Posted on 11/02/2023 3:47:09 AM PDT by Libloather
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 commerce but did not enter a plea. He was remanded back into the custody of US marshals. His defense attorney, Gabrielle DiBella, declined to comment after the hearing.
Cornell will observe Friday as a community day “in recognition of the extraordinary stress of the past few weeks,” a university spokesperson told CNN.
In addition to the online threats, the university also received a “concerning crime alert” on Wednesday, Cornell president Martha Pollack said in a statement. Though the alert was unsubstantiated, it “adds to the stress we are all feeling,” she wrote.
Cornell is one of many US colleges and universities that have become fraught with tension as students — and occasionally professors and high-profile donors — voice impassioned stances on the war raging between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Since the conflict ignited last month, Jews, Palestinians and Muslims in the US have expressed growing fear over a reported spike in hate-motivated attacks — including a nearly 400% increase in antisemitic incidents recorded by the Anti-Defamation League in the days after Hamas raided Israel on October 7.
The threats against Cornell’s students prompted state and campus police to bolster their presence on campus...
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One less day of indoctrination. I bet the students don’t get a day’s worth of tuition refunded.
“Community Day”. Everything is a community with these commies.
Run and hide.
Libs have always been violent. Now it’s to a group with “protections”.
This is a byproduct of putting up those suicide nets in the gorges. CU used to weed out snowflakes like this.
Lack of consequences...lack of morality or rather a warped morality that condones violence in the name of your cause.
Left has infested then destroyed yet another institution. Cornell was once a true beacon of education, critical thinking. Traditionally minded alumni must feel sickened by this.
Good question.
If China can be on campus, why not Hamas? Just because they come here doesn’t mean they leave their hatreds and bigotries behind. “Activated” students is a hallmark of communist states and terrorists. I took a “non-western politics” class in college. The professor was a “Palestinian”. He told us this. They use students to stir the sh— because they’re young, idealistic and stupid.
They get a day off because one guy got arrested???
Back to the office with you! :-)
4 years of college. Classes were never cancelled across the campus.
This kid would have gotten the crap kicked out of him.
High above Cayuga’s waters there’s an awful smell.
Some say it’s Cayuga’s waters, some say it’s Cornell.
Flush the toilets, flush the toilets,
Flush them all to hell!
Twenty-thousand SOBs call themselves Cornell
Flush the toilets, flush the toilets,
Flush them all to hell!
Twenty-thousand SOBs call themselves Cornell
In his book “Inside the Third Reich”, Albert Speer described how the Nazi movement flourished on college campuses in Germany. Apparently young skulls full of mush are willing recruits for hateful propaganda.
I thought about throwing myself over too, the one time I was there.
“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.”
Has he been expelled yet? Has Cornell set up a “safe space” for Jews? Ya know, like maybe a nice barracks surrounded by armed guards and concertina wire? Maybe they could install a nice big oven to keep them warm and showers to delouse them.
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Too much effort for that faculty and administration.
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