Zoe Bernstein, the president of the group 'Cornellians For Israel', told the Jerusalem Post about the increasingly hostile campus environment leading up to the threat.
Cornell has a bad history of poor mental health. They have a super diverse set of students. And as much as any Ivy League, they have those generational admissions who are just angry white kids spoiled rotten by brilliant or wealthy parents. I'd take any threat at Cornell seriously, even though this reads as trolling, the far right will take advantage of any and every crisis to post hateful things.
It's like in 2020 people showing their garage door spray painted with "ANTIFA" and "Joe Biden Rulez BLM" or something, it's such a classic move to claim pro-Palestinians as antisemitic that it's cliche. Though you're right that it's not impossible to be a legitimate threat so it's good to be careful.
It's not collective intelligence, it's a couple of idiots. You don't know they also attend. Grouping "college kids" together is stupid since they are there to educate themselves in the first place, something you could do with.
Make no mistake, this is the result of the frenzy being whipped up by politicians all around the world. Those who call for a "ceasefire" after a terror attack and hostage taking and those who suggest blame lies with both sides are radicalizing people.
Really? Antisemitism just sprung out of nowhere a couple weeks ago? And Israel hasn't killed thousands of Palestinians for decades? What does the initial attack have to do with the ceasefire now? After 9/11, the US didn't just carpet bomb the entire country of Afghanistan. Israel is engaging in collective punishment, killing nearly 8000 people already. Gaza is small and dense, there is no where for the people to leave. Calling for a ceasefire is the only humane thing to do.
What Israel is doing is abhorrent and should be roundly condemned. That does not justify antisemitism. Jews are not all Israelis and Israelis are not all Jews.
Israel isn't carpet bombing anywhere, I don't know what false information you're consuming but the reality is that Israel performs specific, highly targeted strikes in Gaza. Unfortunately civilians die in war, that's a sad part of every conflict. Israel has given instructions to prevent Palestinian civilians from being caught up in their strikes, and Israel actually cares more about Palestinian civilians than Hamas. Hamas wouldn't use civilians as human shields and operate out of hospitals and schools if they cared about civilian casualties.
Leftists are calling for a ceasefire, yeah. Feel radicalized? That means you moved to the 'radical left'. 'Extremists' are the far right, and they mostly want Israel to do more genocide, yeah.
I certainly don't want Israel to "do more genocide", I want Israel to stop Hamas once and for all so that October 7th can never happen again. A ceasefire means Hamas will strengthen their positions and rearm for future attacks. The time to strike is now.