Cornell University canceled classes for Friday after one of the school’s students allegedly made violent antisemitic threats against Jews on campus.
In place of lectures, Cornell will observe a “community day” in acknowledgement of the “extraordinary stress” that has engulfed the college in recent weeks amid tensions surrounding the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Last week Patrick Dai, 21, was arrested and charged over online posts threatening to kill Jewish students at Cornell. Dai, himself a junior at the university, was detained after an FBI investigation into several antisemitic messages traced his IP address to his off-campus apartment.