Project Esther: Zionism & Christian Nationalism
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(March 16, 2025) — On the heels of 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 Heritage Foundation, Project Esther says its goal is to eliminate anticolonial perspectives from the US education system through the criminalization of protests by “HSO” (Hamas Support Organizations).
“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 antisemitic conspiracy theories mixed with the false claim of ‘defending’ Jews as a smokescreen to attack the Palestinian liberation movement.” (Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council, 3/13/25).
Join us for a discussion of Project Esther and resistance to white supremacy.
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Tuesday, March 18 at 5pm PT / 8 pm ET
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Featured Guests in Conversation:
Brooke 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 equal rights and liberation. Brooke organized a group from JVP’s Academic Council to author “Rejecting Project Esther: Understanding Christian and White Nationalism as Racism and Antisemitism.”
Brooke is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. A teacher, writer, and social movement scholar, Brooke is currently researching legacies of antiracist and anti-Zionist feminisms in the Bay Area.
Barry Trachtenberg serves on the Academic Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. He holds the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, United States. Barry has written several books, including “The United States and the Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance”(Bloomsbury Press, 2018).
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