Project 2025 authors enroll Trump DOJ into secret new right-wing scheme: report

While Project 2025's proposals to dismantle the federal government and purge the civil servants with mass firings is ongoing under Donald Trump's administration, lesser-known and secretive plans are also being undertaken — which has pleased the authors.

According to a report from the New York Times, a Heritage Foundation plan to harass and tamp down on a growing pro-Palestinian movement is proceeding with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice doing the dirty work following suggestions found in what is called "Project Esther."

The report notes that Heritage staffers were deployed to Israel in April where they met with that country's officials, as well as Ambassador Mike Huckabee. They worked on a blueprint to label Israel critics as "effectively a terrorist support network."

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That set the stage for targeted individuals to be "deported, defunded, sued, fired, expelled, ostracized and otherwise excluded from what it considered 'open society.'"

According to the Times, "Project Esther’s architects envisioned outcomes that at the time might have seemed far-fetched. Curriculum that it believed to be sympathetic to a 'Hamas support' narrative would be taken out of schools and universities, and “supporting faculty” would be removed. Social media would be purged of content deemed to be antisemitic. Institutions would lose public funding. Foreign students who pushed for Palestinian rights would have their visas revoked, or be deported."

The report notes that the Heritage Foundation planners are pleased with what they have seen so far.

“The phase we’re in now is starting to execute some of the lines of effort in terms of legislative, legal and financial penalties for what we consider to be material support for terrorism,” explained Heritage's Victoria Coates, who previously served in the first Trump administration.

Robert Greenway, who coauthored Project Esther, added, it is “No coincidence that we called for a series of actions to take place privately and publicly, and they are now happening.”

Stefanie Fox, the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace, noted the effectiveness with which the Trump administration is using Project Esther playbook, lamenting, "Trump is pulling straight from the authoritarian playbook, using tools of repression first against those organizing for Palestinian rights. And in so doing, sharpening those tools for use against anyone and everyone who challenges his fascist agenda.”

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