George Mason University (GMU) is a member of the “DMV” (DC-Maryland-Virginia) consortium of colleges, sharing the region with esteemed institutions such as Georgetown University, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland. These schools are particularly appealing to students who wish to be in close proximity to the influential hub of Washington, DC.
GMU, for a significant period, remained somewhat detached from the urban environments that spurred other institutions into rapid progressive change. It struck a balance, benefiting from the cultural resources of DC while maintaining a distance that shielded it from overt political influences.
Known as the “conservative school” in the DC area, GMU cemented its reputation by naming its law school after the esteemed late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. This designation made it a preferred choice for families seeking an educational environment free from perceived leftist indoctrination.
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.
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.
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.
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.
