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Enoch Powell was Right: Matt Goodwin’s “An Island of Strangers? What British people REALLY think?

An Island of Strangers? What British people REALLY think

Once again, the elite class is completely out-of-touch with the rest of the country

Every now and then, something strange happens.

Somebody says something that is entirely obvious to the vast majority of people in this country but which causes the ruling elite to have a complete meltdown.

You saw it when David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy, and more recently Suella Braverman suggested ‘multiculturalism has failed’.

You saw it when British writer David Goodhart warned that mass immigration would eventually erode public support for welfare and the social contract.

You saw it in the aftermath of rioting across northern England, in the early 2000s when policy wonk Ted Cantle suggested communities were living ‘parallel lives’.

And you saw it, too, when British broadcast Trevor Phillips suggested some parts of Britain are ‘sleeping to segregation’.What united the reaction to these perfectly reasonable observations? The complete inability of the ruling elite to make sense of something that is immediately obvious to anybody who lives and works outside this elite’s liberal enclaves.

And you see it now, today, in the hysterical reaction to Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s mere suggestion that such is the pace of immigration and demographic change in this country that we now risk becoming an ‘island of strangers’.

Once again, in the days since, we have witnessed a meltdown among the left-leaning elite class that disproportionately dominates not just much of Westminster but also the BBC and legacy media, the creative and cultural class, the universities, and more.

In fact, so out-of-touch has the elite class become, so far to the cultural left has it drifted in recent years, that what most people in this country would have heard as what my PhD supervisor called a ‘SOBO’ (a Statement Of the Bloody Obvious), the elite class —including Good Morning Britain presenters, BBC Newsnight, Nicola Sturgeon, and Green politicians— saw as symbolising the return of … Enoch Powell.’

Yes, that’s right. Keir Starmer, the man who has completely lost control of our borders, who is presiding over the wholesale liberalisation of our immigration system, and who instantly took the knee for Black Lives Matter is the new Enoch Powell.

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Internal Project Esther documents describe conspiracy of Jewish ‘masterminds’ seeking to dismantle Western values‘masterminds’ seeking to dismantle Western values

Rosenfeld: No concern about “White supremacists.” Blames Soros and Pritzker.

Forward: Internal Project Esther documents describe conspiracy of Jewish ‘masterminds’ seeking to dismantle Western values

A presentation meant to win support to fight antisemitism draws a line from George Soros to Antifa and pro-Palestinian protests

The Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, a conservative plan to counter antisemitism, sees the problem as one in which a handful of “masterminds,” including Jews like George Soros and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, are seeking to “dismantle Western democracies, values and culture,” according to internal Heritage documents obtained by the Forward.

The documents, a pitch deck that Heritage used in trying to build support from Jewish foundations and other organizations, also outline several tactics the group plans to use to undermine a collection of anti-Zionist nonprofits and progressive groups that it refers to as the Hamas Support Network. The actions include identifying “foreign members vulnerable to deportation” and enlisting law enforcement to “generate uncomfortable conditions” for progressive activists.

A slide from the presentation about Project Esther. Graphic by Heritage Foundation

Heritage did not respond to an inquiry Friday about the presentation.

Project Esther focuses exclusively on left-wing critics of Israel, ignoring the antisemitism problems from white supremacists and other far-right groups. James Carafano, who runs the Heritage Foundation’s antisemitism task force, said in October that “white supremacists are not my problem because white supremacists are not part of being conservative.”

Eclectic group of ‘masterminds’

The promotional presentation includes two slides headlined “antisemitism’s ecosystem.” One features a pyramid topped by a list of “progressive ‘elites’ leading the way.” In addition to Soros and his son Alex, who run the Open Society Foundations, it also includes the Pritzker family and the Marxist academic and author Angela Davis.

George Soros has funded a variety of progressive causes and long been a boogeyman among conservatives; Alex recently took over the family foundation. It’s less clear why JB Pritzker, who was first elected governor of Illinois in 2018, was on the list. Nor so for his broader family — his sister Penny, who served as a commerce secretary under President Barack Obama and a special envoy for Ukraine in the Biden administration, is on the board of Harvard University and has compared pro-Palestinian protesters at the school to the Klu Klux Klan.

