The Israeli Ambassador To The U.N. Doxxes The Head Of Hamas

Yehiya Sinwar is the political leader of Hamass, and is also credited as the mastermind of the October 7 attack. And this appears to be the Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., Gilad Erdan, showing us his phone number. The only question is whether that is an office number or a personal number. Office numbers for a public official are generally fair game in ordinary circumstances, but personal numbers are not. In other words, if we published Ted Cruz’s personal cell phone number, we would be doxxing him. But if we gave you the office number for Mr. Cruz you can find on the official U.S. Senate website, that isn’t doxxing: That's just sharing public information.

Oh, except these are not ordinary circumstances. This author ordinarily opposes the doxxing of anyone, but Sinwar is part of the command of an enemy military in the middle of a war. Israel can rightfully kill him in combat. It's hard in those circumstances to understand why doxxing him would be wrong, if Israel even did that. Indeed, one common tactic in war is to disrupt the enemy’s communications, and that seems like the natural result of this tactic. We are willing to bet that as of right now, he is getting several million crank calls and texts.

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