A Jewish former Speaker of Israel’s Knesset wrote it, borrowing the Nazis’ name for the Holocaust. Tucker Carlson wrote the foreword and put his name on the imprint.

On November 17, bookstores across America will stock a book with the words “Final Solution for Jews” on its cover. The title is Peace Is the Only Final Solution for Jews, and its author is a Jew: Avraham Burg, a former Speaker of Israel’s Knesset. The publisher is Tucker Carlson Books. The foreword is by Tucker Carlson himself. And Simon & Schuster, one of the world’s largest publishing houses, will distribute it nationwide.

Burg also served as acting president of Israel and chaired both the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization. His father, Yosef Burg, was a founding leader of religious Zionism who served in Israeli governments for decades. Few Israelis held a more distinguished Zionist pedigree. But over the past two decades, the son has become one of the Jewish state’s harshest critics.

The “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” in German Endlösung der Judenfrage, was the Nazi regime’s name for its plan to murder every Jew in Europe. On January 20, 1942, 15 senior Nazi officials met at a lakeside villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to coordinate it. Over about 90 minutes, chaired by SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, with Adolf Eichmann taking the minutes, they organized the deportation of Europe’s Jews to death camps in occupied Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Chelmno, and Majdanek. The Nazis wrote of “evacuation,” “resettlement to the east,” and “special treatment.” Each meant the gas chamber. By 1945, six million Jews had been murdered, among them some 1.5 million children.

“That Is Pure Nazism”

City University of New York law professor Jeffrey Lax, whose four grandparents survived the Holocaust, was among the first to sound the alarm. “The phrase ‘Final Solution’ has one meaning in Jewish history,” Lax wrote in The Algemeiner. “It is the Nazi plan to murder every Jew in Europe, and a publisher who prints it next to the word ‘Jews’ knows exactly what he is doing.”

Lax pointed to the title’s target. “This one names Jews. And ‘Israel’ appears nowhere in the title,” he wrote. “For years, Carlson has spoken of ‘Israel,’ ‘Netanyahu,’ and ‘neocons’ when his critics say he really meant Jews.”

In an interview on the Moral Edge podcast, hosted by Nissim Black and Michael Gerbitz and reported by World Israel News, Lax went further. “When you do something like that, you talk about the final solution for Jews, you’re getting into territory that is truly deeply scary,” he said. “Now his book literally calls out Jews, not Israel. The title does not have Israel in the title at all. It’s the Jews.”

“The full title of Tucker’s book is Peace Is the Only Final Solution for Jews,” Lax said. “That is pure Nazism.”

Lax, who said he had spent much of his life opposing casual comparisons to Nazis, including those aimed at President Donald Trump, said he had never before applied the label to anyone. “I do believe he’s a neo-Nazi or an actual Nazi,” he said of Carlson. Lax was once a fan. “I was a huge fan of his,” he recalled of Carlson’s Fox News years.

Lax called on three parties to answer. Simon & Schuster, he wrote, “should tell its Jewish employees and readers why it will put ‘Final Solution for Jews’ on its trucks, and it should drop the distribution.” Carlson “owes the grandchildren of survivors an explanation of what he thought ‘Final Solution for Jews’ would mean to them.” And Vice President JD Vance, who has called Carlson a friend, should “finally condemn Carlson and this book.”

“Whatever way you do it, do something,” Lax urged Jewish leaders and ordinary citizens. “We need you.”

The Author

Burg began his career at the heart of the Zionist establishment. Through the 1980s and 1990s, he was a rising star of the Labor Party, and he served as Speaker of the Knesset from 1999 to 2003. His father, Yosef Burg, was a leader of the National Religious Party, the forerunner of today’s religious Zionist movement.

The turn came in 2003, at the height of the Second Intifada, when Burg published an essay titled “The End of Zionism,” arguing that Israel had become a corrupt, militaristic society headed for collapse. He went on to urge Israelis to obtain foreign passports, and he later joined Hadash, the Arab-Jewish communist party.

Burg’s record explains why Carlson chose him. In a July 2025 essay on his Substack, Burg wrote that “the ultra-Orthodox have become the Shylocks of greed,” invoking Shakespeare’s Jewish moneylender. In the same essay, he raised the question of whether the State of Israel “no longer deserves to exist.”

In 2021, Burg announced he would petition an Israeli court to remove the designation “Jewish” from his entry in the population registry. In an August 2026 essay attacking AIPAC, he called on readers to save American Jewry from “the networks of money, the paranoia, and the addiction to war.” Lax noted the pattern: “Once again, the Jews and money trope.”

