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(Nov. 5, 2025 / JNS) For decades, the Heritage Foundation championed honest, intelligent, pro-Israel conservatism. The Zionist Organization of America proudly participated in Heritage’s Project Esther to combat antisemitism.
But things at Heritage have changed.
In a recent, disgraceful video statement, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts defended, whitewashed and allied with Jew-hating, Israel-basher Tucker Carlson after he said Christian Zionists are “heretics” infected with a “brain virus” and spouted other shocking antisemitic libels, while fawningly interviewing hateful, Jew-bashing, Holocaust-denying, neo-Nazis and racists, including Nick Fuentes, Darryl Cooper, Munther Isaac and Dave Collum.
Roberts outrageously emphasized that Carlson “will always be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation” and attacked those who rightly oppose Carlson, calling them a “venomous coalition” and a “globalist class” of “bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda,” echoing the “dual loyalty” libel used against Jews. Roberts also falsely accused all who oppose Carlson of “slander” and attempted to sow division between America and Israel.
Sickeningly, Roberts opposed “canceling” Nick Fuentes, a neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier, even though refusing to give neo-Nazis platforms is simply basic morality.
It is painful but necessary for the ZOA to make it clear that if Roberts does not retract and apologize for his statements praising Carlson and vilifying the podcaster’s critics—and if Heritage doesn’t end all relations with Carlson, including stopping funding of his podcast—then the ZOA will have no choice but to cut ties with Heritage, including its participation in Project Esther.
As the child of Holocaust survivors who lost most of my family in the Shoah, I was taught by my parents that the foundations for the Holocaust began with extraordinary and frightening propaganda lies against the Jews. These lies spread against Jews and Israel by Carlson and his guests on his podcast are reminiscent of that same Nazi propaganda. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan would be proud of Carlson’s podcasts. Would Heritage ever affiliate with them?
Roberts’ only response to ZOA’s calls for him to apologize and disassociate from Carlson was a tweet condemning Fuentes for his support of antisemitism, Holocaust denial, misogyny, admiration for Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, calling for the death of Jews, fomenting Jew-hatred and the goal of a “total Aryan victory.”
But Roberts has failed to retract his support of Carlson, making him unfit to continue as Heritage’s president.
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