For Jena and Noor Chanaa, sisters who led George Mason University’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, calls for intifada were not mere protest slogans. They were exhortations to antisemitic violence. 

Law enforcement discovered the Chanaa sisters’ apparently lethal intent after an investigation into acts of antisemitic vandalism on campus led police to search their family home. There, alongside Hamas and Hezbollah flags and signs proclaiming “Death to America” and “Death to Jews,” police found an arsenal of weapons and ammunition.