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🚨 GW CO-SPONSORED A CONFERENCE WHERE SPEAKERS REPORTEDLY CALLED FOR WEAKENING ISRAEL. WHO APPROVED THIS?At GW’s Septembe...
10/16/2026

🚨 GW CO-SPONSORED A CONFERENCE WHERE SPEAKERS REPORTEDLY CALLED FOR WEAKENING ISRAEL. WHO APPROVED THIS?

At GW’s September 17–18 conference, “When Will This War End? Lessons and Legacies of the War on Terror,” a Washington Free Beacon investigation published October 15 reports that speakers repeatedly targeted Israel and Zionism, while attendees were subject to strict confidentiality rules. The event was co-sponsored by GW’s Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) and the Muslim Counterpublics Lab. [1][2]
🔴 THE CONDITIONS TO ATTEND: SECRECY
🔴 WHAT SPEAKERS SAID
▪️ Sara Arman, Palestinian Youth Movement organizer, described a goal of her divestment campaign as “to weaken the Zionist state.”
▪️ Irene Calis, director of American University’s Arab World Studies program, said “Zionist interests” were where university administrators’ tactics of authoritarian repression converged. She also invoked “Zionist billionaires of the Epstein class.”
▪️ Dylan Saba, senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, dismissed the State Department’s account of terrorism, saying it “is bullsh*t.”
▪️ Maha Hilal, executive director of the Muslim Counterpublics Lab, argued the War on Terror was not about combating radical anti-American forces seeking to kill civilians, but “about inflicting violence” and subduing populations through U.S. state power. [1]

The rhetoric repeatedly targeted Zionism and Israel.
One speaker explicitly described weakening the Jewish state as a goal.
🔴 WHO APPROVED THIS? WHO IS PROVIDING OVERSIGHT?
GW: WHO SIGNED OFF ON THIS, AND WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE?

SOURCES
[1] Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, October 15, 2026: “Behind Closed Doors: Wild GW Conference Devolves Into Anti-Israel Hatefest…”
[2] GW Institute for Middle East Studies: Official conference description
Colette Coleman Harmeet Kaur Dhillon House Committee on Education & Workforce U.S. Department of Justice Rep. Tim Walberg Rep Josh Gottheimer Virginia Foxx Congresswoman Elise Stefanik Jared Moskowitz U.S. Senator John Fetterman Laura Loomer Dana Bash Washington Free Beacon George Washington University Rep. Randy Fine Senator Josh Hawley Senator Ted Cruz Speaker Mike Johnson Leo Terrell The Lawfare Project ®️ Linda McMahon U.S. Department of Education Brooke Goldstein Anti-Defamation League StandWithUs

🚨 GWU’S INCLUSION?JEWISH STUDENTS ARE STILL WAITING TO SEE IT.Three years after October 7, why are Jewish students still...
10/14/2026

🚨 GWU’S INCLUSION?
JEWISH STUDENTS ARE STILL WAITING TO SEE IT.
Three years after October 7, why are Jewish students still fighting for their grief, identity, and safety to be taken and recognized as seriously as everyone else’s?

In a March 2025 exchange, Sen. Josh Hawley questioned Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, a civil rights advocacy organization representing Arab American interests, about the illuminations projected onto GWU’s Gelman Library.
The exchange raises a question GWU cannot keep dodging: When Jewish students raise concerns, why does the conversation so often shift to context instead of confronting the impact?
LOOK AT GWU’S OWN DOUBLE STANDARD.
SGA publicly raised concerns about a film it believed perpetuated Islamophobia. Yet on the October 7 anniversary, as Jewish students gathered to mourn the victims of Hamas’s attack on Israel, a separate pro-Palestinian rally challenging GW’s ties to Israel took place on campus. The rally’s timing minimized Jewish students’ mourning and grief out of the spotlight on the very day their community was remembering the dead.
IS THIS THE STANDARD GWU IS TEACHING ITS STUDENTS?
Where is the leadership? Where is the consistency? Where is the accountability?
Jewish students are also a minority identity, yet they are not treated as such. They should not have to fight for the same dignity, recognition, and consideration extended to other communities.
GWU CANNOT CLAIM TO CHAMPION INCLUSION WHILE LEAVING JEWISH STUDENTS ASKING WHETHER THEY COUNT.

