{"id":58917,"date":"2023-10-31T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=58917"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:08:57","slug":"did-you-know-186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/10\/did-you-know-186\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that Governor Ron DeSantis recently banned pro-Palestinian groups from state colleges and universities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/October-31-2023-Did-You-Know-PHOTO-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/October-31-2023-Did-You-Know-PHOTO-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/October-31-2023-Did-You-Know-PHOTO-1-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On a nationwide news interview this past Sunday, DeSantis clarified why he banned such groups, \u201c\u2026so we absolutely decertified them [pro-Palestinian groups]. They should not get one red cent of taxpayer dollars\u2026we also have strong laws in Florida against fundraising groups like Hamas, and we are enforcing those vigorously. It\u2019s not a first Amendment issue. That\u2019s a material support to terrorism issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis went on to further justify his actions, \u201cYou have a right to go out and demonstrate, but you can\u2019t provide material support to terrorism. They\u2019ve linked themselves to Hamas\u2026once you\u2019ve hitched your wagon to a group like Hamas, that takes you out of the realm of normal activity, and that\u2019s something that we\u2019re going to take action against. So, we believe we\u2019re totally justified within the law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a letter sent by Florida Education Chancellor Ray Rodrigues to university officials, two National Students for Justice in Palestine chapters, \u201cmust be deactivated\u201d, thus confirming DeSantis\u2019 statements made on the Sunday talk show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that Governor Ron DeSantis recently banned pro-Palestinian groups from state colleges and universities? On a nationwide news interview this past Sunday, DeSantis clarified why&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58919,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58917\/revisions\/58919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}