Can You Trust Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson on Israel? Mehdi and Bassem Debate

Can You Trust Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson on Israel? Mehdi and Bassem Debate

From We're Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends by Zeteo

April 14, 2026 · 42 min

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Mehdi and Bassem debate the trustworthiness of Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson regarding their views on Israel and related political issues.

It's been six months (!) since Bassem Youssef joined Mehdi for an episode of 'We're Not Kidding', and since then Israel has started two new wars, right-wing podcasters have turned on Donald Trump over his war with Iran, and centrist Democrats have mounted a cancellation campaign against leftist streamer Hasan Piker. But before they get to any of that, they dig into Epstein and Mehdi's viral interview with the so-called "Professor Jiang," the two get into a friendly argument over which terms and ideas qualify as religious tropes and how the weaponization of antisemitism by Zionists has diluted the meaning of the word. The two also debate whether right-wingers like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson can be trusted allies for calling out Israel's genocide in Gaza and Donald Trump's war with Iran, or if they're just opportunists who see the writing on the wall for the MAGA movement. "Why don't you like Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson?" Bassem asks Mehdi, who explains his position on the two. The two also discuss: Zionists cracking down on free speech and civil liberties. Why "Pax Judaica" is an antisemitic trope and "Greater Israel" is not. US citizen Moshe Katz who recently died in…

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Host: Mehdi

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