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On the heels o f Project 2025 comes Project Esther\, a fascist blueprint for silencing protests against Israel and indoctrinating the nation into Zionism and Christian nationalism. Another horror from the Heritag e Foundation\, Project Esther says its goal is to eliminate antic olonial perspectives from the US education system through the criminalizat ion of protests by “HSO” (Hamas Support Organizations).\n
“Project Esther appropriates the story of Queen Esther\, the Jewish heroine who saved the Jewish people from extermination … Rather than protecting Jews from antisemitism\, Project Esther deploys an tisemitic conspiracy theories mixed with the false claim of ‘defending’ Je ws as a smokescreen to attack the Palestinian liberation movement.” (Jewis h Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council\, 3/13/25).
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\n< p>Chat with peacemakers and experts\nTuesday\, Mar 18 at 5pm PT / 8 pm ET:\n
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F eatured Guests in Conversation:
\nBrooke Lober serves on the Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace \, a national coalition of undergraduate and graduate students\, alumni\, and campus activists united in support for Palestinian eq ual rights and liberation. Brooke organized a group from JVP’s Ac ademic Council to author “Rejecting Project Esther: Understanding Christian and W hite Nationalism as Racism and Antisemitism.”
\nBrooke is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Californi a\, Berkeley. A teacher\, writer\, and social movement scholar\, Brooke is currently researching legacies of antiracist and anti-Zi onist feminisms in the Bay Area.
\nBarry Trachtenberg serves on the Academic Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Pea ce and the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionis m. He holds the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University in North Carolina\, United States. Barry has writt en several books\, including “The United States and the Holocaust: Race\, Refuge\, and Remembrance ” (Bloomsbury Press\, 2018).
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