This is a rare move by Tucker. Tucker Carlson has retracted his previous statements about Israeli President Isaac Herzog he made in a recent interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Watch Tucker’s full apology here: Statement on Israeli President Isaac Herzog pic.twitter.com/z2hIAO9ptY — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 21, 2026 The New York Post provided context to Tucker’s apology: A red-faced Tucker Carlson has strenuously apologized for suggesting Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the notorious so-called “Pedophile Island” owned by sicko Jeffrey Epstein. “They didn’t know each other, they never emailed with each other, never been in the same room. They had no relationship of any kind,” the ex-Fox News anchor-turned-independent podcaster told US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, referring to Herzog and Epstein, in a 2-minute video posted on X on Saturday evening. Carlson said his apology came after he received a “long letter” from Herzog’s team denying the allegations he referred to in his interview with Huckabee the day before. “The current president of Israel, whom I know you know, apparently was at ‘Pedo Island.’ That’s what it says,” Carlson said in the earlier interview, referencing an AI-doctored image of Herzog and the late sex offender posted by Times of London reporter Gabrielle Weiniger, who later admitted it was bogus, Mediate reported. “Still-living, high-level Israeli officials are directly implicated in Epstein’s life, if not his crimes, so I think you’d be following this,” Carlson, 56, advised Huckabee at the time. Carlson — a fierce critic of US-Israel policy who has been accused of using antisemitic language — said he regularly receives letters saying he got something wrong but “rarely” is the correspondence so adamant as what Herzog’s people penned. “And so for that reason, we are taking it seriously. There is nothing worse than impugning the reputation of an innocent man,” Carlson told Huckabee in the video posted Saturday. Here’s the part of the interview Tucker is apologizing for: Tucker Carlson did not ask if Israeli President Herzog visited Pedo Island, he flat out asserted that Herzog visited the island. He then, in his retraction video, lied about what he said. He is such a bad faith actor. pic.twitter.com/njjgFIaorm — Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 22, 2026 Watch the full interview here: The Mike Huckabee interview, and the truth about America’s deeply unhealthy relationship with Israel. (0:00) Why We Were Interrogated in Israel(25:38) Why Did Huckabee Meet With American Traitor Jonathan Pollard?(34:26) Has Huckabee Advocated to Extradite Sex Offenders Who… pic.twitter.com/SDIf9TzdiR — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 21, 2026