Ivy League school slammed after professor calls Israel attack ‘exhilarating’: ‘A much deeper problem’

FIRST ON FOX: A Cornell University law professor is calling for an independent commission to evaluate antisemitism at the Ivy League school after remarks by an associate professor who said he was 'exhilarated' to hear of the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists. William A.

Russell Rickford, an associate professor of history at Cornell, said he was 'exhilarated' by the ambush killings at a pro-Palestinian rally. 'It was exhilarating, it was energizing. If they weren't exhilarated by this challenge to the monopoly of violence, by the shifting of this balance of power, they would not be human. I was exhilarated,' he told the crowd, who responded with cheers.

want to make it clear that I unequivocally oppose and denounce racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, militarism, fundamentalism and all systems that dehumanize, divide and oppress people.' A joint statement released earlier this week by Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack and Cornell University Board of Trustees Chair Kraig H. Kayser called Rickford's comments about the attacks 'reprehensible' and that such statements go against what the university stands for.

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