Politico reported in May that Pritzker family members ran a foundation that funded groups, including the Climate Justice Alliance, which had also participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. But subsequent reporting cast doubt on those ties.

“That’s a completely false story,” JB Pritzker said of the Politico article at the time. He also chided the Chicago City Council for calling for a ceasefire in Gaza early this year.

Pritzker’s office did not respond to a request for comment Friday.

The Heritage Foundation has described Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who is Jewish, as one of several “masterminds” responsible for American antisemitism. Photo by Getty Images

Heritage also accused lesser-known individuals of leading the network, including Neville Singham, who The New York Times has described as a charismatic millionaire “known as a socialist benefactor of far-left causes”; and Manolo de los Santos, who runs a “movement incubator” in New York City.

The pitch deck draws lines from these figures to “Backers,” including foundations both large and small, like Tides, which helps individual donors funnel more than $1 billion to various liberal nonprofits; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; and Wespac, a tiny charity that sponsors several of the most radical pro-Palestinian groups in the country (and whose board chair is Jewish). Activist movements like Antifa and Black Lives Matter are also included on that tier, below which are “organizers,” including the nonprofit groups Jewish Voice for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine and Fight Back, the arm of a Chicago construction workers union.

In the presentation, the work of these leaders, funders and organizations is described as “violent activity” directed at Jews, including “riots.” One slide includes a photo of a violent 2017 demonstration in Paris.

A plan to ‘neutralize’ the network

Project Esther’s strategy to “neutralize” this network, according to the documents, includes six distinct “lines of effort” with different outcomes.

The version of the plan publicly released on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel, had criticized American Jewish organizations for not taking the threat posed by the “Hamas Support Network” seriously enough. The pitch deck says that Heritage plans to “conduct tailored outreach” to Jews and identify “key influencers” who can help unify the community behind Heritage’s strategy.

The presentation included a list of specific tactics Project Esther would deploy to “neutralize” the “Hamas Support Network.” Graphic by Heritage Foundation

Referring to the activist network as a “cancer,” the group also calls for passing legislation to counter it at the federal, state and local levels. One goal is to get groups designated as “TSEs,” an abbreviation for “terrorism support entity,” which can have severe legal consequences.

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to make fighting antisemitism a priority in his administration. He has suggested that he’s open to at least some of the tactics referenced in Project Esther, including deporting international students who protest against Israel. And the project was assembled by a group that includes the America First Policy Institute, a think tank staffed by some of his top advisers.

No major Jewish organizations appear to have participated in drafting the plan, or publicly endorsed it since its release.

Excerpt from Kevin Barrett interview of Gideon Polya: Gaza Genocide Is Even Worse Than We Thought

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Australian Jewish science professor Dr. Gideon Polya, a leading scholar of avoidable mortality in general and holocausts and genocides in particular, says the ongoing US-funded genocide of Gaza is much worse than the most widely reported statistics suggest. Like Ralph Nader, Dr. Polya says there has been a “vast undercount” of Gaza deaths.

Excerpt from the interview:

Gideon Polya: “Top epidemiologists from three countries published a paper in The Lancet last year, a top medical journal. These epidemiologists and statisticians—this is the time when it was estimated there were about 40,000 Gazans had been killed in the first nine months—found that the real figure should be 64,260 plus or minus 5,000 or what have you. And you can then do a very simple calculation. If it’s 64,260 after nine months, how much by the 25th of April 2025? … And the horrible figure then is: It comes out to 136,000 violent deaths.

“But also published in The Lancet were all kinds of epidemiologists who said a conservative estimate would be that for every violent death, there would be about four nonviolent deaths from deprivation. And that figure of then 136,000 then has to be multiplied essentially by five. And you get an estimate of 680,000 deaths, indirect deaths and direct deaths.

