Posted on 10/26/2023 11:11:48 AM PDT by backpacker_c
Ron DeSantis's administration is linking a pro-Palestinian student organization to terrorism and is ordering state universities to ban the group from campuses, saying it illegally backs Hamas militants who attacked Israel earlier this month.
State university system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues wrote to university presidents Tuesday at Gov. Ron DeSantis' urging, directing them to disband chapters of SJP after the national group took the position that "Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement."
The ban came after the only Jewish Republican in the state Legislature switched his support in the presidential election from DeSantis to former President Donald Trump, saying DeSantis doesn't back up his pro-Israel words with action.
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Americans who declared their allegiance to Nazis weren’t censored - and I mean actual Nazis, during wartime and shortly thereafter. In fact, their right to parade and protest was protected. They had no problem supporting the killing of civilians to instill fear.
Unconstitutional. It’s one thing to support actions performed by others and different to commit them yourself. Once they say they plan to commit the same acts, that’s when I draw the line. “I’m glad they did” versus, “I’m gonna” are very different.
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