Mr. Roberts,
Thank you for our meeting at the Heritage Foundation in December.
I very much appreciated our detailed, cordial discussion about the Zionist Organization of America’s concerns about you and the Heritage Foundation defending and allying with Tucker Carlson, who used to condemn former politician Pat Buchanan as a Jew-hater and who has now transformed himself into a vicious blood libeler and propagandist against the Jewish people, Israel and American interests.
I also appreciated your apology for your language, calling persons objecting to Carlson’s dangerous antisemitism a “venomous coalition” and declaring that the Heritage Foundation would always defend Carlson against “the slander of bad actors who serve someone else’sagenda.” Especially because this type of inflammatory language has a history of being used by antisemites to attack the Jewish people.
I furthermore appreciated your statement that you understood my concerns; your agreement that many of Carlson’s statements were concerning; and your promises soon publicly denounce Carlson; demand that Carlson retract his odious, bigoted positions and statements; end Heritage Foundation funding of Carlson; and distance yourself and the Heritage Foundation from Carlson’s future Jew-baiting statements and other hideous declarations. I was also gratified by your promise to invite me to speak at Heritage on the Arab-Israeli situation and by your offer to even come to my home outside of Philadelphia for our next meeting.
Unfortunately, it is now more than six weeks since we met, and you and the Heritage Foundation have not, to my knowledge, denounced or cut off Carlson; made the promised demands on Carlson; or distanced yourselves from any of his many recent and recently revealed radical statements.
Please let me know when you can fulfill the promises you made to me. This is the honorable, moral and just action to take. It’s the right thing for you, for Heritage and for America.
In addition to the long list of Carlson’s dangerous, anti-American, antisemitic and anti-Israel statements I provided to you during our meeting, there have since been even more of Carlson’s barrages of anti-American, anti-Israel and antisemitic statements.
As we discussed in December and as demonstrated by the items I provided during our meeting, Carlson’s statements and actions are disturbing, dangerous, bigoted and contrary to Trump administration policy, U.S. interests and national security.
Indeed, U.S. President Donald Trump himself has admonished Carlson’s dangerous willingness to enable the bloodthirsty Iranian regime to build nuclear weapons to destroy Israel and the West.
On June 16, 2025, the president wrote on Truth Social: “Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” and “AMERICA FIRST means many GREAT things, including the fact that IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
It is deeply disappointing that you and the Heritage Foundation, who claim to support the United States and the Trump administration, have still apparently said nothing about Tucker Carlson.
I respectfully and strongly urge you to promptly remedy this state of affairs and to follow through on promises made during our December meeting.
Sincerely,
Morton A. Klein, ZOA national president
