Gov. Hochul talks tough at Cornell on antisemitic threats but quiet on prof who hailed Hamas attacks
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Gov. Kathy Hochul talked tough about antisemitic threats at Cornell University Monday, but failed to call out a professor at the school who went viral for calling Hamas’ attack “exhilarating.”
In a speech at the school, Hochul called for criminal charges against those who made online threats to slit the throats of Jewish students, as she danced around the issue of Russell Rickford, who called Hamas’ sick killings “energizing.”
“Ensuring that we have the right of free speech, we’ll always protect that,” Hochul said following a roundtable with Cornell president Martha Pollack. “But when speech crosses over into hate speech and into hate crimes, that’s when we have to make sure that students know that we’ll step up and protect them.”
Hochul’s remarks included c...