WE CONTINUE TO ONLY SEE SELECTIVE EMPATHY OR SPLIT EMPATHY/DIVERSIONS AND LOTS OF “ANDS.......” EXHIBITED BY THE VERY GROUPS AND SPACES THAT CLAIM “INCLUSION.”
WHEN IT COMES TO JEWISH STUDENTS AND IDENTITY AND PERCEIVED HATE AND HARM TO SAFETY, IT IS ALWAYS AN “AND OR A BUT OR ALSO...........”
Colette Coleman House Committee on Education & Workforce Senator Josh Hawley Senator Ted Cruz Rep. Tim Walberg Rep Josh Gottheimer Virginia Foxx AMCHA Initiative Congresswoman Elise Stefanik Jared Moskowitz U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Kaur Dhillon U.S. Department of Education Linda McMahon

🚨 GW’S SUSPENSION: A SANCTION WITHOUT TEETH.IF NOTHING CHANGES, WHAT IS A “SUSPENSION?”SJPGW is openly soliciting new me...
10/13/2026

🚨 GW’S SUSPENSION: A SANCTION WITHOUT TEETH.

IF NOTHING CHANGES, WHAT IS A “SUSPENSION?”

SJPGW is openly soliciting new members despite its suspension. With no apparent public condemnation from GW administration or fellow student organizations, are its leaders interpreting the lack of consequences as a green light to resume and expand their activities?

Could this recruitment reflect a perception that there were no meaningful consequences for organizing a rally on October 7,a solemn day of remembrance for Jews?

A rally that overshadowed Jewish students’ grief and taking the day’s focus away from the victims and those remembering them?

ZERO APPARENT SOCIAL OR ADMINISTRATIVE CONSEQUENCES SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE: ORGANIZERS CAN CONTINUE THEIR ACTIVITIES WITH LITTLE REASON TO STOP.

GW ADMINISTRATION: WHAT DOES “SUSPENDED” ACTUALLY MEAN IF AN ORGANIZATION CAN STILL PROMOTE ITSELF AND SOLICIT NEW MEMBERS?

WHEN A SUSPENSION APPEARS TO CHANGE NOTHING, WHAT MESSAGE DOES THAT SEND ABOUT UNIVERSITY PENALTIES, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THE RULES EVERY STUDENT IS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW?

Colette Coleman U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Kaur Dhillon House Committee on Education & Workforce Rep. Tim Walberg Rep Josh Gottheimer Virginia Foxx Jared Moskowitz Congresswoman Elise Stefanik Senator Josh Hawley U.S. Senator John Fetterman Rep. Ritchie Torres Congressman Mike Lawler Leo Terrell Laura Loomer Dana Bash George Washington University The GW Hatchet Washington Free Beacon The Free Press The Hill AMCHA Initiative Anti-Defamation League StandWithUs The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law @

🚨 GENOCIDE IS A LEGAL TERM. IT IS NOT A RHETORICAL WEAPON.Professor Omer Bartov claims that Israel is committing genocid...
10/12/2026

🚨 GENOCIDE IS A LEGAL TERM. IT IS NOT A RHETORICAL WEAPON.

Professor Omer Bartov claims that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The central problem with that claim is the one that matters most under international law: specific intent.

The Genocide Convention requires more than horrific civilian suffering, massive destruction or even unlawful conduct. It requires intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such. The UN specifically identifies this special intent as the defining mental element of genocide.

The Times of Israel article “No, Professor Bartov, It’s Not Genocide” argues that Bartov relies heavily on statements by Israeli officials and wartime conduct as evidence of genocidal intent, but that those statements and the consequences of war do not, by themselves, establish the legally required intent to destroy Palestinians as a group.

