Greg Laurie Urges Christians to Speak Out Against Antisemitism and Stand With Israel
Pastor Greg Laurie urges church leaders and Christians to stand with Israel and speak out against the antisemitism being demonstrated on college campuses throughout the country.
College students, along with other protestors, are demanding that their universities cut all financial ties with anyone does business with Israel. Pro-Palestine protestors have chanted “Death to America,” “Death to Jews,” and “Death to Israel.”
The Harvest Christian Fellowship lead pastor told ChurchLeaders that when it comes to what began with 100 students at Columbia University in New York City and has spread to Massachusetts, California, Tennessee, and Texas, it has “increasingly [become] clear these efforts are coordinated.”
Laurie believes that America is “repeating” the history of antisemitism that rose alongside the Nazis in Germany and resulted in the Jewish Holocaust.
According to Dani Dayan, the head of the Yad Vashem National Holocaust Museum in Israel, “The ongoing anti-Israel demonstrations at elite U.S. colleges and universities are exactly what happened in Germany in the 1920s, just years before Nazis took over the country.”
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Many of the students protesting have “no idea” what they are supporting as they hold up signs and shout, “We are Hamas,” ”Gas the Jews,” and “Final Solution,” Laurie said. “[But] many of them do.”
And what’s “even more alarming,” he added, is “professors, who certainly know what they are doing, are joining these protests.”
Laurie explained that these protestors “fail to understand that the modern state of Israel was formed on the heels of the holocaust where 6 million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by the Nazis.”
