I'm publicly documenting an event timeline to help bring order to the chaotic nature of events and help other schools plan the responses they are likely going to need.
The authoritarian attacks on higher education are following the plan outlined in Project Esther, a national strategy produced by the Heritage Foundation.
This critique of Project Esther by the Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council exposes the bad faith effort to exploit accusations of antisemitism, in order to "limit pro-Palestine activism, but to use attacks on Palestine solidarity to also strike out at fields such as Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies, university initiatives including but not limited to DEI, and movements like migrant justice and Black Lives Matter..." This matches the escalating authoritarian attacks on higher education we're witnessing today.
The authoritarian attacks on higher education are following the plan outlined in Project Esther, a national strategy produced by the Heritage Foundation.
https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/Project%20Esther.pdf
This critique of Project Esther by the Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council exposes the bad faith effort to exploit accusations of antisemitism, in order to "limit pro-Palestine activism, but to use attacks on Palestine solidarity to also strike out at fields such as Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies, university initiatives including but not limited to DEI, and movements like migrant justice and Black Lives Matter..." This matches the escalating authoritarian attacks on higher education we're witnessing today.
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/jvp-rejecting-project-esther/