ReasonableMatic
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Israel–Hamas War: 10/7/2023 - Present
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People wouldn’t be just “moved”
As Students Face Retaliation for Israel Statement, a ‘Doxxing Truck’ Displaying Students’ Faces Comes to Harvard’s Campus | News | The Harvard Crimson
A billboard truck drove through the streets surrounding Harvard’s campus Wednesday, digitally displaying the names and faces of students allegedly affiliated with student groups that signed onto a controversial statement on Hamas’ attack on Israel.
As Students Face Retaliation for Israel Statement, a ‘Doxxing Truck’ Displaying Students’ Faces Comes to Harvard’s Campus
A vehicle drove through campus Wednesday displaying the names and faces of students allegedly affiliated with student groups that signed onto a controversial statement on Hamas' attack on Israel. By Joey Huang
By J. Sellers Hill and Nia L. Orakwue, Crimson Staff Writers
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Updated: October 11, 2023, at 10:57 p.m.
A billboard truck drove through the streets surrounding Harvard’s campus Wednesday, digitally displaying the names and faces of students allegedly affiliated with student groups that signed onto a controversial statement on Hamas’ attack on Israel.
Amid continued national backlash and doxxing attacks, at least eight of the original 34 co-signing Harvard student groups as of Wednesday afternoon withdrew their signatures from the statement — originally penned by the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee — that called Israel “entirely responsible” for the violence. In a later statement, the PSC wrote that it “staunchly opposes” violence against all civilians.
By Tuesday evening, at least four online sites had listed the personal information of students linked to clubs that had signed onto the statement, including full names, class years, past employment, social media profiles, photos, and hometowns.
As of Wednesday morning, at least two of those sites had been taken down for violating Google’s terms of service.
On Wednesday, in the face of student safety concerns, some of the statement’s harshest critics denounced acts of violence or intimidation against the members of the statement’s signatories. Harvard Executive Vice President Meredith L. Weenick ’90 also moved to criticize online intimidation and harassment in a Wednesday evening email to University affiliates following this article’s initial publication.
The responses followed the appearance of the billboard truck, which labeled the displayed Harvard students as “antisemites.” The display also referenced a website that listed multiple full names of students associated with organizations that had signed onto the PSC’s statement.
Weenick wrote in a University-wide email Wednesday evening that Harvard “takes seriously the safety and wellbeing of every member of our community” and “does not condone or ignore intimidation.”
“We do not condone or ignore threats or acts of harassment or violence,” Weenick wrote. “Officials within our Schools have been in contact with students to ensure they are aware of resources available to them if they are concerned about their physical safety or experience an immediate threat.”
Weenick added that the Harvard University Police Department had “stepped up” its presence on campus and was “coordinating closely with local, state, and federal authorities.”
In an email to undergraduates later on Wednesday, the College’s Dean of Students Office wrote that Harvard Yard would close its gates to non-ID holders from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. through Monday “out of an abundance of caution.”
“Currently HUPD reports that there is no credible threat to anyone in the campus community, but those with immediate safety concerns should contact HUPD,” the email reads.
The email also linked to information on adjusting online directory privacy settings and Harvard’s 24/7 mental health support hotline.
Harvard Hillel, the University’s Jewish center, released a statement Wednesday afternoon saying that it “strongly condemns any attempts to threaten and intimidate” members of co-signatory organizations.
“We will continue to reject the PSC’s statement in the strongest terms — and demand accountability for those who signed it,” the statement reads. “But under no circumstances should that accountability extend to public intimidation of individuals.”
“Such intimidation is counterproductive to the education that needs to take place on our campus at this difficult time,” it continues.
In a statement to The Crimson on Wednesday, the PSC called on University leadership to “immediately and unequivocally condemn the harassment and intimidation of its students.”
“The truck actively threatens students safety on campus at a time when credible death threats have already forced us to postpone a solidarity vigil acknowledging all civilian victims,” the statement reads.
“It is quite literally physical threat, a heinous intimidation technique, a warning sign meant to scare ideological allies into repudiating our mission — and for the Jewish members of associations linked to our own, an unjustifiable and insulting slap in the face,” it continues. “The doxxing truck is the ugliest culmination of a campaign to silence pro-Palestinian activism that the PSC has experienced for years.”
A Harvard spokesperson did not immediately provide comment on the doxxing or PSC’s criticism of the University’s response.
