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George Washington University Suspended an Anti-Semitic Student Group. One Day Later, Its Leader Led a March to the School President's Home.
Washington Free Beacon ^ | November 17, 2023 | Jessica Costescu

Posted on 11/19/2023 9:12:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv

George Washington University on Tuesday suspended a student group that projected pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic images onto the school's library. Just one day later, the group's leader defied the suspension, spearheading a campus protest that targeted the school president's home.

Lance Lokas, a junior at the university who as of February served as president of its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, wielded a megaphone as he led scores of anti-Israel protesters on a Wednesday afternoon march through campus, the Washington Free Beacon witnessed while on the scene. Protest attendees—including students who have been photographed at past Students for Justice in Palestine demonstrations—congregated on campus to chant, "We will honor all our martyrs" before rallying outside of university president Ellen Granberg's home in Foggy Bottom.

The Lokas-led march came one day after the school suspended Lokas's group over an unauthorized, anti-Semitic demonstration that it led late last month. Lokas and other Students for Justice in Palestine members during that demonstration projected pro-Hamas images, including "Glory to our martyrs," onto the school library. The university's suspension bars Lokas's group from using school facilities and organizing campus activities for 90 days, a directive that Lokas and other Students for Justice in Palestine members openly defied during their Wednesday march.

The group's disregard for the suspension will test George Washington University's resolve as the school begins to crack down on anti-Semitic demonstrations that violated its rules. It's unclear if the school will go as far as to expel Lokas and other members of the group—George Washington University is yet to weigh in on the Wednesday march and did not return a request for comment.

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TOPICS: Gaza; Hamas; Israel; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: academia; antisemitic; brownshirts; college; districtofcolumbia; domesticenemies; education; ellengranberg; foggybottom; freebeacon; gaza; gwu; hamas; israel; jessicacostescu; lancelokas; university
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Pro-Hamas students at GWU project anti-Semitic messages on school library (@StopAntisemites/Twitter)
Pro-Hamas students at GWU project anti-Semitic messages on school library (@StopAntisemites/Twitter)

1 posted on 11/19/2023 9:12:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Hamas buttboy, Lance Lokas, needs his ass expelled. He doesn’t run the school. He’s just an empty skull full of mush wasting a large sum of money just so he can wear an “I Go To College” sweat shirt.


2 posted on 11/19/2023 9:17:01 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

3 posted on 11/19/2023 9:19:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Something like that, more emphasis on “reported missing”.


4 posted on 11/19/2023 9:20:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The universities were so busy fighting “white nationalists” that they didn’t notice who the real crazies in their midst were.


5 posted on 11/19/2023 9:22:38 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The greatest threat to US Democracy is Progressive Leftists. The entire world now knows it


6 posted on 11/19/2023 9:25:13 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: realcleanguy

Well said.


7 posted on 11/19/2023 9:28:28 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SunkenCiv
“Scores of protestors…” This is why 30-round magazines are justified.
8 posted on 11/19/2023 9:34:37 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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Hamas buttboy, Lance Lokas, needs his ass expelled. He doesn't run the school. He's just an empty skull full of mush wasting a large sum of money just so he can wear an “I Go To College” sweat shirt.

It's all fun d games until Universities proclaim that conservatives are terrorists and expel them from campuses.

9 posted on 11/19/2023 9:35:41 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: cgbg

The “white supremacists” are suddenly the latest DNC hoax related to the Hamas terrorists.


10 posted on 11/19/2023 9:36:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Redleg Duke

They wouldn’t suffer enough for my taste, but I could live with that.


11 posted on 11/19/2023 9:37:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: realcleanguy

That’s how the future textbooks need to be written.


12 posted on 11/19/2023 9:37:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s amazing the lengths colleges will go to to avoid expelling anyone. Spineless is an understatement.


13 posted on 11/19/2023 9:41:40 AM PST by Ford4000
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To: SunkenCiv

Here is a list of places these students could attend to more effectively ‘honor their martyrs’ than GWU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_the_State_of_Palestine


14 posted on 11/19/2023 9:41:51 AM PST by posterchild
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To: thegagline

They more or less already have. They just want the conservative kids’ money. When it comes to conservative speakers on campus, that’s not going to happen. Conservative speakers are the new terrorists.


15 posted on 11/19/2023 9:44:00 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

The group’s disregard for the suspension will test George Washington University’s resolve


The purpose of a test is to.....................


16 posted on 11/19/2023 9:44:19 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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George Washington University Suspended a Proud Boys Student Group. One Day Later, Its Leader Led a March to the School President’s Home.

I wonder how that would have played out


17 posted on 11/19/2023 9:47:54 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: SunkenCiv
This Lokas person has been a troublemaker ever since he started at George Washington University.

If he is here in a student visa, he should be deported.

-PJ

18 posted on 11/19/2023 9:54:56 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SunkenCiv

is Lance Black or White?


19 posted on 11/19/2023 9:55:59 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The schools have painted themselves in the corners. They have encouraged and let this crap go on so long that it’s past that invisible line where it can be stopped without real anarchy. It’s kind of a microcosm of the entire culture here. This country has let the left get away with so much for so long that nothing short of violence is going to reign them in. Because they don’t truly believe anybody’s going to try and stop them.


20 posted on 11/19/2023 10:05:36 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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