The Cornell Coalition for Mutual Liberation held a mock trial of University President Martha Pollack over the weekend. Anti-Israel students at Cornell University found the university president guilty of genocide.

Since the Israel-Hamas war began, Cornell University, a private university in Ithaca, New York, has been besieged by anti-Israel demonstrations, disruptions of student campus life, and threats, including death threats. A professor at Cornell described the 10/7 massacres by Hamas as “exhilarating.” The professor is now on a leave of absence.

In other words, the campus is a mess. The Antisemitism Task Force sent an open letter to the administration at Cornell. The letter set forth steps to root out antisemitism and keep Jewish students safe on college campuses. Meanwhile, as responsible people are trying to figure out how to protect Jewish students on campus and tamp down the volatile atmosphere, aggression from antisemitic students continues.

Angry anti-Israel students held a mock trial and convicted President Pollack of genocide. Yes. She was charged and convicted of complicity in genocide. It is hard to understand the ignorance of today’s college students. They live in an alternative universe. The people committing genocide are Hamas, the internationally recognized terrorist group that vows to wipe out all the Jews. Hamas began trying to do so on October 7. Yet, because Israel is defending herself and her existence, these ignoramuses accuse Israel of genocide.

This type of exercise by angry students against the university’s president is potentially dangerous enough at any time. Right now, though, with the Israel-Hamas war going on, it is particularly dangerous. The FBI arrested a Cornell University student for threatening “to shoot up a kosher dining hall and called to kill all Jewish people at Cornell University.” Things have gotten way out of hand, yet the demonstrations and other actions continue.

Protesters at Cornell were joined by other students for a ‘die-in’ on Thursday, including the university’s chapter of Students or Justice in Palestine. Chanting students went into college rooms and disrupted other students studying for finals. The event on Friday was described as an “Occupation” and it included the mock trial.

If the potential for real harm to be done wasn’t so great in today’s highly-charged atmosphere, these college students would be labeled antisemitic spoiled brats. They are legal adults, though, and college is a place to learn how to make your way in the world as an adult.

On Friday, they occupied Day Hall on campus – where they remained until Saturday.

The organizers wrote on social media: ‘As of 1pm on Dec 2, still no update from the University. We will continue the occupation until we have a meeting time with Cornell CFO Christopher Cowen.’

During the ‘trial,’ the students found President Pollack ‘guilty’ of genocide and apartheid because the university does business with Israeli-backed companies.

They created a cardboard cutout of Pollack, and stood her likeness alongside ‘money bags.’ Pro-Palestine students surrounded the effigy with flags and signs.

The group demanded the university comply with a student Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions resolutions – and said that the school ‘is implicated in Israel’s breaches of international law.’

Ironically, the antisemitic students accuse President Pollack of apartheid, along with genocide. Do they know that Arabs can and do live in Israel but Israelis cannot live in Gaza? Who is practicing apartheid? Maybe they don’t know the meaning of the word apartheid.

There is no end in sight to demonstrations against Israel and Jews. Jews no longer feel safe in America and Jewish students do not feel safe on campus. It’s unthinkable, yet here we are.