Dear John,

Even before the number of Israeli casualties and hostages taken by the terrorists on October 7 could be confirmed, rallies in support of Hamas were popping up around the world, including here in the US.

From big cities to college campuses, people gathered to support those who had just slaughtered innocent men, women, and children simply because they are Jews. Some naively chanted phrases like "free Palestine," but others brazenly displayed their hatred by flashing nazi swastikas or shouting "gas the Jews."

The former chief of Hamas, Khalid Meshaal called for last Friday to be a global "Day of Jihad" -- encouraging people around the world to take to the streets in support of the militants. As The Washington Stand reported "In a video posted to YouTube but quickly deleted, Meshaal also called for Muslims 'to show anger' and 'send a message of rage to Zionists and to America.'"

The Left often claims that words they disagree with are violence. Yet they are stoking the flames for actual physical attacks with their incendiary rhetoric.

Tragically, we have already seen an Israeli student assaulted at Columbia University for putting up posters of the hostages taken by the terrorists into Gaza...a diplomat for the Israeli embassy in Beijing stabbed...a teacher killed, and others injured by a knife-wielding attacker shouting "Allahu Akbar." (These stories will hardly get a moment of airtime from the mainstream media.)

The antisemitism sweeping the nations is ancient, but the rise especially in Western nations, and especially on college campuses in the United States over the last two decades is almost unimaginable. That is, until you look at the worldview young adults have been indoctrinated with in our public schools since an early age.

Then it all begins to make sense.

In these dark days, the fact that less than 6% of Americans have a biblical worldview is not simply a sad statistic -- it has real consequences for the world around us. Will you partner with FRC right now to expose this indoctrination and empower Christians with a biblical worldview?

Our young people are being taught in America to view the world through a woke, Marxist lens that defines entire people groups and nations as either "oppressors" or the "oppressed."

Founded in 1948 as a safe haven in their ancestral homeland after the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust murdered over 6 million Jews, the modern state of Israel has somehow been cast as an oppressor and colonizer by the Left.

So, to leftist activists, it doesn't matter what atrocities Hamas commits against Jews. Groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) will celebrate this massacre as a victory for the resistance.

As Rabbi Yaakov Menken shared on Washington Watch last week, "The entire Students for Justice in Palestine [organization] is now revealed as a barbaric, hateful, terror-support organization in the United States . . . we've seen this takeover on campus by students who really are just victims of indoctrination."

John, groups like this are everywhere. There are over 100 chapters of SJP alone on college and university campuses across America -- perhaps even at your alma mater.

In the face of such evil, what can be done?

First of all, we must pray.

Pray today that the Prince of Peace will rule and reign, drawing all to Himself, and frustrating the plans of those who want to cause further murder and mayhem within Israel and around the world.

But we must also do more than pray.

This darkness must be countered with voices that will speak truth and not be intimidated.

We cannot sit in silence while our young people's minds are filled with these dangerous doctrines.

Not only do we need to advocate for the protection of religious liberty and education policies based on biblical truth here in Washington, D.C. but across the nation, we must equip the church and every parent to disciple their children in developing a biblical worldview rooted in the Scriptures. As the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, "The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God . . ." (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).

FRC has the materials and programs to expose this darkness, advance righteousness in public policy, and empower believers through our:

• Stand on the Word Bible reading program,
• Center for Biblical Worldview resources,
• Stand Courageous men's ministry,
• Nationwide Association of Churches and Ministries network,
• Daily Washington Watch radio and TV program,
• The Washington Stand news outlet providing reporting and analysis from a biblical worldview,
• And more...

...but we need your involvement and investment to reach as many as possible with the truth. Will you partner with us in this critical mission?

Christians everywhere need to heed Rabbi Menken's warning:

"What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews. Look at the places where the Christians are receiving the worst persecution around the world, and you find a country that is already judenrein. It has no Jews often because they've already been ethnically cleansed out like Iraq. And that is why they start with the Jews and then they go with everybody else."

Just a few years ago, during a hearing that I was conducting as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on the rise of antisemitism, Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion gave a warning that has stuck with me. Mr. Shaheed said that the growing intolerance against Jewish people is the canary in the coalmine when it comes to religious intolerance. A hatred for Jews and a desire to drive them out only leads to further intolerance of other people of faith.

Will we stand up in this hour to push back on the indoctrination in our schools that is undermining religious freedom and human dignity? How can we afford not to?

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