Florida Governor Ron DeSantis went to an area where pro-Hamas protesters tried to set up an encampment at the University of Florida recently and declared victory over the far-Left extremists.
DeSantis made the remarks in Gainesville where he noted that the encampment the pro-Hamas protesters tried to set up only lasted a few minutes, a far cry from encampments set up at major left-wing universities, some of which lasted well over a week.
“In the state of Florida, you do not have a right to commandeer property,” he said. “You don’t have a right to go take over parts of the university. You don’t have a right to go after other students based on their ethnicity. And we’re gonna ensure that that’s upheld in the state of Florida.”
“Now, if you look around the country, you have a lot of elite colleges and universities that have allowed themselves to become overrun with encampments, graffiti, as well as a lot of really nasty anti-Semitism at Columbia,” he continued.
“Pro-Hamas activists stormed buildings, took cleaning staff hostage, and destroyed iconic academic halls. At UCLA, Jewish students were barred from entering buildings on campus by pro-Hamas activists. At Portland State, the library was taken over and subsequently trashed by vagrants who weren’t even students of the university to begin with. And we see some of the chants that are done at these universities, such as, ‘From the river to the sea.’ Some are saying, ‘We don’t want no two-state.’”
He said that those who chant things like “from the river to the sea” want a second Holocaust against the Jews and are calling for Israel to be wiped off the map.
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