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Lord, as Jewish students return to universities and colleges around the nation, we pray that they would be protected. We ask You to guard Your people and to put an end to anti-Semitism in higher education.
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A report released last week revealed that Spring’s anti-Israel encampments on Columbia’s campus were only the tip of the anti-Semitic iceberg.

From The New York Post. Jewish students at Columbia University were chased out of their dorms, received death threats, spat upon, stalked and pinned against walls, as the Ivy League school devolved into a cesspool of antisemitic hate in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 murderous raid on Israel.

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The new and disturbing details emerged from the lengthy, 91-page document released Friday by the school’s faculty-led antisemitism task force …

Testimony from nearly five hundred Columbia students informed the report, which found visibly observant Jews had been pinned to the wall and had their jewelry ripped off while coming and going from synagogue. Others recounted being spat on and having been called ethnic slurs on campus.

One student, who had installed a mezuzah on her dorm’s doorway prior to the Israel-Hamas war, was forced to move out after people were pounding her door throughout the night beginning in October, demanding she explain the Jewish state’s war in Gaza. …

Instructors tasked with guiding and mentoring students instead contributed to the sense of isolation and unease among Jews and Israelis on campus, according to the report.

One faculty member leading a class that delved into the Israel-Hamas conflict called a student who previously served in the IDF a murderer. Another professor extensively said a pair of Jewish donors to the university had “laundered” “dirty money” and “blood money.”

During the spring, as protests and encampments roiled the school’s Morningside Heights campus, protesters, including outsiders and members of the university community, bellowed death threats at Jewish students. Demonstrators who held Israeli flags, meanwhile, recalled being assaulted. …

The task force offered several recommendations to address the issues detailed in the voluminous report, including improved anti-bias training for students and staff along with a new system for reporting complaints about antisemitism. …

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(Excerpt from The New York Post. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

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Darlene Estlow
September 4, 2024

Father, I pray for these colleges that they would protect the Jewish students. Let them see their responsibility to serve justice for them and stop the antisemitism that has infected the colleges. Bring them to conviction of sin in their behavior. I pray for protection over these Jewish students. May this evil stop and your justice flow against this unrighteousness. May many come to you, Father, bringing true peace in you.

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