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“SJP GWU” continues to publicly promote events, even after GW suspended the organization and it subsequently disaffiliat...
09/08/2026

“SJP GWU” continues to publicly promote events, even after GW suspended the organization and it subsequently disaffiliated from the university.
The actual point of a university suspension is to stop the organization from operating, not simply change its label while the same activity continues.

Related activity has continued throughout that period. GW should clarify who is organizing and sponsoring these activities, whether university policies apply, and how those policies are being enforced.

How many policy violations or documented concerns does it take before the people behind a suspended organization are actually held accountable? Would GW tolerate another suspended student organization continuing to operate publicly under the GW name?

Students, faculty, parents, and alumni should demand transparency, consistent enforcement, and accountability, not just sanctions against an organization’s name.bility for those responsible for organizing campus-related activity.
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H.R. 4795 just passed the House and it’s bipartisan! 🇺🇸The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act addresses how feder...
09/03/2026

H.R. 4795 just passed the House and it’s bipartisan! 🇺🇸

The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act addresses how federally funded universities participate in certain commercial boycotts targeting Israel and seeks to protect students’ access to academic programs in Israel.

Why does this matter?
What happens on college campuses doesn’t stay on campus. For Jewish students, questions around Israel, academic access, discrimination, and equal treatment have become increasingly important.

H.R. 4795 won’t solve the problem overnight. But it is one more step toward a campus where Jewish students don’t have to fight for what should have been guaranteed from the start.

We’re grateful to the House Education & Workforce Committee, Chairman Tim Walberg, and the members of Congress, House Committee on Education & Workforce Rep. Tim Walberg on both sides of the aisle, who supported this important step toward protecting academic and economic freedom.

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WELCOME BACK. FALL SEMESTER IS HERE. 🍂And so is GWJPulse.We’ve been following what’s happening at GWU and creating a pla...
09/03/2026

WELCOME BACK. FALL SEMESTER IS HERE. 🍂

And so is GWJPulse.

We’ve been following what’s happening at GWU and creating a place where students, faculty, parents, alumni, and community members can stay informed, share concerns, and better understand what’s happening on campus.

We track campus climate, programming, policies, university responses, and issues affecting Jewish students and faculty, while keeping the focus on facts, documentation, transparency, and accountability.

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GWU × MCL: THE ANTITHESIS OF THE CHANGE GW CLAIMS TO BE MAKINGMCL, the Muslim Counterpublics Lab, is organizing a two-da...
09/02/2026

GWU × MCL: THE ANTITHESIS OF THE CHANGE GW CLAIMS TO BE MAKING

MCL, the Muslim Counterpublics Lab, is organizing a two-day conference at GWU, co-sponsored by GW’s Institute for Middle East Studies. MCL describes its mission as “challenge, disrupt, and subvert” dominant narratives and uses advocacy, organizing and campaigns to confront what it calls systems of oppression rooted in Islamophobia.

The Sept. 17–18 conference, “When Will This War End,” frames the War on Terror through “U.S. empire,” “genocide,” occupation, state violence and “resistance,” and calls for the abolition of the War on Terror’s infrastructure. Its program includes sessions on criminalizing dissent, Palestine, political prisoners, state violence and organizing.

This is the programming GW is choosing to amplify through IMES and the Elliott School while saying it is working toward a less disruptive, less hostile and more unified campus.

The DOJ found GW “deliberately indifferent” to a hostile educational environment affecting Jewish, Israeli and American-Israeli students, we may not know the full terms of GW’s subsequent commitments.

But this collaboration raises a glaring question: Is GW’s actual programming consistent with the change it says it is pursuing or is it moving in the opposite direction?
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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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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.
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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.
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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?

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