Just hours after her father’s funeral Sunday, Gov. Kathy Hochul called the president of Cornell University to speak about threats of violence made against Jewish students as antisemitism runs rampant across the state during Israel’s war with Hamas.
“I was really unpacking after coming home from my father’s funeral and got the news about what happened on campus,” Hochul told broadcaster Nacham Segal during an appearance on his radio show Thursday morning.
“I called the president late at night and I said, ‘Let’s have breakfast together with the students.'”
Hochul first heard about the death of his father, John Courtney, from a brain hemorrhage while visiting the Western Wall on his way to Israel after the brutal Hamas attack.
Courtney works as a clerk in a steel mill and is a devout Catholic.
Just hours after her father’s funeral, Gov. Kathy Hochul called the president of Cornell University to speak about threats of violence made against Jewish students. Lindsay France/Cornell Marketing Hochul’s father, John Courtney, died of a brain hemorrhage. @KathyHochul
Hochul, who often spoke of his faith and upbringing in western New York, recently called his father “a man who had a strong sense of responsibility to others.”
Hochul said he feels the same way for the students at Cornell.
“I said, ‘I’ll protect you.’ That’s my number one job as state governor,” Hochul told Segal.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Oct. 19. 2023. AP Governor Kathy Hochul speaks to Cornell University students at the Center for Jewish Life. Lindsay France/Cornell Marketing
A day after his visit to the Ivy League university, 21-year-old Cornell engineering student Patrick Dai was arrested and burned by FBI and state police investigators, to whom he admitted he was responsible for sending messages threatening to shoot up a halal dining hall. , “raped” and beheaded Jewish students.
Dai waived his right to a detention hearing in federal court on Wednesday and is behind bars.
His next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 15.
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