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According to the university’s public safety department, at least five potential hate crime occurrences at Stanford University since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict are being looked into. One of those cases appears to have involved an Arab Muslim student in a hit-and-run.
According to officials, the student was hit by a vehicle on Friday afternoon.
According to a news release from the Stanford Department of Public Safety, “The victim reported that the driver made eye contact with the victim, accelerated and struck the victim, and then drove away while shouting, ‘f*** you people.'”
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, which is in charge of the investigation, released a statement on Saturday stating that the California Highway Patrol’s preliminary investigation revealed the event to be a hate crime.
The institution stated that the victim’s injuries were not considered life-threatening.
A warning posted on Stanford’s website on Saturday stated that the victim had described the driver as “a white male in his mid-20s, with short dirty-blond hair and a short beard, wearing a gray shirt and round-framed eyeglasses.”
According to the notice, the student also identified the implicated vehicle as a black 2015 Toyota 4Runner, “or possibly a newer model.”
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In a statement released on campus on Friday, Stanford president Richard Saller and provost Jenny Martinez denounced the hit-and-run.
The statement said, “We are deeply troubled by this report of possibly hate-based physical violence on our campus.” Violence is not accepted on our campus. Violence motivated by hatred is ethically repugnant.
The event “underscores the urgent need to address the growing Islamophobia and hatred that have been plaguing our communities,” according to a statement released on Saturday by the San Francisco Bay Area Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Authorities in charge of public safety urged anyone with details on the event to come forward. The California Highway Patrol has been contacted by CNN to request further information.
Stanford has more potential hate crimes
Amidst growing tensions over the Israel-Gaza conflict, students have reported many hate crimes to the Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) in recent weeks.
According to the university’s Protected Identity Harm reporting site, a group of students who identified as “Arab, Muslim, and/or Palestinian” reported being shoved by another student after they tried to add and remove posters from an area on campus. This is when the recent hate crime incidents started, according to Stanford’s public safety authorities.
Stanford views activities that are anti-Arab and Islamophobic as disgusting. The Department of Public Safety is looking into this event as a hate crime, according to a note posted on the website.
According to the university’s Protected Identity Harm reporting site, a group of students who identified as “Arab, Muslim, and/or Palestinian” reported being shoved by another student after they tried to add and remove posters from an area on campus. This is when the recent hate crime incidents started, according to Stanford’s public safety authorities.
Stanford views activities that are anti-Arab and Islamophobic as disgusting. The Department of Public Safety is looking into this event as a hate crime, according to a note posted on the website.
The next day, an incident occurred at the Palo Alto campus’s White Plaza location when a student of color was sitting next to a Palestinian freedom display when another student reportedly spat at them, according to the reporting website.
The second kid allegedly shouted something like “disgusting” before trying to spit at the one beside the exhibit, according to school officials. The Protected Identity Harm reporting website states that “spitting on someone, including spitting on someone motivated by hate, is egregious behavior that has no place here.”
On October 18, a number of Arab, Muslim, and/or Palestinian students were congregated in the same location of campus known as White Plaza. According to school officials, someone ran over a tote bag with a computer and other belongings that was adorned with a pattern depicting Palestine.
According to the university, the event is being investigated as a possible hate crime by public safety officials as well.
In what school administrators described as a form of intimidation against the Jewish community, a mezuza that was gracing a Jewish student’s door was taken from their apartment on October 28. This incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
Despite the fact that many members of the college community are experiencing “heightened anxiety and concern” at this time, according to university spokesperson Mara Vandlik, the number of hate crimes on campus “has not been a significant increase” as of now. Only a few of the incidents that several students claimed to have directly observed and thought to be hate crimes have been reported, they told The Daily. This has been taken somewhat positively positive light of the university.
