Jewish students at Cornell University in upstate New York were reportedly hiding in their rooms after vile, anti-Semitic death threats were posted on a student message board. The campus Kosher dining hall was singled out with the threat of a massacre.
TheGatewayPundit The threats come two weeks after a Cornell professor was filmed praising the October 7 slaughter of Jews in Israel by Hamas:
Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford speaking about Hamas terrorist attacks. Shameful @Cornell. pic.twitter.com/xv1dTqGymy
— Sam Aberman (@samaberman) October 15, 2023
That was followed by pro-Palestinian graffiti on campus:
Some of the messages, posted Saturday and Sunday on Greekrank were screen-capped and reported Sunday evening by Cornell ’22 grad Annie Vail, “Currently on a @Cornell discussion forum, the Kosher dining hall (104 west) is now on lockdown and Jewish students are scared to leave their rooms…The Cornell Police, State Police and the FBI have all been alerted and there are currently police stationed at 104 West. We are expecting a response from the administration soon”
The threat to shoot up the Kosher dining hall was made Sunday afternoon.
Posted By: “kill jews”
Posted By: “jew evil”
Other messages praised the October 7 attack and called for the elimination of Jewish housing from Cornell:
Given the similar style, the posts appear to be the work of one vicious anti-Semite looking to strike fear in Jewish students. Given the current state of affairs, they must be treated as real threats until the poster is found and detained by law enforcement.
The Cornell Hillel group posted a statement warning students to avoid the dining hall building:
Cornell President Martha Pollack released a statement Sunday night saying campus police were at the dining hall and the FBI has been notified.
The Cornell Daily Sun reported campus police sent out an alert Sunday night:
CUPD released a community threat alert for the entire City of Ithaca at 7:13 p.m. in which it announced it was investigating the posts.
“Evidence suggests the targeted locations were intentionally selected because of the perpetrator’s bias,” the threat alert said.
Threats were posted to Cornell’s Greekrank forums on Saturday, Oct. 28 and Sunday, Oct. 29, including one that threatened a shooting at 104West!, which is home to Cornell’s Center for Jewish Living and the kosher dining hall.
“If i see another synagogue another rally for the zionist globalist genocidal apartheid dictatorial entity known as “israel”, i will bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews [sic],” said one post titled “if i see another jew” by a poster calling themselves “hamas.” “jews are human animals and deserve a pigs death. Liberation by any means. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free [sic]!”
The post also threatened to rape female Jewish students and behead Jewish babies in front of their parents.
Greekrank is a discussion site about the fraternities and sororities across colleges and universities, with user guidelines banning content that “contains hate speech or promotes or condones violence.”
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Cornell’s campus was tagged with multiple graffiti incidents displaying anti-Israel and anti-Zionist rhetoric, including “Israel is fascist,” “Zionism = genocide” and “F*** Israel.” Across campus, Jewish students were struck by these words, many saying that they were shocked, upset and scared for their safety.
The Pollster says
I remember a day when Meir Kahane would respond to things like this with BASEBALL BATS!
The ONLY way to combat Islam and Muslim violence is with immediate and severe PAYBACK!
Conrad Calvano says
This is most distressing to say the least. There was a time when the Jews were reduced to being nomads around the world, enriching the nations yet being unfairly targeted due to antisemitism. This included even so called immigration friendly United States. I truly believed all that changed when the nation of Israel was re-formed. Alas, the Hamas attack has demonstrated how much more needs to be done. To strengthen Israel, and have strong measures against antisemitism. Never did I even dream that it would come to pass that Jewish students need to go into hiding in one of the top Universities in the United States!
Steve says
What I hate most is these students behind the graffiti are abusing their privilege so much. They study at one of the most expensive universities with tuition fees alone at $40000 per semester in the technical courses. Of course, if you’re a local, you pay much less. But $40000 per semester is what foreigners pay. In other words, the admission committee at Cornell expect international students to finance this kind of bullshit with our hard-earned money.
It was my dream to study an MS in astronomy at Cornell University. But I later settled for an Industrial Engineering degree at Louisiana State University, because the tuition fees + dorm was much less, at only $21000 per academic year. There was also no campus politics from what I remember.
All the Muslime students enrolled at Cornell and spitting at taxpayer (and International student money). Each one of them should be rusticated with a lifetime ban on getting admission in any US college. I so envy the privilege of those Muslimes behind this graffiti crime, and I so hate their existence.
BareNakedIslam says
I applied to Cornell but didn’t get in. Now, I’m glad I didn’t’t.
BLR says
I just missed getin in to Harvard like Obama got to the door but my skin color was not in trend no tropical tan I guess
BareNakedIslam says
Back then, it was only Jews they put quotas on.