Regent University has launched a new academic institute that will counter the anti-Israel propaganda that is fueling the rise of antisemitism across college campuses in America by equipping evangelical Christian students to know how to counter false narratives in academia.
The Institute for Israel Studies launched this month within the Robertson School of Government and is scheduled to provide educational offerings for Christians who are pro-Israel this fall.
Dr. A.J. Nolte, assistant professor of government at the Robertson School and chair of the institute, told CBN News the purpose is to provide “education about contemporary Israel and some of the realities about the modern state.”
He shared that much of the “propaganda” presented to college-age students falsely paints Israel as a “genocidal apartheid state.”
“The battleground really is in the schools. It’s in academia right now,” he told CBN News. “If you look at what is happening post-October 7th, the locus of antisemitism and anti-Israel activity in the United States is coming from universities. The only way to fight that is to fight fire with fire in the academic university setting.”
Nolte adds the Robertson School of Government is “well-positioned to counter a lot of those negative narratives from within a
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