Theo Baker, a scholar at Stanford College, revealed that the controversy on campus over the Israel-Hamas battle has change into extraordinarily hostile, with some college students even calling for the loss of life of President Biden.
“One of the section leaders for my computer-science class, Hamza El Boudali, believes that President Joe Biden should be killed,” Baker wrote in an Atlantic article printed Tuesday. “I’m not calling for a civilian to do it, but I think a military should,’ the 23-year-old Stanford University student told a small group of protesters last month.”
“I’d be happy if Biden was dead,” the coed allegedly stated.
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Theo Baker, a scholar at Stanford College, revealed that the controversy on campus over the Israel-Hamas battle has change into extraordinarily hostile, with some college students even calling for the loss of life of President Biden. (Getty Photographs)
“I’m not calling for a vigilante to do it,” El Boudali stated, “but I’m saying he is guilty of mass murder and should be treated in the same way that a terrorist with darker skin would be (and we all know terrorists with dark skin are typically bombed and drone striked by American planes).”
“He thinks that Stanford is complicit in what he calls the genocide of Palestinians, and that Biden is not only complicit but responsible for it,” Baker wrote of El Boudali.
“El Boudali has also said that he believes that Hamas’s October 7 attack was a justifiable act of resistance, and that he would actually prefer Hamas rule America in place of its current government (though he clarified later that he ‘doesn’t mean Hamas is perfect’). When you ask him what his cause is, he answers: “Peace.'”
Stanford is one of many elite universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, where the student bodies have become deeply divided over the Israel-Hamas war and over support for Israel. The clash between pro-Palestianian and pro-Israel supporters on campus has gained national cultural significance, with director Steven Spielberg recently saying at an event that the “equipment of extremism is getting used on school campuses” to unfold hate.
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Sometimes, adults not affiliated with Stanford will come onto campus and join in yelling and shouting matches between students, Baker wrote. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Baker argued that “extremism” on the issue has made it “regular for college kids to be harassed and intimidated for his or her religion, heritage, or look.” On both sides, students “have been known as perpetrators of genocide for sporting kippahs, and accused of supporting terrorism for sporting keffiyehs,” he explained.
Sometimes, adults not affiliated with Stanford will come onto campus and join in yelling and shouting matches between students, Baker wrote.
Baker shared anecdotes of activists yelling “Return to Brooklyn!” at Jewish students during an event focusing on “ameliorating anti-Semitism.”
“One protester, who emerged because the chief of the group, stated that she and her compatriots would ‘take all your locations and guarantee Israel falls,'” Baker wrote.
A Stanford College spokesperson instructed Fox News Digital in an announcement that the college “is dedicated to an academic surroundings during which Jewish college students and all college students can thrive and totally take part within the choices of the college in an environment freed from harassment and discrimination.”
“We stand in opposition to antisemitism, anti-Muslim bias, and all types of hatred,” the statement reads.
“We stay dedicated to offering for the bodily security of all college students; to offering reporting mechanisms, acceptable enforcement, and scholar assist sources in instances of illegal conduct; and to encouraging a campus tradition during which the constitutionally protected expression of divergent viewpoints is welcomed but our discourse is reasoned and evidence-based,” the spokesperson said. “This reasoned dialogue is going on in lots of locations, and our courses and college actions are persevering with.”
A Stanford University spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement that the school “is dedicated to an academic surroundings during which Jewish college students and all college students can thrive and totally take part within the choices of the college in an environment freed from harassment and discrimination.” (David Madison/Getty Images/Photo by Momen Faiz/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
An unverified X account with the same name as El Boudali criticized Baker’s article on Tuesday.
“You painting me as an extremist in your piece,” El Boudali asked Baker. “This is a query: what’s so excessive about being completely satisfied if a genocidal maniac dies? Would you have got been completely satisfied to listen to the information of Hitler dying in 1945? Or Bin Laden in 2011? In case you say sure, then you definately’re an extremist, apparently.”
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El Boudali told Fox News Digital over email that he believed the story took his words out of context.
“The quotes are taken out of context and cherry picked, so the that means is inaccurate,” he wrote. “There are additionally lies of omission.”
