‘It’s Obvious’: Heritage President
Says Right Has Antisemitism Problem
Real Clear Politics,
by
Philip Wegmann
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
11/2/2025 5:42:46 AM
Regrets, Kevin Roberts has a few.
The president of the Heritage Foundation stepped into a maelstrom when he came to the defense of Tucker Carlson this week after Carlson's friendly interview with Nick Fuentes, the 26-year-old white nationalist popular on the far right for his avowedly antisemitic views. It started with a video Roberts posted to X.
“Not as many people as I thought,” he told RealClearPolitics in a Saturday interview, “were ready for a little bit of nuance.”
Roberts told RCP that the backlash has further clarified something that he already believed, namely that antisemitism has become “a much more pronounced problem on part of the right.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rather Read 11/2/2025 6:07:42 AM (No. 2024900)
The Right has a few antisemitic nuts around, like Fuentes. But it's the left who is infested with antisemitism that reaches into Congress. The right has no one quite like Omar, and Talib in it. Those harridans would cheer another Holocaust.
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It is not a left/right issue. It is a spiritual issue.
When you see the worst of it on the left, it is because there are so many lost people involved there.
But we have lots of God haters on the right too.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 11/2/2025 6:42:53 AM (No. 2024928)
Until the end of WW2, nobody liked the Jews. It was the norm. The generation that liberated the concentration camps is almost gone, so things are drifting back to the norm.
The question that needs to be addressed is WHY Jews have been so hated for so long. Why were they kicked out of 109 countries? I dont know the answer but would like to. There is more here than meets the eye.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
philsner 11/2/2025 7:11:06 AM (No. 2024946)
Personally, I do not care what the Heritage foundation thinks. The idea of moral equivalence with the left is nonsense
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
minuteman 11/2/2025 7:19:54 AM (No. 2024951)
The Jews are God’s chosen people. The world belongs to Satan; ever since the fall. The reason is simple.
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Of course people can dislike the government of Israel without being antisemitic. At any given time, 1/2 of Israel hates its own government. I despised the federal government of the USA under Biden, particularly the rotten DOj.
The international Deep State infects all western countries, Ireland, UK, Germany, USA, Israel, whatever.
Bibi is a mediocre center right guy, who happens to stand out like a beacon of light because he was a direct contrast to commie Muslim gay Obama — who is decidedly antisemitic and anti-western civilization.
The concern trolls who “wonder” why Jews have been persecuted in many nations know the answer. It’s people like them (and Obama) who are eaten up by jealousy over the repeated success of the Jewish people despite their best efforts.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 11/2/2025 7:26:36 AM (No. 2024954)
I wouldn't know a Jew if I was standing next to him. What's different about Jews?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
qr4j 11/2/2025 7:57:56 AM (No. 2024966)
Casper ten Boom, a devout Christian in his 80s, resisted the Nazis. He and his spinster daughters Betsy and Corrie, hid Jews in their home, risking their lives to protect them against Satan’s evil. They suffered betrayal and the Nazis arrested them.
Casper was given the opportunity to stay home and live out his days if he promised to stop helping Jews. He refused. Betsy and Corrie went to concentration camps, where Betsy died. Corrie was released due to a clerical error days before women her age were scheduled for the execution.
They did all this because they loved Jesus. I cannot entertain anyone who hates Jews. I won’t tolerate antisemitism. The ten Boom family’s story influences me to this day.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mamabear 11/2/2025 8:20:01 AM (No. 2024981)
So, we are supposed to believe the protests, upheaval, and attacks on Jewish students on college campuses all across America and Ivy League institutions were led by people on the right?? Uh, no.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mariboo72 11/2/2025 8:28:15 AM (No. 2024988)
Roberts made happen what he supposedly didn't want to happen. He brought more attention to Fuentes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Penelope27 11/2/2025 9:14:07 AM (No. 2025005)
“the conservative movement ‘cannot include or accommodate white supremacists or racists of any type, antisemites, eugenicists, or others whose ideologies are incompatible with belief in the inherent and equal dignity of all.’” I agree, we shouldn’t, but the question was, do we cancel them or try to educate them? For me, to make a decision or for someone to change my mind, I have to consider the all the sources.
The problem that I see with Tucker and Owens is they have crossed over from disagreeing with the Israeli government to hatred for the Jewish people to justifying Hitler and denying the Holocaust. Both had established their following prior to publicly showing this side. Their following are having their minds changed to agree with them. It is those people we hope to educate not cancel.
