The doxxing campaign is deplorable and unacceptable on its own terms, of course. However the article mischaracterizes the nature at least of the petitions that

The doxxing campaign is deplorable and unacceptable on its own terms, of course. However the article mischaracterizes the nature at least of the petitions that some of the students signed, making it out to be more harmless and innocuous than it actually was: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine published an open letter on Monday demanding the University to “start verbally acknowledging Palestinian existence and humanity.” Whereas actually that open letter was basically a standard piece of atrocity denial -- and in essence, it seems to celebrate the events that had just occurred 48 hours previously. Here's the language it used to describe the Oct 7 pogrom: Despite the odds against them, Palestinians launched a counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor – which receives billions of US dollars annually in military aid and possesses one of the world’s most robust surveillance and security apparatuses. Any omission of this context – any rhetoric of “an unprovoked Palestinian attack” – is shamefully misleading. Which is a nauseatingly stupid and insensitive thing to say right after 700+ civilians had just been butchered, and another 200+ dragged off into tunnels by a certain militant group (whom the type of people who sign such petitions like to affectionately refer to as "the Resistance") can make some kind of a political point. In my view. None of which justifies the doxxing campaign. But there's no need to mince words about the nature of the petition campaigns that preceded it.