Donald Trump's BLUEPRINT For ATTACKING Pro-Palestine Speech - Project Esther

Donald Trump's BLUEPRINT For ATTACKING Pro-Palestine Speech - Project Esther

April 15, 2025

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As Donald Trump was seeking to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation quietly released a blueprint to destroy the pro-Palestinian movement. Many of its recommendations have since become policy.

The Trump administration’s intensifying crackdown on universities and pro-Palestinian protesters closely mirrors a lesser-known blueprint from the same creators of Project 2025.

Quietly unveiled last fall before the election, the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther offered a roadmap for deploying anti-terror, hate speech and immigration laws to “exploit” the vulnerabilities of what it deems to be an antisemitic and “anti-American” pro-Palestinian movement. It’s a playbook the White House appears to be following as it pulls university funding and strips students and professors of legal status — an effort that has launched the administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown into a more controversial, politically dicier territory.

People involved with Project Esther are close allies of Donald Trump, and some now have roles in the administration. And according to a POLITICO analysis of the 33-page document, of the 47 points it lays out, the Trump administration and its allies in Congress have already moved in their rhetoric or policy to make at least 27 reality.

Those include calls to deport pro-Palestinian activists who are in the country legally, revoke the visas of international students and faculty who have supported pro-Palestinian causes, defund organizations that aid them and discredit the broader movement by branding its backers as supporters of Hamas.

The project’s ultimate goal is to leave pro-Palestinian activists “unable to conduct or sustain demonstrations and protests” and bar them from the country’s “open society.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/06/project-2025-project-esther-university-crackdown-plans-00272750

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