The re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States marks a shift in U.S. policy for the Joe Biden administration from hypocritical denial of U.S. complicity in Zionist genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity to unapologetically endorsing all of these actions. .
In addition to revealing Washington’s support for all of Israel’s excesses, crimes, and violations, President Trump’s return to the White House will further intensify and make more explicit the persecution of those who dare to resist white supremacy and its Zionist incarnation. no see.
Under Biden, those who have opposed the U.S.-funded and promoted Zionist genocide, from college students and public servants to racial justice activists and writers, have already responded to baseless accusations of threats from politicians, police harassment, and anti-Semitism in the media. Blame, employers, university administrators, far-right Zionist “self-defense” groups.
Nonetheless, Trump said Biden had been “weak” in confronting “Hamas radicals” and that as president he would do more to stop the anti-colonial insurgency. During the campaign he called Since being elected to expel foreigners who support the Palestinian resistance, he has signaled his intention to keep his promise to crack down on anti-Zionist activists by appointing pro-Israel hawks to key government intelligence and security positions. For example, Trump appointed South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who once introduced legislation criticizing Israel for “ensuring the safety of God’s chosen people,” as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Another sign that Trump’s second term will be marked by a renewed crackdown on anti-colonial and anti-racist resistance comes in the form of a ‘fighting anti-Semitism’ strategy titled Project Esther by a prominent conservative think tank affiliated with Trump. appeared. Heritage Foundation.
The Heritage Foundation has made public its intention to transform the ‘Esther Project’ into government policy under a second Trump administration. The strategy document itself, published on October 7 to mark the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, states that the “Esther Project” “hopes that a willing government can provide an opportunity for public-private cooperation in the white occupation” “It is stated. house”.
It was created by the same minds that made us authoritarian and Christian nationalists.”Project 2025”, “Project Esther” blends the story of Queen Esther, a Jewish heroine who saved the Jews of ancient Persia from annihilation at the hands of vizier Haman on Purim, with contemporary Zionist defense and victim narratives, establishing her as the protector of Persia. Describe. Jews stand up to American activists, academics, and progressive lawmakers against racism, apartheid, and genocide. This strategic document, supposedly designed as a “blueprint for combating anti-Semitism in the United States,” contains several fundamental aspects of fascist thought and practice. Umberto EcoThings like mixed culture, xenophobia, heroism and anti-intellectualism.
The targeted individuals, including a number of Black, Brown, and Jewish elected representatives who have voiced criticism of Israel, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, are collectively referred to as “Hamas.” They were mistaken for members of the “Hamas Support Organization (HSO),” part of the “support network.” He is identified with Haman, the villain of Purim. Through this framing, the campaign targets prominent social justice advocates and progressive Democratic Party representatives as enemies of the Jewish people and uses the myth of Queen Esther to justify their persecution and oppression.
The “Esther Project” blatantly stated its goal of eliminating anti-colonial views from the American education system, limiting the dissemination of related information, and restricting advocates’ access to American society, the economy, and Congress. It seeks to prosecute “HSO” members for legal and criminal violations, disrupt their communication, limit protests, and rally the Jewish community, its allies, and the American public against the anti-colonial resistance movement.
With fear-mongering rhetoric peppered with patriotism and “American values” and, more recently, Zionist interpretations. rebrand Offensive aggression as “defense,” “project esther“is a group of brown-skinned pagans who institutionalize the repression of dissent within a false fascistic theoretical framework, and who see themselves as the last bastion against the imaginary threat of “foreign influence” and who promise to infect white American open society. An anti-capitalist agenda that typically presents itself as heroes, waging a valiant crusade, much like the infamous portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan. birth of a nation.
“Break the silence and speak out,” he said, calling on others to “reclaim their voices and turn those words into action to neutralize the lawless and hateful minority that threatens the soul of America,” among other accusations. Among them, he claimed, “It corrupts our education system.” ”, “The Esther Project” weaponizes the xenophobic tendencies strengthened by the incoming Trump administration to threaten and crush the anti-colonial movement that conscientiously opposes both Zionism and white supremacy.
Under the guise of fighting hatred and appealing to a supposedly terrorized and humiliated underclass, the “Esther Project” seeks to frame anti-racist opposition to Zionist apartheid and genocide as inherently anti-Semitic. However, this reveals that Zionism itself is a modern-day embodiment of white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideology. Like Haman in the Queen Esther myth, he actively targeted Jewish organizations such as the Jewish Voice for Peace and the Reform Jewish Movement.
“The Esther Project” criticizes “complacement” within the American Jewish community by evoking the Zionist-created anti-Semitic ideals of the “New Jew” who reject traditional beliefs that interpret oppression and suffering as God’s punishment for sin . This vision denigrates traditional reliance on defense as passive and weak and instead promotes a decisive and aggressive approach to resistance. In line with this view, Zionists adopt the anti-Semitic concept that Jews are responsible for their suffering, and advocate racial separation and land acquisition in a new homeland as the ultimate solution.
In particular, Zionists have long used fear-mongering to encourage Jewish, preferably white, immigration to Israel as a means of restocking the Israeli military and fighting the “demographic threat” from Palestine. By amplifying the partnership between American white supremacy and Zionist expansionism, the “Esther Project” poses a serious threat to intersectional movements for anti-colonialism and justice across the United States on the one hand, and to minorities, including Jews, on the other. It presents a serious threat.
The “Esther Project” continues to accelerate the mobilization of Zionists and right-wing anti-Semites, emboldened by Trump’s victory, and build resistance to their racist policies through financial and academic audits, “Honor and Shame” campaigns, and “legal investigations.” We promise to dismantle it. “. This document is filled with misinformation about “anti-Israel and anti-Zionist Jew haters seeking to lay siege to our education system, political process, and government” while protecting Zionist policies and aligning with American white supremacy. It not only strengthens the incoming Trump administration, but also suppresses free speech and dissent by Zionist vigilante groups such as the “League for the Defense of the Jews” and their natural allies, American neo-Nazis.
Ultimately, campaigns like “Project Esther” manipulate Jewish historical trauma to promote white supremacy and suppress anti-colonial and anti-racist movements, while gaslighting the public into accepting Palestinian solidarity even when expressed as anti-Semitic. do. This tendency not only stifles dissent to right-wing agendas, but also perpetuates fascist narratives that promote violence against those who resist oppression, casting them as an existential threat. This Zionist-white supremacist partnership poses a direct challenge to justice movements and humanity as a whole, using fear, propaganda, and violence to undermine efforts for true solidarity and liberation.
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