"Project 2025 was unveiled last year, but earlier this month, the think tank presented a plan called 'Project Esther,' specifically focused on combating antisemitism. Like Republican nominee Donald Trump's and his party platform, the plan is primarily centered on punitive measures against the national pro-Palestinian protest movement that has gained prominence amid the Gaza war.
"The recently proposed Project Esther, presented on the one-year anniversary of Hamas' October 7 attack, depicts antisemitism as inseparable from anti-Zionism. While it calls for a 'national task force to combat antisemitism,' it effectively calls for a crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters.
"The 33-page document's underlying thesis is that 'America's virulently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and anti-American 'pro-Palestinian movement' is part of a global Hamas Support Network (HSN).'
"The task force's mission statement calls for a coalition to 'dismantle the infrastructure' that allegedly sustains the network within one to two years."
@susurros @palestine Once again: if protest is outlawed only outlaws can protest.
Note that Trump has to take posession of the White House to implement this or anything else. If THAT happens, either the career Civl Service folks (his so-called "Deep State") get a fucking leash on him like last time or we get anything from heavy unrest to outright civil war.
Enforcing a broad ban on any kind of protest under that sort of conditions doesn't stop it, it escalates it and drives it underground.
Which would a shop making bomber parts requireing clean room conditions rather get: 20 people outside protesting, or one person inside dumping a vacuum cleaner bag full of dust into the clean room?