The defense of former Fox News host and current podcaster Tucker Carlson by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, following a viciously anti-Israel broadcast that featured Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, is disheartening, outrageous and sobering.
In doing so, Roberts risks unraveling the incredible legacy of Edwin Feulner’s Heritage Foundation as the “intellectual backbone of the conservative movement” and poisoning the moral clarity that once animated it. His fateful decision runs counter to the ongoing work of numerous Heritage scholars advocating shared Judeo-Christian values, fighting antisemitism and defending our friendship with Israel.
Roberts began his defense of Carlson by saying, “Christians can critique the State of Israel without being antisemitic.” No one disputes that Christians may critique Israeli policy; however, Carlson’s tirades were no mere “policy critique.” He targeted the very idea of Israel and the Jewish people.
Throughout his lengthy conversation with Fuentes, Carlson ridiculed Christians who affirm the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. “[U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike] Huckabee, [Sen.] Ted Cruz, and there are a lot like that … all … seized by this brain virus, and they’re not Jewish. Most of them are self-described Christians.”
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