Posted on 11/01/2025 10:28:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts declined to distance the conservative organization from Tucker Carlson, in response to criticism that Tucker has become "anti-semitic."
We don't take direction from comments on X, though we are grateful for the robust free speech debate. We also don't take direction from members or donors, though we are inherently grateful for their support, and we're adding more every day. This is the robust debate we invite with our colleagues, movement friends, our members, and the American public. We will always defend truth. We will always defend America. And we'll always defend our friends against the slander of bad actors who serve someone else's agenda. That includes Tucker Carlson, who remains, and as I have said before, always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation. The venomous coalition attacking him are sowing division. Their attempt to cancel him will fail. Most importantly, the American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not...
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defending Tucker’s recent turn towards IslamoNazism is not becomming of the Heritage Foundation. Nor, I daresay, does it reflect the views of most of HF’s supporters.
Yes, it is possible to critize Israel without being an antisemite. Of course. But this truism does not whitewash all kinds of critical attacks. The unfounded or one-sided or unfair attacks, the uninformed or misleading or deliberately distorted attacks... are not covered. We are free to point out their deficiencies or, where apparent, the discriminatory aspects. And, just speaking for this one person alone, I will continue to do my best to point out where an attack is antisemitic or is otherwise unfair or is incorrect or is at least simply based on false premises. Tucker has a problem and it is becoming quite glaring, it is not capable of being excused or covered up with a generalized glossing from HF.
Best for a happy weekend,
fhc
Wow. What a radical idea. Heads will explode in 3,2,1…..
>>”Christians Can Critique The State Of Israel Without Being Anti-Semitic”
Of course they can. But when you start buying into Islamist propaganda, accusing Israel of genocide, and all around advocating for Hamas then there’s dishonesty going on. What might motivate that dishonesty, I’ll let others speculate.
Anti-semitism and hatred against Jews preceded the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948, with revered Christians like Martin Luther (of Germany no less) sadly being among the greatest culprits.
That hatred still exists, on both the Right and Left, and it exists regardless of there being a nation-state of Israel or not.
You can support Israel without all the nonsense, Left Behind, Rapture-ready grift baggage that has come to embarrassingly dominate much of Evangelical Christian culture in recent decades.
Thankfully younger Christians graduating seminary and the like are abandoning that juvenile idolatry and paving a more Christ-centered path forward. One that understands the special role of the Jewish people in salvation history, that seeks ALL people(s) to be saved, and believes in the finished work of the Cross.
Nice to see a well thought out position that can be applied to many controversial positions taken by a commenter. You can criticize an idea or policy without condemning the individual or his identity and without being a racist. And while this idea is currently being applied to commenters re: the Israeli/Jewish response to Muslim opposition it is the same position many Republicans, myself included, have taken towards Black, Brown, Yellow, Green etc. Americans who take a position I may disagree with. I can reject your position without rejecting you.
I could be wrong....snx
But this sounds very anti-Semitic.
US tax dollars fund the Israeli military
<><>through annual US “security assistance” packages
<><>and emergency supplemental funding.
<><>Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of US foreign aid tax dollars since WW II.
Annual military aid tax dollars
The US taxpayer provides a significant amount of military aid to Israel
<><>via a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that began in 2019.
<><>the MOU agreement commits multi-billions of US tax dollars
<><>US taxpayers provide Israel with some $3.8 billion annually through 2028.
<><>includes $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF)
<><>and another $500 million tax dollars for cooperative missile defense programs.
Supplemental funding after October 2023
In addition to the annual tax dollar aid, US taxpayers provided further funding after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
In April 2024, an additional $8.7 billion tax dollars in military aid was approved.
Biden gave Israel $12.7 billion tax dollars in 2024-—an election year.
According to Brown University’s “Costs of War” project, the total U.S. military assistance to Israel since October 2023 is at least $21.7 billion -—or more —— US tax dollars.
How US tax dollars aid Israeli settlers:
US military aid tax dollars help Israel maintain a “qualitative military edge” by enabling the purchase of advanced defense systems like US F-35 aircraft, and precision-guided munitions from other countries.
In fact, the Israeli lobby got a US law passed that prevents the US from funding other Mideast countries——funding Israel considers a violation of it’s “qualitative military edge”
The U.S. also supports joint Israeli missile defense projects, including the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow systems.
Significantly, US tax dollars maintain a “military equipment stockpile” stored in Israel that can be used by the Israeli military.
I don’t know about Tucker Carlson, but of course, you can be against certain political policies of the nation of Israel without hating the Jews.
I love the Jews and believe Israel is surrounded by “the devil and the deep-blue sea”.
However, I think Israel could use more of America’s Free Constitutional Republic form of governance.
May God protect and save Israel. Amen.
I agree 100%. The modern political state of Israel absolutely is not the Biblical Israel. I pray for Israel, they have a special place in my heart, and that region of the world IS history.
You have no idea what you are talking about. You are using words you have no idea what they mean. You’re basically a moron
^^This^^
I agree.
It's as bad as a white man observing that blacks are 10% of the population yet represent 60% of convicts, and then the white man is accused of racism.
agreed. however, the US Constitution isn’t protecting our liberties very well these last few years.....
so while Israel could certainly use a similar constitution -— agreed — it might or might not help them.
Thom. Jefferson was famously asked what kind of government the Constitutional framers had given America ... he said,
“a republic, if you can keep it”
Uh, yes, you can, but you can’t be antisemitic without being antisemitic. The most recent example is Tucker Carlson didn’t just given Nick Fuentes an interview, he gave him a platform, and portrayed him in a positive light. That’s difficult to explain away as anything other than antisemitic since Fuentes openly admits to being that: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4343413/posts
Constantly defending the adversaries of the US and Israel is also not merely “criticizing the state of Israel.”
The attempts to cancel Tucker won’t work. He’s currently the most popular political speaker out there. Lots of people have turned against Israel because of what they’re doing in Gaza and it’s only getting worse the longer this thing goes on.
Fair enough. Just don’t make it your only subject.
Later on I understood that it was God's will to give us His Son for our salvation.
Condemnation of the Jews in Israel for cause is flat out hated.
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