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As an award winning filmmaker who has fought for children’s rights in the legal sphere for many years, I’m appalled by Tucker Carlson’s disgusting and disingenuous use of child soldiers to score political points. As if it wasn’t bad enough that he fabricated being “interrogated” by the Israeli airport, and publicly defamed Israeli president Herzog, falsely accusing him of having association with Epstein, but he also exploits the devastating trend of Hamas recruiting children — not to condemn Hamas, but to somehow smear Israel for not allowing teenage jihadis to murder and maim Israeli civilians.
The entire reason that this is even a discussion point is because jihadist terror groups like Hamas actively recruit children as young as five years old to join the jihad and sacrifice their lives for martyrdom. I have witnessed this firsthand when I filmed my award-winning film, The Making of a Martyr. Hamas, Al Aqsa, Islamic Jihad etc all have recruitment sessions at schools, summer camps for small children, and they recruit them to the movement as early five years old. The reason this is a tragedy and a crime against humanity is because it destroys the children and their future as well as the future of that society. Tragically, Gaza isn’t a civilized society.
When I sat down to film my movie, I remember I filmed two IDF soldiers, who were brothers. I asked them if a terrorist was running at you holding a child as a human shield and shooting at you, what would you do? One of the brothers said that he could not shoot and would rather die, the other brother said, of course he would shoot because the terrorist is responsible. This is the split second decision making that you cannot afford on the battlefield. This is why they use children, to play in the most disgusting way on the humanity of soldiers of civilized nations.
The legal onus is not on Israel or the United States or any other group that is fighting against jihadist terror, the onus is on the jihadist organisations that put weapons in their hands, because the alternative means the deaths of more civilians, including by the way, other children as we saw on October 7th.
The person who puts a child in harms way knowingly, is 100% legally responsible for the foreseeable result. If you use children as human shields, as child soldiers, and as child suicide-homicide bombers, you are committing a crime against those children. The reason why terrorist organizations use children is so they can engage in a lawfare attack against the states that are combating them on an asymmetric battlefield. It is the sickest and most disgusting form of terrorism. Tucker and his narrative are fueling the use of children by justifying it and playing into the hands of the terrorist groups who want you to believe in their twisted legal arguments that they are able to recruit children and when they die, it’s somehow not their fault.
As an attorney I can assure you that an under-age member of a terrorist organisation who is actively engaged in combat is (tragically) a legal target when that child has been sent to kill others and is putting others in imminent danger. The party legally responsible for the child’s death is the terrorist group that recruited him/her. Tucker Carlson of course knows this, but he wants YOU to believe otherwise because that benefits his ulterior motives and his whitewashing of Islamist terror and supremacy.
I applaud Ambassador Huckabee for his steadfast composure in the face of such utterly clownish bigotry and dishonesty.
As an award winning filmmaker who has fought for children’s rights in the legal sphere for many years, I’m appalled by @TuckerCarlson’s disgusting and disingenuous use of child soldiers to score political points. As if it wasn’t bad enough that he fabricated being “interrogated”… pic.twitter.com/whCS1DqvPj
— Brooke Goldstein (@GoldsteinBrooke) February 21, 2026
The above is Brooke Goldstein’s post on her X account: @GoldsteinBrooke.
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