Originally at dailykos.com
You may have missed a rather ‘interesting’ story in the Sunday NY Times:
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.
The conservative Washington-based think tank [the Heritage Foundation] is best known for spearheading Project 2025, a proposed blueprint for President Trump’s second term that called for reshaping the federal government and an extreme expansion of presidential power.
Now the Heritage contingent was in Israel, in part, to discuss another contentious policy paper: Project Esther, the foundation’s proposal to rapidly dismantle the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States, along with its support at schools and universities, at progressive organizations and in Congress.
Drafted in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel in 2023 and the mounting protests against the war in Gaza, Project Esther outlined an ambitious plan to fight antisemitism by branding a broad range of critics of Israel as “effectively a terrorist support network,” so that they could be deported, defunded, sued, fired, expelled, ostracized and otherwise excluded from what it considered “open society.”
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If you are wondering why so many colleges and universities are having billions in federal funding canceled, this is why. It’s a deliberate plan to cripple or destroy these institutions and other groups seen as progressive under the guise of accusing them of antisemitism and pro terrorism. The real objective is much broader:
Heritage describes Project Esther as a “groundbreaking” national strategy to fight antisemitism that aims not to censor opinions but to hold people it deems to be supporters of Hamas, a designated terrorist group, responsible for their actions. But critics such as Mr. Jacoby say the think tank is exploiting real concerns about antisemitism to advance its broader agenda of radically reshaping higher education and crushing progressive movements more generally.
Project Esther exclusively focuses on antisemitism on the left, ignoring antisemitic harassment and violence from the right. It has drawn criticism from many Jewish organizations amid increasing calls for them to push back against the Trump administration.
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This is how authoritarianism begins and spreads. The tactics being employed here have no boundaries — no one is safe from becoming a target. What’s really shocking is that I’ve seen almost no followup on what should be ringing alarm bells all across the media. Instead it’s all about Biden’s mental fitness and alleged coverup, and now about Biden’s health. Nothing about Trump’s obvious decline — IOKIYAR I guess.
Meanwhile Trump and his family are busy raking in bribes overseas while the Heritage Foundation is wreaking even more damage at home. Habeas corpus is up for grabs, the Trump Supreme Court is poised to do even more bad things, there are troops all along the southern border, and people are being rounded up and arrested/deported on completely bogus grounds.
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