AAUP's A National Day of Action for Higher-Ed: Rejecting Project Esther

"In this webinar, the Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Council will present on the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther.” This companion policy document to the better-known “Project 2025” outlines a plan to criminalize and dismantle the Palestine solidarity movement–a project that the Trump administration is currently enacting, through extortion against universities as spaces of dissent, and through the use of the immigration system to attack the movement’s leaders.

These attacks stem from a fundamental fear of the university as one of the few institutional spaces where the systemic racism, classism, imperialism, transphobia, homophobia, and other forms of oppression upon which the far-right’s power rests can be named, studied, and challenged through rigorous scholarship and pedagogy–and often, through student-led movements for social justice and liberation. In the face of these challenges, we must unite as a collective force dedicated to exposing and challenging injustice, from Palestine to Turtle Island."