Just over a year ago a Stanford undergrad wrote a story for the Atlantic about what it was like to be on campus in the wake of Hamas’ 10/7 attack on Israel. David wrote about it here at the time but in case you missed it, here’s a sample of what Theo Baker wrote.
One of the section leaders for my computer-science class, Hamza El Boudali, believes that President Joe Biden should be killed. “I’m not calling for a civilian to do it, but I think a military should,” the 23-year-old Stanford University student told a small group of protesters last month. “I’d be happy if Biden was dead.” He thinks that Stanford is complicit in what he calls the genocide of Palestinians, and that Biden is not only complicit but responsible for it. “I’m not calling for a vigilante to do it,” he later clarified, “but I’m saying he is guilty of mass murder and…