Officials last week temporarily suspended Students for Justice in Palestine at GWU after indefinitely barring the organization from hosting on-campus events earlier this month.

SJP said in an Instagram post last Thursday that officials suspended the organization for 21 days pending student conduct proceedings and barred members from hosting off-campus and virtual events. University spokesperson Julia Garbitt said officials can implement temporary and immediate suspensions for no longer than 21 days while formal conduct proceedings are pending, per the Code of Student Conduct.

She said the suspension does not indicate the final outcome of a student organization’s conduct case. During proceedings, student organizations can provide information that will be evaluated when determining its responsibility for conduct violations, she said.

“The University has initiated conduct proceedings with SJP to determine a final outcome and does not comment on conduct proceedings underway,” Garbitt said in an email.

Garbitt said the University will publish a final decision online during the “next regularly scheduled update” after conduct proceedings.

“Whenever there is evidence that the continued presence of the respondent in the University community poses a threat to any person or to the stability and continuation of normal University functions, the University may take temporary and immediate action to limit the respondent’s activities in the community,” the Code of Student Conduct states.

Officials said SJP’s actions posed “a threat to the stability and continuance of normal university functions” and threatened additional disciplinary action if the organization hosted off-campus or virtual programming, SJP wrote in its Instagram post. A representative from SJP did not immediately return a request for comment.

“GW is once again reaffirming their complicity in the Zionist genocide of Palestinians by silencing students that dissent,” the post reads. “Their attempts to intimidate us are projections of their fear about the power of our movement and the growing consciousness of students.”

Before the suspension, officials barred the group from hosting events on campus a week before Palestinian Liberation Week, annual programming dedicated to mobilizing and educating students about Palestinian rights.

A University spokesperson said last week that officials are not currently approving SJP’s requests to host on-campus events because the group prevented DSA officials from attending an approved event, adding that officials are “separately reviewing” incidents at recent SJP events to determine if any violated the Code of Student Conduct or other University policies.

A representative of SJP said last week that members had asked three officials to leave the organization’s two most recent events because administrators’ past or potential future involvement in student disciplinary proceedings made attendees uncomfortable.

SJP hosted three events last week as part of Palestinian Liberation Week and required students to RSVP to each event to receive the location details. The organization capped off the week with a rally at James Monroe Park on Friday, where students protested SJP’s suspension.