Our April meeting will be held online, and will feature a discussion of ‘Project Esther’: a policy paper put out just before the November 2024 election by the Heritage Foundation – and framed as aiming to eliminate antisemitism by rooting out all activism for Palestinian human rights, including by Jews. Like Project 2025, which the Heritage Foundation also released around this time, Project Esther has served as a blueprint for many of the government’s actions that we have seen play out since the current administration took office – in this case, targeting especially free speech.
This topic is of interest to all who are concerned with these issues, and we will examine and discuss the document during the meeting. All are welcome – whether you’ve attended a prior meeting or not, and whether or not you have time to read Project Esther before the meeting!
To register and receive the Zoom link and Project Esther PDF, and/or to send any questions to the organizers, please email the TBZ office.
We are a lay-led group committed to holding a safe-enough, brave-enough space in which we can explore the complexities of the situations in Palestine and Israel. Although we share a range of opinions and perspectives, we converge around the reality of the historical and constant structural oppression of and violence perpetrated upon Palestinians by the state of Israel and global Mideast interests. Our meetings, roughly each month, sometimes online and sometimes in person at TBZ, are programmed by workgroup members, Hasia Diner, Lotus Goldberg, and Deborah Kalin, and feature a variety of rich topics for discussion, reflection, and learning. We invite you to join us, whether you have attended before, or would be coming for the first time. To be added to the informative IPAG email listserv, or to register for a meeting, please contact info@tbzbrookline.org.