{"id":301870,"date":"2026-10-07T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301870\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:08:10","slug":"haverford-president-heartbroken-furious-by-alleged-jew-hatred-as-professor-arrested-for-online-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301870\/","title":{"rendered":"Haverford president \u2018heartbroken, furious\u2019 by alleged Jew-hatred, as professor arrested for online harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College, said that she is \u201cheartbroken and furious\u201d that a member of the private, Pennsylvania liberal arts college community could be so hateful, after Guangtian Ha, a religion professor, was arrested and charged with online harassment and intimidation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am deeply distressed by these allegations and want to state in the plainest of terms that any form of harassment or discrimination based on identity is unacceptable, antithetical to our values and has no place at Haverford,\u201d Raymond stated<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The professor, \u201cwho was on sabbatical leave and not teaching this academic year, has been placed on administrative leave and barred from campus while the criminal process moves forward,\u201d Raymond stated. \u201cA representative of the college has been in contact with the individuals targeted by these heinous online attacks, which were antisemitic in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Guangtian Ha is pictured in this undated photo. Ha, a Haverford College professor, has been placed on administrative leave and banned from campus as the legal process plays out after being charged for making antisemitic remarks, school officials say. Sigur Center for Asian Studies<\/p>\n

Ha \u201cthreatened \u2018Zionists\u2019 on his social media for several years, as the Deborah Project explained in our civil rights complaint,\u201d she told JNS. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI am heartbroken and furious at the possibility that an individual within our community would seek to inflict such pain on another,\u201d she added. \u201cThis disturbing news is made even more harmful for many given its proximity to both the Jewish High Holidays and the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director of the Deborah Project, told JNS that \u201cthe charging by the FBI of Haverford College associate professor Guangtian Ha for harassment and intimidation of a Jewish Israeli professor closes the dotted line between verbal acts of harassment and actionable violence<\/a> which, when Jews are the recipients, is far too often ignored<\/a> or falsely clothed as \u2018academic freedom\u2019 by academic and other institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ha \u201cthreatened \u2018Zionists<\/a>\u2019 on his social media for several years, as the Deborah Project explained in our civil rights complaint,\u201d she told JNS. \u201cThose threats and its speaker were coddled and condoned, and so it escalated. This morning\u2019s action by the FBI was taken because moral clarity had been erased and replaced with immoral depravity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest as the world marks the 3rd anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel:<\/p>\n

According to the indictment in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Ha allegedly used at least four anonymous social media accounts to send about 50 harassing messages to an unnamed victim from Oct. 9, 2025, until May 20, 2026. The professor is also accused of having \u201cfrequently utilized virtual private networks to obfuscate his internet protocol address and make tracing the source of the messages more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

President of Haverford College Wendy Raymond testifies during a hearing on \u201cBeyond The Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of Antisemitism on American Campuses.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n

Among the messages he is accused of sending are \u201cJew, get the f*** out of my country,\u201d \u201cJew pig, get the f*** out of Lower Merion\u201d and \u201cIf Jews are so special, then they should also be placed in special camps and receive special treatments.\u201d The professor also allegedly wrote to the victim and included a picture of the victim\u2019s home mailbox and wrote, of Jews, \u201cyou scum have had it too easy. Goyim are taking American back, blood-guzzling demons.\u201d On four other occasions, he also allegedly posted the victim\u2019s address.<\/p>\n

After the victim took security measures, including blurring his address on Google Maps, Ha allegedly wrote, \u201cThe Goyim have woken up, Jew. Run. Flee. Leave. Blurring your home on Google Map and installing a security camera next to your mailbox won\u2019t help.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The professor is also accused of responding to a post of the victim\u2019s about the assassination of Iranian terror leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and writing, \u201cGet the f*** out of my country, Jew. Go back to your Jew land. Don\u2019t force us to kick you out. Lower Merion will be cleansed of the Jew filth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The indictment also alleges that Ha posted about the victim\u2019s son, a minor, by name and wrote that \u201cthe Jewish state will stop existing, whether you like it or not.\u201d He also is accused of writing that \u201cwe know Jews are blood-sucking demons\u201d and that \u201csoon we are going to make sure you have no place to hide, fat rat.\u201d He also allegedly used a shorthand for \u201cheil Hitler\u201d and wrote \u201cgive it another 10 years, and you shall see a true Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College, said that she is \u201cheartbroken and furious\u201d that a member of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20303,18301,26053,183,185,184,186,302,24328],"class_list":["post-301870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-harassment","tag-haverford-college","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-us-news","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}