David Bernstein, a Jewish scholar who helped advise an antisemitism initiative at the Heritage Foundation, told Newsmax on Tuesday he quit the group after the think tank’s president, Kevin Roberts, painted him as part of a “venomous coalition” and a “global conspiracy” for criticizing Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.
Bernstein, founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, told “The Chris Salcedo Show” he resigned from the “Project Esther” National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism after feeling betrayed by leadership.
Project Esther, launched by Heritage in 2024 as a national strategy to fight antisemitism and clamp down on pro-Hamas activism, has seen a wave of departures in recent days following the uproar over Carlson’s decision to give Fuentes an unchallenged platform.
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