Trump Admin: George Washington U "Deliberately Indifferent" To Antisemitism
Trump's Justice Department sent a notice today to GWU's President informing them that the government found them indifferent to attacks on Jews and Israelis during the Tentifada.
The Justice Department has sent a letter to George Washington University President Ellen M. Granberg today (Tuesday), informing them that the government found the university "indifferent" to the hostile environment created for Jews during the "tentifada" protests against the Gaza war in 2024.
The letter describes a whole host of documented cases, including court cases, where Jewish and Israeli students were harassed, assaulted, and hit with all sorts of defamatory slurs and threats, such as "there is only one solution, Intifada revolution," "Hamas are freedom fighters," and "Zionists go to hell!"
The Department's investigation also found "numerous incidents of Jewish students being harassed, abused, intimidated and assaulted by protesters. To be clear, Jewish students were afraid to attend class, to be observed, or, worse, to be "caught" and perhaps physically beaten on GWU's campus."
In one such incident, "A Jewish student who quietly held up an Israeli flag on University Yard was confronted and surrounded by protesters with their arms linked together for the purpose of restricting the Jewish student's movements. Throughout the encounter, the protesters shouted racial slurs. A GWU Police Department officer standing nearby did nothing to prevent or intervene in the incident and instead told the student to leave University Yard for his own safety."
According to the letter, multiple complaints by Jewish students and their parents were met with no meaningful action or response, especially in terms of administrative action against the offending students.
The letter stated that following these findings, "the Department intends to proceed with enforcement of this important federal civil rights law unless resolution of this matter is reached in the near future." Therefore, "The Department therefore offers GWU the opportunity to enter into a voluntary resolution agreement to ensure immediate remediation of these issues and related 3 reforms to prevent the recurrence of discrimination, harassment, and abuse."