Kevin Roberts

I thought that the script of the video was, in a couple of cases, was ineloquent.

And I talked about that then, so I don't have to repeat them.

But the point is, I thought, from my Jewish friend's point of view, that while he could excuse it, that maybe other people who didn't know me... I get that, but I'm trying to... Your Heritage Foundation, you guys, your main cornerstone is freedom of speech, right?

No, it was mixing personal friendship with institutional friendship.

And it sort of goes back to one of your earlier questions about being a nonprofit leader.

Heritage is not my business.

Heritage is a nonprofit organization I get the privilege to lead.

Yeah, right.

And so that's the first thing.

And then the second thing is some really genuinely close friends of mine who are Jewish said, Kevin, there are a couple phrases in there that...

We forgive you for it, but while we support your stance on free speech and not canceling people, it's also a separate matter to make sure that one of the ways that we can sustain free speech and speaking freely is to make sure that our words are carefully chosen.

That was a thing that I wanted to address.

It's really important, and this is Heritage's position, that there is a difference between political Zionism, which is the right of the Israeli state to exist, which we support 100%, probably rather famously.

The second, and divorce that from theological Zionism.

And those of us who are Christians, depending upon what our particular Christian faith is, have differences of opinion on that.

Because they're theological and because Heritage is a non-sectarian organization, we honor all of those.

And we have some people who work on very pro-Israel policy.

who are Christian Zionists.

Within Heritage.

We have others who are not Christian Zionists.