The announcement came hours after anonymous antisemitic posts on a Greek life website threatened to “shoot up” the Cornell University kosher dining hall and to kill and rape Jewish students, leading the campus Hillel to urge students to stay away from the site and to expressions of outrage from US officials.
White House deputy communications director Herbie Ziskind tweeted afterward that what had happened at his alma mater was “deeply concerning, dangerous and blatantly antisemitic.”
US Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, who has been one of the main faces of the administration’s fight against antisemitism, discussed the matter during a meeting with executives of major American Jewish community organizations later Monday at the Education Department with its leader Secretary Miguel Cardona and US antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt, the White House said.
The top Biden officials “heard from Jewish leaders about the extremely disturbing pattern of antisemitic threats of violence in schools and college campuses” since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the White House said. READ MORE