As a professor of Jewish history and the Holocaust, I am particularly concerned about how Project Esther actually endangers Jewish safety by misdirecting attention from real antisemitic threats The author holds the Rubin Presidential Chair in Jewish History at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, US, and serves on the Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. ISTANBUL Project Esther [1], the Heritage Foundation's