Columbia University on edge after ‘doxxing truck’ targeting students, antisemitic incidents

Columbia University is launching a “Doxxing Resource Group” for Arab, Muslim and Palestinian students whose names and photographs are being displayed on the side of a truck being driven near campus with a message describing them as the school's "leading antisemites."

Students shared videos of the truck with Gothamist. The footage showed the box truck is equipped with large video screens displaying the students' names and photos alongside the message “Columbia’s Leading Antisemites.” The images also feature a separate URL of each student’s name, forever linking them on the internet to accusations of antisemitism. Doxxing is a form of harassment involving the intentional online publication of someone’s personal information.

The trucks bear the name Accuracy In Media, which was founded in 1969 to combat perceived liberal bias in the press, particularly in coverage of the Vietnam War. The trucks have also appeared on the campuses of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

One of those incidents, according to an email sent by the School of International and Public Affairs student association, was a swastika found scrawled on the wall of a fourth-floor bathroom in the international affairs building last week.as a hate crime after tearing down posters of Israeli hostages. Authorities say that sparked a fight and the student hit another student with a stick.

Feifel also said he disagreed with Accuracy In Media’s methods, adding that Jewish students become wrongly associated with the tactics.

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