Kevin Roberts

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.

They agree 100%.

We at Heritage agree 100% on political Zionism.

But we have to, as a non-sectarian organization, allow this theological disagreement, which really, inside the workings of Heritage, don't have a place because we're not a religious organization.

And I think one of the fruits that's come out of the last few months is heritage playing a role in reminding people of that delineation.

And it's helped some of the fracturing of the conservative movement because people, whether through ignorance, just not having read about this or maybe having forgotten, they have conflated political Zionism and theological Zionism.

They're two different things.