Students at Harvard University are being doxxed. They are affiliated with the 30 student groups which posted an open letter on the night of the Hamas attack stating that Israel was ‘entirely responsible’ for Hamas’s violence that killed more than 1,400 mostly civilian Israelis.

 “Doxxing” is the posting of their personal information online. 

The letter was posted on social media but did not include the names of individual students. 

A truck with a digital billboard, set up by Accuracy in Media, circled Harvard Square, flashing student photos and names under the headline ‘Harvard’s Leading Antisemites’

Influential alumni and big-money donors are putting pressure on students and administrators.

A student whose organisation signed the letter said that students had to contend with ‘people’s lives being ruined, people’s careers being ruined, people’s fellowships being ruined’.

Students and free-speech activists say that the outside pressure has created its own kind of heckler’s veto, dictating what can be said on campus and how institutions must respond.

‘You kind of feel like you’re responsible’ for the harassment, said one of the Harvard students whose family’s personal information was released. ‘That’s how silencing works, right?’

The group has purchased domain names students associated with the letter, has set up individual websites for them calling for the university to punish them.

Students’ names were also exposed on a website featuring a ‘College Terror List, a Helpful Guide for Employers’. The list was compiled by Maxwell Meyer, a 2022 Stanford graduate, who said that information had come from public sources and tips sent to an email address. 

His website was removed by Google and Notion, but other sites have picked up the list.


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