Antisemitism Flooding America’s Colleges

It is no longer hidden. Hate-driven antisemitism is blatantly on display on America’s college campuses. These flames of hostility against Jewish students have been brewing for quite some time. Shockingly, the recent mass killing of hundreds of Jews in Israel by the invading terrorist group, Hamas, has actually intensified this dangerous resolve on our university campuses.

Many might assume, at first glance, that these anti-Jewish demonstrations are purely the result of radical Muslim Arabic immigrant students. The truth is that many of these students are not Arabic or Muslim, but come from well-off traditional American families. These students are being influenced by an alarming number of leftist professors who openly despise Jews and Israel.

A frequent tactic is to openly push propaganda in the classroom. One such instructor from Stanford University reportedly required all the Jewish students in the class to stand in the corner, face the wall, while he stated that “only 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.”

At Harvard University, over two dozen student clubs, each likely with a professor sponsor, signed a letter attributing the mass brutal killings of Jews to Israel and, as a result, expressing support for Hamas.

These events are part of a wider trend, with well-orchestrated demonstrations in various campuses across the country advocating for Hamas and the destruction of Israel.

Students who choose to stand up for Jews and Israel often encounter verbal and sometimes physical violence, not to mention outright selective censorship. For example, the bias at Columbia University became apparent when they decided to ban demonstrations only after Jewish and Christian students supporting Israel decided to demonstrate in response to the already vocal pro-Hamas demonstrators.

With that said, all is not lost.

In times like these, I am pleased to report that we at Pacific Justice Institute have 36 offices in 29 states standing ready and able to defend Jewish and Christian students who are being harassed, threatened, or attacked by the many antisemitic, pro-terrorist students or professors on college campuses.

Enough is enough!

Now is the time for all of us to support those who are standing up for Israel and oppose the tentacles of bloodthirsty terrorism that are blatantly displaying their hatred on our colleges and universities. The historical price of complacency is far too high.

Those who know of a student or group victimized by antisemitism should contact PJI immediately at pji.org for legal counsel and possible representation, completely without charge.

Brad

Dear friends, my best contributions to our efforts tend to be a byproduct of my desire to have a thorough understanding of complex issues.  The history of the nation of Israel and its ongoing conflicts is certainly one of the more complex issues around which I’m quickly trying to wrap my brain.  But, I am good at asking “Why?”  
 
Americans as a whole seem to be in the same position…trying to play a quick game of catch-up on the issues we’re hearing about in the news daily now since this war broke out earlier in the month. We need to know the basics so that we are best equipped to share, pray and lead on this issue.  
 
So, I asked the very best source “Why?” and reached out to our expert on all things Israel, President of American Values and long-time friend, Gary Bauer.  
 
Gary also served as a Trump appointee to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.  This man knows Israel, he understands what has happened and what’s happening now, and he’s sharing the basics with us so we can best educate others.  Here’s what he says…
 

• Abram, who later became Abraham, was the first Jew.  This is documented in Genesis 12 and 17.
   
• Both the Old Testament and the New Testament is a history of the Jewish people in the land of Israel. The effort to erase the Jewish presence in the Holy Land is also an effort to erase the Christian scriptures.
   
• Jerusalem, the City of David, was the center of Jewish life in biblical times, and has never been the capital of any nation other than Israel.
   
• The Roman emperor Hadrian brutally crushed a Jewish revolt in 135 AD, dispersing Jews all over the region. Islam would not exist for another 500 years.
   
• There has never been a nation called, “Palestine.” Palaestina was the Roman name assigned to the conquered province of Judea and the land Jews lived in.
   
• In 1948, Scripture was fulfilled with the return of the Jewish people to their biblical homeland and the creation of the modern state of Israel.
   
• Ever since 1948, Israel has had to repeatedly defend itself against virtually every “neighbor” in the region to prevent the destruction of the only Jewish nation in the world. (There are nearly 50 majority-Muslim nations in the world.) Among these conflicts are the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Sinai War (1956), Six Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur War (1973), the First Lebanon War (1982) and the Second Lebanon War (2006).
   
• In 2005, under severe international pressure, Israel withdrew from Gaza, which it won in the 1967 Six Day War. Israel “disengaged” from Gaza under the mistaken belief that it would advance peace in the region.
   
• In 2006, the Palestinian people elected Hamas as their government. Divisions with the ruling Fatah Party, however, caused Hamas to break off and violently seize control of Gaza the following year.
   
• Hamas refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and other nations. For the last 18 years, Israel has suffered repeated attacks from Hamas terrorists operating in Gaza.
   
• Today, Israel faces Iranian-trained terrorists in Gaza, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Iranian regime itself, which is building nuclear weapons.
   
• Iran’s leaders have repeatedly promised to destroy Israel. The attack on October 7, 2023, killed more than 1,300 Israelis, the proportional equivalent of the United States losing approximately 40,000 civilians in one day.

“A Recommendation of America’s Best Historical Sermons for Your Consideration This Month.”  WallBuilders sermon archives are historically significant and relevant to current political and cultural events.

A  S E R M O N: PREACHED BEFORE His Excellency SAMUEL ADAMS, Esq. GOVERNOUR; His Honor MOSES GILL, Esq. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOUR; THE HONOURABLE THE COUNCIL, SENATE, AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, May 25, 1796. BEING THE DAY OF GENERAL ELECTION. By Jonathan French, A. M. Pastor of a CHURCH in ANDOVER.