16 Jan
16Jan

The Israel-Hamas war is raging. 

As you know, on October 7, 2023, over 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed suddenly and brutally by Hamas, the terrorist organization that runs the Gaza Strip. Entire families were murdered, women were raped, some people were burned alive, and bodies decapitated. Hamas took some 240 hostages. Yet, shockingly, the vicious attack has triggered brazen anti-Jewish threats all over The United States, mostly on college and university campuses. Think what it must feel like to be Jewish in America at the beginning of 2024. Here’s how Hollywood actress Mayim Bialik described it:


 Imagine if there was a massacre of an ethnic group or religious group, the equivalent of 50,000 Americans. And imagine if what happened after that was that, all over the world, there were marches of tens of thousands of people calling for further massacre of those people. … That’s what it feels like right now as a Jewish person. Bialik, who is Jewish, recently posted that comment in a video on social media discussing the tsunami of antisemitism she was witnessing. In the video, she also said: There has not been an experience in my lifetime that has prepared me for this. … The swiftness with which the global population has seized upon the massacre of Jewish civilians living inside of a border. The swiftness with which the world has stepped up to redefine terrorism, to redefine statehood, to redefine the right of a people to exist. 

As Bialik and other Jews are discovering, the echoes of 1930s Germany before the Holocaust are growing louder and louder, even here in America. 

It’s nearly unthinkable that three-quarters of a century after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in Europe, Jews in America are increasingly being threatened with violence for no reason other than being Jewish? What we are witnessing is that most of the antisemitic threats in our country are happening in colleges and universities.

  • A coalition of student groups at Harvard University signed a statement after October 7 blaming Israel for the Hamas attack. Student groups at more than a dozen other campuses across the country did the same thing.
  • Several professors seemed to stoke the antisemitic hostility at places like Stanford, Emory, and New York universities, issuing outrageous statements blaming Israel. One Cornell University professor told a crowd that he was “exhilarated” after Hamas attacked Israel.
  • Studies released by Brandeis University in both 2015 and 2016 identified “hot spots” on 50 U.S. campuses “where antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment were especially acute.”

At colleges and universities like CUNY-Brooklyn, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Rutgers, Illinois, and many of the schools in the University of California system, Jewish students said they had been living with high rates “of antisemitic harassment and hostility.” Regarding the Israeli-Hamas war, a Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll found a disturbing divide between the majority of Americans and those of college age. While 82% of adults (ages 25 to 64) said Israel was justified in going to war with Hamas after the October 7 attack, 52% of young adults (ages 18 to 24) sided with Israel, while 48% sided with Hamas. I believe this pro-terrorist sentiment is a direct result of decades of “progressive” indoctrination of students by leftist professors and administrators. USA Today writer Ingrid Jacques agreed. She wrote: “It’s not just students who are to blame here. They are learning this behavior from somewhere.” She concluded that the students are learning it from the grown-ups on campus. “It seems the higher-ed bubble has decided it’s ‘woke’ to support Hamas and to shun Israel, regardless of how horrific the situation,” Jacques said. Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a campus watchdog group, also blasted what’s being taught at many of the nation’s colleges and universities. He asked: If you find yourself, you know, cheering the people who are raping, murdering, kidnapping … shouldn’t that be a point for reflection? 

The radical ideas of the “progressive” movement have poisoned our culture and turned many campuses into moral and ideological sewers, where antisemitism, hatred of our founding principles, and hostility toward Judeo-Christian principles are growing ever more destructive. 

To help arm you with a greater understanding of this godless movement, you can receive a 40-page booklet (By clicking here on the blue text) written by Ed Vitagliano, AFA vice president to help you understand some of the mindless hatred which currently eminates from US educational institutions

The Progressive Threat to the American Republic is a thought-provoking, biblical analysis, which reveals that over 100 years ago a group began to work to transform America into a radically different nation from the one we love.

Their America would renounce our founding principles and create a nation rooted in humanism – a philosophy that rejects God and puts man at the authoritative center of all things. In their new nation, that unchallenged authority would be wielded through a government whose power had no limits.
Today, these people are known as “secular progressives,” and regrettably, their philosophy is dominant in media, in government, in entertainment, in public schools, and even in some churches. The Progressive Threat to the American Republic exposes the dark, behind-the-scenes, spiritual realities that we witness as much of the world turns against Israel. In gratitude for your generous contribution, I want to send you a copy.  For more than 45 years, faithful Christians like you have stood with AFA to challenge the enemies of God and rally Christians to work to restore our nation to its Christian foundations. If the current wave of antisemitism – spurred on by the “woke” movement – is any indication, the fight will continue in 2024 in every area of our culture. So I humbly, but boldly, ask you to continue to pray, give, act, and invite others to join our effort. Your support is essential, and for it, you have my deepest thanks. Meanwhile, we enter the new year encouraged that the “reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work” (1John 3:8, ESV). And that’s the reason you and I carry on without apology, fear, or regret. As the great hymn “A Mighty Fortress” expresses: Did we in our own strength confide / our striving would be losing,
Were not the right Man on our side / the Man of God’s own choosing.
You ask who that may be? / Christ Jesus, it is He.
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