'You can’t lie to the American people' Joe slams Trump for using Heritage Foundation jobs numbers

from MSNBC

 

 

Still Fuming Over a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Finds Some Numbers He Likes

(The data from which these numbers have been derived has never been published anywhere and they say they will try to publish it sometime in the next 6 months. It's secret data only the Heritage Foundation can see. But don't worry. It's accurate. Just ask the neoliberal globalists who put together Project 2025 and Project Esther. They have nothing to hide.) 

from the New York Times

President Trump finally got the economic numbers he wanted. 

Still bristling about last week’s less-than-impressive report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mr. Trump summoned reporters into the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon to present them with more favorable data.

During an impromptu news conference, the president displayed charts from Stephen Moore, an economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, that he said proved his economy was better than that of his predecessor, President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

“All new numbers,” Mr. Trump said, holding up a chart.

The typically humdrum task of counting jobs, income levels and other economic data has become decidedly dramatic during the second Trump administration. For months, Mr. Trump and his top allies had praised the Bureau of Labor Statistics when it showed strong job growth. But after the bureau put out weak job numbers last week, Mr. Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the agency’s commissioner, and claimed that the figures were rigged. (Instead of offering proof, he said it was “my opinion.”)

The firing of the commissioner, whose job was merely to count the data accurately, left the president in search of some different data, more to his liking.

Enter Mr. Moore.

It just so happened that the Heritage Foundation economist had been crunching some census data, and he began assembling the figures into graphs that he knew would please the president...

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Project Esther: Give Up Your Rights So They Can Steal Gaza!

They don't care how many rights we have to give up for them to take the whole of Palestine for their own. This is what they are doing right before our eyes as the head of the ADL lashes out at podcasters and recent college graduates for daring to oppose ethnic cleansing of Gaza and Palestine.

MIT Student Condemned Genocide — So ADL Chief Said She Helped Cause Boulder Attack

(from Project Esther white paper dated Oct 7 2024:

DE3 (desired effect): HSO (Hamas Support Organization) access to campuses lost and/or denied. 

DE10 (desired effect): Social media no longer allow the spread of antisemitic content. 

DE18 (desired effect): Preponderance of broader American public perceives HSOs as
a threat to their safety and a functioning society. (as opposed to a threat to Israel's Gaza 2035 project)

NC18 (necessary conditions): Progressive left support to “Hamas Caucus” is untenable. 

NC21 (necessary conditions): Social media platforms unwilling to host or promote HSOs. 

NC27 (necessary conditions): HSOs present a threat to Americans’ personal beliefs. (Yes. They want to propagandize the American people to the point where they feel that opposition to genocide and ethnic cleansing is a THREAT to their PERSONAL BELIEFS. I shit you not)

The ADL is taking it's marching orders directly from Project Esther white paper written not by Jewish people... but by an organization (Heritage Foundation) made up mostly of evangelical Christians.) 

Project Esther creators understand the risk they are taking with this anti-American, unconstitutional campaign of theirs. They understand how it could blow up in their faces:

' it is worth acknowledging that when Project Esther succeeds, it could reinforce a “blood libel” narrative, potentially lending credence to an HSN “Blame the Jews” mantra, followed by expanded antisemitism across the United States. It should be anticipated that HSOs will counter legal actions taken by Heritage and other members of the coalition with legal action of their own. At the lowest level, inadvertent violations of the rights of other Americans, even supporters of HSN and its HSOs, during the conduct of civic operations or activities could expose both individuals and Project Esther to liability.

It is therefore incumbent upon us to integrate measures necessary to mitigate the risk of success. .. We can further minimize risk to the project from “counter accusations” with an underlying public relations campaign designed to insulate it from the HSN, HSOs, their supporters, and other Jew-haters. Most important, reflecting the true nature of the HSN threat—a threat to the foundations of the United States and the fabric of our society—Project Esther cannot be a solely “Jewish” effort: It must be an American effort.'

Indeed.  In order to insulate Israel and their genocidal campaign in Palestine from blowback they intend to make it all about 'American Values' and our safety... not Gaza 2035.)

 

from the Intercept

As the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.” Instead, he’s shored up the ADL’s role as little more than a fierce pro-Israel lobby group known for defending Israel by attacking its critics. With no sense of irony, much of this effort manifests as defamatory speech — at least in the everyday, if not the legal, sense — by Greenblatt.

This weekend on Fox News, however, Greenblatt outdid himself. 

In his appearance, Greenblatt said college graduates and social media influencers who have spoken out against Israel’s genocide were responsible for a man in Boulder, Colorado, throwing Molotov cocktails at a group of elderly people calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. 

Greenblatt singled out a speech by the graduating class president from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while naming streamer Hasan Piker and social media influencer Guy Christensen as “promoters of hate.”

“These speakers at these graduations — it just happened the other day at MIT — spreading blood libels about the Jewish people or the Jewish state, it creates conditions in which this kind of act is happening with increasing frequency,” Greenblatt said, referring to both the attack in Boulder and the shooting of two Israeli embassy officials in Washington, D.C., last month. 

Megha Vemuri, the MIT class president that Greenblatt referenced, did not mention “the Jewish people” at all and spread no “blood libels” — antisemitic false accusations that Jewish people are murderous. She is one of several graduating students around the country who have used their commencement speeches to decry Israel’s U.S.-backed onslaught, which had already razed every university in Gaza to rubble by January of last year... 