“And that they won’t publish.”

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PRO-ISRAEL GROUP PRAISES “HEALTH BENEFITS” OF GAZA GENOCIDE

“The most moral army in the world” notches another moral milestone. Could Israel possibly more altruistic??

 

Jonathan Turner, the PR equivalent of repeatedly punching yourself in the face with an axe
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), a group that blindly marches in lockstep with any Zionist excesses, has claimed that starving the Gazan population to death is actually good for the health of the people slowly dying of malnutrition in the beleaguered death camp, which is also routinely bombed and strafed by Israel jets and snipers.
The comment was made in a letter by Jonathan Turner, the chief executive of UKLFI, after the Co-operative council tabled a motion at its annual meeting to ban the selling of Israeli produce in its stores. However, this motion is advisory, meaning the board is not obligated to act even if it passes.

Urging the Co-op council to withdraw the motion, Turner wrote that critics of Israel’s actions:

“…ignored factors that may increase average life expectancy in Gaza, bearing in mind that one of the biggest health issues in Gaza prior to the current war was obesity.”

The Abomination of Enslavement … Is At The Heart of Proud Black Culture

A meteor in the media. That’s what the proud Black woman Lydia Mugambe will be. The story of her conviction has flashed through the headlines and will shortly disappear forever. There will be no agonized analysis of her shocking crimes, no solemn intoning of stern conclusions. Not by leftists, that’s for sure. And why not? Because analyzing her crimes and drawing conclusions from them wouldn’t be good for leftism.

Lethal for Leftism

The truth isn’t good for leftism, you see. In fact, the truth is lethal for leftism, which is why Mugambe will be a meteor in the media. Her crimes remind me of this line in Nineteen Eighty-Four: “It was enough to blow the Party to atoms, if in some way it could have been published to the world and its significance made known.” The novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, is thinking about a photograph that reveals how the Party’s power is based on a vast system of lies, censorship and illogic. Lydia Mugambe’s crimes reveal the same about leftism. That’s why she will be a meteor malefactor.

So who is she and what did she do? She’s a strong Black woman from Uganda and she committed one of the worst crimes in the world. She enslaved another human being. But it gets worse: her atrocious crime wasn’t the act of an errant individual, but obviously a settled part of her homeland’s culture. That’s right: in the proud Black nation of Uganda, slavery is shamelessly practised by strong Black women like Lydia Mugambe.

The unrepentant enslaver Lydia Mugambe in her judge’s wig (images from Daily Mail)

But it gets worse still. Lydia Mugambe isn’t just a Strong Black Woman — she’s a highly educated S.B.W., from the cream of Ugandan society. She’s a High Court Judge in Uganda and when she committed her appalling act of enslavement she was studying for a PhD in law at Oxford University. And three months after she was arrested for enslavement, she became a judge for the United Nations! But the worsening of her wickedness keeps coming. As a legal expert, Ms Mugambe was well aware that she couldn’t put a notice in the local paper: “SLAVE WANTED.” So she did the natural thing. It’s obviously natural for highly educated Strong Black Women from Uganda, that is. She sought the help of the Ugandan embassy and the Proud Black Man John Mugerwa, who was then the Deputy High Commissioner. And Mugerwa arranged for a young Black woman to be brought to Britain from Uganda in full knowledge that she was to be enslaved by Lydia Mugambe. Here are the depraved and deplorable details at the BBC website:

A United Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months for forcing a woman to work as a domestic slave. Lydia Mugambe, 50, was studying for a doctorate in law at the University of Oxford when police discovered she had a young Ugandan woman at her home carrying out unpaid work as a maid and nanny.

Mugambe, who is also a High Court judge in Uganda, was jailed at Oxford Crown Court on Friday after she was found guilty of modern day slavery offences in March. In sentencing, Judge David Foxton told the defendant she “showed absolutely no remorse” for her actions and she had looked to “forcibly blame” the victim for what happened.

