Whereas Columbia University has positioned itself as a prestigious institution of learning and inquiry, yet persistently advances an ethos devoid of spiritual orientation or metaphysical grounding;
Whereas this institutional godlessness manifests not as neutrality, but as a selective blindness to the sacred traditions of Semitic peoples — reducing ancient languages, faiths, and cosmologies into tools of modern political expediency;
Whereas Columbia University elevates certain expressions of Semitic identity, notably those aligned with modern Hebrew and Jewish political narratives, while casting suspicion upon or undermining other Semitic traditions, especially Arabic, Islamic, and Eastern Christian heritages;
Whereas the university has repeatedly allowed or enabled the term ”anti-Semitic” to be wielded as a rhetorical weapon — not to defend Semitic peoples as a whole, but to suppress critique, marginalize dissent, and invalidate Semitic voices that do not conform to institutional or geopolitical preferences;
Be it resolved that:
1. Columbia University be held accountable for perpetuating a false binary that elevates one Semitic voice while silencing others, particularly through the uneven treatment of Hebrew and Arabic, Judaism and Islam;
2. The institution be recognized as engaging in ideological discrimination under the guise of aca demic discourse, effectively contributing to cultural erasure and epistemological colonization;
3. The university’s invocation of the term ”anti-Semitism” be critically examined and historically contextualized — with clear distinction drawn between the defense of human dignity and the manipulation of moral language to entrench political power;
4. The administration, faculty, and governing bodies initiate transparent dialogue, audits, and reform that affirm the full sacred spectrum of Semitic tradition, including Islamic, Aramaic, Christian Semitic, and non-Zionist Jewish perspectives; 1
5. Columbia confront the godless posture of its academic structure, recognizing that education severed from the sacred becomes complicit in moral confusion, cultural bias, and the flattening of civilizations into mere ideologies;
6. A public commitment be made to restore humility, balance, and reverence within the university’s treatment of Semitic peoples — not merely as subjects of political discourse, but as carriers of ancient wisdom, language, and divine insight.
Let this resolution serve as a moral and scholarly rebuke of Columbia University’s ongoing failure to honor the full breadth of the Semitic world. No university that weaponizes words, flattens faith, or turns sacred tradition into geopolitical theater can claim to be a champion of truth.
“For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.” — (Psalm 36:9, ESV)