My Day with Cornell Protestors: Antisemitism, Denial, and Ignorance
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American Thinker ^
| 05/13/2024 | Susan D. Harris
As I walked around taking photographs of the Anti-Israel encampment at Cornell University, one of the participants kept calling after me -- “Julie! Julie, right? Haven’t
we met before?” It was one of the appointed mediators for the student activists. She wore a yellow vest, carried a walkie-talkie, and used any pretense she could think of to strike up a conversation with non-students to quickly discern their intentions. A week before I visited, twenty-two students and two staff members had been arrested for staging a sit-in in Day Hall, the administrative center for Cornell. Shortly before that, multiple suspensions had...
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Cornell University President Martha Pollack steps down after year of turmoil, threats to Jewish students
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NY Post ^
| 9 May 2024 | Carl Campanile
Cornell University President Martha Pollack is ending her 7-year tenure as the head of the Ivy League school in upstate Ithaca — following months of turmoil including demonstrations and threats to Jewish students. The
65-year-old insisted that her departure — effective June 30 — is unrelated to the anti-Israel protests and brazen displays of antisemitism, insisting that she considered announcing her retirement in the fall and winter. “I had to pause because of events on our and/or on other campuses,” Pollack said in her resignation statement released Thursday.
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Another One Bites the Dust: Cornell University President Martha Pollack Resigns in Surprise Email
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Red State ^
| 05/09/2024 | Bob Hoge
The pro-Hamas protests that have engulfed campuses across the nation have claimed another victim, Cornell University president Martha E. Pollack, who announced in a surprise email Thursday that she is stepping down in June after a seven-year reign. The
Ivy League school has been at the center of two controversies in recent times: its racist promotion of DEI at all costs and its failure to take effective action against antisemitism on its campus. Background:Ivy League School Offers Rock Climbing Class for Everyone But White StudentsCornell Professor Who Was 'Exhilarated' by Hamas's Attacks Is Now So Very Sorry (but Is He...
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Cornell Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirement for Fall 2026 Application Cycle
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Cornell Daily Sun ^
| 4/22/2024 | Anushka Shorewala
Since the 2021 admissions cycle, Cornell University’s eight undergraduate colleges have adopted test-optional and test-blind policies. However,
starting in the 2026 admissions cycle, all colleges will mandate prospective students to submit a standardized test score with their applications. Although colleges will continue test-optional and test-blind policies for the Fall 2025 admissions cycle, students are encouraged to submit SAT and/or ACT scores. Cornell initially suspended standardized test requirements for applicants in April 2020 due to SAT and ACT test cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many peer institutions — including Yale and Dartmouth — recently announced that they would reinstate the...
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We stand for civilization against true barbarians - William A. Jacobson at Cornell Unity Rally
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Legal Insurrection ^
| 04/14/2024 | William A. Jacobson
This is a unity rally, but it’s not just a unity rally for Jews, and it’s not just a unity rally for Israel. There’s a reason we have Israeli and American flags on this stage, it’s because we stand for civilization against true barbarians who are looking to tear us down.How is
it that on this campus and other college campuses across the United States, the immediate reaction from many students and many faculty was to celebrate what Hamas had done. How is it that at Harvard, within a day, 50 student groups signed a statement entirely blaming Israel, the...
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Trump holds 7-point lead over Biden in new poll with RFK Jr. and Cornell West Included
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Christian Post ^
| 11/23/2023 | Michael Gryboski
Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by seven points in a new poll showing the Republican candidate defeating the Democrat incumbent if they go head-to-head in 2024. The
latest Messenger/Harris poll conducted by HarrisX, released on Monday, has Trump with 47% support among those surveyed, versus 40% for Biden and 13% undecided. Additionally, when respondents were asked to choose between Trump, Biden, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Cornel West, Trump received 40% support, Biden 33%, Kennedy 14% and West 2%.Although besting Biden in the polling, the report also found that 55% of voters do not want Trump to...
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Cornell University Cancels Classes for a Day Following Student's Violent Antisemitic Threats
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Red State ^
| 11/02/23 | Susie Moore
Amidst the chaos in the Middle East following Hamas' evil attack on Israel on October 7, there's been growing unrest on college campuses here in the United States. RedState has brought you numerous stories of protests and dueling faculty and student body letters, a disappointingly significant portion of which have espoused support
for Hamas and condemnation of Israel. It's clear that the mayhem wrought by the early October attacks has exposed major fault lines running through academia, particularly in the Ivy League. Cornell University hit the headlines in mid-October after one professor proudly declared his exhilaration over the Hamas attacks....
