Summary
The conservative DC-based foundation that launched Project Esther on October 7, 2024, which Kenney-Shawa’s brief calls its latest and most brazen effort yet to crush Palestinian solidarity, presented as a “national strategy to combat antisemitism” (Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US, lines 167, 209).
Details
- The brief presents the Foundation, with other influential ultra-conservative power brokers, as using Project Esther to expand and refine legal mechanisms — FARA, RICO, counterterrorism frameworks and immigration laws — that have long disproportionately targeted marginalized communities and left-wing activists (lines 229-237).
- The Foundation reportedly struggled to secure Jewish organizations as official “partners” for Project Esther, and several organizations it insisted played a direct role in the initiative’s creation denied the claim, including the World Jewish Congress and the Republican Jewish Coalition (line 245).
Related pages
Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US, Project Esther, Project 2025, Tariq Kenney-Shawa