“7th Every day in October will be fulfilling for you. ” So Shouted out Protesters protest against two Jewish Columbia University students just outside the campus gates.Other companies in Colombia called Hamas’s “burning down Tel Aviv” will involve killing. over 4 million Jewsand “Hamas, we love you. We support your rocket too.”
Anti-Semitism has increased since Hamas terrorists killed an estimated 1,200 men, women and children in Israel on October 7 last year. escalated It has increased dramatically in the United States, especially on college campuses.
Columbia, an Ivy League school in New York City, was the epicenter of the tent city known as the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” Created on the school campus. Currently, pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments are spread At over a dozen schools across the country. Students are calling for an end to both the Israel-Hamas war and the university’s investments in companies involved with Israel.
Columbia University school administrators did so. report Early this morning, some progress was made in negotiations with pro-Palestinian demonstrators, removing a significant number of tents from their lawns, ensuring the removal of non-students, and resolving any discriminatory or harassing behavior among demonstrators. They agreed to ban the words.
Harvard University is closed The garden was closed until Friday in anticipation of pro-Palestinian protests. The president of Yale University is Concerned Regarding “reports of severe acts such as intimidation and harassment” on campus. Many school officials Concerned Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are expected to disrupt graduation ceremonies later this spring.
Jewish students are particularly at risk. Some people at Columbia University was assaulted Other times they are blackmailed. The Jewish group employment Special security for Passover.
What’s behind these protests?
How can the answer help us connect our broken culture to the truth of salvation?
“The only nation founded on a creed”
The day after the October 7 massacre, Columbia University professor Joseph Massad… was praised The “astonishing” scenes of assault were “witnessed by millions of jubilant Arabs.” In 2018, Columbia University professor Hamid Dabashi posted on Twitter (now known as did.
As for me I got it. In my e-book on the Israel-Hamas conflict, protesters argue that Israel has “colonized” the land from its rightful Palestinian owners and “deprived” it of territory that should belong to free Palestine. It claims to be occupied. As I explain in the book, both claims are completely false, both in terms of the history of this land and its current reality.
But we no longer live in a culture where truth is determined by what is right or wrong, fact or falsehood. As a result, it’s difficult these days to have intelligent conversations about Israel, abortion, same-sex marriage, transgender rights, or other hot-button cultural issues.
GK Chesterton famously said, “America is the only country in the world founded on a creed.”ours is possible said “We hold these truths to be self-evident: All human beings are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and happiness. Includes pursuit.
But if these truths are no longer “self-evident,” are we free to reject them?
- Darwin convinced many that we were not “created” by a “creator” but were the products of naturalistic processes.
- Anti-Semites and other racists, pornographers, and sex traffickers do not believe that we are “created equal.”
- Supporters of abortion and euthanasia do not believe that everyone has an “unalienable right” to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
We are now witnessing a blatant rejection of our founding tenets at some of our most elite educational institutions. What does this mean for our future as a democracy?
Beware of this “work for God”
Self-government fails if people cannot govern themselves. And as the Bible says, “There is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins” (Ecclesiastes 7:20). This is why, as we saw this week, each of us needs a daily, intimate relationship with the One who can forgive our sins and change our hearts.
The good news about human history is that anyone can change history. Paul’s unnamed nephew (Acts 23:16–22) and the Roman officer Claudius Lysias (Acts 21:31–23:30) helped save the apostles from their enemies and enabled them to preach in Rome (Acts 28:30–31) and the last seven of his letters (Acts 23:16–22). Many of the great heroes of the Bible had unlikely backgrounds.
According to Jesus, you and I are today “the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). But we have to be the change we want. To manifest God’s love, we must experience God’s love (1 John 4:19).
This is why Oswald Chambers warned:
Beware of work for God that allows you to avoid focusing on God.
He explained: “So many Christian workers worship their work. The worker’s only concern is to focus on God.” He then added:
You are not responsible for the work. Your only responsibility is to always remain connected to God and to ensure that nothing prevents you from cooperating with Him. . . . God designs everything. No matter where God places us, our only major goal is to be wholeheartedly devoted to Him in that particular task.
What is your “one big goal” today?
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Publication date: April 24, 2024
