Some choices are minor and forgettable. Others have large, lasting repercussions. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’s decision to side with podcaster Tucker Carlson in an October 2025 video is decidedly the latter.

Carlson had posted a softball interview with Hitler and Stalin devotee Nick Fuentes, in which Carlson attacked Christian Zionists as heretics with a “brain virus.” When Roberts backed Heritage’s “close friend” Carlson and dubbed the commentator’s critics “the globalist class,” “a venomous coalition,” and “bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda,” it was widely viewed as a gauntlet thrown.

Roberts has kept his job after backtracking, but some others affiliated with Heritage have headed for the exits. That includes former Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore, education scholar Jay Greene, board members Robert George, Shane McCullar, and Abby Spencer Moffat, George Mason law professor Adam Mossoff, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, more than a dozen scholars who defected to former Vice President Mike Pence’s Washington-based advocacy organization, and the National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism.

The task force had been synonymous with Project Esther, Heritage’s initiative to combat antisemitism by focusing on “a global Hamas Support Network.” Relatedly, the knock on the task force had been its exclusive focus on the political Left. Pastor Luke Moon, who’s been the executive director of the Philos Project and a task force co-chairman, explained that it was based on a perception that Jew-hatred was seismically worse on the Left. However, with Roberts’s video spotlighting the fight underway to define the post-Trump Right, and whether to embrace the identitarian Right, the task force has pivoted.

On Nov. 18, the task force hosted its first post-Heritage event, “Exposing and Countering Extremism and Antisemitism on the Political Right,” with the Conference of Christian Presidents for Israel. The event at The Line hotel in Washington showcased Christian and Jewish speakers with varied perspectives on this reality. There was widespread agreement, though, that Jew-hatred not only exists on the political Right, but it must also be fought.

“We are here as a task force to declare wherever........

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