Summary
The biblical figure after whom Project Esther’s founders named it, celebrated in Jewish tradition for saving her people from genocide in ancient Persia, in Kenney-Shawa’s brief (Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US, line 243).
Details
- By appropriating Esther’s story, the brief argues, the initiative aims to draw a moral parallel between historical Jewish survival and modern Zionist agendas, portraying critics of Israel as existential threats to Jewish safety and using that rhetoric to justify increasingly authoritarian demands (line 243).
Related pages
Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US, Project Esther, Heritage Foundation