The person who made all those anonymous threats admits they did it specifically to cause blowback against the pro palestine protestors.
"He believed, wrongly, that the posts would prompt a 'blowback' against what he perceived as anti-Israel media coverage and pro-Hamas sentiment on campus," she wrote.
he was saying racist things because he was actually racist, just not against the people he was threatening, so i think you're doin a lot better than him