After Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts delivered a controversial statement regarding its relationship with Tucker Carlson following Nick Fuentes’s appearance on his podcast, something resembling a civil war broke out among conservatives.

Some, siding with Roberts, felt he was right to assert that Christians should be able to critique Israel without being accused of antisemitism, that Carlson should be free to interview controversial figures without being attacked for doing so, and that Roberts’s denunciation of Fuentes was sufficient. Others, however, argued that the Heritage Foundation’s refusal to condemn Carlson more strongly for giving what some have called a “softball” interview to a right-wing activist represented a moral failing, that his statement on American-Israeli relations was red meat for antisemites, and that he wasn’t stern enough in rebuking Fuentes.