Tucker Carlson has done more for Ami Kozak’s career than any Jewish organization ever could. Every time Carlson twists himself into another contortion to avoid taking Israel’s side, every time he presents Hamas sympathizers as brave truth-tellers and Israel’s defenders as warmongers, Kozak has fresh material.
And Kozak’s material lands. His impression of Carlson reviewing Saving Private Ryan captures the man’s entire worldview in thirty seconds: “I thought it was awful how they stormed the beach. I mean, people were on the beach having a good day in Normandy and you just take the beach. That’s just wrong.” Millions of people watched it, laughed, and understood something about Tucker Carlson that no op-ed had managed to convey.
This month, Kozak is bringing his act to Israel. Israel365 News is proud to be the lead sponsor of two live shows: Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance on Wednesday, June 24, and Bar Giora in Tel Aviv on Thursday, June 25.
Comedy as a Weapon
Kozak has spent the last several years doing something that armies of pundits and advocacy organizations have largely failed to do: making Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megan Kelly look completely ridiculous. Not through position papers that reach the already-converted, but through viral impressions that expose the intellectual dishonesty and moral inversion of people who have used their enormous platforms to turn American conservatives against Israel and the Jewish people.
His method is simple and devastating. When you watch Kozak’s Tucker Carlson, you’re not just hearing a funny voice. You’re watching someone reconstruct the entire rhetorical architecture of a man who has made a career out of confusion, evasion, and presenting evil as common sense. As Kozak himself has put it, comedy is “a very effective cutting piece of sunlight that exposes the truth of something.” You show rather than tell. And what’s shown becomes very difficult to unsee.
This work took on a different dimension after October 7, 2023. When Hamas massacred over 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds hostage, figures like Carlson and Owens, who had long presented themselves as champions of Western civilization and traditional values, showed where they actually stood. Kozak understood that the moment called for something sharper than entertainment. The laughs hadn’t changed. The stakes had.
Kozak knows from personal experience that engaging these figures in good faith has its limits. He once spent time with Carlson in private conversation and came away with a clear picture of what the man actually is: someone who doesn’t care about evidence or honest debate, who talks over any challenge, and who is entirely committed to a narrative regardless of where the facts point. That experience didn’t discourage Kozak. It sharpened his aim.
FIghting Back
Kozak is not operating alone in this space. His conversation with Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Director of Israel365 Action and one of Israel365’s most prominent public voices, is worth watching in full. The two covered the theological collapse of replacement theology across the Christian world, the leaderless vacuum in the American conservative movement following the death of Charlie Kirk, and the specific danger posed by what they both call the woke right: a corner of American conservatism that has dressed its hostility toward Jews and Israel in the language of tradition and free inquiry.
Rabbi Wolicki knows this world from the inside. Years of serious dialogue with Christian theologians across the globe have given him something the pundits lack: actual knowledge of where Christianity is heading. And his conclusion is clear. The anti-Israel turn in American conservative media is a loud, well-platformed fringe. Conservative Christians across Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe are among Israel’s most committed allies. The woke right is not winning the Christian world.
That Israel365 News is sponsoring these shows is no coincidence. Israel365 and Kozak are fighting the same people, and neither one is doing it with press releases.
Two Shows, One Message
Kozak comes to Israel having already built an audience that knows exactly what he stands for. His Jordan Peterson impression has been viewed over 180,000 times on Instagram, with Ben Shapiro’s reaction video adding another 1.6 million views. His Dave Ramsey impression has its own devoted following. But it is the Carlson and Owens material that has made him genuinely consequential, because the targets are the most dangerous. These are people with massive reach who have done measurable harm to Israel’s standing among American conservatives, and Kozak has made it significantly harder for them to operate without being seen clearly.
Turns out one of the most effective pro-Israel voices in America right now isn’t a lobbyist, a politician, or a think tank. It’s a Jewish comedian from New Jersey who does a killer Tucker Carlson impression.
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