Anti-Semitism
November 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts has been out defending the substance of his statement last week refusing to “cancel” (sic) Tucker Carlson and harshly denouncing “bad actors” who wish to dissociate him from the conservative movement. Today behind closed doors in a meeting with foundation staff Roberts has backtracked. He states that he “made a mess” that he now wants to clean up. My daughter Eliana reports on today’s Heritage
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November 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Kevin Roberts spoke at Hillsdale College on Monday evening. He made what might have been his fourth attempt to explain the deep meaning of his video statement “declaring undying loyalty to Carlson,” as my daughter Eliana puts it in this morning Washington Free Beacon newsletter. In his Hillsdale remarks Roberts vowed that the Heritage Foundation will “never, ever, ever” stop fighting anti-Semitism — “except, apparently,” Eliana added, “when it comes
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November 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Scott Jennings gave a great speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition 40th anniverday summit in Las Vegas this past weekend. Here is one quotable quote: I am baffled and frankly shocked at the attempts by some on the right to side against the Jews after October 7 and to blame the Jews for every bad thing that has happened in our country since. When tragic acts of terrorism and murder
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November 2, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Mark Levin spoke yesterday to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 40th anniversary summit in Las Vegas. Tucker Carlson and his friends were of course top of mind. Mark takes up the path Carlson has gone down over the past few years and other matters we have noted here. Except for his optimism, I identify with just about everything Mark has to say in his patented style. I especially appreciate his discussion
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November 1, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Preston Brashers is a research fellow in tax policy at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Brashers has posted the photo of Tucker Carlson and Nick Furentes below with a concise message that must be aimed at his Heritage boss as well as Carlson: “This isn’t conservatism.” It’s shame he had to say it. A crying shame. Have fun with your new friend, Tucker. This isn't conservatism. pic.twitter.com/WV7U7e92Rf — PrestonBrashers (@PrestonBrashers) October
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November 1, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Michael Doran efficiently demonstrates three qualities of Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’s diehard defense of the think tank’s relationship with Tucker Carlson in a few short paragraphs on X: Roberts’s statement is dishonest, bigoted, and stupid. The guy leading one of America’s preeminent conservative think tanks is unfit for the job. As it turns out, Roberts’s statement may have served a constructive pupose in making that clear. In the Wall
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October 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
It’s a time for choosing and the Heritage Foundation has chosen poorly. Heritage president Kevin Roberts has chosen to stand with Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. Roberts has posted the pitiful statement below via X. There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours. I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts: pic.twitter.com/F8bcxBIqKI — Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) October 30,
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October 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
As I did yesterday in “Arc of a groyper,” I’ve been saying for a while now that Tucker Carlson has made this a time for choosing. Every writer, every public figure, every publication, and every institution that lauded Carlson in years past is obligated to speak out against the figure he has become — deceitful and destructive in his own right and a discredit to everyone with whom he associates.
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October 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Vice President Vance was the featured speaker at Turning Point USA’s event at the University of Mississippi yesterday evening. Standing in for Charlie Kirk, Vance took questions from students in the packed house. There is room for dispute, but I take it from the tenor of his remarks that he has a cold, cold view of Israel. He doesn’t talk about Israel as a key friend and critical ally in
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October 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The historian Dominic Green recently observed: “If there is to be a movement conservatism for the 21st century, the New Right must break with Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and the chorus of clickbait Charles Coughlins who blame the Jews for America’s troubles. Their mind map has already caused moral brain death in the left lobe, and it is bleeding into the right lobe.” Take, for example, Carlson’s two-hour
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October 27, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Zohran Mamdani juggernaut is a big tent, apparently. Here, four rabbis endorse his campaign for Mayor of New York: I was thinking this can't possibly get worse — wait for the surprise pic.twitter.com/DmHnDqNIP3 — Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) October 27, 2025 At least, they claim to be rabbis. I have my doubts. At the end, you see that this group represents Jews For Racial & Economic Justice. That organization’s web
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October 7, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Today is the second anniversary of Gaza’s sneak attack on Israeli civilians, one of the most horrific massacres in modern world history. Around the globe, anti-Semites gathered to celebrate the great victory for Islam that the October 7 massacre represents. What follows is a very partial list. In England: More than a dozen protests will be held at British universities to mark the October 7 anniversary. They include events to
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October 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Dominic Green is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Mr. Green examined the documentary evidence bearing on Ilhan Omar’s marriage to her brother in the pseudonymous Spectator column “‘I am legally married to one and culturally to another’: How Ilhan Omar desperately tried to shut down accusations of bigamy amid claims she was briefly married to her BROTHER to ‘commit immigration fraud’ while she was still with her current
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October 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The man whose motive remains a mystery in the Yom Kippur murders at the Manchester synagogue yesterday left a clue in his name. His name was Jihad al-Shamie. The authorities appear to have withheld it for some reason yesterday. The motive remains unclear. His appears in the penultimate entry of the New York Times series of live updates on the story. A native of Syria, Jihad was granted British citizenship
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October 1, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Jews begin the observance of Yom Kippur at sundown tonight with the Kol Nidre prayer service. Ten years ago our friend Rachel Paulose asked to join us at our service. Since then she has regularly attended the service with us and joined my family when we break our fast. The first time around at services with us she pointed in our prayer book to an adaptation of the prayer composed
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October 1, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In the September 20 Review section of the Wall Street Journal, Dominic Green took up a new book on anti-Semitism in “A poisonous history.” Mr. Green is the author of the pseudonymous Spectator column (attributed to “Cockburn”) reviewing the evidence of Ilhan Omar’s marriage to her brother. I know Mr. Green wrote it because he called me while he was working on it to ask me a few questions. It
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September 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Park MacDougald offers extended consideration to Tucker Carlson’s “contribution” to the Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday in the Scroll column “Cut Tucker loose” (behind Tablet’s paywall). He suggests that Carlson is making it a time for choosing on the right. After surveying the reaction to Carlson’s remarks — some celebrating their anti-Semitism, some decrying it — Park arrives at this conclusion: * * * * * It’s hard to know where
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