On Wednesday, a Harvard spokesperson wrote that the College has reached out directly to impacted students and student organizations to provide support and resources. In a Tuesday statement, College spokesperson Jonathan Palumbo confirmed that authorities had been alerted of doxxing on public websites.
In a post on X, former University President Lawrence H. Summers reaffirmed his disdain for the joint statement, but he called for the doxxing to stop.
“I yield to no one in my revulsion at the statement apparently made on behalf of 30 plus @Harvard student groups. But please everybody take a deep breath,” Summers wrote. “It is a time for absolute clarity that words or deeds that threaten the safety of others in our community will not be tolerated.”
Harvard Economics professor Jason Furman ’92 shared a similar statement on X, writing that he had been contacted by a student who had been doxxed despite no longer attending Harvard or affiliating with the co-signing group.
“I am reassured by the widespread condemnation of the statement by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Group. But I am appalled by people threatening individual students. I’m even more appalled since many of them had nothing to do with the letter,” Furman wrote.
—Staff writer J. Sellers Hill can be reached at sellers.hill@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X @SellersHill.
—Staff writer Nia L. Orakwue can be reached at nia.orakwue@thecrimson.com. Follow her on X @nia_orakwue.
I can only assume France actually wanted Pro Palestine protests, cause that was the only outcome from declaring this 'ban'
Same thing will happen in the UK.
Frangala
All Star
DR Congo lost 8-10 million from '97-'03 due to aggression and invasion of East African countries (Uganda, Rwanda with the aid of Western powers) add in the mass rapes and sexual violence and lost 15 million under Leopold rule and colonization.
One thing that is never surprising is mankind's disregard and cruelty toward other mankind.
SnugglesDaBear
Superstar
Israel & USA are both terrorist states. Damn both of these countries to hell.
Th3G3ntleman
Superstar
Stop being goofy. What happens if they don't want to move?
JamesJabdi
Superstar
why is it that everytime them jews get attacked they try to make it about anti-semitism....no bytch its because you a goddamn opressive devil.
Them arab nations are a disgrace for what they let happen to the palestine.
Them arab nations are a disgrace for what they let happen to the palestine.
True but conoglese government should have never accepted hutus war criminals. Although what M23 did is disgusting
israel kicked their ass. The west bank was under jordanian rule and gaza and sina under egyptian rule they lost.
btw its funny how y'all americans are talking like your country isn't the most evil on the world, y'all stole the land from native americans, y'all destroyed afghanistan, iraq, libya. Killed nearly hundred of thousands of civilians in afghanistan and iraq, old people, little kids. Raped.
y'all just as bad l
y'all just as bad l
JamesJabdi
Superstar
I just watched an aljazeera documentary on the 6 day war and them arab nations were on some cowardly shyt. They had all them chances to take israel out from 1947-1981 and damn near fumbled it time after time. Israel dropped bombs on Iraq when they were developing their own nuclear reactor with France and ain't do shyt.
How is Hamas giving Israel more trouble then big nations with huge militaries
The crazy thing is most conflicts are driven usually by the very small minority of monied and powerful in society and they are the ones steering millions of people to act in their interests.
I watched this documentary on the Yugoslavia wars recently from BBC (honestly one of the best documentary series I've watched. Highly recommended.).
Folks who don't know about this event may kind of feel disconnected from it on a human level because in our minds culturally what the fukk could we have in common with some development tier Eastern European country. But as you read and see more about polarizing conflicts like this, it becomes apparent it doesn't matter the language or culture it takes place in, the evils of humanity present in every country is the cause. It seems that sociopathic, greedy, and power hunger individuals who have huge ass egos to the point they feel they can solely dictate the fate of other human beings are always the culprits. Usually their wealth or access to power convinces them of their king like status. If you watch the documentary I mentioned, you can see despite being from a totally different culture, Milosovich with the way he talks, act, and rationalizes is not that different than our current tyrant wannabes such as Trump, Netanyahu, or the leaders of hamas. It's a particular psychology that a very small minority of a population carries but becomes a big issue when they also find their way to power. They know how to manipulate and they know the secret of laws and tradition are rituals we follow out of habit and can be torn apart if you can get enough people agitated to follow you in doing so.
The depressing truth is that these individuals are everywhere. Culture, time, or ethnicity isn't a protection against it. Somewhere someone like this is being birthed and every now and then they find their way to power.
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Devilinurear
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What country are you from?
