Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett rebuked Tucker Carlson over his claim that the alleged sex pest Jeffrey Epstein led a blackmail campaign on behalf of the Mossad. Bennett, 53, characterized the conspiratorial remarks from Carlson—and others on the right—as a “vicious wave of slander and lies” against Israel.

"The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” wrote Naftali Bennett.

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson openly claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was working for Israeli intelligence services as he addressed a Turning Po.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson told an audience last Friday at the Turning Point meeting in Florida that Jeffrey Epstein was most likely an Israeli Mossad agent.

Bennett rebuked claims that Epstein worked for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and accusing Tucker Carlson of spreading conspiracy theories about his country.

Tucker Carlson claims Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israel to blackmail US officials: ‘Every single person in DC thinks that’ - ‘I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t think that,’ the former Fox News host to

Carlson had raised the question of whether Epstein was running a blackmail operation on behalf of Israeli intelligence during his Friday, July 11 speech to the conservative youth group Turning Point USA, saying "every single person in Washington, D.C., thinks that."

Tucker Carlson has alleged that Jeffrey Epstein was a pawn in the hands of Israeli intelligence, tasked with blackmailing American politicians.

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson openly claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was working for the Israeli intelligence services as he addressed a Turning Point USA event Friday. This is a much-discussed conspiracy theory which has now found its way to the mainstream after the Donald Trump administration closed the Epstein case.