The alleged threats alarmed students and focused more national attention on the rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

A 21-year-old Cornell University junior was charged Tuesday for making online threats to Jewish students at the Ivy League school, authorities said.

Patrick Dai, a junior at Cornell, faces a charge of posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications, federal prosecutors in the Northern District of New York said.

In a post in an online discussion board, prosecutors said, the student allegedly threatened to “shoot up” a campus building. In another post, he said he he would “stab” or “slit the throat” of Jewish men, and rape or throw off a cliff Jewish women he encounters on campus, according to the prosecutors.

He also said he would behead Jewish babies and threatened to “bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you” Jewish people, prosecutors said, attributing the words to Dai.

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    “Dai admitted, after receiving Miranda warnings, that he was the person who used the internet to post the threatening messages described above,” the complaint, citing an interview of the suspect by the FBI earlier in the day, said.

    Investigators said they traced threatening communication to the suspect’s Internet Protocol or IP address, a number unique to a device or network connected to the internet.

    So much for an Ivy League education. Not only is he a racist and aggressive tool, he’s also an idiot.

    Tracing someone’s IP address isn’t like tracing a phone number it doesn’t definitely give you the person. They just told him they traced the IP address, and because he’s a brainless muppet he confessed, thinking they actually had something on him. Tracing the IP address is circumstantial evidence at best.