Cornell Hillel Posts Warning After Threats To Jewish Students, Kosher Dining Hall
“Cornell Police Department is on site and monitoring the situation…. We advise that students and staff avoid the building out of an abundance of caution.”
104 West is the home of Cornell’s Kosher Dining Hall, and is also next to the Center for Jewish Living.
Cornell Hillel has posted a warning on Facebook that the dining hall is on lockdown after online threats:
These apparently are some of the online threats:
https://twitter.com/anniesun16/status/1718749046016221548
There’s more. https://t.co/NgdZX3OOXO pic.twitter.com/AMqWvrlu87
— Isaac de Castro (@isaacdecastrog) October 29, 2023
I have warned the Board of Trustees about the antisemitism problem on campus, but have been ignored, “Cornell did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Jacobson’s call to evaluate antisemitism on campus”.
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We don’t know yet the source or seriousness of these threats, or who is behind them. (I should also add that at Legal Insurrection we have covered here a long line of campus hate hoaxes, so we can’t rule that out until more is known.)
But anti-Israel activists have been getting more and more aggressive, Anti-Israel Graffiti Appears on Campus at Cornell University.
Amid increasing Jew-hatred and several pro-Hamas rallies on campus, including one at which a professor called Hamas's massacre "exhilarating," students at @Cornell were greeted by this egregious, hateful display this morning.
What is Cornell doing to protect its Jewish students? pic.twitter.com/lDvSA6fKA3— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 25, 2023
The President of Cornell issued this all campus email at approximately 7 p.m. tonight (emphasis in original):
Dear members of the Cornell community,
Earlier today, a series of horrendous, antisemitic messages threatening violence to our Jewish community and specifically naming 104 West — the home of the Center for Jewish Living — was posted on a website unaffiliated with Cornell. Law enforcement was immediately notified.
At this time, Cornell Police (CUPD) are on the scene and investigating. Police will continue to remain on site to ensure our students and community members are safe.
Cornell Police have also notified the FBI of a potential hate crime.
Threats of violence are absolutely intolerable, and we will work to ensure that the person or people who posted them are punished to the full extent of the law. Our immediate focus is on keeping the community safe; we will continue to prioritize that.
We will not tolerate antisemitism at Cornell. During my time as president, I have repeatedly denounced bigotry and hatred, both on and off our campus. The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community. This incident highlights the need to combat the forces that are dividing us and driving us toward hate. This cannot be what defines us at Cornell.
All of our community deserves to feel safe at Cornell. If you become aware of any threats to your safety or to the safety of the community, please contact CUPD at 607-255-1111. We also encourage you to download the RAVE Guardian app, which will enable you to report any safety concerns to CUPD in real time.
In the days ahead, we will work to reinforce a culture of trust, respect and safety at Cornell. Regardless of your beliefs, backgrounds or perspectives, I urge all of you to come together with the empathy and support for each other that we so greatly need in this difficult time.
Sincerely,
Martha E. Pollack
President
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If any of these comments can be proven to be from a Cornell student expulsion is the bare minimum punishment they should receive.
Are you kidding? The Cornell GC (formerly of Oberlin) will probably want to give them medals.
For years and years all we ever heard from university students was “we demand safe spaces” and now that there’s a verifiable need for safe spaces, university administrators are soft on safe spaces.
It’s just as well. The Jews don’t need coloring books, blankies, and stuffies, and that’s all the “safety” the administration is capable of providing.
Administrators also locked down conservative free speech. And now allow and promote murderous leftist speech.
I’d say they need all the protection the individual student is capable of providing. We know who college administrations side with.
Cornell has become woke trash dumpster fire.
Like harvard they don’t teach critical thinking nowadays. Its all conformity to CRT, DEI, BLM, LGTB.
It’s all conformity to various doctrines of the Progressive Church.
Totalitarian religions seldom are comfortable with dissent/apostasy.
Please tell me you’re going to be OK, Professor. If they’re targeting the students, they most likely will also target you.
Yes. Stay safe, Professor!
Just a note to let you know that we old swabbies know what a mustang is (was). Congratulations.
