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74% of Jewish college students believe Antisemitism is a serious problem on campus; Trump urges stop to federal funding and visas to be revoked for acts of Antisemitism

Important Takeaways:

  • The Anti-Defamation League reports more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents have been recorded in America since the terrorist group Hamas executed a murderous rampage in Israel on October 7, 2023.
  • In an effort to reduce that number, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Wednesday called “Never To Be Silent: Stemming the Tide of Antisemitism in America.”
  • While citing antisemitic acts that have occurred at synagogues, community centers, and public places, the hearing focused on how especially bad it is on college campuses. While pointing to an image from a CBN News report, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) described the problem.
  • “Here is a picture taken on the campus of Columbia,” he said. “In the back are Jewish students waving American flags and Israeli flags. In the front is a Columbia student wearing a mask, because these cowards are oh so brave they cover their faces, holding a hand-written sign saying ‘AL QASSAM’S NEXT TARGETS’ – Al Qassam is the military branch of Hamas. Understand what this student is saying. She is calling for the murder of her Jewish classmates.”
  • Anti-Israel protests continue, like the ones that have been held for more than a week at New York’s Barnard College. Elisha Baker, a Barnard College student and witness, told CBN News, “It’s not only anti-Israel, but it’s anti-American, and it goes against everything that a university should be tolerating.”
  • President Trump posted a message on Truth Social placing college campuses on high alert. “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,” he wrote.
  • A recent poll conducted by the Israel on Campus Coalition shows as many as 74% of Jewish college students believe that antisemitism is a serious problem on campus. A total of 30% reported experiencing it, 29% reported witnessing antisemitism, and 22% reported hearing about it.  Furthermore, the study revealed 87% of Jewish college students are concerned that anti-Israel protests and petitions to boycott the State of Israel lead to hate crimes and violence against Jewish students.

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Hundreds of students at University of Alabama gave their lives to Christ and were immediately baptized

College-Students-Baptized

Important Takeaways:

  • ‘It Happened Again!’ Hundreds Baptized in Latest Campus Revival, Now at University of Alabama
  • A new sign of the ongoing revival among America’s young people is being reported out of Alabama.
  • The spiritual awakening that first captured headlines at Asbury College more than a year ago is still spreading nationwide.
  • Several weeks ago, a similar outpouring of revival happened at Florida State University
  • “Hundreds of students came forward to trust Jesus. We can’t explain what’s happening apart from the Spirit.”

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Six Atlanta cops face excessive force charges after tasing college students

(Reuters) – Six Atlanta police officers will face charges for an incident in which they tased two college students and removed them from their car during protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African American in police custody.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said on Tuesday he would seek prison sentences of several years for the officers involved in the Saturday encounter with Messiah Young, 22, and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Taniyah Pilgrim.

“The conduct involved in this incident — it is not indicative of the way that we treat people in the city of Atlanta,” Howard told a briefing, which Young and Pilgrim also attended.

Video footage shared at the briefing showed officers stopping the car, relaying orders and firing a taser gun into the vehicle. Pilgrim is then pulled from the car screaming. There is no sign that either resisted or posed any threat.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said on Sunday that she and the city’s police chief had decided to fire two of the officers after reviewing body-camera footage of the incident.

The Atlanta Police Department did not respond to a request for comment on the charges, which range from aggravated assault to criminal damage to Pilgrim’s car.

“I feel a little safer now that these monsters are off of the street,” said Young, a senior at Morehouse College, who suffered a fractured wrist during the incident. “Moving forward, we just need to make sure that all officers are held accountable.”

Vince Champion, southeast regional director for the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, said the move to bring charges without a thorough investigation was unfair to the officers, none of whom have been interviewed.

“We believe that this is premature,” Champion said, adding he believed Howard and Bottoms were trying to score political points rather than uncover all the facts. “Why were the students stopped? We don’t know the answer to that.”

 

(Reporting by Nathan Layne; Editing by Bernadette Baum)