Mugambe fraudulently arranged a visa for the woman but it stipulated she would be paid to work as a private servant at the diplomatic residence of John Mugerwa, Uganda’s former deputy high commissioner based at the country’s embassy in London. Prosecutors said Mr Mugerwa sponsored the victim’s visa knowing she would actually work in servitude for Mugambe.  In return, Mugambe would provide him assistance in relation to a separate court case in Uganda in which he was a defendant, the court was told.

The trial heard Mugambe paid for the victim’s flight and picked her up from the airport — but the young woman then became a slave at the judge’s home in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. Mr Foxton described it as a “very sad case” as he outlined Mugambe’s legal accomplishments, including her work in the protection of human rights.

In a written statement, read to the court by prosecutor Caroline Haughey KC, the victim described living in “almost constant fear” due to Mugambe’s powerful standing in Uganda. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she “can’t go back to Uganda” due to fear of what may happen to her and added that she may never see her mother again. […]

The Crown Prosecution Service authorised police to charge Mr Mugerwa with conspiracy but he had diplomatic immunity, which the Ugandan Government did not waive. Mugambe had denied forcing the young Ugandan woman to do household chores and said she “always” treated her with love, care and patience.

Ch Supt Ben Clark, of Thames Valley Police, said there was “no doubt” that Mugambe had known she was committing offences. […] A University of Oxford spokesperson said the institution was “appalled” by its student’s crimes. “The university is now commencing its own disciplinary process, which has the power to remove students convicted of serious criminal offences,” the spokesperson added. (“UN judge jailed for keeping housekeeper as slave,” BBC News, 2nd May 2025)

As you can see, the worsening of the wickedness continued in that news-report. The proud Black nation of Uganda refused to waive the diplomatic immunity of John Mugerwa, despite Mugerwa’s involvement in the abominable act of enslavement and his corrupt conspiracy with arch-enslaver Lydia Mugambe to evade justice in Uganda. So a highly disturbing question has to be asked. Do proud Black Ugandans not think slavery is a crime? And here’s the even more disturbing answer: No, they don’t. Obviously not. Slavery is obviously a settled part of Ugandan culture. And of Nigerian culture too. In my article “Destroy the Goy: The Metaphysics of Anti-White Hatred,” I discussed another pair of highly educated Black African enslavers, the obstetrician Emmanuel Edet and his wife Antan, “who kept a man in servitude for almost a quarter of a century after illegally bringing him to Britain.”

The deepest wound on the Black psyche

That was in 2015 and Emmanuel Edet soon became a meteor malefactor. His atrocious crimes flashed through the headlines and then disappeared forever. The same will happen to the atrocious crimes of Lydia Mugambe and for the same reason: because the truth is lethal to leftism. And the truth is certainly revealed by those two stories about highly educated African Blacks committing the abominable act of enslavement in Britain. Let’s “interrogate” what many righteous anti-racists regard as the central evil of human history, that is, the enslavement of African Blacks by European Whites. You might call it the worst patch of “racist vomit” splattered across the world by White supremacy and the deepest wound inflicted on the Black psyche by Whites. Logic dictates, therefore, that slavery must be deeply abhorrent to Black Africans, and particularly to those Black Africans who are educated enough to understand the true horror and depravity of the Atlantic slave-trade.

But reality laughs at logic. Highly educated Black Africans pretend to find slavery abhorrent only when they’re trying to guilt-trip Whites. At the same time, they routinely enslave their fellow Black Africans from the lower classes. And those Black enslavers take full advantage of the lying leftism that grants Blacks special privilege and endows Blacks with special virtue because they’ve allegedly suffered so much at hands of wicked Whites. Central to leftism’s indictment of wicked Whites is slavery, which leftists present as an unforgivable crime on an appalling scale committed by cruel and vicious Whites against gentle and virtuous Blacks. If they could, leftists would claim that only Whites practised slavery and only non-Whites suffered as slaves.

