Carlson notes opposed a U.S. attack on Iran. But the real brouhaha began days
after when Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, made a two-and-a-half-minute-long video, which he posted on X. In it, he defended Carlson as a
friend of Heritage and his own and made only a passing reference to disagreeing with anything Fuentes or Carlson had said. Roberts instead reserved his
scorn for the “venomous coalition” of “bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda.” In other words, the Jews and
their defenders, especially including Christian Zionists. And then the stuff hit the fan.
Leading Heritage scholars like Chris DeMuth and Stephen Moore resigned. Members of Heritage’s own National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism actually voiced their disgust by quitting the foundation. And then Heritage board mem-
ber Robert P. George, a Princeton professor and one of the country’s leading conservative thinkers, quit — warning that antisemitism on the right must be rejected. Roberts apologized for posting the
video defending Carlson and Fuen- tes, but never completely explained what statements he made were actu- ally wrong. He also stubbornly refused to crit-
30% to 40% of young Republican male activists in D.C. might identify as Groypers — that is, followers of Nick Fuentes.
icize his “close friend” Carlson, or disassociate the think tank from his antisemitism. Conservatives — especially Chris-
tians and Jews — were shocked. “We at ZOA are calling on Rob-
erts to be fired,” Morton Klein, presi- dent of the Zionist Organization of America, said. At a meeting of the Republican
Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas in early November, there was push- back. Many speakers called out this rising tide of antisemitism, especial- ly by Carlson and Candace Owens. Sen. Ted Cruz said, “Now is a
time for choosing. Now is a time for courage. If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool and their mission is to combat and defeat ‘global Jewry,’ and you say nothing, then you are a coward, and you are complicit in that evil.” The Texas Republican also said
he had seen more antisemitism on the right in the last six months than he had seen in his entire life. He called it a “poison” and argued that the party and the nation were “fac- ing an existential crisis.” Christopher Ruddy, CEO of
CONTROVERSIAL Right-wing provocateur Nick Fuentes spoke of his admiration for Adolf Hitler, the problem with Jews, and his view that women like being raped during a two-hour interview on Tucker Carlson’s podcast. At no time did Carlson push back or express disapproval. The podcast, seen by an estimated 20 million people, has exposed a rift among conservatives on how to deal with antisemitism and white nationalism.
Newsmax, also spoke at the RJC conference. He called out the anti- semitism in clear language and described the defense of Carlson’s “vile garbage” as a dangerous turn- ing point for conservatives. Conservative writer Rod Dreher discussed being in Washington as this fight was breaking out. He concluded that 30% to 40%
of young Republican male activists in D.C. might identify as Groypers — that is, followers of Nick Fuentes. If correct, it does not bode well
for Jews or the GOP. Many Groypers believe, for example, that Israel’s Mossad assassinated Kirk. There are growing worries that
America’s right, triumphant after Trump’s win in 2024, may be about ready to drive off the proverbial cliff. After the Heritage scandal broke,
former George W. Bush press secre- tary Ari Fleischer tweeted: “Tuck- er’s effort to bring neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes into the mainstream of the conservative movement is a path to political suicide for the right.” Some conservatives see the failure
of Heritage’s board of directors to act — and fire Roberts — as a watershed moment for their movement. “I definitely think he should
resign,” former Rep. Peter King, who chaired the Homeland Security Committee, said of Roberts. “There is no room in the political
arena for supporting or enabling any views that are pro-Hitler or antise- mitic.”
Carlson, King noted, is “an anti-
semite who argues that Winston Churchill, not Adolf Hitler, was responsible for World War II.” “These views are disgraceful,
immoral and ignorant,” King wrote, expressing dismay with the Heritage Board of Trustees.
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