You Have the Right to Be Doxxed
17th November 2023
Anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protesters sure don’t like to be publicly identified with a cause they claim is righteous. Why is that?
The 100-plus congressional staffers who walked out of the Capitol on Nov. 8 to demonstrate their support for a ceasefire said they took action because they were “no longer comfortable staying silent.” But they wore masks to cover their faces.
Likewise, on college campuses, protesters have used keffiyehs to shield their identities and claimed that attempts to film the public protests amount to harassment.
Schools like Harvard and Columbia have made their views clear, forming “resource groups” for the doxxed. Harvard’s dean of students, Thomas Dunne, denounced doxxing as a “repugnant assault on our community.” His statement was less equivocal than university president Claudine Gay’s feeble attempts to condemn Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. No both-sidesism there!
Of course, there is nothing these schools can do to protect students from doxxing by the press—the Washington Free Beacon or anybody else. Instead, feckless administrators offer pablum and commissions to pacify angry and entitled students.