EXCLUSIVE: Obama-Tied HAMAS Proxy Hatem Abudayyeh in Charge of Pro-Hamas Counterprotests Throughout the Chicagoland Area.
https://tinyurl.com/mrx6myxb website named Loomer.
This looks like black bloc antifa dressed in costumes:
Black Israelites/ Hebrews fight Pro-Hamas protesters in Chicago. FYI BHI believe they are the real Jews, and Jews like me are fake Khazarians.
https://twitter.com/anjewla90/status/1718696802948378643
If it’s EXCLUSIVE to Laura Loomer, I’d take it with a grain of salt, and wait for confirmation from someone more reliable. Loomer’s heart may be in the right place, but she’s a lunatic. Belongs in a padded cell. Sometimes she gets hold of some good information, as she may have done this time, but usually not.
Which means they should be supporting Hamas, since Hamas is taking out the “fake Jews”.
It all looks weird to me. I defer to you regarding this Loomer woman and her character profile. Never heard of her.
She did note that the “black Israelites tried to join the Hamas crew” and the Hamas crew reacted poorly. You need to scroll down comments to locate that quote.
The two groups behave more like American hyper-violent ‘black bloc antifa’ than ordinary snot-nosed palestinian marchers. It reeks of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ behavior.
I’ve got my quotes mixed up. The video uploaded by Pluym.
Angela Van Der Pluym
@anjewla90 5h
Apparently, looking into it, BHI tried to join the protest. The pro-Hamas side saw the word “Hebrew” and attacked them.
Ha! I wish both sides the best of luck in beating up the other.
Calling the kettle black are we?
Laura has been more right than wrong for years
We hen I first read the headline, I read it as Cornel West. Thought I had entered the Twilight Zone.
Noting that Professor Jacobson is probably unable to answer these questions for professional reasons; it would be interesting to have a discussion here whether a) Cornell will really take effective steps to protect Jewish students and staff, and b) if Jewish students or staff are attacked and harmed, what will the real reaction of Cornell be?
Subotai Bahadur
IMO any institution that does not take immediate action to identify and expel any students involved in terroristic actions and hate crimes should have its leaders fired for cause. If the trustees refuse to do that then the institution no longer deserves to exist. Doesn’t their General Counsel from Oberlin have enough first hand experience to know that if this ends up in Jewish student injuries they they sat by an allowed to happen they could be in for a big lawsuit with another unsympathetic jury? (In fact, there must be some Jewish students that have already suffered emotional/psychological injury.)
Let’s put it this way: after the Gibson v. Oberlin jury returned the initial verdict — finding against the college and awarding a very large damages award — the second stage of the bifurcated trial that same jury would determine the amount of punitive damages.
But Oberlin’s oh-so-PC general counsel thought it was a good idea to issue a press release condemning the jury’s findings.
No rational attorney (or anyone with any common sense) would do that. But in her mind, the narrative is all that matters. (And by hiring someone with her track record as it’s GC, that appears to be the mindset of the Cornell administration as well.). So if Jewish students on campus are threatened or even attacked, and/or if the college gets sued as a result, in her little mind it’s just collateral damage. Besides, it’s not her money anyway.
any students involved in terroristic actions and hate crimes
Define “terroristic”. Define “hate”. That’s what the left has been doing for a long time.
This isn’t a concern troll. I’m not saying “don’t become like them” or any other nonsense.
No, this is to point out that the problem is not really “terrorist” actions and “hate”. Rather it’s the morals defining what is virtuous and what’s vile. The Progressive morals are awful and cruel (where they simply aren’t a statist replacement for Christian ones) by the standards of Western Civilization – while claiming to be more virtuous than the Christ, Himself.
It’s not that they are just hateful, but that their morals are awful, and they stand by them wholeheartedly.
Just leave.
It’s not complicated
Almost all of the Jews at Cornell had to have had grandparents and/or great grandparents who had to flee somewhere to get to America.
It’s not your fault. It’s just your turn.
Your safest place now is Israel. Even with all the Rockets from Gaza, we have an Army that is now stationed in every city and the Police and Border Guards are everywhere. People are Armed and they have been in the IDF so they know how to shoot. You have a Jewish country that cares for you. You can make a life here. We did and it is great in Jerusalem.
