Former top Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson tells the Daily Mail he was confronted by “men who identified themselves as airport security” who confiscated his and his producer’s “passports, hauled our executive producer into a side room and then demanded to know what we spoke to Ambassador [Mike] Huckabee about,” following a taping of an interview with Huckabee in Israel’s David Ben Gurion airport on Wednesday. “It was bizarre. We’re now out of the country,” said Tucker.

Huckabee had invited Carlson to sit down to chat in response to accusations that the ambassador was not doing enough to prevent Christians from being persecuted in the country, which is kind of a touchy subject given the public execution of a highly influential Christian leader there in 33 AD.

Huckabee’s embassy denied anything happened, telling the shitty British rag that “It is not accurate that Israel only was going to let Tucker into the country for the interview. The only engagement the Embassy had with Israel about his visit was to coordinate his private plane landing as part of facilitating a seamless visit. It was Tucker who chose to only come into the country for a few hours and depart. And Tucker received the same positive treatment of any visitors to Israel.”

Tucker never actually left the airport premises, taping the Huckabee interview there. It’s unclear if the increasingly unsubtly antisemitic right wing influencer would’ve been allowed in the country.