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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts released a remarkable video Thursday defending Tucker Carlson’s friendly two-hour interview with far-right personality Nick Fuentes.

Carlson has been drawing some harsh criticism from right-wing political figures for platforming Fuentes, who has declared his love for Adolf Hitler and told Carlson that he has always been an admirer of Josef Stalin. Fuentes responded to those critics with an antisemitic rant saying his Jewish critics should “get the fuck out of America and go to Israel.” That makes Robertson’s decision to ride to Carlson’s rescue even more notable.

Fuentes is using his recent tour of right-wing podcasts to simultaneously downplay his bigotry and anti-democratic extremism while establishing that his racism, antisemitism, misogyny, and Christian nationalist fascism deserve a place at the conservative movement’s table.

Carlson’s interview was Fuentes’s biggest success in that effort – until Roberts gave it the endorsement of the enormously influential Heritage Foundation. No wonder Fuentes is grateful.

“I disagree with, and even abhor, things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him is not the answer, either,” Roberts said in his video.

Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts đŸȘ¶ Conservatives Shouldn’t Cancel Nick Fuentes

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Cam Ogie ✍ By June 2025, Israel had already been at war in Gaza for months. 

Facing international outrage over civilian casualties, a landmark International Court of Justice ruling found a plausible risk of genocide and ordered restraint. Yet, instead of scaling back, the Israeli government chose to expand the battlefield.

In mid-June, Israeli aircraft struck deep inside Iran, hitting nuclear and military facilities hundreds of kilometres from its own borders. Iran had not attacked Israel. There was no UN mandate, no claim of an imminent threat—only a self-proclaimed “pre-emptive defence.” The strikes violated the clearest rule in the UN Charter: states may not use force against the territorial integrity of another state except in self-defence.

Rather than condemning the action, Israel’s Western allies moved to protect and, in some cases, participate in it. France confirmed that its Rafale jets shot down Iranian drones heading toward Israel during Tehran’s retaliation. The United States went further still, launching its own bombing raids on Iranian nuclear sites, saying they were meant to “degrade Iran’s capacity” to build a weapon. Britain, while insisting it took no direct role, deployed fighter jets and refuelling tankers to the region and contributed surveillance data through allied command centres.

Each of these moves may have been framed as “defensive,” but together they formed a shield around an illegal war of aggression.

A Double Standard Laid Bare

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Western leaders rightly invoked sovereignty, proportionality, and the UN Charter. When Israel violated those same principles, the same capitals fell silent—or worse, lent their power to the aggressor.

This is not a matter of nuance or realpolitik; it is a collapse of credibility. Law cannot be selective without becoming meaningless. The message to much of the world is now unmistakable: rules are for enemies; impunity is for friends. 

The Global South’s Reaction

The outrage has been especially strong across the Global South — the broad coalition of nations in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East that were once colonized or marginalized by Western powers. These states, from South Africa and Brazil to Indonesia, Egypt, and Iran’s regional neighbours, see the June 2025 events as yet another example of Western hypocrisy.

Governments in the BRICS bloc — which now includes countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — issued coordinated statements condemning Israel’s actions and urging respect for Iran’s sovereignty. South Africa, already leading the genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, accused the West of “abetting illegality while preaching democracy.” In the African Union, leaders argued that the same powers demanding accountability for Russia’s actions in Ukraine were now violating the UN Charter themselves.

For the Global South, this double standard isn’t an abstraction — it confirms decades of suspicion that international law is enforced selectively, protecting Western allies while punishing everyone else. The result is a widening moral and diplomatic gulf between the West and much of the developing world — one that no amount of rhetoric about “shared values” can close.

Gaza and the Moral Void

The hypocrisy is amplified by timing. The June 2025 attacks unfolded while Gaza remained under siege and humanitarian agencies warned of famine and epidemic. Western states that had pledged “never again” to mass atrocity continued arming, funding, and now militarily assisting a government accused at The Hague of possible genocide.

