Are we really going to live through an age of tyranny?

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The far-right tyranny that is threatening the world continues to advance at pace. As the New York Times has reported:

[T]he Heritage contingent [has been] in Israel, in part, to discuss another contentious policy paper: Project Esther, the foundation's proposal to rapidly dismantle the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States, along with its support at schools and universities, at progressive organizations and in Congress.

Drafted in the wake of Hamas's attack on Israel in 2023 and the mounting protests against the war in Gaza, Project Esther outlined an ambitious plan to fight antisemitism by branding a broad range of critics of Israel as “effectively a terrorist support network,” so that they could be deported, defunded, sued, fired, expelled, ostracized and otherwise excludedfrom what it considered “open society.”

This is the challenge we now face.

The far-right has been emboldened.

It is already destroying free speech, as even the Washington Post is reporting.

It is destroying the rights, hopes and prospects of millions of Americans, as the Washington Post again reports.

And it is destroying the rule of law, as that same paper also reports, despite its pro-Trump bias.

Now, Israel is beginning a military campaign to eradicate Palestinians from Gaza.

Add this all up, and there is a coup going on in the USA, in Israel, and in Gaza.

It is threatened around the world. The long shadow it is creating is already real and changing lives.

Are we really going to live through an age of tyranny, because that is what these people want?


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