Author: Amelie Botbol

(October 27, 2023 / JNS) Florida governor and U.S. presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Wednesday banned the Student for Justice in Palestine organization from operating on state college campuses. SJP, long accused of antisemitism and of threatening Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus, was banned for providing “harmful support for terrorist groups,” according to the State University System of Florida. National SJP, the organization’s umbrella group, has come under growing scrutiny after releasing a statement on Instagram describing Hamas’s bloody Oct. 7 invasion of the western Negev, in which it killed more than 1,400 people, wounded thousands more and took…