Acting on Israel’s behalf under these circumstances isn’t just geopolitics—it is moral bankruptcy. It tells the world that democratic ideals can be suspended when the violator is an ally, and that international law bends to power.

Why This Matters Beyond the Middle East

The erosion of principle is contagious. If the West can reinterpret international law to excuse its own allies, why should any other state respect those same norms? Every missile fired “in support of Israel” weakens the global prohibition on aggression that has, however imperfectly, restrained wars since 1945.

It also corrodes the very foundation of Western diplomacy: the claim to stand for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. One cannot preach those values while enabling their destruction in Gaza and Tehran.

Conclusion

Israel’s unprovoked strikes on Iran took place even as Israel faced global condemnation for its ongoing assault on Gaza.  The subsequent involvement of the United States, France and the United Kingdom acting on behalf of a state accused of genocide while bombing another sovereign nation undermines every principle of legality, morality, and ethics that Western powers claim to defend. By providing offensive strikes, drone interceptions and logistical backing, these Western allies blurred the line between defence and complicity. This alignment exposes the hollowness of Western claims to uphold international law and human rights.  Words like democracy and human rights ring hollow. They are slogans mouthed by governments that have traded principle for alliance, and law for convenience.

And the rest of the world — the Global South in particular — has stopped listening.


⏩ Cam Ogie is a Gaelic games enthusiast. 

The West’s Moral Unravelling đŸȘ¶ Israel’s Unprovoked Strike On Iran And The Death Of Credibility

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Maryam Namazie ✊ My action against the far-Right protest in London.


Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger

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PĂĄdraig Drummond  ✊ Make no mistake about it, the racist and antisemitic filth that came out of those AontĂș chats didn’t just appear out of nowhere. 

Those lads felt free to talk like that because they were already hearing the same kind of talk from the party itself. They were listening to the same poison dressed up as “concern about immigration” or “protecting Irish values.” They didn’t invent it. They just took the mask off.

AontĂș can pretend to be shocked all they like, but anyone paying attention could see this coming a mile off. When a party spends years blaming migrants for housing and health problems, when they cosy up to the conservative right and pander to the same kind of people who wave Trump flags and talk about “our culture being under threat,” it’s no surprise their youth start flirting with fascist groups. That’s what happens when you feed people hate and call it patriotism.

These lads in AontĂș didn’t think they were saying anything out of line. They thought they were being clever, being “hard men” standing up for Ireland. But all they were doing was copying the far-right crowd, spouting racist slurs and conspiracy rubbish about Jews and migrants. They were acting like online fascists, not republicans. And let’s be honest, this isn’t Irish republicanism in any shape or form. It’s imported American nonsense, full of hate and lies, with a tricolour slapped on top.

AontĂș can sack them all, but that doesn’t wash the party’s hands clean. You can’t build your politics on fear and division and then act surprised when your own members start saying the quiet part out loud. If you lie down with the conservative right, you get up with fascists. That’s exactly what’s happened here.
Real Irish republicanism has nothing to do with this. James Connolly and the lads who fought for the Republic stood for the unity of all working people, no matter their colour, religion, or where they were born. Connolly stood with Jewish workers, dockers from all over the world, and anyone who was treated as less than human. That’s the real Irish tradition, solidarity, not hate.

Racism and antisemitism are a disgrace to that tradition and to this country. Anyone who spreads that kind of poison isn’t standing up for Ireland; they’re betraying her. The true republic belongs to everyone who lives and works here. It’s built on equality, not on who you can exclude.

AontĂș can keep pretending it’s just a few bad apples, but until they stop playing footsie with the far right and take a stand against the hate they’ve helped to grow, nothing will change. Their youth didn’t misunderstand the party’s message; they understood it perfectly.

Ireland has no room for fascists and no place for racism. Working people in this country have enough to fight without being turned against each other. The fight is for housing, for fair pay, for dignity, not for hate.

⏩PĂĄdraig Drummond is an anti-racism activist.

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