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☆ Report of Hit-and-Run at Stanford Prompts Hate Crime Inquiry
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | More About Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The authorities have opened a hate crime investigation into the report of a hit-and-run on Friday that left an Arab Muslim student injured at Stanford University. hit the student on the campus in Stanford, Calif., just before 2 p.m. A spokeswoman for Stanford University said in an email that campus authorities issued information to the campus community as soon as they had enough details to do so. Columbia recently closed its campus to the public amid tensions between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinians protesters, and Cornell canceled classes last week after antisemitic threats. In the wake of the hit-and-run report, Stanford’s public safety department said that it was deploying additional security at “key locations” on campus.

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CNN —At least five possible hate crime incidents at Stanford University since the Israel-Hamas war’s onset are under investigation, including an apparent hit-and-run crash involving an Arab Muslim student, according to the university’s public safety department. The California Highway Patrol, which investigates all injury traffic incidents on campus, is investigating the hit-and-run as “a potential hate crime,” according to the release. This incident is being investigated by the Department of Public Safety as a crime motivated by hate,” a message on the site read. School authorities say the second student also allegedly said “disgusting” before attempting to spit at the student by the display. The university said its public safety officials are also looking into the incident as a hate-motivated crime.

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As the death toll rises in the Israel-Hamas war, they have become seats of anguish. On many campuses, these students agree on one thing: Their colleges, which are increasingly staking out positions of neutrality, have not done enough to support them. College officials, already under pressure to allow conservative opinions on campus, have been trying to preserve free speech and open debate. Some students were angry that a statement from the university president did not go far enough to acknowledge Palestinian deaths. “It shouldn’t be hard to support Palestinian rights and dignity ... while still condemning what Hamas did to Israeli civilians,” Spitalnick said.

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