It's Monday, August 19, 2024.

I'm Albert Molar, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Of course the big

story this week at least we expect is going to be the 2024 Democratic

National Convention in Chicago and to that we will turn in just a moment.

But just as the nation was headed into the weekend, there was very big news with the

resignation of the President of Columbia University.

In its context, this is a huge story.

Nemat Shefique, better known as Manush Shefique, the president of Columbia University,

announced as a surprise to the community that she would be resigning from office going back to

Great Britain and actually joining the new labor government in terms of a role

within the foreign ministry. So even as in Great Britain she is known as a

Baroness we are looking at the reality that the big story is where she's not.

She is not now at Columbia University.

Now just remember that Columbia University was ground zero, so to speak,

in the campus uprisings against Israel

and American support for Israel

and on behalf of the Palestinians.

Now, there are all kinds of complications related to these campus uprisings and

eventually they were something like coast to coast particularly in America's

most elite universities but nonetheless Columbia does stand out even in the crowd here, even as it did, by the way, back in 1968 in the 1960s, when it was also ground zero for leftist student activism and ideological radicalism.

And it's all back, only by the time you look at what was taking place in the aftermath of the October 7,

2023 attacks on Israel.

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