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PROJECT ESTHER

• Shared authorship and leadership: Both Project 2025 and Project Esther were developed by the Heritage Foundation and share key authors and leadership. Some authors and leaders of these initiatives have also served in past Trump administrations.
• Tactical and strategic connection: Some commentators describe Project Esther as the "censorship and enforcement wing" of the broader Project 2025 agenda. It provides a specific, actionable playbook for combating pro-Palestinian activism that aligns with Project 2025's larger goals of expanding executive power and dismantling perceived "woke" ideology in federal agencies.
• Focus on weaponizing institutions: Project 2025 proposes consolidating power within the executive branch by placing independent agencies under direct presidential control. Project Esther works with this goal by outlining how this consolidated power can be used to target and criminalize political dissent, specifically pro-Palestinian advocacy, in universities, government, and civil society.
• Purging ideological dissenters: A central theme of Project 2025 is replacing career civil servants with loyalists. Project Esther's targeting of university faculty and staff critical of Israel complements this by creating a legal and political environment to purge ideological opponents in academia and other institutions.
• Expansion of executive power: Both blueprints rely on a controversial interpretation of "unitary executive theory," which asserts broad, sweeping presidential authority. The implementation of Project Esther's recommendations, such as revoking visas and defunding institutions based on political speech, serves as a test case for how far these expanded executive powers can be stretched.
• Reflecting Trump administration policy: Since the start of Donald Trump's second term in 2025, analyses show that actions taken by his administration have mirrored or partially mirrored proposals from both Project 2025 and Project Esther. This includes actions such as revoking student visas for pro-Palestinian speech and efforts to withhold federal funding from universities

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Executive Summary

Purpose. Named after the historic Jewish heroine who saved the Jews from genocide in ancient Persia, Project Esther provides a blueprint to counter antisemitism in the United States and ensure the security and prosperity of all Americans.

Introduction. Antisemitism in the United States of America is alive and spreading. Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel laid bare existing antisemitism across the world, including the United States. The virulently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and anti-American groups comprising the so-called pro-Palestinian movement inside the United States are exclusively pro-Palestine and—more so—pro-Hamas. They are part of a highly organized, global Hamas Support Network (HSN) and therefore effectively a terrorist support network.

Project Esther on Wikipedia

Project Esther is a project of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., that aims to suppress pro-Palestinian protests and what it classifies as antisemitism. The effort has received support from several evangelical Christian organizations but no major Jewish ones.^[1][2]

According to The New York Times, Slate, Haaretz, The Forward, and Jewish Insider, Project Esther does not address right-wing antisemitism.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} It has also been criticized for incorporating antisemitic tropes into its rhetoric.^[6] Project Esther broadly labels criticism of Israel as terrorism and calls for targeting universities, students, and American progressive politics and politicians.^[2]

Politico described Project Esther as "a lesser-known blueprint from the same creators of Project 2025."^[7] In May 2025, The New York Times found that the second Trump administration had called for or acted upon more than half of Project Esther's proposals.^[2]

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