Cornell University canceled its classes for Friday due to “extraordinary stress” caused by anti-Semitic threats allegedly made by a young man at the school on Sunday, NBC News reported.
Officials arrested a person of interest, later revealed to be Patrick Dai, who allegedly made threats against Jewish Cornell students on an online social media platform and is accused of saying he would “bring a rifle to campus and shoot you to everybody”. [Jewish people],” seconds on NBC. Friday will serve as “community day” and the school will be closed for everything except “essential services,” a school administrator told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Let me say this clearly again. We will not tolerate anti-Semitism at Cornell; indeed, we will not tolerate any form of hatred, including racism or Islamophobia,” said Martha Pollack, Cornell’s president. he wrote in a statement. “What does this mean? It means, first of all, that when there are threats or incitement to violence, we will respond quickly and forcefully, as we have done in this case.”
Federal prosecutors charged Dai on Tuesday with making threats to kill or injure others via interstate communication, NBC reported. Dai did not enter a plea at his initial court appearance Wednesday, and the federal judge set a second court date for Nov. 15.
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“We cannot be defined by the actions of one person, not even ten,” Pollack wrote in a statement. “While we speak out against hate, we must also remember to love and celebrate all the good that so many members of our Cornell community do and experience every day.”
Cornell declined to comment further on Dai’s alleged anti-Semitic threats.
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