Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett dismissed allegations that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israeli intelligence services, describing the claims from U.S. media figures as being part of “a vicious wave of slander and lies” against Israel.

"There's a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people," former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said about Tucker Carlson's claims.

Tucker Carlson's claims that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent have reignited a controversial conspiracy theory, prompting strong denials from former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. The theory,

A deflated conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein was a foreign spy re-emerged over the weekend, with a conservative commentator, Tucker Carlson, declaring that the financier and convicted sex offender was connected to Mossad,

Alan Derschowitz told Chris Cuomo his perspective on Epstein's alleged client list, the existence of video tapes and Tucker Carlson's Mossad accusations.

"The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” wrote Naftali Bennett.

Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett rebuked Tucker Carlson over his claim that the alleged sex pest Jeffrey Epstein led a blackmail campaign on behalf of the Mossad. Bennett, 53, characterized the conspiratorial remarks from Carlson—and others on the right—as a “vicious wave of slander and lies” against Israel.

Carlson had raised the question of whether Epstein was running a blackmail operation on behalf of Israeli intelligence during his Friday, July 11 speech to the conservative youth group Turning Point USA, saying "every single person in Washington, D.C., thinks that."

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has vigorously refuted conspiracy theories that notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the Mossad intelligence service.

Carlson, a leader in the MAGA isolationist movement, says Americans who served in the Israeli military should lose their U.S. citizenship.