US EditionThe Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
- The Heritage Foundation issued Project Esther in October 2024, a 30-page plan to dismantle the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States.
- Project Esther follows rising antisemitism after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and builds on a foundation of far-right activism led by the Heritage Foundation.
- The project labels critics of Israel as supporting terrorism, targeting pro-Palestinian activists with measures including deportations, defunding, and removal from campuses.
- Victoria Coates, who leads Project Esther, indicated that the team plans to mobilize quickly, address urgent issues promptly, and accomplish all goals within a two-year timeframe.
- Critics argue Project Esther suppresses free speech and primarily targets the left, while some Jewish groups resist it to protect democratic rights and open debate.
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The Christian right’s plot to purge pro-Palestine activism from the United States
For the last 18 months, the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank responsible for Project 2025, has been organizing to quash pro-Palestine activism in the United States, the New York Times reported this weekend. The initiative is called Project Esther—after the courageous Old Testament queen who saved the Jews from a wicked Persian king—and it recommends that government officials instruct college administrators to jettison pro-Palestine…
Project Esther: A US conspiracy to crush pro-Palestine speech
Project Esther is a 30-page plan issued in October 2024 by the far-right American think tank Heritage Foundation for what they say aims "to combat antisemitism" by labelling critics of Israel as "effectively a terrorist support network." Critics say the plan not only doesn't address antisemitism, but instead promotes it. More broadly, critics say Project Esther's goal is to crush pro-Palestinian protests in the United States "within two years" t…
"America Is in Danger": What Is Behind the Plan of the Study Center to Eliminate the Pro-Pal Movement in the US
The New York Times reveals the Heritage Foundation project, the conservative think tank already famous for having inspired many of the Trump administration's initiatives
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