An associate professor at Haverford College is facing a federal cyberstalking charge after an alleged months-long online antisemitic intimidation campaign against a Jewish colleague and his family.Messages that prosecutors say the professor sent include antisemitic language and threats.Guangtian Ha, an associate professor of religion at Haverford College, was arrested on Oct.
6.The indictment lays out a series of serious allegations.
According to a federal indictment, Ha carried out the alleged intimidation campaign from Oct.9, 2025, through May 20, 2026, using anonymous X accounts to send threatening messages and share images of his Jewish colleague's mailbox.Lori Lowenthal Marcus, who serves as the legal director of The Deborah Project — a legal group that previously filed a Title VI civil rights lawsuit against Haverford on behalf of Jewish students — told Fox News Digital that the messages reveal a harsh truth about anti-Zionism on campus."Everything that I had heard from Guangtian Ha, the accused here, had been directed at Zionists," Lowenthal Marcus said.
"What he revealed in his anonymous posts to another faculty member was 95% about hatred of Jews and death threats towards Jews and disgusting language towards Jews."JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AT A ‘CROSSING POINT’ AS STUDENTS WEIGH ANTISEMITISM RISKS, NEW REPORT SHOWSHaverford College associate professor Guangtian Ha was arrested after allegedly making anonymous antisemitic threats against a Jewish colleague.(HKB Photo)Lowenthal Marcus said that the messages exemplify a concern that Jews at Haverford had raised, that the word "Zionist" was being used as "a code word for Jews."On Oct.
9, 2025, Ha allegedly used the X account "America1st33509" when replying to the victim's X posts with an image of the victim's own home mailbox and the eyes emoji, according to the indictment.Then, in the winter of 2026 — the indictment states that this occurred "in or about January 2026, through in or about February 2026" ...