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‘Run. Flee. Leave. Blurring your home on google map and installing a security camera next to your mailbox won’t help,’ professor allegedly told colleague
A Haverford College professor who allegedly stalked and threatened a Jewish colleague online pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal cyberstalking charges, according to court records reviewed by The College Fix.
Guangtian Ha, a religion professor, was arrested last week and will remain in custody until his trial. The judge cited concerns about the professor being a potential flight risk as the reason for him remaining in custody, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
His trial is scheduled for Dec. 3.
According to prosecutors, Ha used anonymous accounts on X to send repeated hateful messages and threats to his colleague sporadically from October 2025 to May.
Messages included photos of the colleague’s house, names of family members, and the colleague’s address, causing the spouse and children to flee the home, court records claim. The documents do not name the colleague or his family.
According to court documents, Ha signed off several messages using “HH,” a way of invoking Adolf Hitler’s salute. Ha also referenced the Holocaust and the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel in his messages, the documents allege.
Ha allegedly wrote to the Jewish colleague, “Jew, get the f— out of my country” and “Goyim are taking America back, blood-guzzling demons.”
The professor also allegedly watched the steps his colleague took to protect his home and family in response to the messages. Ha allegedly told his Jewish colleague to “Run. Flee. Leave. Blurring your home on google map and installing a security camera next to your mailbox won’t help.”
Ha also posted the colleague’s address publicly on X several times under the X account D1Goyim, including once with the message, “Yo, watch out, jewish n—-,” court documents allege.
At the hearing Tuesday, several professors from the private college attended to show their support for the professor, saying “the hateful messages did not represent the man they knew,” according to the Inquirer.
Ha’s attorney Susan Lin also said he does not have any prior criminal record.
Prior to the hearing Tuesday, The College Fix emailed Ha to ask about the allegations, but his email address appeared to have been disabled because the emails bounced back.
Haverford’s President Wendy Raymond said in a statement last week that Ha was on sabbatical this year and he has since been placed on administrative leave.
Responding to his arrest, Raymond said she was “heartbroken and furious” about the allegations.
“I 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,” she stated.
The allegations have led to national publicity for Haverford, a small private college located just outside of Philadelphia.
In another campus message Wednesday, President Raymond addressed a controversial decision she made to cancel a pro-Palestinian event on Oct. 7 hosted by the Haverford Young Democratic Socialists of America. Raymond canceled the event after the news of Ha’s arrest broke nationally.
“These converging moments elevated my risk assessment for safety on campus, and I needed to make a difficult decision to postpone a student event,” she stated.
Raymond said she hopes to work with student organizers to reschedule the event, an “Art Campaign in Solidarity with Palestine,” at a future date.
“The responsibility for the physical safety of our community members is paramount, and I realize that my decision cost our campus, including Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students, a timely opportunity to create a space for support and solace. That loss, too, deserves attention and repair,” Raymond said.
When asked about the situation, Marie McMullan, counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told The College Fix that Ha’s alleged conduct is not protected speech.
“The Supreme Court has identified narrow exceptions to the First Amendment, including unlawful incitement, true threats, intimidation, or discriminatory harassment,” McMullan said. “Some of these carefully-defined exceptions encompass speech that one might identify as ‘hate speech.’ In that way, the First Amendment’s protection is not absolute.”
Asked how colleges should handle free speech in situations like Haverford’s with the pro-Palestinian event, she acknowledged that it “can be difficult.”
“We’ve seen censorship from both sides of the political aisle. Censorship anywhere is a threat to free speech everywhere,” she said, adding that FIRE encourages institutions to adopt institutional neutrality positions.
McMullan also noted that Haverford itself acknowledged the Oct. 7 event “was protected under its free expression policies.”
“A college can address misconduct or unlawful conduct without stopping student expression. When dealing with unprotected categories of speech of unlawful conduct, a college does not have to protect that expression. But when expression is protected by their policies or the First Amendment, then the college should protect that, even if some may find that expression offensive or hateful,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Haverford Young Democratic Socialists and the Philadelphia DSA chapter blamed “Zionist” backlash for the college’s decision to cancel.
“At the event, students were to create art and read poetry in solidarity with Palestinians who now face three years of Israel’s escalation of Palestinian genocide and, further still, nearly a century of occupation and ethnic cleansing,” the Democratic Socialist groups wrote in an Oct. 7 statement on Instagram.
The statement also described the college’s security concerns about the event as “vague.” However, the statement also noted that students observed an increased police presence on campus on Oct. 6 and 7.
The Haverford student group did not respond to an Instagram message from The Fix asking if they have plans to reschedule the event.
The College Fix also contacted Haverford College’s media relations team via email to ask about the decision to cancel the Oct. 7 event, but did not receive a response.
In her message Wednesday, President Raymond announced that there will be a campus community meal and meeting on Oct. 21 to discuss the situation and “amplify grassroots efforts already developing across campus.”
“Our way forward is through community,” she stated.
Ha’s charges stem from a federal investigation by the Justice Department and the FBI. If convicted, Ha could face up to five years in prison, a department news release states.
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