Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, has met with college students and directors at Cornell College as he supplied help to the college’s Jewish group after threats of violence amid Israel’s struggle in opposition to Hamas
ByZEKE MILLER Related Press
November 9, 2023, 2:30 PM
A New York State Police Division cruiser is parked in entrance of Cornell College’s Heart for Jewish Dwelling, in Ithaca, NY, Monday, Oct 30, 2023. Threatening statements about Jews on an web dialogue board have unnerved college students at Cornell College and prompted officers to ship police to protect a Jewish middle and kosher eating corridor. (AP Photograph/David Bauder)
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WASHINGTON — 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 group 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 because of the threats.
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 Heart.
At a listening to Thursday, a federal Justice of the Peace choose in Syracuse, New York, granted, the federal government’s movement to detain Dai with out bail, in line 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 “supplied messages of hope and inspired the scholars to take pleasure of their Jewish religion.”
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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