A mock tribunal at George Washington University's Gaza Solidarity Encampment sentenced school administrators on Friday.
Student agitators tried President Ellen Granberg, Provost Christopher Bracey, the Board of Trustees, campus police and others, all in absentia.
And it was all caught on camera.
At one point, an unidentified female activist asks the crowd, “How do the people find you?”
“Guilty!” the crowd screams, followed by chants of “Guillotine! Guillotine! Guillotine!”
“Bracey, Bracey, we see you,” activists could be heard yelling. “You assault students, too. Off to the motherf**king gallows with you.”
The sentencing spectacle moves on to the Board of Trustees. The woman overseeing the proceeding bellows: “On the charges of having a vested interest in the genocide of Palestinian people as they profit off Zionist weapons and purchases that you refuse to divest the apartheid as they line their pockets, the people find you?”
“Guilty!” the crowd roars.
“To the Guillotine!” she echoes triumphantly. “Board of Trustees, we charge you with genocide. I hope all that money is gonna save you when you're rotting in jail.”
The tribunal sentences President Grandberg: “On the charges of using our tuition dollars to fund genocide and selling out students to Zionist interest, the people find you?”
“Guilty!” the crowd cheers again.
The woman responds, “…you already know where I am sending her,” – a not-so-thinly veiled reference to the guillotine. “Her and her f**k *ss bob.”
The proceedings were broadcast on Instagram Live.
The College Fix's Jennifer Kabbany has more:
The video is one of several extreme scenes that have been captured at the encampment on the Washington D.C. campus. Another includes the removal of the American flag and a Palestinian one hoisted in its place.
Now in its 11th day, “University President Ellen Granberg said GW is unequipped to manage the pro-Palestinian encampment in University Yard and called on GW's partners, including D.C. officials, for their ‘full support' on Sunday,” the GW Hatchet student newspaper reported.
“In the message to community members at about 2:30 p.m., Granberg said all of the University's efforts to end the encampment or deter protesters from escalation have failed, including discussions with students, the assistance of local police and administrative consequences. She said the encampment is ‘potentially dangerous' and no longer qualifies as a student demonstration,” the Hatchet reported.
Granberg's memo stated in part that “when protesters overrun barriers established to protect the community, vandalize a university statue and flag, surround and intimidate GW students with antisemitic images and hateful rhetoric, chase people out of a public yard based on their perceived beliefs, and ignore, degrade, and push GW Police Officers and university maintenance staff, the protest ceases to be peaceful or productive. All of these things have happened at GW in the last five days.”
