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GWU, THIS ISN’T BALANCE. IT’S A PATTERN.IMES is a GW institute. GW is not a bystander, it puts its institutional name be...
09/02/2026

GWU, THIS ISN’T BALANCE. IT’S A PATTERN.

IMES is a GW institute. GW is not a bystander, it puts its institutional name behind this programming.

Jewish Onliner highlights an IMES-affiliated conference where the framing centers U.S. and Israeli actions “empire,” “genocide,” occupation and “resistance” while giving comparatively less attention to Hamas terrorism, the October 7 attacks, hostage-taking, Hamas’s ideology, antisemitism, and Israeli security concerns.

That is the imbalance.

The issue isn’t whether these subjects belong in academia.

The question is why GW affiliated programming appears to repeatedly center one political framework while competing perspectives receive far less visible attention.
That makes oversight unavoidable:

Who reviews IMES programming?
Who approves these events?
Who asks where the competing scholarship is?
Who is accountable for the pattern?

Academic freedom protects controversial debate.

It does not put GW’s institutional choices beyond scrutiny.

Same narrative. Same lens. Another IMES event.
GWU: Who keeps signing off on this?

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Harmeet Kaur Dhillon U.S. Department of Justice House Committee on Education & Workforce Rep. Tim Walberg Colette Coleman ELISE STEFANIK U.S. Department of Education The Hill Washington Free Beacon The Free Press Kevin Deutsch Congressman Mike Lawler Jared Moskowitz Jared Moskowitz 🟧 Dana Bash Rep Josh Gottheimer Leo Terrell AMCHA Initiative Anti-Defamation League Jewish on Campus Jewish Insider

IT TAKES A VILLAGE 💪We’re proud to highlight Jennifer Locane, a two-time GW alum whose commitment to Jewish students tur...
08/26/2026

IT TAKES A VILLAGE 💪
We’re proud to highlight Jennifer Locane, a two-time GW alum whose commitment to Jewish students turned concern into action. After October 7, Jen chose to show up, building Jewish student advocacy, engaging university leadership, and making sure Jewish voices were heard.

Her leadership earned her Alums for Campus Fairness’ inaugural Outstanding Chapter Leadership Award, a well-deserved recognition of her dedication to the GW community.

Her work is especially meaningful given the DOJ’s 2025 finding that GW had been “deliberately indifferent” to a hostile educational environment affecting Jewish, Israeli and American-Israeli students and faculty.

We honor Jen for using her voice, her experience and her love of GW to stand up for the students who came after her.

Read Jen’s story in eJewishPhilanthropy: “Why This Two-Time GW Alum Never Hesitated to Stand Up for the University’s Jewish Students” (ejewishphilanthropy.com)

“APARTHEID” IS A CONTESTED CLAIM,SO WHY IS GW MARKETING AN EVENT AS IF IT’S A FACT?IMES has built an entire event around...
08/20/2026

“APARTHEID” IS A CONTESTED CLAIM,SO WHY IS GW MARKETING AN EVENT AS IF IT’S A FACT?

IMES has built an entire event around “From Apartheid to Democracy,” using the apartheid label to frame Israel before the conversation even begins.

You can believe Israel meets that definition. You can reject it. That is the debate.

But a contested political and legal characterization is not the same thing as an established fact or an ICJ declaration.

So why is a GW academic institute using one side’s conclusion as the event’s headline, without presenting the counterargument?

🎤 If the label is the debate, it shouldn’t be marketed as the premise.
Harmeet Kaur Dhillon U.S. Department of Justice House Committee on Education & Workforce Rep. Tim Walberg Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt StopAntisemitism Jared Moskowitz Mike Lawler U.S. Senator John Fetterman Rep. Randy Fine Rep Josh Gottheimer ELISE STEFANIK The Lawfare Project ®️ Leo Terrell StandWithUs AMCHA Initiative Kevin Deutsch Washington Free Beacon The Free Press The Hill Israel on Campus Coalition Congressman Dan Goldman Shabbos Kestenbaum EMET

GW’s fall 2026 programming through the Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) raises questions about the balance of pe...
08/19/2026

GW’s fall 2026 programming through the Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) raises questions about the balance of perspectives being presented to students and the university community.

Events including “From Apartheid to Democracy” and “Inside Gaza” (November 5), along with other programming focused heavily on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a particular framework, stand in contrast to the limited comparable programming addressing Israeli, Jewish, or American-Israeli perspectives.

This is not an argument against criticism of Israel or academic freedom. It is a question of balance and institutional responsibility.

After the DOJ found GW deliberately indifferent to a hostile educational environment affecting Jewish, Israeli, and American-Israeli students and faculty, the continued imbalance in university-sponsored programming raises a difficult question:

Is this simply an oversight or another failure to recognize the problem?

Sources: GW/IMES event listings; DOJ findings.
Harmeet Kaur Dhillon U.S. Department of Justice House Committee on Education & Workforce Rep. Tim Walberg ELISE STEFANIK Jared Moskowitz Mike Lawler Rep Josh Gottheimer U.S. Department of Education The Hill Washington Free Beacon The Free Press Anti-Defamation League Roy K. Altman Leo Terrell Jewish Insider White Rose Magazine AMCHA Initiative Alums for Campus Fairness StandWithUs StopAntisemitism

The ADL’s new faculty research shows that antisemitism on campus is not simply a student-organization problem: 73.2% of ...
08/18/2026

The ADL’s new faculty research shows that antisemitism on campus is not simply a student-organization problem: 73.2% of surveyed Jewish faculty reported observing anti-Jewish activity or statements from faculty, administrators or staff. ADL report

GW raises the question of whether the culture has actually changed. Fall 2026 IMES programming continues to prominently frame Israel through highly critical lenses, including From Apartheid to Democracy and an Inside Gaza film screening, without an evident comparable Israel-focused counterpoint. That doesn’t prove bias, the imbalance warrants scrutiny, particularly when faculty and academic programming are part of the environment ADL is examining.