The toxic truth about Black culture

They can’t claim that, but they still present Whites as uniquely culpable for slavery and pretend that slavery was the all-powerful engine of Western success. It wasn’t and the only unique thing Whites ever did in relation to slavery is to make it illegal and abolish it. When Whites kept slaves, so did everyone else. And nobody regarded it as wrong. Christianity permits slavery, Judaism and Islam positively celebrate it. Slavery was practised in Africa long before Whites arrived and is still being practised there now. The toxic truth is this: The Abomination of Enslavement is at the Heart of Proud Black Culture in Africa. And when proud Black Africans come to the West, they bring their slave-culture with them. That’s why stories about highly educated Black Africans keeping slaves appear again and again across the West. You’ve seen two such stories from Britain. Now try America, where the Nigerian couple Chudy and Sandra Nsobundu were convicted of forcing “a Nigerian woman to work nearly 20 hours a day taking care of their home and five children and home without pay for two years.” In France, a Black girl called Henriette Akofa Siliadin was trafficked from Togo when she was fourteen. A leftist website goes on: “She was vulnerable and dependent on others. However, the people accompanying her took away her passport and made her work as an unpaid servant, all day long, seven days a week for over four years.” By “the people,” the leftist website means “other Blacks.” By “unpaid servant,” the leftist website means “slave.”

As I said: The Abomination of Enslavement is at the Heart of Proud Black Culture. But it’s also at the heart of proud Filipino culture. The late Filipino-American journalist Alex Tizon won widespread acclaim in 2017 for his essay “My Family’s Slave,” a moving and disturbing account of a woman who was exactly that: a slave to his family for fifty-six years. Just like Lydia Mugambe and Emmanuel Edet in Britain, Tizon’s parents — “[m]y father had a law degree, my mother was on her way to becoming a doctor” — were highly educated non-Whites who simultaneously enslaved a vulnerable woman and took advantage of the special privileges granted to non-Whites in the West because they have allegedly suffered so much at the hands of Whites. And just like Lydia Mugambe in Britain, Tizon’s parents were obviously following a settled custom of their non-White homeland. Tizon says that the enslaved woman, Eudocia Tomas Pulido, was “18 years old when my grandfather gave her to my mother as a gift.”

Omnia Ex Alea, Omnia Ex Albo

So slavery is at the heart of proud Filipino culture. That’s why, just like the crimes of Lydia Mugambe in Britain, the crimes of Tizon’s parents were “published to the world” but their significance was never “made known.” There was no agonized analysis by leftists and no stern conclusions were drawn about Filipino culture. After all, Filipinos are non-White, which means that, in leftist eyes, their culture is axiomatically virtuous and unimpeachable. In fact, these stories about non-Whites enslaving other non-Whites explode the two contradictory principles that lie at the heart of leftism: omnia ex alea and omnia ex albo (si mala). Those Latin phrases mean “everything from the dice” and “everything from the white man (if it’s bad).”

Black is Beautiful — except in Jewish Israel, where you will never see race-mixing propaganda like this

Omnia ex alea is the guiding principle of the Jewish scientist — and pseudo-scientist — Jared Diamond. He has done genuine science, but he was peddling pseudo-science in his best-selling book Guns, Germs and Steel (1997), which claims that the blind forces of biogeography account for the apparent over-achievement of Whites and under-achievement of Blacks. According to orthodox leftists like Jared Diamond, all humans are the same under the skin and capable of exactly the same high achievements in cognitively demanding fields like science, mathematics and technology. It’s just that the biogeographical dice rolled the right way in Europe and the wrong way in Africa. Whites in Europe had large mammals that were easy to domesticate, Blacks in Africa didn’t. Whites in horizontally aligned Europe could trade easily to east and west. Blacks in vertically aligned Africa couldn’t trade easily to north and south. And so on. That’s why, according to Diamond, Europe flourished and Africa foundered.

