As alumni representing decades of GW history, we can all attest to witnessing far more violent and harmful campus events including anti-women protesters, far-right speakers, and known war criminals hosted at University-sanctioned events, none of which solicited the same oppressive reaction from University administration. Unfortunately, these events reflect a pattern of behavior: GWU refused to divest from South African apartheid and responded with the same regressive fervor to students advocating for racial justice abroad.

Each GW Giving Day, alumni, students, and their families are aggressively targetted to donate to the University. These donations subsidize ongoing investments in the Zionist entity and enrich President Granberg while she actively foments racist vitriol against her own students. As alumni of this University, we steadfastly pledge to withhold all donations to George Washington University and its affiliates and encourage our peers and families to do the same; GWU has a low alumni donation rate and we intend to sink it further until our demands are met.

1) Reverse the suspension of GWU’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and fully restore their rights at a student organization
2) Protect Palestinian students and their allies from harassment, hate, and racism
3) Divest from genocide and all ties to Zionist state

We hope these concrete actions send a clear message to President Granberg, the Alumni Relations Office, and the rest of the University administration: continued complicity will come at a reputational and financial cost to you. Our community represents over 1,000 alumni that reject our alma mater’s anti-Palestinian racism then, now, and forever.

Free Palestine from the River to the Sea.
من النهر إلى البحر، ستكون فلسطين حرة

Solidarity Forever,

GW Alumni for Justice in Palestine