Kevin Roberts Wants to Hurt Your Kids

"Project Esther" is a fake national security abomination

Via Gage Skidmore, the head of the Heritage Foundation

One thing you notice about Israeli assets is that they don’t take kindly when you point them out. They freak out and block you, won’t enter into the conversation. That’s why it’s sometimes necessary to shock them out of their torpor.

To that end, Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, wants to hurt your children. Whether he wants to molest them like Israeli operatives in the past, who’s to say—we can’t be sure. Better safe than sorry. I bugged Heritage Vice President Victoria Coates recently about all this too and she didn’t want to talk either, she may want to hurt your kids as well.

Heritage’s involvement in this sort of thing started with their recent inauguration of the National Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. The members of it are two pastors, the straightforward Israeli asset Ellie Cohanim, who blocked me recently, and James Carafano, whom one wonders why he wants to have anything to do with the others.

Pastor Bramnick, according to the Miami Herald, got involved with pro-Israel politics because of his nutty apocalyptic beliefs:

He said he began reaching out to his fellow pastors in South Florida and organizing meetings with influential Israeli leaders.

Bramnick, in the interview, said he couldn’t reveal his real purpose for wanting to meet with the Israeli leaders — which has to do with end times theories — so he had his assistant put together a false agenda within five minutes. Bramnick has no background in government or foreign policy, which Wallnau acknowledged.

One kludge the evangelicals have come up with to explain their alliance with Trump, because they can’t conceive of anything so honest as a simple horse trade, is calling him “Cyrus-anointed.” They tend to say God will disfavor the United States if we fail to support Israel, an ostensibly theological conviction which is really about explaining away the lack rational basis to justify the absurdly one-sided relationship between it and the U.S.

The second horseshit-peddler on the task force is Pastor Luke Moon, of the Paul Singer-backed Philos Project. The Philos Project is another means to dragoon Christians into supporting the unsupportable.

Pastors Bramnick and Moon are examples of evangelicals who, because they do not hold the Catholic faith, worship Israel instead of Jesus Christ. Because most people are naturally suspicious enough of this sort of bullshit not to have anything to do with them, they are forced to do this advocacy nonsense, which is probably better for the souls of Americans than either of these ludicrous charlatans actually shepherding them.

None of these people save Carafano, who should know better, have any experience in national security, which is doubly troubling for their Project Esther, released on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack. If you think Project 2025 is bad, get a load of this.

Reporting in Jewish Insider suggests even people within the building at Heritage had concerns about it, and it didn’t have buy-in from CUFI, the main institution of the evangelical apocalypse lobby. Ben Lorber noted that it’s rather light on buy-in from Jews. They seem completely clueless about American Jewry:

The American Jewish community did not even utter a whimper when left-of-center Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer—himself Jewish—called for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s ouster for no apparent reason other than Netanyahu’s being on Israel’s political right.

You think it’s because they want him gone?

There are many criticisms to be made of the progressive NGO complex, but after the experience of Claudine Gay—in which Paul Singer and Bill Ackman colluded to remove the Harvard president for insufficient deference to Israel—we should be clear about the real intentions here.

The term they come up with to demonize everything from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to George Soros’s network to Samidoun, which was recently sanctioned, is “Hamas Support Organizations.” Hamas is an organization of around 30,000 fighters, the idea of mobilizing this sort of anti-civil society effort to combat support for a militia of that size is wildly out of proportion. Nor do they say anything about Benjamin Netanyahu’s financial support of Hamas. The figures they cite about the need for this come from organizations of Israeli foreign influence such as Canary Mission and the ADL.

Their list of “desired end states” are:

• ES1: HSO propaganda eradicated from the U.S. education system at all levels.

• ES2: HSOs unable to disseminate propaganda inside the United States.

• ES3: HSOs no longer have access to U.S. open society.

• ES4: HSOs no longer have access to the U.S. economy.

• ES5: HSN loses access to Congress.

• ES6: Executive branch confronts, pursues, and prosecutes HSO legal and criminal violations.

• ES7: HSOs’ communications disrupted.

• ES8: HSOs rendered unable to conduct or sustain demonstrations and protests.

• ES9: U.S. Jewish community (and allies) unified against HSOs.

• ES10: American public broadly united against HSN/HSOs.

• ES11: Critical vulnerabilities exploited.

Given that one of their coalition allies is the convicted felon Adam Milstein, who in his various activities is more or less committed to blacklisting anyone who attended a pro-Palestinian protest, this Heritage initiative should be viewed as a threat to a great plurality, if not a majority, of American young people.

Some of this is already going on through Israeli assets in financial institutions and technology companies, though of course if they operationalize it under this banner Heritage will take much of the credit.

It’s a sign of how immoderate conservative supporters of Israel are that they would put forward this brazen plan to trample the civil liberties of a wide swath of Americans. Moreover, it’s not at all out of the question that when the death toll is reckoned in Gaza, it may be an order of magnitude greater than is currently being reported, and the people responsible for initiatives like this are going to end up taking the blame. They will deserve it.