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Conservative DC think tank head rails at ‘globalist class’ while defending Tucker Carlson’s friendly chat with Holocaust denier

2025-10-31

[IsraelTimes] The head of the right-wing Heritage Foundation in Washington defends Tucker Carlson, as it faces calls to cut ties with the former Fox News host for his friendly interview with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

In a video statement, Kevin Roberts states, “Christians can criticize Israel without being antisemitic” and that Jew hatred should be condemned, before saying that “my loyalty as a Christian and as an American is to Christ first and to America always.”

I have no problem with any of that…

“When it serves the interests of the United States to cooperate with Israel and other allies, we should do so,” Roberts continues, before saying “conservatives should feel no obligation to support any foreign government, no matter how loud the pressure becomes from the globalist class or from their mouthpieces in Washington.

Agreed. The globalist class is out there screeching “Free, free Palestine.” They demand the US support Hamas and work to destroy Israel. We can’t submit to that nonsense.

Roberts asserts that the role of his think tank isn’t “canceling our own people or policing the consciences of Christians, and we won’t start doing that now.”

Of course.

He then adds that the Heritage Foundation “will always defend our friends against the slander of bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda,” including Tucker Carlson, who he claims is being attacked by a “venomous coalition… sowing division.”

Mr. Carson started gleefully pushing the lies of Jew haters. It is not venomous to point out that fact, nor divisive to reject him for it, however fond of him we were before.

Roberts also says that though he “disagrees with and even abhors things that Nick Fuentes says,” the avowed antisemite shouldn’t be canceled.

Cancelled, no. But I needn’t invite him over for tea.
More from the Times of Israel:

The video was a striking show of support from the influential conservative organization, which previously put out "Project Esther," a right-wing plan to counter antisemitism after the October 7, 2023, Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
-led attack on Israel. The Heritage Foundation was also behind Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets...
’s second term in office that has been closely adhered to on a policy level, and that has farmed many of Trump’s closest associates.

Fuentes has mounted an outside bid for influence within the larger right-wing movement, emphasizing his overt antisemitism. His chummy conversation on Tuesday with Carlson, who agreed with the provocateur on many issues including Israel, was seen as a further mainstreaming of antisemitic views within the right. This is not the first time Carlson has welcomed a Holocaust denier to his popular talk show.

Roberts, however, said Fuentes should not be sidelined but engaged.

"I disagree with, and even abhor, things that Nick Fuentes says," Roberts said, without elaborating. "But canceling him is not the answer, either. When we disagree with a person’s thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in debate. And we have seen success in this approach as we continue to dismantle the vile ideas of the left."

Following his remarks on only supporting Israel when it suits the United States, Roberts quoted a statement to that effect made by Vice President JD Vance in Mississippi on Wednesday evening. Vance made the comment during a question-and-answer session on a college campus where he, too, faced criticism for failing to condemn a question laced with antisemitism.

"What I am not OK with is any country coming before the interests of American citizens, and it is important for all of us, assuming we’re American citizens, to put the interests of our own country first," Vance said in the statement quoted by Roberts.

Following his remarks on only supporting Israel when it suits the United States, Roberts quoted a statement to that effect made by Vice President JD Vance in Mississippi on Wednesday evening. Vance made the comment during a question-and-answer session on a college campus where he, too, faced criticism for failing to condemn a question laced with antisemitism.

"What I am not OK with is any country coming before the interests of American citizens, and it is important for all of us, assuming we’re American citizens, to put the interests of our own country first," Vance said in the statement quoted by Roberts.

One person thankful for Roberts’s remarks was Fuentes himself.

"Thank you for your courage in standing up for open discourse and defending Tucker against the Israel First Woke Right," he wrote to Roberts on X.

Listen for yourself, dear Reader, as he explains his reasoning on X . But the gentleman is no William F. Buckley, who would have viewed a Holocaust denier precisely as far beyond the Pale as a member of the KKK.

NYC mayor Eric Adams: ‘Antisemitism spreads like a cancer across our city’. This is the risk of the Jew hate play for Conservatives and Republicans: when the Democrats indulged their Jew-hating Progressive wing, sensible people changed to vote for their Republican candidate. If the Republican party does it, those voters will leave again.

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