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Cornell University cancels classes Friday amid ‘extraordinary stress’ on campus after violent antisemitic threats led to the arrest of a student
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CNN ^
| 11/02/23 | Elizabeth Wolfe, Zenebou Sylla
CNN — Cornell University has canceled classes Friday to acknowledge the “extraordinary stress” its campus has been under as one of its students is accused of making violent antisemitic threats against Jewish people at the college, where unease over the Israel-Hamas war has been escalating for weeks. A
junior at the university, 21-year-old Patrick Dai, has been arrested and federally charged in connection with a series of online posts over the weekend which threatened to kill and harm Cornell’s Jewish students, New York prosecutors say. Dai appeared in federal court Wednesday on a charge of making a threat using interstate...
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Authorities: Cornell University student Patrick Dai arrested for posting antisemitic threats online
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CBS ^
| OCTOBER 31, 2023 | MARCIA KRAMER, LISA ROZNER, ELIJAH WESTBROOK
NEW YORK -- A Cornell University junior was arrested Tuesday for allegedly making violent online threats directed toward Jewish students at the school. Gov.
Kathy Hochul says state police and the FBI's joint terrorism task force questioned him earlier Tuesday. Patrick Dai accused of posting antisemitic threats The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York says 21-year-old Patrick Dai has been arrested for posting antisemitic threats, including, "If you see a Jewish 'person' on campus follow them home and slit their throats." The feds say Dai is from the Rochester area and faces charges of posting threats to...
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Cornell Student Arrested for Making Online Threats to Jewish Students on Campus
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Northern District of New York ^
| October 31, 2023
Cornell Student Arrested for Making Online Threats to Jewish Students on Campus Tuesday, October 31, 2023 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Patrick Dai, age 21, a junior at Cornell University who is originally from Pittsford, New York, was arrested today on a
federal criminal complaint charging him with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Alfred Watson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); New York...
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Cornell Junior Arrested and Charged In Threats Against Jewish Students
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Legal Insurrection ^
| 31 Oct 2023 | William A Jacobsen
Patrick Dai, a Cornell Junior, has been charged.Patrick Dai, of Pittsford, posted threats to shoot up a multicultural dining room on campus to an online discussion site, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York said in a news release.104West, the dining room, serves food that meets
Kosher, Halal and other religious guidelines. It is next to the university’s Center for Jewish Living, where several dozen Jewish students live on campus.Dai, a junior, also called for the deaths of Jewish people and threatened to bring an assault rifle to campus, prosecutors said. He was charged...
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Cornell on high alert after hateful messages threaten to ‘slit the throats’ of Jewish students
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New York Post ^
| Oct. 30, 2023 | David Propper
Cornell University was put on high alert after a series of “horrendous, antisemitic” messages — including threats to rape and gun down Jewish students and even behead babies — were posted on a public forum, school officials said. The
upstate New York Ivy League school said campus cops were taking precautions — and had alerted the FBI to “a potential hate crime” just days after “(Expletive) Israel” graffiti was also scrawled on campus sidewalks. The “series of horrendous, antisemitic messages threatening violence” had specifically named 104 West, “the home of the Center for Jewish Living,” university president Martha Pollack said...
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Person in custody after series of antisemitic threats against Cornell University’s Jewish community
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WBALtv ^
| 10/31/23 | Michelle Watson and Dakin Andone
ITHACA, N.Y. — A person is in custody in connection with a series of antisemitic online threats made against Cornell University’s Jewish community, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement Tuesday. “Earlier today, law enforcement identified a person of interest as part of the investigation and this individual is currently
in the custody of the New York State Police for questioning,” Hochul said in Tuesday’s statement, adding public safety was a “top priority” and that she was “committed to combatting hate and bias wherever it rears its ugly head.” The online messages surfaced Sunday and included threats to...
