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

The New York Times ^ | May 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | Katie J.M. Baker

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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.

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.

Once a sympathetic presidential administration was in place, the plan said, “We will organize rapidly, take immediate action to ‘stop the bleeding,’ and achieve all objectives within two years.”

Now, four months after Mr...

[rktman]

D-10s? Rachel Corie signature model? Or the upgraded FAFO version.

[EvilCapitalist]

Suddenly I’m hungry for pancakes.

[dfwgator]

[EvilCapitalist]

Lol!

[Navy Patriot]

I know this discussion would be over if a Pro-Palestinian Pilot would fly into the New York Times building.

All we need to do is tell him it's the Israeli Embassy.

[Seruzawa]

They are truly mentally ill. I recommend thorazine, ect and a transorbital leucotomy.

[montag813]

What’s not to like?

[Sarah Barracuda]

Good and the problem is..yeah, we dont support the Pro Jihad Pro Hamas “movement” in this country..the left despises Israel and hates Jews, so of course the Slimes who supports Hamas, is upset about that

[faithhopecharity]

Please Lord let it be true!
we need these lying Fakestinian agitators and terrorist-supporters in USA less than a dog needs fleas

[electricjack]

Anyone who believes a NY PART OF THE SO-CALLED STORY NEEDS A FRONTAL BRAIN TRANSPLANT. WHY EVEN A LIAR LIKE THIS BUNCH ON THE WEBSITE AT ALL? tHESE ARE DEMOCRAT LOYALISTS AND JUST AS BIG A BUNCH OF LIARS AS THERE are. They claim the US WAS IN ON THE PROJECT, YEAH, REALLY, you’ve GOT TO BE kidding ME. SOME FRIGGIN rino PUT THIS HIT PIECE TOGETHER...

[chiller]

bttt

[sauropod]

To Katie: Good!

[brookwood]

The only way anyone would know anything about “Project 2025” is because the New York Slimes keeps advertising it. I never heard Trump, Vance, Charlie Kirk, Sean Hannity, Mike Johnson, Laura Ingraham, the Turtle, Matt Gaetz, or any other Republican whose name I would recognize make any reference to this. Only the NYT seems to know what it is.

[sauropod]

The ‘Rats wouldn’t shut up about it prior to the election.

[packrat35]

Oh no, it Project 2025 again so its got to be bad...

Oh no, they are going after the Palestinian terrorists in the US...

Oh no, supporting Palestinian terrorists is now called anti-Semitic...

NY Times, we see through your bigotry...

[rmlew]

The now openly-antisemitic NY Times is angry that the Heritage Foundation is going after Hamas-supporters and funders extending anti-Al Qaeda efforts to Hamas. In so far as Hamas is a terrorist organizer and was co-founded co-founded by AQ co-founder Sheikkh Abdullah Azzam, this isn't a legal stretch.
Katie J.M. Baker is claiming that only leftist pro-Hamas orgs will be targetted. The actual Project Esther does not differentiate based on the cause of Hamas support, between Islamists, leftists, and the far right.