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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What a bunch of snowflakes!
Back in the day you actually had to have something happen..like kent state riots
Just think, these children vote.
“”He was remanded back into the custody of US marshals””
Are they checking his student visa status? Hope so. He’s Asian and unaware of the bias toward his kind? Doesn’t take “smarts” to get into an Ivy League university - just money!!
Quick, children - hurry to your safe spaces!!
Maybe they followed the pattern of Harvard decades ago. From 1966...Cartoonist Al Capp had them pegged.
https://artanddesigninspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/alcapp-counterculture.jpg
Yes, people have lost all sense of proportion, especially "academics." Its encouraged by the massive, woke US security state
As blood-curdling as his comments were, it became clear pretty quickly the kid was mentally-ill, depressed, suburban computer science student whose parents were doctors from China - not a standard middle-east terrorist background
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