George Washington University (GWU) has suspended its campus chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) ahead of the 2025-26 academic year, JNS reports.
According to information provided to JNS, the university's student conduct history web page was updated in July with new disciplinary resolutions. These resolutions detail two separate infractions by the JVP chapter this past spring.
One was for hosting an event on April 20 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s birthday - without the required advisor approval. The second infraction cited "a social-media post that created a hostile environment based on a Jewish identity, a protected characteristic." The specific post was not publicly disclosed.
The suspension is a significant step by the university, which enrolls a large Jewish population, including some 3,000 Jewish undergraduate students and 1,500 Jewish graduate students, as reported by Hillel.
JVP's suspension will last through the spring semester of 2026, followed by a disciplinary probation period until the spring of 2027. To be reinstated, the chapter must remove the offending social media post and create new guidelines for its social media use.
This is not the first time the university has taken action against the group. GWU had previously suspended the chapter last year through December after it was found "responsible for hosting an unapproved multi-day encampment" in the spring of 2024. That incident resulted in the group being on disciplinary probation until May of this year.