As radical displays of antisemitism continue at dozens of college campuses and universities across the country, including elite Ivy League schools like Columbia, students at Liberty University are defying the narrative and joining together to honor God.
Students at Liberty University gathered by the hundreds on the Academic Lawn outside the Montview Student Union on Wednesday to close out the semester with prayer, worship, and reading the Bible.
This week, students chose to close the semester with the ultimate wrap-up giving glory to God well into the night. “While so many campuses are erupting in anger, hatred, and violence; it is refreshing to see the students at Liberty University reflecting the love of Christ as we are commanded to do by Scripture,” said the university chancellor.
The school's peaceful, Christ-focused, worship gathering stands in stark contrast to dozens of students being arrested at Columbia, Yale, NYU, USC, UT Austin, and Emerson College this week. Even with Israel under fire from Hezbollah, Iran, and Hamas terrorists in Gaza, the number of anti-Israel demonstrations at prestigious universities continues to grow.
As of Thursday, Emory University, Northwestern University, Cornell University, George Washington University, Princeton University, and the City College of New York all participated in pro-terrorism demonstrations.
The University of Southern California canceled its main stage commencement ceremony as the actions of the protesters “escalated to include vandalism, defacing campus buildings and structures, as well as a physical confrontation that threatens the safety of our officers and campus community,” noted USC Provost Andrew Guzman.
And while the roar of “We are Hamas” or the genocidal chant of “From the River to the Sea,” which celebrates making Israel Judenrein, continued to be a rallying cry among students at scores of Marxist-controlled universities, students at Liberty sang songs of praise, lifting up Jesus.
“There is no greater joy than seeing God's people delight in His truth,” a Liberty University spokesperson told Fox. “While we are all tragically witnessing the state of college campuses . . . speaking with the language of hatred and promoting a wicked ideology that favors the annihilation of an entire race of people, by contrast, thousands of Liberty students gathered last night on our academic lawn for the worship of the Lord Jesus Christ, Scripture reading, preaching, and prayer. Liberty students are actively seeking the presence of God,” they added.
What is taking place at Liberty University is a refreshing sight and people are taking notice. “Inspired by @LibertyU for showing the nation that hate and antisemitism have no place in Virginia,” said Virginia Governor Glen Youngkin on X.
“Liberty is one of the TINY handful of colleges worth sending our kids to. God bless them,” said Eric Metaxas on X.
Christian worship leader Sean Feucht said, “Imagine if more campuses across America followed @LibertyU's lead in hosting massive outdoor worship and prayer rallies contradicting the violence, anarchy, Jew-hatred and chaos rising on universities today! . . . We must bring GOD back into institutions of higher education! He is the answer and hope to turn things around,” he added.
Feucht and Metaxas took action themselves Thursday night, rallying thousands of Israel supporters to march through New York City in opposition to the antisemitic outburst that began at Columbia University.
I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen. Rom. 9:1-5