Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told FOX News in an interview airing this weekend that Students for Justice in Palestine has been deactivated at colleges across his state.
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested that some of the activities of pro-Palestinian student groups may be violating federal law. The governor added that in response to Students for Justice's support for the Palestinians in the wake of the attack on Israel, he is going to 'deactivate' the group in his state. Pro-Hamas protests have cropped up in urban areas across the country, from large cities like New York and Washington to places like Allentown, Pa.
If you look at how Florida's universities respond to this for our college presidents, you didn't see them behave like Harvard president and . They put out a very clear statement saying that what Hamas did was barbaric, that we stand with Israel and that we are going to make sure that our Jewish students are able to … be protected on our campuses,' he said.
You don't have a First Amendment right to provide material support to terrorists. So we have deactivated the Students for Justice in Palestine groups on university campuses and our state university system in the state of Florida. And I think we're the first state to do that,' he said, in an apparent nod to a federal law – 18 USC 2339b – that deems 'providing material support or resources to foreign terrorist organizations' illegal.
He said he called on President Biden to do so but is not anticipating a response. 'Some of these people that are demonstrating in favor of Hamas terrorism – and these demonstrations started before the blood was even dry of these Israeli civilians who were massacred – they immediately were praising this,' he said, adding that some protesters are foreign nationals on student visas. Those students, he posited, no longer have a right to be in the United States. 'That's a privilege.
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