That is the problem with Bartov’s claim: the most important legal element cannot simply be assumed, inferred from rhetoric alone, or pushed aside because the accusation is politically powerful.

A professor’s credentials do not replace evidence. And “genocide” is far too serious a charge to lower the legal standard to make the accusation fit.

📌 Source: No, Professor Bartov, It’s Not Genocide — Paul Schneider, The Times of Israel, Oct. 1, 2026.

📌 Legal standard: UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article II.

LOOK CLOSER: GW STUDENTS PLANNED THE RALLY. GW STUDENTS PUSHED THE CAMPAIGN. THEN CAME THE GW “KEYNOTE SPEAKER” STUDENT....
10/11/2026

LOOK CLOSER: GW STUDENTS PLANNED THE RALLY.
GW STUDENTS PUSHED THE CAMPAIGN.
THEN CAME THE GW “KEYNOTE SPEAKER” STUDENT.

THIS IS SHAPING THE CAMPUS NARRATIVE.

On the third anniversary of October 7, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, Jewish students were trying to mourn and remember.

Instead, fellow GW students organized a major political rally on their campus that very day.

365 DAYS IN A YEAR. WHY OCTOBER 7?

Activism should not come at the expense of fellow students’ ability to mourn, feel safe, and participate fully in campus life.

When Jewish students’ grief is overshadowed by political demonstrations on the very day they are mourning, it raises serious questions about empathy, responsibility, and whose pain is acknowledged on campus.

YOU CAN ADVOCATE FOR PALESTINIANS WITHOUT ERASING JEWISH PAIN.

IF YOUR ACTIVISM REQUIRES YOU TO DISREGARD THE HUMANITY OF JEWISH STUDENTS, IT’S NOT JUST A FAILURE OF ACTIVISM, it’s a failure of BASIC HUMANITY.

Jewish students deserve the RESPECT ON 10/7 to mourn, remember, and feel safe at GW as everyone else.

Colette Coleman House Committee on Education & Workforce Congresswoman Elise Stefanik Rep. Tim Walberg Rep Josh Gottheimer Virginia Foxx Speaker Mike Johnson Congressman Mike Lawler Jared Moskowitz Rep. Randy Fine U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Kaur Dhillon Laura Loomer U.S. Senator John Fetterman U.S. Department of Education Linda McMahon Roy K. Altman George Washington University Senator Josh Hawley AMCHA Initiative Washington Free Beacon The Hill The Free Press The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law Leo Terrell The Lawfare Project ®️ Anti-Defamation League ADL Washington, D.C.
Students Supporting Israel

🚨 SGA: STATEMENTS FOR SOME. SILENCE FOR OTHERS.After last night’s SJPGW rally and the treatment of fellow Jewish GW stu...
10/08/2026

🚨 SGA: STATEMENTS FOR SOME. SILENCE FOR OTHERS.

After last night’s SJPGW rally and the treatment of fellow Jewish GW students on October 7, the anniversary of the Hamas attacks, we have to ask why GW’s SGA speaks up for some students but stays silent when Jewish students are affected.

SGA has publicly addressed the safety, inclusion, and ability of Muslim and Arab students to participate fully in campus life without feeling dehumanized related to the screening of the film “Infidels”.

One situation involved a film and SGA issued a statement.

The other involved GW students facing hostility, disruption, and dehumanizing behavior organized by fellow students and SGA said nothing.

Same campus. Same student body. Very different response.

Maybe this is part of the problem: selective empathy and selective acknowledgment can deepen division instead of restoring campus harmony.

Or perhaps SGA believes Jewish students don’t deserve the same concernor that it simply isn’t important when they are the ones being targeted?

SGA: What message are you sending Jewish GW students?