“The cancer of human history”

But at the same time as Diamond and his fellow leftists peddle omnia ex alea, “everything from the dice of history,” they also peddle omnia ex albo (si mala) — “everything from the white man (if it’s bad).” As the acclaimed Jewish intellectual Susan Sontag once put it:

If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. This is a painful truth; few of us want to go that far. … The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself. [italics in original] (See “Susan Sontag’s Jewish World,” Kevin MacDonald, The Occidental Observer, 17th October 2017)

I disagree with the anti-White Jew Susan Sontag, of course. I don’t think the White race is the cancer of human history. If human history has a cancer, that cancer is Jewish ideology and the Jewish Culture of Critique that simultaneously — and self-refutingly — preaches the Absolute Equality of Humanity and the Innate Depravity of White Europeans. But those two principles are only self-refuting in the minds of those who believe in logic. Leftists like Sontag and Diamond don’t. Instead, they believe in doublethink, which Orwell defined as “hold[ing] simultaneously two opinions which [cancel] out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.”

Not All Bioweapons Come From A Lab — if Black migration was good for the West, leftists wouldn’t want it

The story of Lydia Mugambe and her Black slave reveals the doublethink of the left on slavery and race relations. Mugambe is a proud Black woman who not merely enslaved another Black but “showed absolutely no remorse” for her abominable act of enslavement. Indeed, she tried to “forcibly blame” her victim. She is an entitled enslaver and she explodes the lies of leftism. That’s why she’ll also be a meteor malefactor, someone whose crimes flash through the headlines and disappear for ever, receiving no analysis and prompting no conclusions about proud Black culture. Except at hate-sites like the Occidental Observer and Unz Review, where we don’t believe in doublethink but in reality.

Conservatives: Worse than Ever on Israel and Anti-Semitism

The Heritage Foundation is the largest foundation in Conservatism Inc., supported by the likes of Tucker Carlson who shills for it on his podcast.

But are they really going after the left generally? Lots of prominent Jews think so. And of course, the usual Christian Zionist groups of course support these efforts.

NYTimes: The Group Behind Project 2025 [Heritage Foundation] Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

Now the Heritage contingent was in Israel, in part, to discuss another contentious policy paper: Project Esther, the foundation’s proposal to rapidly dismantle the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States, along with its support at schools and universities, at progressive organizations and in Congress.

Drafted in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel in 2023 and the mounting protests against the war in Gaza, Project Esther outlined an ambitious plan to fight antisemitism by branding a broad range of critics of Israel as “effectively a terrorist support network,” so that they could be deported, defunded, sued, fired, expelled, ostracized and otherwise excluded from what it considered “open society.” …

Now, four months after Mr. Trump took office, Heritage Foundation leaders are taking an early victory lap.

Since the inauguration, the White House and other Republicans have called for actions that appear to mirror more than half of Project Esther’s proposals, a New York Times analysis shows, including threats to withhold billions in federal funding at universities and attempts to deport legal residents.

In interviews with The Times — the Heritage Foundation’s first public comments since Mr. Trump took office about its blueprint for shaping U.S. public opinion on Israel — Project Esther’s architects said there were clear parallels between their plan and recent actions against universities and pro-Palestinian demonstrators on both a state and a federal level.

“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,” said Victoria Coates, a former deputy national security adviser to Mr. Trump and the vice president at Heritage who oversees Project Esther.

Project Esther’s architects envisioned outcomes that at the time might have seemed far-fetched. Curriculum 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.

Dozens of groups joined the task force, but an “overwhelming number” had something in common, Mr. Carafano said during a January 2024 meeting: They weren’t Jewish. A short list of initial members that Heritage posted online consisted mainly of conservative and Christian organizations. …

Republican and Democratic administrations alike have long supported and funded Israel as a crucial ally. And there have been bipartisan efforts to counter criticism of Israel by labeling a range of speech and organizing in support of Palestinian rights as support for terrorism. But Project Esther aims to go further, equating actions such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests with providing “material support” for terrorism, a broad legal construct that can lead to prison time, deportations, civil penalties and other serious consequences.

