Texas Pastor Urges Public Execution Of U.S. Ambassador To Israel

Texas pastor Joel Webbon posted on X calling for the public execution of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, comparing him to convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Huckabee responded by approving a social media call for the FBI to arrest Webbon. The exchange occurred during online debate over the Pentagon's plan to livestream Hasan's execution.
Joel Webbon, a Texas pastor, used X over the weekend to urge that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee be put to death publicly. In a post later removed, dated Saturday, Oct. 10, he likened Huckabee to Nidal Hasan, the man convicted in the Fort Hood shooting. The remark came amid discussion of the Pentagon’s plan to broadcast Hasan’s firing-squad execution, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said will be streamed. Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and officeholder who supports Israel, endorsed a social-media request that the FBI arrest Webbon. Webbon has previously advocated Christian theocracy, seizing churches, and capital punishment for homosexuality.
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