Sun., April 6, 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm PDT
Weaponizing Antisemitism by Project Esther
Speaker: Seth Morrison
Project Esther is the Heritage Foundation’s roadmap to destroy the pro-Palestine movement in the US. This McCarthy era-like project falsely conflates anti-zionism with antisemitism and then deceptively accuses pro-Palestine activists of antisemitism.
Our speaker, Seth Morrison, is a leader in the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), an articulate advocate to peace in West Asia, and a campaigner against the criminalization of pro- Palestinian speech. He has been active in Jewish organizations throughout his life. He was formerly a leader in J Street and other Jewish organizations, before joining JVP and becoming a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist and an anti-zionist. He is on the national board of JVP Action and a leader in the Bay Area chapter of JVP. Professionally he is retired from a career in marketing and product development in the cable television industry.
An interview with our speaker on this subject was recently published in Counterpunch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/27/the-persecution-of-anti-zionist-jews/
On a related issues, he and a colleague recently published “Can Palestinians and Israelis coexist in a single democratic state? (https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241221-can-palestinians-and-israelis-coexist-in-a-single-democratic-state/)
