“Zionists don’t deserve to live”: Are campus protests a picture of our cultural future?
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
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Nearly nine hundred protesters have been arrested on US campuses in recent days, about 275 of them on Saturday. Columbia University became the epicenter of the movement, making news when it banned a student protest leader who declared that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” In these truly perilous days for our nation, let us focus on becoming more like Christ, the light of the world, to combat the darkness around us.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Today is Monday, April the 29th, 2024. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:17.0 | Nearly 900 protesters have been arrested on U.S. campuses in recent days, about 275 of them on Saturday. |
| 0:25.2 | Activists staged a large event outside of the White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night, |
| 0:31.1 | part of a wave of protests that has spread across the country and could continue through the summer at political conventions. |
| 0:38.3 | Columbia University became the epicenter of the movement due to its proximity to national media in New York and its status as an Ivy League institution. |
| 0:47.3 | The campus is also home to a large Jewish student population, many of whom have faced harassment or attacks from protesters |
| 0:55.1 | fueling more media coverage and political scrutiny. Columbia made more news when it banned a student |
| 1:01.3 | protest leader who declared that Zionists don't deserve to live. He said with regards to fighting |
| 1:07.4 | a Zionist, someone such as myself, who believes that the Jews deserve a homeland in Israel, |
| 1:13.0 | quote, I don't fight to injure or for there to be a winner or loser, I fight to kill. |
| 1:18.2 | He added, be grateful that I'm not just going out and murdering Zionists, end quote. |
| 1:24.1 | Tragically, that's already been done. In the new edition of foreign affairs, the Israeli |
| 1:29.3 | historian Tom Sigev offers a brilliant overview of the modern history of the nation. He begins. |
| 1:36.4 | To Israelis, October the 7th, 2023, is the worst day in their country's 75-year history. Never before have so many of them been |
| 1:46.1 | massacred and taken hostage on a single day. Thousands of heavily armed Hamas fighters |
| 1:51.8 | managed to break through the Gaza Strip's fortified border and into Israel, rampaging unimpeded |
| 1:58.2 | for hours, destroying several villages, and committing gruesome acts of |
| 2:02.8 | brutality before Israeli forces could regain control. In quotes, Hamas leaders have vowed to |
| 2:09.4 | repeat these attacks until Israel is destroyed. Consequently, Israel had no choice but to send the |
| 2:16.0 | IDF into Gaza to destroy Hamas. |
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