The Fuel Behind the Fire: Anti-Israel Protests & American Universities

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

What's driving the anti-Israel protests storming college campuses all across America? Schools like Columbia University, UCLA, Emory, Harvard, and Yale have been hit with massive pro-Palestinian mobs that have led to hundreds of arrests and violent threats against the Jewish student populations. Why are these angry (yet seemingly sophisticated) mobs targeting college campuses and how have they successfully managed to recruit students to join in the madness even at the threat of expulsion?

In this midweek podcast, John guides us through a conversation investigating the ongoing anti-Israel protests as he also breaks down the geopolitical, historical, theological, and prophetic backdrop. He'll also provide an update as to how the U.S. government is responding to these hostile demonstrations in real time and expose the true heart and motivation behind them. During the episode, John will answer questions like:

What sparked this string of protests and what demands are being made?
What would be the implications of a ceasefire from Israel?
Why is a two-state solution impossible?
How legitimate is the "Free Palestine" cause?
What makes Israel a political barometer in the Middle East?
If Hamas managed to defeat Israel, how would the U.S. be impacted?
Why do many Muslims and citizens of Gaza support the flourishing of Israel?

As you learn about the context surrounding the protests and the Israel-Hamas conflict, it'll become more and more apparent why Christian apologists should have a vested interest in the nation of Israel. Take a listen as John reveals how politics is playing a major role in the recent rise of antisemitism on college campuses in the U.S. and explores how the Islamic worldview continues to fuel hostility between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East. And please continue to pray for the safety of Israel and a peaceable end to this ongoing war.

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.0	Because you have faith, does that make this book true?
0:05.0	Does God exist?
0:07.0	So when someone says there is no truth, if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:13.6	Is that true?
0:15.4	They don't think Christianity's true.
0:18.5	They're talked out of it.
0:20.2	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.2	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.0	Cross-examining skeptical and apiistic views.
0:28.0	Welcome to cross-examine with Dr. Frank Turrick.
0:32.0	I have to ask why all these anti-Israel protests going on on college campuses across the country.
0:40.0	We're hearing of hundreds of different arrests, threats of violence against Jewish students
0:46.0	and school boards and school administration getting worked up and now just today at the 29th of April, 21 Senate Democrats signed off on a letter this week effectively
1:00.3	scolding all of these schools for letting these campus protests continue in
1:07.0	unsafe, a dangerous, in a dangerous way. They're even calling it anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic. What is going on here?
1:15.9	My name's Dr. John Ferrer, I'm a speaker with cross-examined and I want to get to the
1:21.8	bottom of this.
1:23.0	This is important, this speaks to the political climate, the political landscape,
1:28.5	the stability, the cultural time that we're in, this is a very important subject.
1:34.8	But to understand it, it's important for us to hear, why are these protests even going
1:38.7	on in the first place?
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