Surveillance Video Shows: Tucker Carlson Lied About Being ‘Detained’ By Israeli Security

Video evidence now appears to show that Tucker Carlson was lying about being detained by Israeli immigration authorities this week.

Tucker Carlson flew to Israel on a private jet to interview the U.S. Ambassador there, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. The two had been Fox News hosts together. But he wouldn’t leave the airport. He interviewed Huckabee at Ben Gurion.

And because, for Carlson, most bad things in the world are the fault of ‘the Joos’ he claimed that Israel detained his private jet when he attemped to leave.

Men who identified themselves as airport security took our passports, hauled our executive producer into a side room and then demanded to know what we spoke to Ambassador Huckabee about.

The suggestion was that Carlsons criticism of Israel, and in particular their actions against Hamas after October 7th, caused him to be singled out for harsh treatment. But the story wasn’t true. He went through standard security procedures for departing Tel Aviv. He handed over his passport to be processed. He was asked questions. Anyone that’s flown to Israel knows that their airport security doesn’t mess around, and Jews are not exempt.

In fact, it was so far from the truth that Ambassador Huckabee had to call out the lie.

Thanks @EFischberger for a more accurate report. EVERYONE who comes in/out of Israel (every country for that matter) has passports checked & routinely asked security questions. Even ME going in/out with Diplomatic Passport & Diplomatic Visa. https://t.co/UbblLiznMO

— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) February 18, 2026

One Mile at a Time wonders if Carlson was “just confused.” Carlson is confused about a great many things. But not likely this! There’s video evidence suggesting he was neither being ‘hauled off’ nor ‘detained’.

BREAKING: VIDEO PROOF EXPOSES TUCKER CARLSON’S STORY
New footage from Ben Gurion Airport shows @TuckerCarlson smiling, hugging airport staff, and posing for photos — contradicting claims that he was “detained” and “hauled off.” pic.twitter.com/X2tRFz7RxO

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) February 19, 2026

For quite some time Carlson has appeared to be a grifter and an opportunist. For real, now, opportunity comes in making common cause with the worst elements of the Right (that most conservatives would prefer to gatekeep out of their orbit).

Carlson interviewed Nazi apologist Darryl Cooper, who claims concentration camps were the humane to World War II food shortages. He introduced Cooper as “the best, most important popular historian working in the United States today.” And he had Cooper on a second time.

He interviewed Nick Fuentes fawningly. Fuentes has praised Hitler and called the Holocaust “exaggerated.” And here’s how he sums up his views overall,

Jews are running society. Women need to shut the fuck up. Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part. And we would live in paradise. It’s that simple.

We have to go a little bit further than to say something’s up with the Zionists or Israel. It’s not Israel. It is the Jews.

Carlson’s major area of disagreement in the interview was whether all Jews were to blame for U.S. support of Israel (Fuentes) or just some Jews (Carlson).

Carlson also hosted Larry Sinclair, a convicted felon who claimed he’d “smoked crack and had sex with Barack Obama” while Obama was in the Illinois state senate. He interviewed Andrew Tate while under house arrest in Romania, claiming Tate had been set up (and that Tate was having hisrights violated by charges of human trafficking and rape).

Before he was a podcaster, he was an early on-air cable TV supporter of President Trump. His television career benefited from it. But deep down, at least then, he was still a more normal conservative (Hunter Biden even helped his son when he was applying for college).

He wrote in texts after the 2020 election that he hates Donald Trump “passionately” calling him “a demonic force” and that after Trump lost the election he couldn’t wait to be able to ignore him. He called Trump’s presidency a “complete shit show.” (In 1999, he had called Donald Trump “the single most repulsive person on the planet.”)

But Republican voters watched Fox, Carlson was a Fox News host, and he rode support for Trump to national on-air prominence. He was fired by Fox in 2023 from his $20 million salary after it settled the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit for $787.5 million, because Carlson and others knowingly aired false accusations that that company’s voting machines had been used to manipulate ballot results in 2020.

In another turn, Carlson spoke in prime time for Trump’s re-election at the 2024 Republican National Convention and pushed for RFK, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard’s appointments last year.

Now he’s often referred to as Tucker Qatarlson for working with the Gulf state’s registered lobbyists in the U.S. And he doesn’t always support Trump – he dislikes Israel more, but he also claimed that the U.S. captured Maduro in Venezuela so that the “globo-homo” forces could end that country’s gay marriage ban.

No word on whether Carlson vetted his private pilots for the Israel trip to ensure they hadn’t been vaccinated against Covid which, according to his guest, has been proven to increase heart problems “to a 98% plus or minus 4.”

Tucker Carlson says he does not want to fly in a plane with vaccinated pilots because he thinks it’s too dangerous. pic.twitter.com/mgF2va71Wq

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) March 27, 2025