Police Raid Pro-Palestine Student in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation

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https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-1948401128-e1733252657192.jpg?w=2400 2400w" width="2935" height="1465" fetchpriority="high" loading="eager" /> <div class="max-w-[47.5rem] w-full xl:max-w-[45rem] xl:mx-auto px-5 sm:px-10 xl:px-5 xl:border-l border-border"> <div class="image__caption pt-3 mb-10 text-left font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.53] text-body"> <span>Pro-Palestinian demonstrators stand outside George Mason University in Manassas, Va., on Jan. 23, 2024, as President Joe Biden’s motorcade arrives for a rally.</span> <span class="text-[#7e7e7e]">Photo: Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg/Getty Images</span> </div> <div class="entry-content entry-content--new" id="police-raid-pro-palestine-students-home-in-fbi-led-graffiti-investigation"> <div class="entry-content__content"> <p><u>In the early</u> morning hours of November 7, more than 12 police officers showed up outside at an address in Springfield, Virginia, knocked, broke down the door, and raided the family home of two Palestinian American students at George Mason University.</p> <p>University and Fairfax County police refused to show the family the warrant. One Fairfax County detective with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force — cross-designated as a local and federal agent — was also present. The family and Mason faculty supporting them, however, believe they know what the FBI-led investigation was about: the young family members’ pro-Palestine activism.</p> <p>Two of the Palestinian American family’s daughters attend George Mason. One is an undergraduate student and the co-president of Mason’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The other is in a master’s program at Mason and a former president of the school’s SJP chapter. </p> <blockquote class="stylized pull-right" data-shortcode-type="pullquote" data-pull="right">“These students haven’t been accused of a criminal, civil, or student conduct violation, yet they have been banned from campus.”</blockquote> <p>The authorities told the family the raid was related to a spray-paint vandalism incident at George Mason’s campus in August — part of the widespread campus protests related to Israel’s war on Gaza. In September, the university police department put out flyers offering a<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gmu/comments/1f872n1/reward_for_id_info_on_vandalism/#lightbox"> $2,000 reward</a> for information about the incident. </p> <p>In short order, the school’s SJP chapter was suspended. Soon after, George Mason Police Chief Carl Rowan Jr. served the sisters with criminal trespass notices barring them from campus for four years — meaning that they can no longer continue their education.  </p>  <div class="most-read" data-module="MostRead"> <div class="most-read__content"> <h2 class="most-read__header"> Most Read </h2> <div class="most-read__promos"> <div class="most-read__container"> <div class="most-read__item"> <a class="most-read__link image-hover-parent" href="https://theintercept.com/2025/01/16/mit-israel-military-funding-research-gaza/"> <div class="image-hover-wrapper"> <img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="most-read__image" loading="lazy" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AP24130759589054-e1737058750869.jpg?w=1200" alt="" /> </div> <div class="most-read__title"> MIT Shuts Down Internal Grant Database After It Was Used to Research School’s Israel Ties <div class="most-read__author"> Akela Lacy </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="most-read__item"> <a class="most-read__link image-hover-parent" href="https://theintercept.com/2025/01/14/laken-riley-act-immigration-deportation-visas/"> <div class="image-hover-wrapper"> <img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="most-read__image" loading="lazy" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AP24145086520757-e1736883962997.jpg?w=1200" alt="" /> </div> <div class="most-read__title"> Congress Considers Putting Ken Paxton in Charge of Choosing Who to Deport <div class="most-read__author"> Shawn Musgrave </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="most-read__item"> <a class="most-read__link image-hover-parent" href="https://theintercept.com/2025/01/15/israel-hamas-ceasefire-biden-netanyahu-deaths/"> <div class="image-hover-wrapper"> <img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="most-read__image" loading="lazy" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AP25015352785366-e1736987022926.jpg?w=1200" alt="" /> </div> <div class="most-read__title"> A Deal Too Late: Israel Agrees to the Ceasefire It Rejected Months Ago, Thousands More Died <div class="most-read__author"> Jonah Valdez </div> </div> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="most-read__end" data-name="end"></div> </div>  <p>“I’m worried for our students and I’m concerned for our schools,” said Mason professor Ben Manski, the SJP chapter’s faculty adviser. “There are still no allegations and no charges that I’m aware of. Without those, we can’t have due process, we don’t know what is behind these actions, and we can’t know whether the public interest is being served or harmed.”</p> <p>Alexander Monea, an associate professor of English at George Mason, questioned the school’s disciplinary process.</p> <p>“These students haven’t been accused of a criminal, civil, or student conduct violation,” Monea said, “yet they have been banned from campus for four years, effectively expelling them from the university.”</p> <p>In a letter Tuesday night on the George Mason raid, more than 80 groups, including chapters of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Mason and 11 other schools, called on Mason to revoke the trespass orders, reinstate the SJP chapter, return laptops and phones to the two students, and conduct a full independent investigation into the decisions made by Mason police, school administrators, and the Board of Visitors — the university’s governing body — that led to the raid.</p> <p>“Do universities such as GMU routinely send phalanxes of police officers in military fatigues and armored vehicles, and carrying assault rifles, to break down the front door and raid the homes of students during the pre-dawn hours over an allegation of spray painting? Do administrators routinely rush to judgment and issue criminal trespass orders—the kind used to exclude serial sexual predators and stalkers from campus—against students who have been accused of graffiti?” the groups <a href="https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/YD3zSE2sq37IY0DHYNcR0jxg+v2PyDd0EfISPvH-sKk/embed/">wrote</a>. “It appears that the answers to these questions may increasingly be ‘yes.’”