His 2007 book, published in Hebrew as Lenatzeach et Hitler (Hitler’s Victory), appeared in English under the softer title The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise from the Ashes. In a 2009 interview with Der Spiegel, Burg was reminded that he had compared Israel to the final days of Weimar Germany. Asked what separates the Nazi cry of “Juden raus” from Israelis shouting “Arabs get out,” Burg did not dispute the comparison.

The Hebrew title means “Defeating Hitler.” Peace Is the Only Final Solution for Jews makes it the second time Burg has put the Nazis on the cover of a book about his own people. The earlier book argued that Israel had become trapped by its trauma over the Holocaust. The new one borrows the name of the Holocaust itself.

Burg first appeared on Carlson’s program in March, in an episode titled “Former Interim President of Israel Avraham Burg Speaks Out on Netanyahu’s Killing Spree.” He opposed the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, which more than 90% of Jewish Israelis supported. “Listen, Tucker, I cannot stand you, but you’re a nice person, so I talk with you,” Burg told his host. Carlson laughed and called it a “half compliment.”

That March episode included a segment titled “The Many Attempts to Rebuild the Third Temple,” in which Carlson repeatedly pressed Burg on the Temple Mount. The Anti-Defamation League notes that the claim that Jews are plotting to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has circulated for more than a century and has fueled repeated waves of violence against Jews. When Burg called the US-Israeli campaign against Iran “the first religious fundamentalist world war,” Carlson agreed: “That’s exactly what it feels like.”

Carlson later hosted Burg again to promote the new book, posting the interview under the title “Israel Has One Final Solution…” In it, Burg described Israel as an “illiberal democracy” and said he cared less about the number of states than about equal rights for everyone between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Burg presents himself as a defender of what he calls Judaism’s original humanist values against Jewish nationalism. In practice, his vision means abandoning Israel as a Jewish state, and Israelis across most of the political spectrum regard him as a renegade. At home, he lost his audience years ago. Carlson is handing him the largest audience of his career.

On the podcast, Gerbitz questioned whether Carlson chose a former Israeli leader as a shield against accusations of antisemitism. Lax agreed, calling the use of Jewish figures to push extreme anti-Israel arguments a familiar tactic to deflect criticism.

Carlson’s Pattern

The book follows a long record. In 2024, Carlson hosted podcaster Darryl Cooper, who claimed the Nazis were “in over their heads” and that the death camps were an unintended result of poor wartime planning. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt responded at the time with words that read differently today. “Although the Nazi party, the Third Reich, might not have had plans for everything, the one thing they did have was a plan for the Jews,” Greenblatt said. “It was called the Final Solution.”

Carlson praised Cooper as perhaps “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.” The episode drew more than 35 million views on X and a condemnation from Yad Vashem. The ADL marks that interview as the turning point. Its backgrounder on Carlson, updated October 30, calls him “one of the most prolific amplifiers of antisemitic and conspiracy theory-laden content online,” with a combined following of more than 34 million people.

Carlson’s attacks on Israel grow out of an older theme. At Fox News, he became the most prominent mainstream promoter of the “Great Replacement,” the conspiracy theory that elites are deliberately replacing white Americans with non-white immigrants. “The great replacement? Yeah, it’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s their electoral strategy,” he told viewers in July 2022. The ADL notes that many American white supremacists blame Jews for that immigration. In October 2018, a gunman driven by exactly that belief murdered 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Carlson now casts Israel in the role. In a March episode, he claimed that “every Israeli-inspired war over the past 30 years” has sent “desperate migrants to Europe,” and he has accused Israel of a “desire to destroy Europe.” In April, he said of pro-Israel members of Congress, “Their number one goal as a policy question is to keep Israel an ethnostate while preventing the United States from being one.” The ADL warns that, taken together, his claims mirror the antisemitic version of the Great Replacement, with Israel standing in for the Jews.

In November 2025, Carlson hosted Nick Fuentes, the white supremacist and Holocaust denier. Carlson has also called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an “enemy of Western civilization.”

Carlson later told The New York Times he regretted the Fuentes interview only because it was “a distraction.” When reminded that Fuentes denies the Holocaust, Carlson answered, “OK, but is that worse than killing kids?”

Carlson once knew exactly how to identify what he is now doing. Nearly 20 years ago, he described conservative commentator Pat Buchanan on C-SPAN as a man who defended accused Nazi war criminals, constantly attacked Israel, and implied that American Jews push the country into wars in which non-Jews die. “I do believe that there is a pattern with Pat Buchanan of needling the Jews,” Carlson said, according to a transcript published by the Shalom Hartman Institute. “Is that antisemitic? Yeah.” The Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg called the clip “essentially an instruction manual for doing what Tucker Carlson is doing now.” Carlson, he said, is acting deliberately: “It’s a worldview. It’s a choice.”

