Kevin Roberts

And I think that may be a helpful way for people like you and me who are in the middle of those questions

although 100% supportive of Israel's right to exist, that we remind people of that.

Sure.

Let me take back up one step real briefly, if I may, because this is a really important context, although it's going to sound like nerdy think tank talk.

Heritage is famous for something called its one voice policy.

Unlike other policy organizations in D.C.

where different scholars at the same organization can have different voices, different positions on issues, Heritage, if we speak on something, it's as an institution, a single voice, one voice.

Why?

Because we're advocating for policy change.

You can't write a white paper.

Publicly, we have to have one position, the same position on a policy issue.

There has to be, right?

Okay, I got it.

So, that's important context for the story I'm going to tell.

So, we...

have this one voice policy.

It had become sort of moribund when I and my leadership arrived in late 2021, for whatever reason, I don't know.

But we were charged by the board, revitalize the one voice policy.

And the way, interestingly, although it doesn't quite meet the eye initially, the way you do that is to actually increase the debate internally.

Our rules are it's got to be collegial, it's got to be professional, can't be personal.