The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times

May 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET


In late April, the Heritage Foundation dispatched a team to Israel to meet with power players in Israeli politics, including the country’s foreign and defense secretaries and the U.S. ambassador, Mike Huckabee. The conservative Washington-based think tank 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.”

Project Esther’s architects envisioned outcomes that at the time might have seemed far-fetched. Curriculum it believed to be sympathetic to a “Hamas support” narrative would be taken out of schools and universities, and “supporting faculty” would be removed. Social media would be purged of content deemed to be antisemitic. Institutions would lose public funding. Foreign students who pushed for Palestinian rights would have their visas revoked, or be deported.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/project-esther-heritage-foundation-palestine.html

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Something else sickening is a pic in the article -


The Heritage Foundation’s office in Washington, D.C.Credit...Jared Soares for The New York Times

(pic is of the Heritage Foundation building in D.C. - meaning he is apparently going to rapidly unfurl his image all over the place)

[mountain grammy]

1. Taking up the work of AIPAC .

This is so creepy, so dangerous, so anti American and just plain wrong.

They're giving Israel the "right" to do whatever they want to Palestinians.. As a Jew, I'm ashamed and horrified at the ethnic cleansing (what a lovely phrase for genocide) going on in Gaza and the West Bank..

[travelingthrulife]

4. I don't see how Israel's future is not made 1000x worse by what their

country is doing right now. I just hate these religious wars.

[3825-87867]

2. Sure am glad politics stays out of religion! Oh wait...

this is the middle ages, right?
Guess we know now all we need about who is behind what's happening in this government. And if any of you remember the "caution" thrown out in 1960 about a 'Catholic President" being controlled by a religious Pope...
Good thing that religious thing isn't happening now, eh? Otherwise a lot of politically religious beliefs might actually be true.

About that first amendment...

[murielm99]

3. I am not one bit Pro-Palestinian,

but this stinks. They have a right to exist in the United States.

[JohnSJ]

5. and the real tragedy is these groups were warned what would happen, but instead they ridiculed and

and name called VP Harris, and encouraged people NOT to vote for VP Harris, with the familiar Nader chant, there is no difference between both parties.

THAT WAS AND IS A LIE.

and because of that STUPIDITY, a lot of people will suffer needlessly for a long time.

Thank-you for your contribution to helping the sociopath into the WH again you DUMB ASSES.

Not only have you most likely insured the complete destruction of Gaza, but the end of a lot of the freedoms we have taken for granted here.

[KPN]

6. Really? We are all better than that.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. Sorry, but I also feel the need to vent.

The pro-Palestinian demonstrators, activists and influencers who turned out to discourage voting for Vice President Harris and other Democrats and sometimes ENCOURAGED voting for Donald John richly deserve heaping helpings of continued scorn for what their folly brought down on us Americans but also the starvation, privation and probably-imminent ethnic cleansing in Gaza. This was a master-class blunder on their part, matching that of the Sudetenland ethnic Germans who cheered on Hitler’s annexation of so much of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939 and the blunder of those Russo-Ukrainians of eastern Ukraine who thought that being annexed by the Russian Federation would lead to peace, prosperity and respect.

[KPN]

8. I understand your view and can appreciate why you feel that way, but respectfully disagree about calling those people

out on it or blaming them for Trump. Neither do anything of good value for us, and one of them is not completely, inarguably true. Sorry, I feel the need to express that. "Blaming' others for our collective failure has never productive in my 74 year lifetime thus far.