“Project Esther changed the paradigm by associating anyone who opposes Israeli policies with the ‘Hamas Support Network,’” said Jonathan Jacoby, the national director of the Nexus Project, a watchdog group that works to combat antisemitism and protect open debate. “It’s no longer about ideology or politics; it’s about terrorism and threats to American national security.”

Heritage describes Project Esther as a “groundbreaking” national strategy to fight antisemitism that aims not to censor opinions but to hold people it deems to be supporters of Hamas, a designated terrorist group, responsible for their actions. But critics such as Mr. Jacoby say the think tank is exploiting real concerns about antisemitism to advance its broader agenda of radically reshaping higher education and crushing progressive movements more generally.\

Project Esther exclusively focuses on antisemitism on the left, ignoring antisemitic harassment and violence from the right. It has drawn criticism from many Jewish organizations amid increasing calls for them to push back against the Trump administration.

“Trump is pulling straight from the authoritarian playbook, using tools of repression first against those organizing for Palestinian rights,” said Stefanie Fox, the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace. “And in so doing, sharpening those tools for use against anyone and everyone who challenges his fascist agenda.”

Her group is one of those described by Project Esther as a “Hamas Support Organization,” or an H.S.O. — a label Ms. Fox strongly rejected.

An open letter from three dozen former leaders of major Jewish establishment groups, including a former national chair of the Anti-Defamation League, recently warned that “a range of actors are using a purported concern about Jewish safety as a cudgel to weaken higher education, due process, checks and balances, freedom of speech and the press.” It called on Jewish leaders and institutions “to resist the exploitation of Jewish fears and publicly join with other organizations that are battling to preserve the guardrails of democracy.”

The months following the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent war in Gaza, saw college campuses descend into a state of chaotic division and turmoil, with endless protests and counterprotests. Pro-Palestinian advocates called for an end to the Israeli occupation and its retaliatory war campaign, while supporters of Israel defended the country’s right to self-defense and said they were harassed by their classmates and didn’t feel safe on campuses.

Soon after, four well-connected, conservative supporters of Israel met virtually to address these events.

Only one was Jewish: Ellie Cohanim, Mr. Trump’s former antisemitism envoy. She said she was grateful when the three men reached out to her and affectionately called them her “Christian friends.” Two were leaders of Christian Zionist groups: Luke Moon, executive director of the Philos Project, and Mario Bramnick, the president of the Latino Coalition for Israel and an evangelical adviser to Mr. Trump. The fourth was James Carafano, senior counselor to the president at the Heritage Foundation.

Some evangelical Christians have increasingly aligned themselves with conservative political forces in Israel, supporting their claims of biblical dominion over contested Palestinian territories. Many feel a kinship with Israel because of shared religious heritage. But some also believe that supporting Israel will hasten biblical end timesor advance Christianity’s global influence.

[Heritage Foundation], which has influenced Republican presidential administrations since the Reagan era, has long supported Israel.

In recent years, this support took on a new dimension, as the foundation blamed the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that gained prominence after George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, along with other progressive movements, for rising reports of antisemitism on campuses.

The Biden administration had already released what it called the first national strategy to combat antisemitism, vowing to address the issue. (The A.D.L. counted over 9,000 antisemitic incidents across the United States in 2024, the highest number on record since it began tracking them 46 years ago.)

But the group decided to begin their own national task force and released a statement of purpose that affirmed a definition of antisemitism that is hotly debated because it considers some broad criticisms of Israel to be antisemitic.
Antisemitism: We recognize any attempt to delegitimize, boycott, divest, or sanction the modern [state] of Israel or bar Jews from participating in academic or communal associations must be condemned.
We recognize that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are the different manifestations of the same hatred against Jewish people.
Dozens of groups joined the task force, but an “overwhelming number” had something in common, Mr. Carafano said during a January 2024 meeting: They weren’t Jewish. A short list of initial members that Heritage posted online consisted mainly of conservative and Christian organizations. …

By summer 2024, Heritage had finalized a national strategy that aimed to convince the public to perceive the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States as part of a global “Hamas Support Network” that “poses a threat not simply to American Jewry, but to America itself.”

