Dr. Kevin Roberts

I mean, you and I both know because of our shared faith that where evil exists, where challenges exist, there's always at least a commensurate amount of good.

The question for us as Americans is, what are we going to do about the opportunity?

in addition to what we do about the challenges.

And at Heritage, I'm so proud of my colleagues for seizing upon this moment, surely filled with a lot of challenges, long-running patterns like we've talked about regarding the family, some short-term problems in Minnesota, hopefully short-term.

But we have to have answers to take advantage of the opportunity, which exists because the American people are hopeful about the future in spite of the present day.

I'll have more to say on this in the coming days, but today I want to be clear about one thing.

Christians can critique the state of Israel without being anti-Semitic.

And of course, anti-Semitism should be condemned.

My loyalty as a Christian and as an American is to Christ first and to America always.

When it serves the interest of the United States to cooperate with Israel and other allies, we should do so with partnerships on security, intelligence, and technology.

But when it doesn't, conservatives should feel no obligation to reflexively support any foreign government, no matter how loud the pressure becomes from the globalist class or from their mouthpieces in Washington.

The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people or policing the consciences of Christians.

And we won't start doing that now.

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, our movement friends, our members, and the American public.

We will always defend truth, we will always defend America, and we will 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.