If you’re bright enough to go to college, then you are certainly bright enough to move to any country on earth that’ll take you — and succeed.
If you’re Ivy League smart, even more so.
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I think it’s hard for most people — Jew , Gentile, Whatever — to accept that the good ol’ days are gone, and they ain’t coming back.
Like it or not.
a) No
b) No
As long as there are Muslim students on ANY campus there will be anti-Semitism. Just take a close look at the protest and you will see Arabs everywhere. They always bring their airhead American girls with them.
As long as there are muslims anywhere in America there will be a problem with anti Semitism. Does anyone really believe that if the muslim population were zero these hate filled demonstrations would be happening? These college students didn’t just wake up one day and decide to hate Jews. The muslims learned it at their mothers’s knees and the non muslims are sheep who learned nothing.
Even if these demonstations end, what will it signify? Only that the hate has gone underground. These people will not change their stripes only conceal them.
And where are the good people of America who reject this? Why are there not massive counterprotests? Where are the leaders who speak out and say enough? Who put their words into actions and organize counterprotests? What are they afraid of? This will go the way of the BLM riots, ie., nothing will happen to the haters except they will see what they can get away with and get stronger.
Why aren’t there big counter protests? Let’s say you have one. Hamas, BLM, and Antifa show up to counter-counter protest, and initiate a violent confrontation..
If the anti-Hamas demonstrators then use force to defend themselves, guess who the university administrators and/or Soros-associated local DA is going to go after? (Analogous example: look at what happened in Portland to folks trying to defend themselves from Antifa.)
“And where are the good people of America who reject this? Why are there not massive counter protests? Where are the leaders who speak out and say enough?”
Alas that is the nature of ‘good people’. It is the Western weakness which allows weaker enemies to defeat us. Photos of suffering civilians and pleas from hostage families will win before much longer. Our anti civilized enemy can wage Old Testament level warfare without much worry, so far.
That’s a pathetic statement from the administration.
How about, “Any student making threats of violence against another student shall be barred from campus pending a further investigation. Students engaging in any actual instances of physical violence shall be expelled.” That sort of thing.
Too much?
Unless, of course, the administration actually agrees with the aggressors. I suppose there is that.
I’m so old that I remember when students were sent down from Oxford and Cambridge, and (male) students at Yale would be immediately expelled if there was a girl in their room.
“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”
So, is Cornell going to amend the above, to provide for the exemption of Jewish students?
Get George Soros and his Open Society/Tides off of campuses and you’ll be fine.
That’s the real enemy.
https://thepostmillennial.com/soros-has-funneled-over-15m-to-pro-hamas-organizations-through-open-society-foundations-report
Where is Merrick Garland on this? Taking a nap?
Fomenting it.
And, yet, the Progressives will still ask, “What purpose could you have for carrying a firearm on school grounds?!”
Because, obviously, “It couldn’t happen here.”
Not sure if this is new info?
https://hotair.com//jazz-shaw/2023/10/30/cornell-university-jewish-center-receives-death-threats-n588646?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=55c1bb79182b5cc3f2cb588e21b3707c1e37cf60263c074e4ae20b51f2876b9a
1) There are a large number of Jewish alumni of CU. CU should make clear that if students, staff, or faculty are involved in the threats those people will have their connection with CU cut, expelled or terminated on proof of guilt re threats of violence. Otherwise contributions to CU from alumni should stop.
2) For students, all course credits earned to date will be cancelled on proof of threats of violence. Course credits should be made provisional on non-violent conduct. No tuition refunds.
3) CU should consider appointing a special counsel to handle this matter as the current GC’s Oberlin background would make this step desirable.
Cornell has sent the wrong message-Anyone who dined at the kosher dining hall should eat there even if it requires a police escort
Cornell’s message is quite simple. We cannot protect you, avoid being the Jewish person that you are. Jewish students must band together to protect themselves. It is doubtful Cornell University will do anything other issue platitudes while Jewish students hide in shadows traveling to classes and huddle in fear in their dorms. Those who contribute to Cornell are no better than those who contribute to Hamas.