Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) spoke at the University of Florida (UF) on Wednesday, vowing that his administration will not tolerate violence by unruly pro-Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrators on campus. He briefly mocked those who continued to do so. In their efforts to destroy.
DeSantis went to campus in person, where some students continued to protest while chants could be heard in the background. But that didn’t stop Mr. DeSantis, continuing his remarks despite a chorus of voices from afar.
“As you know, I haven’t been on campus since October 7th. Hamas entered the Israeli community, burned babies in ovens, raped women, [and] DeSantis assassinated an elderly person in a very brutal manner.” Said During the press conference, cheers could be heard in the background.
“I think they were very angry about that, but no, they weren’t. Yeah, they didn’t care about that. They were completely fine with those massacres happening. “We had no concerns about that,” he said, adding that the attempted “squatting at the University of Florida” was immediately halted.
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“There was an attempt last week to set up an encampment. And I know we’ve seen this in other parts of the country where this has become kind of a common occurrence,” he said. Told. “Well, we don’t do that here in Florida, so they set up camp and it lasted about a few minutes.”
In fact, in response to the arrest of some pro-Hamas and anti-Israel demonstrators, the university issued a statement clarifying that its campus is not a “nursery school.”
“This isn’t complicated. The University of Florida is not a daycare center and we don’t treat protesters like children. They know the rules, they broke them, and they deserve the consequences. ,” University of Florida President Ben Sasse said in a statement. statement.
DeSantis went on to stress that unlike other areas where protesters have taken control of campuses, Florida’s state universities have ensured that order is maintained.
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“You don’t have the right to take property. You don’t have the right to take over parts of the university. You don’t have the right to attack other students because of their ethnicity, and we will work to make sure that’s the case in Florida,” he said. said, emphasizing the contrast between the response of Florida universities to the instigators and the response of Florida universities. others such as Columbia University in New York;
If you look around the country, there are a lot of elite universities that are allowing encampments and graffiti and really bad anti-Semitism to flourish. In Colombia, pro-Hamas activists stormed a building, took cleaning staff hostage and destroyed an iconic academic hall. At UCLA, Jewish students were barred from campus buildings by pro-Hamas activists. At Portland State University, the library was taken over by vagrants who weren’t even students at the university, and then trashed. And you’ll also see some chants like “From the River to the Sea” being performed at these universities. Some people say, “We don’t want two states. We don’t want two states.” We will take care of everything. ” And part of it is that people can say what they want, but when you’re talking about “from the river to the sea,” you’re essentially saying you want a second Holocaust. It is the same as having You want to wipe Israel off the map, and that’s what Hamas represents.
“That’s why Hamas did the Oct. 7 attack. So when you look at that, that’s not what we want in terms of the leadership of this country,” DeSantis said, adding that these He questioned how many of the protesters actually researched the history of the conflict.
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“How many of them have actually studied this history? Very few. […] Many of these people [don’t] I know what they’re talking about. ” pic.twitter.com/ZhOhbzpS8H
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DeSantis said:
In fact, if you really study this history, you’ll find that there was never a Palestinian state.That is [the] The Ottoman Empire, which lasted hundreds of years, then the British Mandate, and then the United Nations Partition Plan, and basically Israel accepted it, the Arabs rejected it, they started a war and lost. So let’s talk about that.
“But I think a lot of the people who just spout nonsense don’t know what they’re talking about,” the governor added.