GW changed the rules. Now the question is whether it changed the culture. Academic freedom means students should be taught to question every side, not simply inherit one narrative.
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“Bury the memory of the student encampment for Palestine.”“The liberated zone at GW.”“Why are university funds being use...
08/17/2026

“Bury the memory of the student encampment for Palestine.”
“The liberated zone at GW.”
“Why are university funds being used to wall off what used to be open to the public?”
“Two years ago, students, workers and the community met up at U Yard.”

Posted just days before the fall semester, this collaboration between the DMV SJP Coalition and GWSAI feels less like history and more like a reminder: THEY’RE STILL HERE

Some of the organizations may be suspended (GWSJP)& disaffiliated, but the people behind them are still recruiting and organizing and the DMVSJP ( another proxy of GWSJP) this video shows zero reflection on the disruption that led to GW installing the gates in the first place.
Is GW prepared for another semester of “organizing,” or are we about to watch the same cycle happen all over again?

Harmeet Kaur Dhillon U.S. Department of Justice House Committee on Education & Workforce Rep. Tim Walberg Jared Moskowitz ELISE STEFANIK Colette Coleman U.S. Department of Education Congressman Mike Lawler Rep Josh Gottheimer Anti-Defamation League StandWithUs Washington Free Beacon The Hill The Free Press Leo Terrell The Lawfare Project ®️ Jewish Insider Jewish on Campus

Just in time for back-to-school, the DMV SJP Coalition and GWU SAI are ready to get back to organizing, recruiting, and ...
08/16/2026

Just in time for back-to-school, the DMV SJP Coalition and GWU SAI are ready to get back to organizing, recruiting, and pushing the limits of GW’s campus policies.

The bigger issue is that these organizations don’t appear to believe they’ve done anything wrong or that they’ve violated university rules. Yet they continue organizing and recruiting through different networks while facing little or no individual accountability.

How are students supposed to learn right from wrong when there are no consequences for their actions? You can suspend an organization, remove its status, they disaffiliate or put up fences, but if the same students continue operating without meaningful consequences, what exactly has been accomplished?

The university can’t teach accountability while simultaneously allowing the individuals behind repeated violations to simply keep organizing under another name.

Did you catch the most ironic part? This video is filmed in front of the George Washington statue, which remains boxed up after repeated vandalism.

At some point, the consequences need to follow the people, not just the organization.

Harmeet Kaur Dhillon U.S. Department of Justice House Committee on Education & Workforce AMCHA Initiative Rep. Tim Walberg Colette Coleman Washington Free Beacon Anti-Defamation League The Hill The Free Press ELISE STEFANIK Jared Moskowitz Mike Lawler U.S. Department of Education Roy K. Altman

GW says it has taken significant steps to address antisemitism on campusbut where is the transparency? GW’s own legal fi...
08/11/2026

GW says it has taken significant steps to address antisemitism on campusbut where is the transparency? GW’s own legal filings point to disciplinary actions against 16 students and nine student organizations, while the University says it has implemented “robust policies” and shared a “full array” of measures with the DOJ.

Yet questions remain: What has actually changed? Are these policies being applied consistently? And what has GW been doing with the federal government since the DOJ found the University “deliberately indifferent” to antisemitism? Harmeet Kaur Dhillon U.S. Department of Justice

If GW says it has acted, Jewish students and the broader GW community deserve transparency, accountability, and evidence that those changes are actually working.

Source: The GW Hatchet, Aug. 1, 2026 — Read the full article

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Extremism doesn’t begin and end with terrorism.GWU’s own Program on Extremism says its research examines a broad range o...
08/03/2026

Extremism doesn’t begin and end with terrorism.

GWU’s own Program on Extremism says its research examines a broad range of extremism-related issues, including antisemitism, domestic extremism, Islamism, jihadism, radicalization, and the ideologies and movements behind them. Its 2026 Global Extremism Papers specifically describe the program’s focus as research on terrorism and violent extremism. (Program on Extremism)

That raises a legitimate question: What happens when we apply that same lens to the university’s own campus environment?

GWU has dealt with years of controversy surrounding antisemitism, activism, protest, and student organizing—including the pro-Palestinian encampment, SJP disciplinary actions, allegations of harassment and intimidation, and continuing concerns about how the University responds. The DOJ concluded in 2025 that GW had been “deliberately indifferent” to antisemitic misconduct, while a House investigation criticized the University’s handling of pro-Palestinian protesters. (The GW Hatchet)

And suspending an organization doesn’t necessarily end the networks, relationships, messaging, or organizing surrounding it. GW Hatchet reported that SJP disaffiliated from GW amid further sanctions, while campus activists continued organizing through other channels. (The GW Hatchet)

That is precisely why the conversation needs to go beyond “Did someone commit an act of terrorism?”

What about radicalization, recruitment, ideological influence, normalization, networks, and mobilization?

If GW is serious about studying extremism, those questions should apply everywhere including its own campus.

THIS IS NOT AN ACCUSATION, it’s a question about whether the university is examining the full ecosystem of influence it says it studies.
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