Last month, Carlson traveled to the Somerset home of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former British Conservative minister, for an interview released on October 2. Carlson pressed Rees-Mogg on whether Britain had benefited from fighting Nazi Germany at all. When Rees-Mogg answered that otherwise “we’d all be speaking German,” Carlson replied, “Who cares? There are a lot of people in Britain who can’t speak English. So it would be nice to have at least a European language spoken in your country.” Rees-Mogg shot back, “I do,” and told Carlson he was “very surprised” to find him “verging on defending Hitler.” Carlson, who had argued that Hitler “repeatedly said, ‘I do not want to go to war with the UK,'” insisted, “I’m certainly not here defending Hitler.” Then he quipped, “Yeah, I guess I’m just a secret Nazi.”

The backlash crossed the conservative world. “Yes, Tucker, the UK is better off for winning WWII,” Sen. Ted Cruz posted on X. “America is better off for winning World War II.” Cruz has called Carlson the “most vocal proponent” of antisemitism on the political right. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said Carlson “needs help. Serious help.” Rees-Mogg himself later said Carlson “says increasingly foolish things to get a reaction.”

Carlson’s hostility to Israel has spilled directly into American elections. In September, according to The New York Times, he came to the defense of Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democrat the Republican Jewish Coalition called “the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in America,” while attacking Republican Mike Rogers as a “toady to Israel.” El-Sayed won on November 3. Days after the Times report, NPR named Carlson a “Newsmaker” and aired an hourlong interview in which he called for President Trump’s removal from office over the Iran war. Weeks earlier, on Russia’s state-run RT, Carlson described Russia as “the last big white Christian country on the planet.”

Carlson has also aimed at the foundations of Christian support for the Jewish people. According to the ADL, he has claimed that modern Jews have no connection to the Israel of the Bible, compared American evangelical leaders to the Nazi-controlled Reich Church, and called the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism “an anti-Christian document” because it identifies the claim that “the Jews killed Jesus” as antisemitic. “So there goes the New Testament,” Carlson said in April. “The whole New Testament is antisemitic, too.” Nearly every major church, including Carlson’s own Episcopal Church, has formally rejected the charge of collective Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus. Carlson has even suggested that Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor executed for plotting against Hitler, acted in an un-Christian way.

Carl Yonker, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, documented Carlson’s description of Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, as “sweaty and rat-like,” “shifty,” and “a persecutor of Christians.” Yonker traced each phrase to classic antisemitic imagery: Jews as rats in Nazi propaganda, the shifty Jew of medieval polemic, and Jews as enemies of Christianity. His conclusion was blunt. “The problem is not with what Carlson is being called,” Yonker wrote. “The problem is what he is.”

The book itself is not yet released, and its full contents remain unavailable. Its 176 pages carry a list price of $16.99. Carlson’s imprint is a joint venture with Skyhorse Publishing, which Simon & Schuster distributes.

The title invites comparison with another book Simon & Schuster brought to market two months earlier. In September, Dara Horn, a three-time National Jewish Book Award winner and author of People Love Dead Jews, published The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living through Avid Reader Press, a Simon & Schuster imprint. Horn is one of America’s leading voices against antisemitism, and her book seizes the Nazi phrase and turns it against the hatred that produced it, offering a lament and a call to action on behalf of living Jews. Burg’s title runs in the opposite direction. It presents “peace” as the solution to the Jews, under the imprint of a commentator who has given his platform to a Holocaust denier.

Peace, Peace

Burg’s title offers “peace” as the solution to the Jews. That raises the question the prophets of Israel asked thousands of years ago: what kind of peace is offered by those who question whether the Jewish state deserves to exist?

The prophet Jeremiah faced the same voices in Jerusalem in the years before the Babylonian destruction. False prophets and corrupt priests assured the people that all was well, and Jeremiah condemned them in words he repeated twice:

“They have healed the hurt of My people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14)

In Hebrew, the cry is shalom shalom v’ein shalom. Jeremiah’s targets were insiders: prophets and priests from within the nation, speaking the language of peace while leading the people toward ruin.

The Hebrew word shalom comes from the root shalem, meaning whole or complete. Biblical peace means wholeness. The Sages taught that peace is so great that God’s own name is Shalom. A peace that requires the Jewish people to surrender their identity, their land, or their state is the opposite of shalom. It is the peace of the graveyard.

The Psalmist described the enemies of Israel with precision:

“They have said, ‘Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.'” (Psalm 83:5)

The Psalmist also recorded Israel’s response to those who dress hostility in the language of peace: ani shalom v’chi adaber, heimah lamilchamah, “I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war” (Psalm 120:7).

The Nazis called their plan a “solution.” Burg and Carlson call theirs “peace.” The Bible teaches the Jewish people to look past the label. In 1942, the Final Solution was presented in the language of resettlement. In 2026, it arrives with a foreword by the most popular voice on the American right, in bookstores on November 17.