A new report in The New York Times takes a deep dive into Project Esther, a policy blueprint to crush the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States from the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank best known for spearheading Project 2025. Project Esther was formed during the Biden administration and lays out plans for surveilling, silencing and punishing pro-Palestinian activists, including deporting non-U.S. citizens and withholding funds from universities. Many of the Heritage Foundation’s proposals appear to have been taken up by the Trump administration.
“Project Esther aims to rebrand all critics of Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters as providing material support for terrorism,” says investigative reporter Katie Baker. “They’re very explicit that this is what they’re doing. … This is all laid out online, and it has been for months.”
What about atheists that dislike both sides because they’re obviously carrying out a thousand-year religious grudge fight over fictional people? I sure as fuck don’t support hamas. I sure don’t support israel, either.
Stop giving them weapons, it’s empowering genocidal theocracies fighting off genocidal theocracies. Just back away slowly.
For that, I’m sure I’ll be called a islamophobe, by the palestinians, and an antisemite, by israel. I don’t think those terms are anything but stealth blasphemy laws that religions want to impose on non-believers. Fuck religions and those that support them. That’s the only way possible towards middle-east peace. As long as there are religions, that’s going to be a religious terrorism hotspot, like it has been for thousands of years.
This isn’t a religious question so your religious stance is irrelevant. You don’t need to both sides genocide.