George Washington U. President Issues Statement After Anti-Semitic Images Were Projected Onto Library Building
“These images included antisemitic phrases that have caused fear and anxiety for many members of our Jewish and broader GW community, and we wholly denounce this type of conduct”
This story was just sickening. The school’s president is trying to distance the university from the act.
Breitbart News reports:
George Washington U. President Responds to Pro-Terror Messages Projected on Campus Building
George Washington University President Ellen Granberg responded to the students that projected pro-terror, anti-Israel messages onto a library on the school’s campus in the wake of the Palestinian terror group Hamas murdering more than 1,300 Jews in Israel, saying the messages were “antisemitic” and were in violation of university policy. Her weak comment on disciplining the students is that the school “will take appropriate steps in accordance with university policies.”
“Last night, multiple images were projected onto GW’s Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library by a group of individuals, including GW students, acting in violation of our university policy,” Granberg said in a statement. “They do not speak on behalf of the George Washington University.”
“These images included antisemitic phrases that have caused fear and anxiety for many members of our Jewish and broader GW community, and we wholly denounce this type of conduct,” the university president continued.
Granberg added that the messages “do not contribute to the environment of rigorous debate and discussion” at the school, and while GW students, faculty, and staff “have the right to be vocal and engaged,” they “must do so within the boundaries of the law and our university policies.”
“As members of our GW community, they also have an obligation to do so in a way that models productive disagreement,” she said.
Granberg explained that the antisemitic messages projected on the exterior walls of the university library “were removed as quickly as possible, but I know this does not heal the deep and painful wounds it has opened across our campuses.”
“GW is reviewing this incident and will take appropriate steps in accordance with university policies,” the GW president added.
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It would be refreshing to see if President Ellen Granberg, like so many U. Presidents, should follow through and actually “takes appropriate steps in accordance with university policies,”
And does it sooner rather than 3 or 4 weeks later as they are won’t to do on the most immediate issues and put it out for a quasi debate, review and/or consensus.