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Jewish convert Tony Dokoupil gets promoted by pro-Israel fanatic Bari Weiss

December 12, 2025/4 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Bari Weiss names Tony Dokoupil, who defended Israel on-air in closely scrutinized interview, to top CBS News anchor job

Dokoupil’s sparring match with Ta-Nahisi Coates divided CBS leadership at the time.

A morning show book interview
CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil (r) challenges author Ta-Nehisi Coates about Israel in a controversial on-air interview, September 30, 2024. On December 10, 2025, Dokoupil was named the new CBS News evenings anchor. (Screenshot)
By Andrew Lapin December 10, 2025 12:44 pm

Bari Weiss, the polarizing new editor-in-chief of CBS News, has named the longtime network personality Tony Dokoupil to anchor the evening news chair, in a potential sign of how Weiss’ pro-Israel views may be reshaping the network’s news priorities.

The move came amid a rash of prominent vacancies at the venerable network since new Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, who is also Jewish and pro-Israel, appointed Weiss top editor earlier this year.

The elevation of Dokoupil is notable in the aftermath of his debate with bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates about Israel in a viral interview last fall that was rebuked by CBS top brass at the time, prior to Ellison’s appointment.

“We live in a time in which many people have lost trust in the media. Tony Dokoupil is the person to win it back,” Weiss said in a statement announcing the move. “That’s because he believes in old school journalistic values: asking the hard questions, following the facts wherever they lead and holding power to account. Americans hungry for fairness will see that on display night after night.”

The release touts Dokoupil’s CBS experience with particular emphasis on his Israel coverage, noting that he “reported from Israel on the Oct. 7 terror attack and hostage release deal” and has interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Dokoupil is a convert to Judaism and is married to Jewish MS NOW anchor Katy Tur.

Interviewing Coates about his pro-Palestinian essay book “The Message” in September 2024, Dokoupil accused him of writing passages that “would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist” and asked him whether he objected to “the existence of a Jewish state that is a Jewish safe place.” He concluded the interview by jokingly inviting Coates to High Holiday services.

In the fallout from the Coates interview, Dokoupil faced internal pushback from some CBS News staff who felt his questions betrayed a pro-Israel bias. He also faced a disciplinary meeting with executives who cautioned him about the tone and body language he displayed during the interview.

Leaked records of those meetings were published by The Free Press, Weiss’s outlet, months prior to Paramount’s $150 million acquisition of her business. The Coates interview continued to be a sticking point prior to CBS’s ownership transition to the Ellisons, as Paramount’s former chair Shari Redstone — also Jewish and avowedly pro-Israel — reportedly supported Dokoupil and heightened her own scrutiny of CBS News’ Israel coverage as a result.

On September 30, 2024, Dokoupil discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with author Ta-Nehisi Coates during the latter’s appearance on CBS Mornings to promote the book The Message. Dokoupil implied that the book “reads like the work of an extremist” and questioned Coates about Coates’ view regarding Israel‘s right to exist. Some CBS staffers were angered by the interview and CBS executive Adrienne Roarke said that an internal review found that it did not meet network standards.[19][20][21] Dokoupil was defended by Paramount chair Shari Redstone and other CBS staffers, including chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford, who said that a journalist is obliged to ask tough questions when interviewing someone presenting a one-sided view.[22][23][24]


From Wikipedia: Dokoupil was born in Connecticut on December 24, 1980. He is of Czech descent.[2][3] … Dokoupil has two children with his ex-wife, who live in Israel.[26][27][28][29] Dokoupil married fellow broadcast journalist Katy Tur  (of Jewish and Greek descent) in October 2017;[30] they have two children together.[31] 

In 2014, Dokoupil wrote about his conversion to Judaism.[32]

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4 replies
  1. Tim
    Tim says:
    December 12, 2025 at 6:02 pm

    https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-former-israeli-spies-overseeing

  2. Tim
    Tim says:
    December 13, 2025 at 10:34 am

    Yesterday I watched the documentary “Love, Hate and Passion” (1997) about the anal-perverted “writer” Thomas Mann and his masculinized Jewish sham wife. The most hideous, disgusting filth of the most degenerate kind. It seems only logical to me that the Nazis hated this guy. Like a perverted, pubescent lecher, this guy still raves about young men’s asses in a poetry album-like manner at over 70 years of age and calls it “love” [sic]. He fell madly in love with a young waiter, he notes self-pityingly, full of unfulfilled longing for perverted bed games.

    What amazes me is that this idiot is supposed to have been “one of the greatest German writers.” Yet the only thing he ever accomplished was to be born to rich parents (descendants of Hanseatic merchants) and marry a super-rich Jewish heiress whose mother was the notorious “feminist” Hedwig Dohm. These people were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and never had to do any work themselves. Similarly, as “exiles” in America, they were treated with preferential treatment and pampered as a kind of pseudo-nobility or wannabe aristocrats, among others by the Jewish fraudster, copyist, and plagiarist Einstein.

    His Buddenbrooks is a pompous, dusty family saga set in the Wilhelmine Biedermeier bourgeoisie. To describe this decadent, provincial bullshit as “great literature” is in itself a bottomless lack of taste. Throughout his life, Mann had a “painting” called “The Spring” hanging in his study “for inspiration,” depicting three naked boys. A cultural country like Germany, which counts this among its “greatest writers,” has every reason to be ashamed!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann#Sexuality_and_literary_work

    see especially at 40:26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft6rRmkih-E

  3. Dr. Zhivago
    Dr. Zhivago says:
    December 13, 2025 at 11:39 am

    Communist Bolshevik Soviet. (CBS)

  4. Salus Populi
    Salus Populi says:
    December 16, 2025 at 5:25 am

    An adult male who is prepared to sever valuable nerve endings and let his glans penis keratinise and dry out in a futile bid to please a Jewess, is indeed the goodest of goys, and the safest pair of goy hands that CBS could ask for in its new Hasbara mission.

    May the shekels now raining down on Dokoupil go some way to compensating him for the loss of finer sexual function. Praise Hashem!

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