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Project Esther Is a McCarthy-Era Blueprint for Crushing the American Left

from TruthOut

Project Esther isn’t just about Palestine. Crafted by the Heritage Foundation — the same far right organization behind Project 2025 — the playbook purports to provide a “national strategy to combat antisemitism.” First published and reported on last year, the document has seen new life in recent days following a New York Times investigation into Trump administration policies that mirror the plan. But Project Esther’s authors make clear that their war on the Gaza solidarity movement is just a Trojan horse for a far more ambitious project: destroying the American left.

Mainstream coverage of Project Esther has largely framed the document as an effort to crush the pro-Palestinian movement. It’s important to emphasize, however, that the threat Project Esther poses to the left more broadly is not a byproduct — it’s part of the plan’s core design. The text lays bare the McCarthyist nature of this political moment and underscores the urgent need for the left to mount a multipronged, coalitional defense.

At the center of Project Esther’s crosshairs are the people and organizations it dubs the “Hamas Support Network,” or HSN, though there’s no evidence that the entities it’s targeting actually support Hamas, or that they are even organized in any sort of a network. The playbook proposes a slew of recommendations for dismantling this fictional network, including deporting international students, purging pro-Palestine faculty from educational institutions, defunding organizations, increasing criminalization and promoting social ostracization of people that speak out in support of Palestinian rights. “Within the United States, the HSN receives the indispensable support of a vast network of activists and funders with a much more ambitious, insidious goal — the destruction of capitalism and democracy,” Project Esther claims...

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Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US

from Lemkin Institute

On October 7, 2024, marking one year since Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the conservative DC-based Heritage Foundation introduced Project Esther as their latest and most brazen effort yet to crush Palestinian solidarity. Framed as an initiative to combat antisemitism, Project Esther exclusively targets voices and groups critical of the Israeli regime. It calls for collaboration between public and private entities to employ censorship, intimidation, and lawfare to delegitimize and dismantle organizations advocating for Palestinian rights. However, Project Esther—and the broader pro-Israel efforts to counter growing Palestine solidarity—did not begin with the genocide in Gaza.  

For decades, Zionists and their allies have systematically sought to suppress public dissent against the US’s unwavering support for the Israeli regime by targeting individuals and groups advocating for Palestinian rights. While efforts to silence pro-Palestine activism are not new, they have escalated significantly under President Donald Trump. Shortly after taking office for his second term, Trump signed an executive order expanding crackdowns on pro-Palestine advocacy under the guise of combating antisemitism. His administration has intensified bipartisan repression by revoking student visas, arresting and deporting activists, and increasing federal oversight of universities to monitor and control campus organizing, among other measures...

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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

Project Esther white paper from Oct 4 2024 (PDF) 

from the New York Times

In late April, the Heritage Foundation dispatched a team to Israel to meet with power players in Israeli politics, including the country’s foreign and defense secretaries and the U.S. ambassador, Mike Huckabee. 

The conservative Washington-based think tank is best known for spearheading Project 2025, a proposed blueprint for President Trump’s second term that called for reshaping the federal government and an extreme expansion of presidential power.

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.”

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...

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Project Esther: NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to "Rebrand All Critics of Israel" as Hamas Supporters

 (Yeah I am right proud of this image)

from Democracy NOW!

 

Nick Fuentes on Project Esther

by Scott Creighton

It's no wonder Benjamin Netanyahu was told by republican congress critters he was going to have to stop using starvation as a weapon of war against the civilians in Gaza. They are steadily losing control of the narrative even among young conservative types.

 

Project Esther, Fed Employees Rehired and Israel Negotiates Like Bank Robbers

 

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement (Project Esther)

 

from the NYT

In late April, the Heritage Foundation dispatched a team to Israel to meet with power players in Israeli politics, including the country’s foreign and defense secretaries and the U.S. ambassador, Mike Huckabee.

The conservative Washington-based think tank is best known for spearheading Project 2025, a proposed blueprint for President Trump’s second term that called for reshaping the federal government and an extreme expansion of presidential power.

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.”

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.

Once a sympathetic presidential administration was in place, the plan said, “We will organize rapidly, take immediate action to ‘stop the bleeding,’ and achieve all objectives within two years.”

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...

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‘New McCarthyism’: Pro-Palestine group denounces US Senate crackdown on Gaza protests

(Project Esther is from the Heritage Foundation. The same people who crafted Project 2025, the fascist destruction of the American government on behalf of Big Business and billionaires. The same people who are the ones actually directing DOGE pill-head boys. Project Esther is a war on those who support the ending of the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.)

( 'Jacobin has said the effort is part of a red scare against the pro-Palestinian movement and the political left.^[12] )

from PressTV

A pro-Palestinian advocacy group has condemned recent US Senate hearings on Gaza protests as a "McCarthyite witch-hunt" aimed at silencing students and professors in the US who advocate for Palestinian rights.

Palestine Legal, a Chicago-based advocacy organization, issued a strong statement on the platform X on Wednesday, criticizing the hearings as part of a troubling trend to suppress dissent and criminalize those who support Palestinian causes.

“These Senate hearings represent a McCarthyite witch hunt targeting students and professors who speak out for Palestinian rights,” the group stated.

It said the hearings followed an executive order from US President Donald Trump targeting  college advocates for Palestinian rights, adding that it is part of a larger strategy detailed in the Heritage Foundation's “Project Esther,” which was designed to dismantle the Palestinian rights.

Project Esther, created by the conservative think tank aligned with Trump, aims to eliminate dissent against Zionist policies, restrict educational access on related issues, and mobilize support for a crackdown on individuals and organizations opposing systemic racism and colonialism, starting with the Palestinian rights movement...

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