And the President of Heritage Foundation who defended Tucker for giving him a soft ball interview has resigned. So there's hope there.
Apparently he has not resigned, but is 'willing' to do so. And apologized.
'I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop,' Kevin Roberts told employees at an all-staff meeting on Wednesday
Roberts said he was willing to resign but felt a "moral obligation" to repair the situation and had told the organization’s board of directors: "I made the mess, let me clean it up."
The
Washington Free Beacon obtained and reviewed a video of the meeting. "If we see someone leaking, you’re fired," Eric Korsvall, the organization’s chief operating officer, said during the question and answer portion of the meeting.
[Roberts] added that he wasn’t actually very familiar with the white nationalist, Stalin fan, and J.D. Vance critic Nick Fuentes, with whom Carlson conducted a friendly interview last week on his podcast, though Roberts has spoken several times in recent days about the size of Fuentes’s audience and argued that "canceling" him, given his listenership, which Roberts pegged at 5 million people, will simply make him more popular.
"I didn’t know much about this Fuentes guy," he said. "I still don’t."
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But the apology may not be enough, because plenty of people are resigning.
Project Esther, launched as conservative strategy to fight Jew-hatred, appears to be unraveling after foundation’s president defended TV personality’s friendly interview with antisemite Nick Fuentes
At least eight individuals and organizations affiliated with Heritage’s National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, launched last year under the Project Esther banner, have resigned or threatened to do so, citing Heritage president Kevin Roberts’s decision to stand by Carlson and his description of the television personality’s critics as a “venomous coalition.”
Conceived as a counterweight to the Biden administration’s 2023 antisemitism strategy, Heritage’s Project Esther plan focused almost entirely on left-wing and pro-Palestinian activism, portraying what it called a “Hamas Support Network” as the chief driver of antisemitism in America.
From the outset, the project drew skepticism for not including most mainstream Jewish organizations and for downplaying antisemitism on the political right. That tension has now widened into a rupture.
The first public resignation from the task force came Sunday with an announcement from Mark Goldfeder, an Orthodox rabbi and the CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, that he was quitting in protest of Roberts’s defense of Carlson.
David Bernstein, author of “Woke Antisemitism” and founder of the North American Values Institute
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, a lawyer with the Deborah Project
The Jewish Leadership Project, a conservative network co-founded by Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser, said it is “evaluating our involvement” and will withdraw absent “a vigorous explanation that Judaism and Jews are inherently allies of Christians” and “a disconnect from Carlson immediately.”
The Coalition for Jewish Values, led by Rabbi Yaakov Menken, said it has already communicated its intent to resign if Roberts does not retract
Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, echoed that warning:
And in a statement, Young Jewish Conservatives, another member group, said it was withdrawing its membership entirely.
The Israel Forever Foundation has also left Project Esther,
I've never heard him seriously advocate or praise violence the way Ward Churchill did, for example. That's where I draw the line with free speech, so I don't see Nick as problematic, especially when there are lots of non-white folks advocating violence against whites. No one of them is as well known as Nick, but that's actually problematic, because the violence actually happens.