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Police lock down kosher dining hall at University after threats to kill Jewish students ...Users posting on an anonymous forum said: 'If you see a jewish ‘person’ on campus follow them home and slit their throats' [Cornell]
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The Jewish Chronicle ^
| OCTOBER 30, 2023 13:43 | BY ELIANA JORDAN
The FBI has been alerted after death threats were made against Jewish students at a prestigious US university from users operating under names including “jew jenocide" and "hamas warrior", Antisemitic posts calling for violence against Jewish students at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, were published on a forum for members of
the institution's fraternities and sororities over the weekend, local media reported. Cornell has more Jewish students than any other Ivy League university - around 2,500. Police are now stationed outside a US university's Jewish centre after the messages, accompanied by headlines including “jewish people need to be killed”...
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Cornell on alert after ‘horrendous, antisemitic’ messages threaten campus Jewish community
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| 10/29/23 | By David Propper
Cornell University was on high alert Sunday night after a series of “horrendous, antisemitic” messages threatening the school’s Jewish community were posted earlier on a public forum, school officials said Sunday night. The
school notified law enforcement agencies and campus police were taking precautions after a series of disturbing online posts made threats directed at Jewish students and the Center for Jewish Living, according to the university’s president Martha Pollack. The FBI has been contacted of a potential hate crime at the upstate New York Ivy League school amid the Israel-Hamas war, Pollack said. One of the posts on the...
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‘F– Israel’ graffiti scrawled across Cornell University campus sidewalks
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New York Post ^
| Published Oct. 25, 2023, 7:07 p.m. | By Jesse O’Neill
Cornell University’s bucolic upstate New York campus was defaced with hateful anti-Israel graffiti Wednesday morning as some messages read “F–k Israel” and “Zionism = Racism.” The vandalism at the Ithaca Ivy League school came several days after a professor who called Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel “exhilarating” and “energizing” took
a leave of absence. The graffiti began on campus sidewalks sometime before 9 a.m.,
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Cornell Professor Who Was 'Exhilarated' After Hamas Attack Issues Apology for 'Reprehensible' Remarks
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Fox News ^
| October 20, 2023 | Joshua Q. Nelson
'I apologize for the horrible choice of words,' Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford wroteA Cornell University professor who said he was "exhilarated" and "energized" after the Hamas atrocities in Israel issued an apology on Wednesday for the remarks. "I
apologize for the horrible choice of words that I used in a portion of a speech that was intended to stress grassroots African American, Jewish, and Palestinian traditions of resistance to oppression," Cornell University professor Russell Rickford said in a letter published in the Cornell Daily Sun. "I recognize that some of the language I used was reprehensible and did not...
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Cornell University professor calls Hamas terror attack ‘exhilarating’ and ‘exciting’
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NY Post ^
| 10/16/2023 | By Jesse O’Neill
A Cornell University professor was caught on camera telling students Hamas’ terror attack on Israel — which has left more than 1,400 dead — was “exhilarating” and “energizing.” The
remarks were made at a pro-Palestine protest by Russell Rickford, an associate professor of history at the top-tier Ithaca, New York, school and posted online Sunday by a student who called them “shameful.” The footage of Rickford’s impassioned speech was also shared with The Post by two other tipsters. They declined to say when and where exactly the rally took place, but both said they were shocked by the brazen remarks....
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Cornell University official slammed for disturbing posts calling Hamas terror attacks a ‘resistance’
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NY Post ^
| 10/10/2023 | Ronny Reyes
A diversity and inclusion director at Cornell University has come under fire over disturbing social media posts supporting Hamas and dismissing the terror group’s slaughter of innocent civilians as a “resistance.” Derron
Borders, of the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, voiced his support for Palestine and criticized Israel following the devastating invasion by Hamas terrorists that killed more than 900 people. “When you hear about Israel this morning and the resistance being launched by Palestinians, remember against all odds Palestinians are fighting for life, dignity, and freedom — alongside others doing the same — against settle colonization, imperialism, capitalism,...
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Cornell University stands up to ‘triggered’ snowflakes
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Washington Examiner ^
| April 3, 2023 | Quinn Hillyer
Big-time colleges so rarely have attacks of momentary sanity these days that it’s highly newsworthy when one really does exercise good judgment. Forgive,
then, a few exuberant hosannas for Cornell University for rejecting a collegiate snowflake demand for mandatory “trigger warnings.” The school’s Student Assembly voted unanimously — doesn’t anyone think for herself anymore? — to “require instructors who present graphic traumatic content that may trigger the onset of symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to provide advance notice to students and refrain from penalizing students who opt out of exposure to such content.” The resolution so often repeats the...
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