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When George Mason University president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.”

But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/george-mason-university-antisemitism-investigation-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign.

When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.” But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.

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Jul 11, 2025 at 1:01pmWeb
Show threadSteve BellovinJul 11, 2025
@ProPublica And by a curious coincidence, the president of the university is a Black man.
Show threadJonathan DoughtyJul 11, 2025
@SteveBellovin what should one expect of a university that renamed its law school after Scalia on receiving 1/3 of a $30m donation from Kochs and the other 2/3 anonymously. Justice may be blind but it knows where its bread and butter comes from; and what the conservative agenda really amounts to
Show threadErika SumnerJul 11, 2025
@ProPublica You should check out what just happened at The New School in New York City.
Show threadRich BeeJul 11, 2025
@ProPublica. "Anti-semetism" has become a meaningless phrase that rather bizarrely ignores the true semites. Anyone that screams this is behaving in a similar fashion to the Salem folk that called anyone they disliked a "Witch".
Show threadushmelJul 13, 2025
@richiebee @ProPublica kind of a neat side effect to deflect off the real neo nazis
Show threadRich BeeJul 13, 2025
@ushmel @ProPublica. When people scream about "nazis" then bizarrely behave like fascists the world is a peculiar place indeed.
Show threadBongolianJul 12, 2025
@ProPublica It's obvious at this point that trumpists are going for GMU because the president is Black. GMU is hardly a bastion of radicalism: The Cato Institute has embedded some of its members in the faculty, including at least one climate change denier.
Show threadStumpy The MuttJul 12, 2025
@ProPublica George Mason is my alma mater, but pretty much lost interest after they started taking money from right wing types to build the Antonin Scalia School of Law (ASSoL). Leopards eating faces, something something.
Show threadushmelJul 13, 2025
@ProPublica at some point the US is going to have to ask itself if it's willing to allow this Israeli foreign influence campaign to lead us into hell or if we'll rebuke Israel for the pariah state it is