Cornell Denounces Video that Claims University Supports ISIS
ISIS is not coming to Cornell anytime soon.
Cornell Daily Sun reports.
University Decries Undercover Video Featuring Assistant Dean
The University denounced Wednesday a viral video that claimed an assistant dean at Cornell provided advice on how to support and fund terrorist groups and invite them to campus.
In the video, which was released Tuesday, an interviewer from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas poses as a Moroccan student facing racial discrimination at his current university. Donning a hidden camera and microphone, the interviewer asks Joseph Scaffido, assistant dean of students for student activities, whether Cornell would be willing to support a “humanitarian group in the Middle East, northern Iraq and Syria.”
“I think it would be important, for especially these people in the Islamic State Iraq and Syria, the families — the freedom fighters in particular, and their families … to maybe just educate, but to maybe send them care packages whether it be food, water, electronics,” the interviewer says.
In response, the video shows Scaffido saying, “There are a lot of our student organizations that do things like that all over the world.”
University Decries Undercover Video Featuring Assistant Dean (Cornell Daily Sun)
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“[Cornell President] Skorton added that while many forms of free expression are welcome at the University, violence is not tolerated on Cornell’s campus.”
Violence off-campus, on the other hand. Hence academia’s well-known sympathy for Muslim terrorists, communist terrorists, etc, as long as they do their killing elsewhere and don’t kill any precious professors.
President Skorton denounced the undercover video as “shameful”, but he didn’t say it was fraudulent–which he couldn’t without opening himself up to a lawsuit. He merely was outraged that someone tricked one of his staff into revealing on camera just how much academia is our enemy.