Guangtian Ha, an assistant professor of religion at Haverford College, was arrested on Tuesday, Oct. 6 and charged with online harassment and intimidation. College President Wendy Raymond announced the arrest on the same day, writing that the online attacks were “antisemitic in nature.”
Ha is accused of engaging in behavior intended to threaten, harass, and intimidate a Jewish colleague, according to a federal indictment filed on Sept. 30, as well as a motion for pretrial detention filed on the day of his arrest.
The indictment alleges that Ha harassed his coworker (“Victim 1”) via the social media platform X, publishing roughly 50 posts from at least four anonymous accounts between October 2025 and May 2026. Ha reportedly used multiple Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in order to prevent the posts from being traced back to him. A few of Ha’s messages, all of which were in reply to posts from his coworker, are quoted in full below:
“No one gives a fuck, jew. Get out of my country. You don’t belong here. The fuhrer is coming, rats.”
“Let there be an October 7 all day every day. Make it 6 million. Exterminate the jews,”
“That’s right, [Victim 1]. The end of American jews is close. Let’s start with the jews in Lower Merion. Watch out jewish n—-.”
“Eliminate the jewish cockroaches. Exterminate the jewish state. [Victim 1], you will have nowhere to go. Your family has no future in the US. Give it another 10 years, and you shall see a true holocaust.”
“[Lower Merion] jews are going to have it big time jew. Remember this. You scums have had it too easy, Goyim are taking America back, blood-guzzling demons”
“If jews are so special then they should also be placed in special camps and receive special treatments.”
Over the course of the messages, Ha alluded to knowing more and more about his victim’s whereabouts and publicized this information. In October 2025, Ha replied to an X post from Victim 1 with a Google Maps image of Victim 1’s home mailbox and the “eyes” emoji (“👀”). At the time, Victim 1 and their spouse (“Victim 2”) were at home with their three children, all of whom were minors and one of whom was a newborn. Fearing for their safety, they installed a security system in their home and contacted Google to request that their residence be blurred on the Maps platform.
However, the harassment continued. Ha publicized the victim’s address, their infant child’s name, and sent repeated threats to their family, eventually causing Victim 2 and their children to move out of the house on two occasions for concerns about their safety.
Ha is charged with one count of cyberstalking, which can result in a sentence of up to five years in prison.
Raymond’s message noted that the individuals who had been targeted by Ha’s attacks had been contacted by a college representative. According to Raymond, the investigation took place as a joint effort between the FBI, Haverford Township Police Department, and Haverford College Campus Safety.
Ha was among a number of Haverford professors listed in a 2024 class action lawsuit against the college filed by students alleging antisemitic discrimination. He belonged to the campus group Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) and collaborated with fellow FJP member Maud McInerny to write an April 2024 opinion piece in The Haverford Clerk criticising the college’s treatment of pro-Palestine and anti-Zionist organizing.
President Raymond testified before Congress in 2025 in defense of Haverford’s disciplinary processes and campus culture relating to antisemitism. During the hearing, one of Ha’s X posts was brought up, which stated that “Zionists are racist.” At the time, Raymond condemned the comments, but noted that Ha was still employed by the college.
Prior to his arrest, Ha was on sabbatical leave and was not planning on teaching classes for the 2026-27 academic year. Raymond explained that he has been placed on administrative leave and will not be allowed on campus while the criminal process moves forward.
“I am heartbroken and furious at the possibility that an individual within our community would seek to inflict such pain on another,” Raymond wrote.
