George Mason University (GMU) is one of a handful of colleges that fall under the consortium of “DMV” (DC-Maryland-Virginia) schools of higher education, alongside places like Georgetown University, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland. These schools attract students from across the nation who are looking to be near the seat of power that is Washington, DC.
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For a long time, GMU was isolated from the more urban environments that led other schools into the fast descent into “woke.” It was close enough to DC to benefit from the many cultural offerings of the city, but far enough to enjoy a certain immunity from the politics.
GMU was the “conservative school” of the DC area; after all, they named their law school after the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. It was the choice of families who didn’t want their kids indoctrinated into the leftist ideology.
That has all changed, and GMU now finds itself as bad as any other institution that has allowed its faculty to be possessed by leftist activists and students to be out-of-control revolutionaries. They actually tried to make a “Just Societies” nonsense course mandatory as part of the school’s core curriculum.
Further proof that things have radically changed at George Mason is this story of two sisters, described as “Palestinian Americans,” who are leaders of the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and are currently under investigation for causing thousands of dollars of damage by spray-painting pro-Hamas messages on campus buildings.
A group of student radicals defaced George Mason’s student center in August, spray painting messages that warned of a “student intifada.” In its coverage of the incident, the Washington Post wrote that “activists spray-painted words on Wilkins Plaza outside the university’s Johnson Center.”
Those activists caused thousands of dollars in damage, a felony in the state of Virginia, and police suspect the SJP leaders, sisters Jena and Noor Chanaa, led the group of vandals. Weeks after the incident, in November, a county judge granted a warrant—which is under seal until February, according to a Fairfax County court representative—allowing police to seize electronics from the Chanaa family home.
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When police searched the Chanaa family home, at which the sisters still reside, they found “firearms—modern weapons, not antiques—as well as scores of ammunition and foreign passports, all of which sat in plain view.”
That’s not all. Law enforcement officials also discovered pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah materials, including flags and signs that read “death to America” and “death to Jews.”
Police seized the weapons because the Chanaa sisters’s older brother, who graduated from GMU, has been “linked to destruction of property in connection with a large group of people with like-minded rhetoric.”
Officers found modern firearms and scores of ammunitions, along with foreign passports after raiding the home of 2 Students for Justice in Palestine leaders.
They also found Hamas and Hezbollah flags and signs that read “death to America” and “death to Jews.” pic.twitter.com/C9MU5zFoRl
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 9, 2024
Right on cue, the terrorist mouthpieces at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), chimed in:
“Such alleged draconian measures used by law enforcement authorities fit a pattern nationwide of attempts to silence or intimidate those who seek to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the Biden administration’s complicity with that genocide,” said CAIR Research and Advocacy Director Corey Saylor.
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It’s unclear whether the sisters will be charged with anything, but they’ve definitely put themselves on the radar of local law enforcement and, likely, federal agencies who monitor terrorist activities.
Despite the heat from organizations like CAIR, George Mason Police Chief Carl Rowan Jr. served the sisters with a criminal trespass notice that bars them from being on the campus for the next four years.
