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Efe Ercelik was preparing for trial in western Massachusetts when Department of Homeland Security agents pounded on his door to inform him that his student visa had been revoked.
His case stemmed from a physical altercation with Jewish students on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus during a November 2023 event honoring Israeli hostages taken during Hamas’s October 7 attack. Outside of the Student Union, a brick building at the center of campus, Ercelik threw up the middle finger, called the participants “pigs,” and waved a Palestinian flag. Following a verbal confrontation, he attacked an event attendee who had waved an Israeli flag in response. Afterward, Ercelik grabbed the Israeli flag and, using a kitchen knife, proceeded to stab it before police arrived on the scene.
A Massachusetts court charged Ercelik with multiple misdemeanors and felonies as a result of the incident, including vandalism, disorderly conduct, and assault and battery. Less than ten days after Ercelik’s arrest, Canary Mission, an anonymously run doxing website whose stated goal is to investigate groups and individuals “that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews,” listed him and his then-lawyer on their website, adding links to social media accounts under Ercelik’s name, as well as a summary of the incident using third-party reports with links.
