People were really caught by surprise, especially by the anti-Semitism in America.

I wasn't because this has been brewing for years.

This anti-Israel sentiment on campus is so embedded into the academics, academia.

I mean, even in the Jewish Studies Department, they fill it up with anti-Zionists, self-hating Jews.

And it, to me, wasn't surprising.

Welcome to our culture and Christianity podcast today.

We have a very special guest.

I just been in Jerusalem, and I had the opportunity to sit down and interview, Fleur Hassan Dahum.

She was the vice mayor of Jerusalem.

And will help us gain an understanding into that city.

Why that matters is Jerusalem is really the epicenter of what God is doing in the earth.

It's the center of so much

controversy and so much debate on the international stage. And candidly, there's just a lot of

ignorance around the city of Jerusalem, particularly within the Christian community. King David made

Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish people, a Jewish state, a thousand, about a thousand BC.

Okay, if you don't like dates and you're not into history, that one's important.

About a thousand BC, Muhammad was born in the 7th century AD.

So we're talking 1,500 years before Muhammad was born, King David made Jerusalem the capital of a Jewish nation.

That's a lot of history.

So when the Muslim world says the Jews have no rights to the city of Jerusalem because they're encroaching on their territory, it's an incomplete view of history.

I'm not saying that they don't have some engagement in the city, but it's not mentioned in the

Quran.

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