Who is Patrick Dai, Cornell student accused of threatening Jewish peers?at Cornell University is set to appear in court Wednesday — though his arrest has provided little comfort to students who say they are still “terrified” by the antisemitism they are facing on campus.
He is accused of making disturbing online threats under usernames like “Hamas fighter,” “jew evil” and “glorious Hamas,”He also allegedly threatened to “bring an assault rifle to campus” and “rape and kill all the jew women before they birth more Jewish Hitlers,” according to the indictment. Following Dai’s arrest for posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications on Tuesday, Netanel Shapira said: “It’s both scary and sad that a member of our own campus community could be so hateful.”
“The first week when we got back, I wasn’t able to go to class. I wasn’t able to work,” she said. “I have to compartmentalize to be here right now. Like, otherwise, I really cannot be functioning.”“Every one of us… knows somebody who’s either a hostage, was murdered or is a soldier going to defend the state of Israel.“And after suffering something like that … hate speech thrown on campus, whether that be from a professor or… from students, I mean it’s horrible. There’s no other way to put it.