Harmeet Kaur Dhillon Rep. Tim Walberg House Committee on Education & Workforce U.S. Department of Justice Rep Josh Gottheimer Virginia Foxx Jared Moskowitz Congressman Mike Lawler Congresswoman Elise Stefanik Laura Loomer U.S. Senator John Fetterman Rep. Ritchie Torres Rep. Randy Fine U.S. Department of Education Linda McMahon Colette Coleman George Washington University Roy K. Altman Leo Terrell The Lawfare Project ®️ Anti-Defamation League StandWithUs AMCHA Initiative Washington Free Beacon The Hill The Free Press The GW Hatchet GW Student Government Association

These are current GW students organizing against fellow GW students, and their actions raise a serious question about wh...
10/08/2026

These are current GW students organizing against fellow GW students, and their actions raise a serious question about whether they have any regard for the pain and humanity of the students they share this campus with.

Organizing a rally on the one day the GW community was remembering innocent people murdered by terrorism is not simply political disagreement. It is a choice to create disruption and agitation when empathy and basic humanity should have come first.

You have free speech. You can advocate for whatever cause you choose. But activism is supposed to serve a greater good, not repeatedly disrupt campus life or dismiss the pain of other students.

SJPGW was suspended after conduct that GW determined warranted disciplinary action. Yet here we are again, with a publicly organized rally promoted “TO ALL GWU STUDENTS” taking place on GW’s campus.

If this type of conduct was serious enough to warrant a suspension, then why is it and has been occurring at all throughout the period of the suspension?
I’d this more deliberate indifference? Harmeet Kaur Dhillon

President Granberg, what does “SUSPENSION” mean?

GW has a responsibility to enforce its own rules and hold organizations accountable.

Colette Coleman House Committee on Education & Workforce U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of Education The GW Hatchet Rep. Tim Walberg Virginia Foxx Rep Josh Gottheimer Jared Moskowitz ELISE STEFANIK Congresswoman Elise Stefanik Congressman Mike Lawler U.S. Senator John Fetterman Rep. Ritchie Torres Laura Loomer Rep. Randy Fine Dana Bash Roy K. Altman Leo Terrell Washington Free Beacon The Free Press The Hill Anti-Defamation League AMCHA Initiative StandWithUs

OCTOBER 7: 🕯️ A DAY OF MOURNING, GRIEF, AND REMEMBRANCE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE. As Jews around the world collectively mo...
10/06/2026

OCTOBER 7: 🕯️ A DAY OF MOURNING, GRIEF, AND REMEMBRANCE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.

As Jews around the world collectively mourn and grieve, we remember and honor the lives lost and forever changed on the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

We are aware of specific students and groups planning protests and events on this solemn day. We loudly condemn these actions. These events and protests are harmful to creating a healthy, safe, and inclusive campus environment, particularly for Jewish students who are mourning.

We call on all major GWU platforms, prominent voices, and student organizations to also condemn the students organizing and promoting this event.

These current GWU students are using October 7 and are dismissing, minimizing and erasing Jewish pain on this solemn day.

U.S. Department of Justice House Committee on Education & Workforce U.S. Department of Education Colette Coleman Rep. Tim Walberg Harmeet Kaur Dhillon Linda McMahon Rep Josh Gottheimer Virginia Foxx Jared Moskowitz Congresswoman Elise Stefanik U.S. Senator John Fetterman Rep. Ritchie Torres Rep. Randy Fine Laura Loomer Anti-Defamation League ADL Washington, D.C. StandWithUs StandWithUs Campus Dana Bash Washington Free Beacon The Hill The Free Press Kevin Deutsch Christians United for Israel | Foggy Bottom Chapter Jewish on Campus Jewish on Campus at GWU gwu_against_hate Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement Anna Miller Activist Tracker AMCHA Initiative Mothers Against College Antisemitism Students Supporting Israel Israel on Campus Coalition Roy K. Altman Leo Terrell

ANOTHER RECORDING FROM GW’S “25 YEARS OF THE WAR ON TERROR” CONFERENCESeptember 17–18, 2026 • GW Elliott School of Inter...
10/04/2026

ANOTHER RECORDING FROM GW’S “25 YEARS OF THE WAR ON TERROR” CONFERENCE
September 17–18, 2026 • GW Elliott School of International Affairs

Organized by the Muslim Counterpublics Lab and co-sponsored by GW’s Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES).

