With “friends” like these…..

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The Heritage Foundation in the US says it is determined to root out antisemitism through its “Project Esther” and yet it is certainly not immune to using such tropes as “masterminding”.  Unsurprisingly, “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…”

This is another example of mainly right wing Christian Zionists using antisemitism to push through their own agenda which is deeply conservative as well as staunchly pro Israel, labelling antizionists and all who are pro Palestinian as “the Hamas Network”.  It ought to be easy to dismiss them but they are the group behind Project 2025, which is likely to provide much of the policy programme of the imminent second Trump Presidency and the Heritage Foundation has had considerable influence over Republican Presidents in the past and so we have to take this seriously.

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This article was originally published by The Forward on Fri 6 Dec 2024. Read the original here.