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On Thursday, the Heritage Foundation dropped a bombshell when its president, Kevin Roberts, released a video defending Carlson and calling for Fuentes to be debated, not shunned. Roberts argued that conservatives should put loyalty to “Christ first, and America always” before reflexive support of Israel, no matter the tremendous pressure they might receive from the “globalist class.”
That dog whistle conjured up antisemitic images of a parasitic, transnational Zionist lobby arrayed against Christian nationalism. And now Fuentes is taking a victory lap, flanked by MAGA’s leading pundit on one arm and MAGA’s leading think tank on the other, his toxic brand of antisemitism poised to waltz into the conservative mainstream.
Jewish Rightists may be surprised, but the rest of us aren’t. Progressive analysts have long understood that the strategy of allying with Christian nationalists would backfire.
Data shows that radical right actors committed the majority of extremist-related murders in the last decade, while “the epicenter of antisemitic attitudes is young adults on the far right,” as a 2022 study put it. White nationalists like Fuentes imagine a Jewish conspiracy at the heart of progressivism, U.S. support for Israel, and everything else they detest. These fever dreams have been dutifully repeated by ultranationalist movements for over a century, and are a core part of the authoritarian toolkit today.
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That dog whistle conjured up antisemitic images of a parasitic, transnational Zionist lobby arrayed against Christian nationalism. And now Fuentes is taking a victory lap, flanked by MAGA’s leading pundit on one arm and MAGA’s leading think tank on the other, his toxic brand of antisemitism poised to waltz into the conservative mainstream.
Jewish Rightists may be surprised, but the rest of us aren’t. Progressive analysts have long understood that the strategy of allying with Christian nationalists would backfire.
Data shows that radical right actors committed the majority of extremist-related murders in the last decade, while “the epicenter of antisemitic attitudes is young adults on the far right,” as a 2022 study put it. White nationalists like Fuentes imagine a Jewish conspiracy at the heart of progressivism, U.S. support for Israel, and everything else they detest. These fever dreams have been dutifully repeated by ultranationalist movements for over a century, and are a core part of the authoritarian toolkit today.
Opinion - Antisemitism exposed in the ranks of the right — the GOP-Israeli honeymoon is over
For decades, the Israeli, American Jewish and Christian Right forged what seemed like an ironclad alliance. If conservatives truly wanted to fight this battle, they would turn first to their own camp.