WASHINGTON (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, met with college students and directors at Cornell College on Thursday to supply help to the college’s Jewish neighborhood after threats of violence amid Israel’s struggle in opposition to Hamas.
Emhoff, the primary Jewish partner of a nationally elected U.S. chief, met with the college president, chief of police and different directors, and hosted a roundtable with Jewish college students in the identical kosher eating corridor that was pressured to closed as a result of threats.
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A Cornell junior, Patrick Dai, was a arrested final month for allegedly leaving threatening messages on a Greek life web site unaffiliated with the college in Ithaca, New York. They included posts calling for the deaths of Jewish individuals and threatening to “shoot up 104 west,” a college eating corridor that caters predominantly to kosher diets and is subsequent to the Cornell Jewish Middle.
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Doug Emhoff, husband of Kamala Harris, traveled to Ithaca, NY, to fulfill with college students and directors in wake of anti-Jewish incidents.
At a listening to Thursday, a federal Justice of the Peace decide in Syracuse, New York, granted, the federal government’s movement to detain Dai with out bail, in accordance with the U.S. legal professional’s workplace.
The White Home stated college students shared with Emhoff “their private experiences and reactions to the threats of violence on campus” and that Emhoff “provided messages of hope and inspired the scholars to take satisfaction of their Jewish religion.”
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Emhoff additionally mentioned the Biden administration’s work to fight antisemitism and safety in faculties and on school campuses, the White Home stated.
The White Home didn’t publicly advise about Emhoff’s journey prematurely, as tensions on school campuses throughout stay elevated over the struggle.
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