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Beheaded During BLM Riots, Washington Monument At GWU Vandalized By Pro-Palestinian Protesters
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Jennifer KabbanyThe monument at George Washington University was beheaded during the height of the Black Lives Matter riots in June 2020.
The university finally had it fixed by the summer of 2022.
Now the private institution is going to have to send its custodial crew back out there.
On Wednesday the monument was hit with graffiti stating "disclose divest now" in red spray paint. It was one of several places peppered with such vandalism, according to images posted by pro-Palestinian social media accounts.
The vandalism came as the pro-Palestinian protesters kicked off the first day of school with aggressive protests — this despite the fact that GWU suspended both Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace for the fall semester in an attempt to rein in the chaos.
"Pro-Palestinian protesters rallied outside University President Ellen Granberg's on-campus house and the barricades surrounding University Yard on the first day of the fall semester to underscore ongoing demands that GW discloses its finances and divests from Israel," the GW Hatchet student newspaper reported.
The demonstrators also tried to get back into the fenced-off GW University Yard: "Police are on the scene, but students seem adamant. This was the location of their encampment, 'Shohada Square,'" reported citizen journalist Stu Studio.
The Student Coalition for Palestine at GWU posted on Instagram on Thursday about the vandalism:
Last night, autonomous protestors sent a message to Provost Christopher Alan Bracey at his home, spray painting the message amplified and repeated by students, faculty, and the people of this city onto Bracey's very own driveway: "DISCLOSE DIVEST NOW!" During the encampment earlier this spring, Provost Bracey himself violently assaulted two students. A statue of George Washington on campus was also branded with the same demand.