The conference’s own materials frame Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide and describe Zionism as part of an ethnonationalist project.

This recording is from the September 17 panel, “Palestine and the War on Terror: (Dis)Arming Genocidaires and State Repression,” featuring Dr. Irene Calis, Director of American University’s Arab World Studies program.

In remarks from the event, Calis characterized Zionism as a “dirty word” and associated it with “shredding of babies,” “genocide,” and “sadistic forms of torture.”

THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE UNIVERSITY DISCOURSE.

When a university-affiliated conference presents an entire political movement in sweeping, dehumanizing terms, Jewish and Zionist students are not just hearing an abstract academic argument, they are hearing their identity and beliefs characterized on their own campus.

And at GW, 3,000 Jewish undergraduates represent almost 27% of the undergraduate population.

Where is the academic challenge? The historical context? The competing perspective?

PARENTS. STUDENTS. ALUMNI. FACULTY. SPEAK UP!

If you find this programming disturbing, write GW and put your concerns on the record.

Ask “who approved it, what academic standards were applied, and how GW considers the impact of this rhetoric on Jewish and Zionist students.”

If this is what GW calls academic discourse, the university needs to explain itself.

U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Kaur Dhillon House Committee on Education & Workforce Rep. Tim Walberg U.S. Department of Education Linda McMahon Virginia Foxx Rep Josh Gottheimer Jared Moskowitz ELISE STEFANIK Congressman Mike Lawler Laura Loomer U.S. Senator John Fetterman Rep. Ritchie Torres Rep. Randy Fine Washington Free Beacon The Hill The Free Press Kevin Deutsch Anti-Defamation League AMCHA Initiative Leo Terrell Roy K. Altman StandWithUs

‼️WHEN FACULTY ACTIVISM SHAPES CAMPUS CULTURE‼️New research from the AMCHA Initiative, a nonprofit organization focused ...
10/03/2026

‼️WHEN FACULTY ACTIVISM SHAPES CAMPUS CULTURE‼️
New research from the AMCHA Initiative, a nonprofit organization focused on combating antisemitism at U.S. colleges and universities, examines the often-overlooked role of faculty activism in campus antisemitism.

The analysis draws on six empirical studies spanning more than a decade and found a consistent association between faculty support for academic boycotts of Israel and higher levels of reported antisemitic activity.

The data:
• Campuses with 5+ faculty academic-boycott supporters were about 7× more likely to have departments issue or endorse anti-Zionist statements.
• Courses taught by boycott-supporting faculty had a median of 78% boycott-supporting authors in required readings, compared with 17% in courses taught by non-supporters.
• After October 7, campuses with Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) chapters had more than 7× the likelihood of physical assaults against Jewish students and about 3.4× the likelihood of violent threats.

Why this matters at GWU:
GW has its own Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) chapter, whose founding principles were published in October 2024. AMCHA specifically identifies GWU among the universities where faculty boycott activity has been documented.

That makes the broader research especially relevant to a university already navigating questions about antisemitism, faculty activism, classroom environments, and campus culture.

The question is bigger than student activism:
What role does faculty activism play in shaping the campus climate and is GW paying attention?
AND
Who is shaping the campus climate and what responsibility do universities have to examine the entire ecosystem?

Sources: The Jerusalem Post, Sept. 29, 2026; AMCHA Initiative, “Measuring Faculty Anti-Zionist to Predict and Combat Campus Antisemitism.”

U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Kaur Dhillon House Committee on Education & Workforce Rep. Tim Walberg Rep Josh Gottheimer Virginia Foxx Jared Moskowitz U.S. Senator John Fetterman Rep. Ritchie Torres Rep. Randy Fine ELISE STEFANIK Roy K. Altman Washington Free Beacon The Hill The Free Press Kevin Deutsch Anti-Defamation League AMCHA Initiative StandWithUs Leo Terrell The Jerusalem Post

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