CALL TO ACTION —FLOOD ADMIN INBOXES, DEMAND THAT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST A PALESTINIAN MUSLIM WOMAN

Before classes began, a Palestinian Muslim student organizer faced harassment by Quintin Veasley, the Associate Director of Residential Education, for exercising free speech and for calling out Georgetown’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza and zionist settler-colonization of the West Bank via distributing informational flyers to new students. When Veasley first reached out to the student, he demanded to meet with her for reasons he refused to share. In the span of 48 hours, the student received five emails, at least five phone calls (from Veasley's personal cell phone), a text, and at least two visits from university staff to her residence. His sending of a male staff member to a hijabi’s dorm room to key in is an egregious violation of her safety and religious freedom and he must be held accountable.

The student then received her first of many student conduct emails, levying vague ‘disruption' and ‘policy’ charges against her. She has been stuck in a semester-long community standards process where the Director of the Office of Student Conduct, Dr. Kernysha Rowe, rejected the evidence she presented as a part of her defense. While rejecting the student’s defense, Dr. Rowe simultaneously introduced referenced testimonies of unidentified students and parents who reported said anxieties and unfounded claims of antisemitism to the Director of Jewish Life, Rabbi Ilana Zietman as evidence against the student, despite claiming content neutral enforcement of the policies in question. This reveals the true reason for the disciplinary actions and harassment taken against the student: the university's anger over the content of the flyers, which challenge zionism and the university's quiet genocide-profiteering.

The student has since brought forth a formal complaint to the Committee on Speech and Expression to bring these gross violations of free speech to their attention. Georgetown University is following in the footsteps of its sister institutions across the country with its use of sleazy repressive tactics against pro Palestinian organizers. Speaking out against genocide should not be punishable by stalking and institutional retaliation.

Let the administration know you will not stand for this, and echo our demands of disclosure, divestment, and an end to campus repression.