Guangtian Ha, an assistant professor of religion at Haverford College, spent seven months sending over 50 threatening messages to a Jewish colleague — posting photos of the colleague's home mailbox, naming the colleague's infant child, and noting the location of security cameras around the family's house. The colleague's spouse and three children fled the home twice.
Ha kept his faculty position the entire time.
The messages, sent from anonymous X accounts between October 2025 and May 2026, invoked the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, and the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack in Israel. In January 2026, Ha posted that Ben Shapiro "needs to be hanged," called Jewish congressman Randy Fine a "fat Jew pig," and wrote — in language too specific to dismiss as trolling — "We can make you into candles to celebrate the complete elimination of the jews." The accounts were titled "America1st33509" and "America1stLM." X eventually suspended them this spring.
The Washington Free Beacon, which broke the story, reported that Ha's posts also included the phrase "Hitler Was Right All Along" and repeated references to "Jew rats." These weren't buried in some encrypted forum. They were on X, visible to anyone who looked, for the better part of a year.
The FBI linked the burner accounts to Ha's home and to Haverford College faculty and staff IP addresses. That's what it took. Not the content of the posts. Not the family fleeing their house. Not a colleague's children being pulled from their normal routines because a professor at a $65,000-a-year liberal arts college was fantasizing about a second Holocaust in his spare time. The FBI tracing an IP address — that's what produced consequences.
Haverford President Wendy Raymond released a statement saying she was "heartbroken and furious at the possibility that an individual within our community would seek to inflict such pain on another." Ha was placed on administrative leave, barred from campus, and had his online profiles removed. If convicted on the cyberstalking charge, he faces up to five years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and fines.
The timing here is worth noting. Ha's arrest was announced on October 7, 2026 — the third anniversary of the Hamas massacre that he reportedly invoked in his threats. The same week campuses across the country are holding vigils and memorials, Haverford is explaining why a professor who wrote "Hitler Was Right All Along" was still drawing a paycheck in May.
Ha holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University, earned in 2014, and previously served as a postdoctoral research fellow at SOAS, University of London. An Ivy League doctorate, a position at one of the most prestigious small colleges in the country, and a seven-month campaign of antisemitic terror conducted from campus Wi-Fi.
Raymond's statement used the word "possibility." The FBI filed federal charges. The family fled twice. The children stopped waiting for the school bus outside. That's not a possibility. That's a fact pattern with an IP address attached to it.