Another brainchild of the evil Heritage Foundation and their war on free speech.
“Project Esther appropriates the story of Queen Esther, the Jewish heroine who saved the Jewish people from extermination; Jews commemorate her story during the spring holiday of Purim. While the Heritage Foundation calls Project Esther their “National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism,” their program does precisely the opposite. Rather than protecting Jews from antisemitism, Project Esther deploys anti-Semitic conspiracy theories mixed with the false claim of “defending” Jews as a smokescreen to attack the Palestinian liberation movement. While this movement is diverse, we know these attacks will be used to disproportionately target Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab people, non-citizens first among them, as well as organizations representing them. Project Esther aims at nothing less than the full-scale dismantling of the Palestine solidarity movement as a crucial ingredient of the racist anti-immigrant policies unleashed simultaneously, and it invokes the defense of the Jewish people as rhetorical human shields in order to do so.”
“Project Esther is a project of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., that aims to suppress pro-Palestinian protests and what it classifies as antisemitism. The effort has received support from several evangelical Christian organizations but no major Jewish ones.
According to The New York Times, Slate, Haaretz, The Forward, and Jewish Insider, Project Esther does not address right-wing antisemitism. It has also been criticized for incorporating antisemitic tropes into its rhetoric. Project Esther broadly labels criticism of Israel as terrorism and calls for targeting universities, students, and American progressive politics and politicians.
Politico described Project Esther as “a lesser-known blueprint from the same creators of Project 2025.” In May 2025, The New York Times found that the second Trump administration had called for or acted upon more than half of Project Esther’s proposals.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Esther
“So American Jews must start now calling out Project Esther for what it is: a far-right, McCarthyist attack on our democratic norms and values. It will be increasingly critical for American Jews to say unequivocally that we will not be made safer by the erosion of American democracy through Project Esther, or any related efforts that wear away at constitutional rights in the name of our community’s safety.”
https://forward.com/opinion/676036/antisemitism-heritage-foundation-project-esther/
“Christian Nationalists also have a long history of appropriating the figure of Esther as an ideal of womanhood, a woman who both engages in political action while remaining, in their interpretations, subservient to male authority around her. Diana Hagee—wife of notorious antisemite and founder of Christians United for Israel, Pastor John Hagee—taught teenagers to view Esther as a “bride of Christ who prepared her body and soul for total submission.” More recently, the phrase “for such a time as this,” drawn (and from Jewish perspective, decontextualized) from Esther 4:14, has become a shibboleth for Christian Nationalist calls for “spiritual warfare,” including calls to violence. Much like the report itself, the invocation of Esther in the report’s title seeks to smuggle in far-right Christian Nationalism under the guise of Jewish safety.” –https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/jvp-rejecting-project-esther/
Here’s where this gets interesting. Its all connected and all roads lead back to the Heritage Foundation.
https://forward.com/opinion/676036/antisemitism-heritage-foundation-project-esther/
“Project Esther has its sights on what it describes as a much broader “coalition of leftist, progressive organizations such as Open Society Foundations, Tides Foundation and numerous others.” It calls for using tools including anti-terrorism and anti-racketeering criminal prosecution; deportations; public firings; removal of tax-exempt status; blocking of funding; and campaigns to sow discord within movements to “disrupt and degrade” these organizations.”
Project Esther is just one of many brainchildren of the Heritage Foundation rolling back rights, attacking minorities, immigrants, all in the name of this Christian fascist Nazi regime. Its just Jewish friendly Christian fascism and the Heritage Foundation is behind most of the evil things happening currently in American politics. They have been planning this takeover for some time and now that they are in control we are in for a Hell of a ride.
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