</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-an-extension-of-state-power"><strong>“An Extension of State Power”</strong></h2> <p>The severe moves against the family and the school’s SJP chapter are part of the latest wave of the crackdown against campus Palestine solidarity protests. As Israel’s war and demonstrations against it have dragged into a second year, the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/08/27/zionist-nyu-gaza-campus-protests/">repression</a> of Gaza protests continues to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/">derail students’ education</a> and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/10/22/swarthmore-protest-palestine-expulsion-bullhorn/">ensnare</a> them in <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/31/columbia-gaza-student-protest-discipline-changes/">disciplinary</a> and court proceedings over activism on campus. </p>  <div class="promote-related-post"> <a class="promo-related-post__link" href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/" data-ga-track="in_article-body" data-ga-track-action="related post embed: gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception" data-ga-track-label="gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception" > <img decoding="async" width="440" height="440" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Feature-Campus-protests.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" /> <span class="promo-related-post__text"> <h2 class="promote-related-post__eyebrow"> Related </h2> <h3 class="promote-related-post__title">From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns</h3> </span> </a> </div>  <p>Police in Philadelphia conducted a similar raid in October, The Intercept <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/10/23/upenn-cops-students-raid-gaza-palestine/">reported</a>, when authorities descended on the home of student leaders in the University of Pennsylvania’s Palestine solidarity movement.</p> <p>An attorney for the family questioned the basis for the raid and called on George Mason to resist overreach by law enforcement. “It’s clear that the university and police—local and federal—are working in tandem to intimidate, penalize, and criminalize student activism around Palestine,” said attorney Abdel-Rahman Hamed.</p> <p>“Students, faculty, and people of conscience must stand firmly against this authoritarian overreach and demand accountability from university administrators, the police, and the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney.”</p> <p>George Mason spokesperson Paola Duran declined to answer questions about the raid. “The university has no comment on matters of ongoing criminal investigations,” Duran said in a statement to The Intercept. </p> <p>Fairfax County Police Department’s public affairs office told The Intercept the department only assisted with the case and that George Mason University and the FBI were the lead investigators and directed questions to them. FBI Washington field office spokesperson Lira Gallagher said the agency could not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation and directed questions to George Mason police. The Fairfax County Attorney and George Mason police did not respond to requests for comment.<strong> </strong></p> <p>Police used excessive violence in the raid in response to paint on the floor, said Bassam Haddad, a member of the George Mason faculty. </p> <p>“Universities and university administrators have become an extension of state power, and we have now seen it firsthand in this case of a violent raid into the students’ home without any material evidence whatsoever,” said Haddad, a founding director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies program at George Mason and an associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government.</p> <p>It was not lost on George Mason students that the crackdown seemed to target the large number of Arab and Muslim students at the school. </p> <blockquote class="stylized pull-left" data-shortcode-type="pullquote" data-pull="left">“When they do things like this, it really does impact an entire community and an entire demographic at our school.”</blockquote> <p>“This repression has really been built up against multiple organizations on campus, especially with SJP, but really with any pro-Palestinian leaning organizations,” said a student representative of the George Mason University Coalition for Palestine, a campus organization, who asked for anonymity to avoid retaliation. “GMU has a huge Arab and Muslim population. When they do things like this, it really does impact an entire community and an entire demographic at our school.” </p> <p>“This honestly has just been an attack, not only on Palestinian organizers and the movement in general, but also on free speech as well.”</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-sjp-suspension"><strong>SJP Suspension</strong></h2> <p>When police arrived at the household last month, they forced the family to gather in the living room while they searched the house, according to two people familiar with the matter. Some family members were eventually released to attend work, but the rest remained while police conducted their six-hour search.</p> <p>Police seized electronics from the residence, including phones and laptops, but made no arrests. 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They finally found out when SJP members were told that a scheduled panel with the school chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had been canceled due to the suspension. </p> <p>The raid is part of the school’s increasing hostility toward activism against the war in Gaza, said Haddad, the faculty member supporting students. George Mason’s Board of Visitors — the school’s governing body — includes two appointments by Republican Virginia Gov. 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border-accentLight hover:bg-accentLight hover:text-white peer-checked:bg-accentLight peer-checked:text-white" for="inline-wall-5-months" > $5 </label> </div> <div class="max-w-[110px] flex-[1_1_25%] flex"> <input class="sr-only peer" name="amount-months" id="inline-wall-8-months" type="radio" value="8" data-action="updateSource" data-action-type="change" /> <label class="uppercase flex-grow mb-2 px-2 pt-2.5 pb-3 text-center border-2 font-sans text-[25px] font-bold flex leading-none cursor-pointer text-accentLight border-accentLight hover:bg-accentLight hover:text-white peer-checked:bg-accentLight peer-checked:text-white" for="inline-wall-8-months" > $8 </label> </div> <div class="max-w-[110px] flex-[1_1_25%] flex"> <input class="sr-only peer" name="amount-months" id="inline-wall-10-months" checked type="radio" value="10" data-action="updateSource" data-action-type="change" /> <label class="uppercase flex-grow mb-2 px-2 pt-2.5 pb-3 text-center border-2 font-sans text-[25px] font-bold 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