Cancer will spread if you do nothing, but you have a chance if you try to do something to rid yourself of it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JackBurton 11/2/2025 9:21:46 AM (No. 2025010)
Roberts: “Because if you cancel him, then all that will happen is that his audience will grow.”
Nope. When you turn on the light, the cockroaches scatter. I know next to nothing about Fuentes (and I don't follow Tucker) but I'll bet that if you described him, his beliefs, a lot of people would shun him, condemn him, and move on. It isn't as if he the elected representative of Dearbornistan.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mamabear 11/2/2025 9:24:29 AM (No. 2025012)
As for Jew hatred, I think the answer is spiritual. The ancient Hebrews were the race through whom God chose to reveal Himself to humanity. They gave us Torah, nearly every book in the Christian Bible, and the wisdom of the Talmud. Through their bloodline came Jesus Christ, the God-man, through whom the entire human race received God's grace, mercy, and salvation plan. We can be transformed by accepting His sacrifice for our sins and receive eternal life—God's life in us. Through Christ, we are free from sin, Satan's dominion in this life and escape God's punishment of sin (that Satan will share) in the next life.
Because of this, the Jewish race has Satan's undying, virulent hatred. Not to say every Jew behaves perfectly - all of us have sinned and missed the original (sin-free) mark God set for our lives. But IMHO, Satan inspires all religious hatred, rejection, or persecution, particularly that directed at Jews.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chance_232 11/2/2025 9:29:54 AM (No. 2025015)
In my time, I've met a few right-wing anti-semites. All of them were either stupid, a member of some oddball "christian" church, or both. But none of them supported or defended Islamic terrorists. Not one of them protested in the streets, not one of them advocated killing jews. And everyone of them shut up when I opened my shirt to show my Star of David.
Or right wing anti-semites or not in the same league as left-wing terrorists sympathizing anti-semites. The other difference is that the DNC encourages, enables and excuses their Anti-semitism. The GOP condems it, full stop.
Not that this excuses, absolves, or justifies or own right-wing mouth breathing, window licking, knuckles dragging anti-semites.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Socio 11/2/2025 9:43:54 AM (No. 2025021)
If you stand way back and get a full view of the picture, the term "antisemitism" is a tool, a lever of power, a weapon of mass destruction, that has nothing to do with Jews being offended and everything to do with garnering power and the undermining of free speech. Once special exceptions are made for it, they will be made for others and free speech collapses. It has happened everywhere that laws for its exception have been introduced, which is the entire point of its incessant use.
Look at it another way, Christians have endured and are still enduring far more persecution, hate, destruction of places of worship and being murdered at a rate that dwarfs anything the Jews claim has happened to them. To put in into perspective, in the next 24 hours more Christians will be persecuted and killed around the globe because of their beliefs than Jews will over a ten year span. Yet no claims of anti-Christianity, no special protections for them, no fancy museums documenting their holocausts.
The term “antisemitism” needs to be removed from humanities lexicon; it is a nefarious con at best.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Alecto2 11/2/2025 10:07:42 AM (No. 2025037)
#5 I think you inadvertently answered #3's question:
".... WHY Jews have been so hated for so long. Why were they kicked out of 109 countries? I dont know the answer but would like to."
Calling yourself "the Chosen" and acting like it is bound to cause a backlash. There's was only ever one "Chosen" and by extension all the Judeans who followed him. The Hebrews that didn't suffered at the hands of Romans the fate the Zionists are attempting to visit on the Palestinians.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kafka2 11/2/2025 11:53:31 AM (No. 2025080)
The right has some antisemites and recognizes it as a problem. The left has many more antisemites and does not recognize it as a problem.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 11/2/2025 12:08:11 PM (No. 2025089)
Not any that I know.
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#16 you do not understand what “chosen” means in this context. It means “picked”. It does not mean “better”.
If you read a bit of scripture, in fact, you will discover the Jews were “chosen” because they were not particularly exceptional in any way. Nomadic sheep herders of no note in a mediocre desert land. Indeed, the Talmud says they are “the least of all peoples” and picked to do exceptional things as proof of Divine power.
As for your lie about Israel trying to wipe out the Arab occupiers of Gaza, your statement preconceives so many known falsities it’s not worth rebutting.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
avital2 11/3/2025 4:03:36 AM (No. 2025282)
Sen Cruz is right and constructive to denounce antisemitism getting platformed on the Right. Ds did not speak out when iit bubbled up on Left and look how it metastisized. to say it's worse on Left is no excuse. antisemitism is wrong- period. we need to shut its proponents down now. this is our chance to not repeat history of 1930's Germany.
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