It singled out anti-Zionist groups that had organized pro-Palestinian protests, such as Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine, but the intended targets stretched much further. In pitch materials for potential donors, Heritage presented an illustration of a pyramid topped by “progressive ‘elites’ leading the way,” which included Jewish billionaires such as the philanthropist George Soros and Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois.

It asserted that philanthropic organizations such as the Tides Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund were backing the antisemitism “ecosystem.” Later, the Heritage Foundation added the names of what it called “aligned” politicians such as Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

The pitch materials, which were first reported on by The Forward, included goals such as reforming academia (defunding institutions, denying certain pro-Palestinian groups access to campuses and removing faculty) and lawfare (filing civil lawsuits, identifying foreigners vulnerable to deportation). Other initiatives included plans to enlist support from state and local law enforcement and to “generate uncomfortable conditions” so that groups could not conduct protests.

However, Project Esther’s architects are Jews:

Ms. Coates said that her colleagues Mr. Greenway and Daniel Flesch were the co-authors of Project Esther.

Mr. Greenway, a former senior National Security Council official, previously ran the Abraham Accords Peace Institute, a nonprofit founded by Jared Kushner that sought to normalize relations between Israel and other Middle Eastern countries.

Mr. Flesch is a policy analyst at the foundation who has written about his experience as an American Jew who served in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Project Esther also benefited from a private advisory committee that included unnamed former National Security Council members from the first Trump administration, Ms. Coates said. Their expertise “created a more compelling product” and gave the plan “a lot more grip and substance than we would have had otherwise,” she said.

[Victoria Coates:] “As a former academic, I can tell you the one thing they care more about than parking spaces is federal funding,” she said. “The viciousness with which the other elements of the faculty will turn on the law schools and the Middle East Studies folk,” she added. “The gloves will come off very quickly.”

[Coates:] “Our goal is to eradicate — or not eradicate, but to confront — what we consider a very noxious bigotry,” she said.

But she and others at the Heritage Foundation also contend that the progressive groups that Project Esther charges with supporting Hamas pose a threat not just to Jewish people or Israel but, as the plan warns, to “the foundations of the United States and the fabric of our society.”

“This isn’t just a battle for the Jewish state,” Ms. Coates told her audience in December. “It is also a battle for the United States.”

 

JTA: Joe Rogan defends Ye’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song

Joe Rogan defends Ye’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song

“It kind of supports what he says, which is that there’s this concerted effort, if you talk about Jewish people, that they’re going to remove you from everything,” “Remove you from banking, which is what he’s saying. They run everything.”

Lyrics:

Man These People Took My Kids From Me
Then They Post My Bank Account
I Got So Much Anger In Me
Got No Way To Take It Out
Think I’m Stuck In The Matrix
Where The Fuck’s My Nitrous
Yes I Am A Cuck I Like
When People Fuck On My Bitch

The Shit That I’m Posting On Twitter
They Telling Me Hey Don’t Say That
How Niggas Can’t See Me In Public
I’m Driving An Off Road Maybach
With All Of The Money And Fame
I Still Can’t Get My Kids Back
With All Of The Money And Fame
I Still Don’t Get To See My Children

Niggas See My Twitter
But They Don’t See How I Be Feeling
So I Became A Nazi
Yeah Bitch I’m The Villain

Nigga Heil Hitler, Nigga Heil Hitler
They Don’t Understand The Things I Say On Twitter
Nigga Heil Hitler
They Don’t Understand The Things I Say On Twitter
All My Niggas Nazis, Nigga Heil Hitler
Nigga Heil Hitler, Nigga Heil Hitler
All My Niggas Nazis, Nigga Heil Hitler

She [?] Pants
Nigga Heil Hitler
She [?] Hands
Nigga Heil Hitler

Nigga Heil Hitler, Nigga Heil Hitler
All My Niggas Nazis, Nigga Heil Hitler
Nigga Heil Hitler, Nigga Heil Hitler
All My Niggas Nazis, Nigga Heil Hitler