Friendship Over Decency: Heritage Sides With Antisemitism
When a conservative think tank shields antisemitism, it’s time to call them out.
I was not planning to send out a newsletter today, but I could not go into the weekend without eviscerating Kevin Roberts and the Heritage Foundation.
Tucker Carlson once spoke at my college on my birthday. He’s now a full-throttle antisemitic propagandist. The Heritage Foundation is standing by him. That is not loyalty. That is moral treason.
Kevin Roberts, president of Heritage, is doubling down on defending Carlson—and refusing to “cancel” neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. Let that sink in. A think tank once proud of shaping conservative thought is now openly enabling hate. Carlson’s antisemitism? Fuentes’ white nationalism? Both get a free pass because Heritage can’t offend its base. This isn’t principle. It’s cowardice dressed up as friendship.
Roberts talks about fighting the “globalist class.” Translation: he’s using antisemitic dog whistles to justify sheltering hate. Heritage has chosen convenience over conscience, friendship over fundamentals, optics over ethics. Defending antisemitism because someone is a pal is not bravery—it’s complicity.
Here’s the kicker: Roberts is also the architect of Project Esther, a plan explicitly designed to combat antisemitism—carefully aimed at left-wing, anti-Israel groups. Yet when the right-wing, pro-Trump, antisemitic Carlson and Fuentes parade hate in public view, Heritage shrugs. Project Esther exists to fight everyone else’s antisemitism—but when it comes to friends of the foundation, suddenly condemnation is optional. Roberts even doubles down: “Christians can critique the State of Israel without being antisemitic. And of course antisemitism should be condemned.” Translation: we’ll lecture the left on antisemitism, but we’ll protect it on the right. This is hypocrisy at a foundational level.
“I abhor Fuentes’ views,” Roberts says, while doing nothing. Let’s call it what it is: Heritage is giving cover to bigotry. They’re not debating ideas—they’re protecting white nationalism and antisemitism from the slightest criticism. Carlson and Fuentes are not hypothetical threats. They are actively spreading hate. And Heritage? They’re letting it happen under their roof.
The Heritage Foundation is supposed to be a conservative intellectual force. Instead, it’s a cautionary tale of moral collapse. History will not remember this as courage. It will remember it as cowardice, enabling hate, and choosing friends over human decency.
Heritage, here’s the truth: you have picked hate. You have picked loyalty to bigots over principle. You have picked optics over responsibility. Your moral compass is shattered. Carlson and Fuentes are not your friends—they are the measure of your moral failure. And the rest of us? We see it. We remember it. We will not forgive it.