A Pennsylvania religion professor and campus activist was arrested Tuesday after authorities accused him of directing violent online threats at a Jewish woman and her family. Haverford College professor Guangtin Ha, 42, is being held at a Pennsylvania detention site.

Ha faces a charge of harassment and intimidation causing fear of death or injury. Court records do not yet list an attorney representing him.

The FBI tied Ha to anonymous social media posts that advocated a second Holocaust and revealed the victim’s residence, according to court records. The accusations interrupted an academic career focused on subjects including “global blackness” and “the gender of sound.”

Ha was affiliated with Faculty for Justice in Palestine as of 2024. Much of his scholarship focused on race and ethnography, including respectful writing about black and Chinese cultures, a tone prosecutors allege was absent from his anonymous posts about Jews.

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“The goyim have woken up, jew,” Ha allegedly told the victim in February through an X account named “America1stLM,” according to the Justice Department. The rest of the message told her to run, flee, and leave, while referring to her home on Google Maps and a security camera near her mailbox.

In May, prosecutors say Ha used another account with “Goyim” in its name to issue another barrage. “Eliminate the Jewish cockroaches. Exterminate the Jewish state … you will have nowhere to go,” he allegedly wrote.

“Your family has no future in the US. Give it another 10 years, and you shall see a true holocaust.” The Justice Department also alleged that Ha posted “HH” in April, describing it as online slang for “Heil Hitler.”

Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment. Haverford College President Wendy Raymond issued a statement Tuesday condemning harassment and discrimination while outlining the school’s response.

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“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,” Raymond said. “Professor Ha, who was on sabbatical leave and not teaching this academic year, has been placed on administrative leave and barred from campus while the criminal process moves forward.”

Before the accusations that he supported Nazis, Ha used a public social media account in 2024 to criticize “Zionists” by calling them Nazis. His conduct and that of other Haverford College employees were cited in a 2024 lawsuit brought by the Jewish legal group Deborah Project.

That lawsuit accused Haverford College of antisemitic discrimination. The Deborah Project later praised the college as “a model for other schools” after the case was settled and the institution committed to better practices.

Ha also helped write a 2024 opinion article in the college newspaper on behalf of Faculty for Justice in Palestine. The article demanded an “inclusive learning community” for students opposed to Zionism and claimed those students faced rampant racism.

Prosecutors described the alleged anonymous posts as having “devastating, lasting effects” in a Tuesday motion seeking Ha’s detention before trial. According to the Justice Department, the victim’s spouse left the family home with their three children because of the threats.

The children were not allowed to play in the front yard or wait outside for their school bus, prosecutors said. The family also took additional steps inside the home and considered leaving it entirely.

“They have purchased curtains to prevent any person from seeing inside the home and have considered moving from their home entirely,” the motion reads. “They recognized from the content of the posts that the stalker had access to their home and knew the name of their infant child.”

Prosecutors argued that Ha’s alleged fixation and physical proximity to the family created a continuing threat. “The defendant has demonstrated a hateful obsession with the victims, and his proximity to them creates a clear danger that necessitates his detention pending trial,” they wrote.

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