or secular Jew or whatever, still obviously had a Jewish identity or rabbinic Judaism, which is something else that I don't even know if we should.
00:02:48.460 I don't even know what that means, but it doesn't matter whether you're, quote, a religious Jew or not. 0.65
00:02:53.280 What matters is that you are part of the Jewish people.
00:02:57.040 But don't Christians also believe this about Christianity? 0.96
00:03:01.020 Isn't this one of the, you know, like even I mean, Huckabee said this as well.
00:03:05.320 Even if you don't go to church every Sunday or you're not reading your Bible, a lot of people just resonate with Christianity.
00:03:12.540 You know, they celebrate Christmas.
00:03:15.080 They like the idea of Jesus.
00:03:17.720 They quote scripture on occasion, maybe unintentionally in many ways, because scripture.
00:03:22.940 So the King James Bible is so embedded in our language.
00:03:26.860 Aren't they sort of Christian on some level?
00:03:30.340 Like, are you really unable to, like, do go beyond just like black and white thinking conservator?
00:03:38.940 I just don't understand why Tucker doesn't just go like full on Kevin McDonald at this point.
00:03:44.320 And just like it's obvious, like what people like think that he is at this point.
00:03:49.040 Why don't just say like, OK, he's anti-Semitic.
00:03:51.120 Like, just come out and say it like because he won't have to do this game of like, oh, I'm I'm just asking questions about everything.
00:03:58.780 And he won't ever do that because he's never had like a firm opinion on anything outside of the Iraq war when he was on MSNBC, I guess.
00:04:08.860 It is sort of ironic.
00:04:10.380 Like the one time where he spoke clearly was when he was a neocon operative because he wants to play this game where he's pandering to all of these audiences in the conservative movement.
00:04:23.140 So he's pandering to the anti-Semites on the online right.
00:04:26.300 He's pandering.
00:04:27.580 He loves Christian scientists.
00:04:28.960 Some of the nicest people I've ever met.
00:04:31.040 He's pandering to them.
00:04:32.660 He's pandering to Israelis. 0.95
00:04:34.460 He doesn't want to be called an anti-Semite. 0.65
00:04:36.260 That's crazy.
00:04:37.100 Oh, why are you calling me?
00:04:37.900 You know, it's just it's just you turn yourself into gobbledygook if you're not willing to like just clearly state a position with clarity.
00:04:48.960 Is he just purely a charlatan?
00:04:51.840 Does he actually have any real beliefs about anything?
00:04:54.340 I don't know.
00:04:55.240 I mean, I do think he's a sure.
00:04:56.600 I don't think he's like a like a cynical operative who's like, oh, I'm going to lie today or something. 0.99
00:05:04.260 I think he's just a kind of hysterical, just mentally ill human being. 0.91
00:05:11.360 And that weirdly works very well in the conservative ecosystem. 0.99