Gov. Ron DeSantis says Hamas sympathizers "rule the roost" at some American universities, and is condemning protesters for blocking roads that could impair hospital access or child care.
"When you're chasing Jewish students around, when you're not letting a Jewish professor enter a building, when you're targeting people like that, that's not free speech," DeSantis said in Redington Beach.
"I mean, that's harassment. That violates appropriate conduct. And yet Columbia, Yale, all these places, those folks rule the roost. They do whatever they want. And these administrators and the Presidents at these universities are weak, they're scared and they don't do anything."
The Governor's most recent statement builds on previous comments, in which he said the federal Justice Department and Department of Education should be tasked to handle protests that have devolved into threats against Jewish students.
DeSantis also had choice words on Wednesday for street protesters and their effect on public safety.
"You think about what happened when you have these Hamas demonstrators out, they're taking over bridges and they're taking over roads. And first of all, you don't have a right to do that," DeSantis said.
"You have someone get stuck in traffic. How do you know if someone may need to get to a hospital, someone may need to pick up a child somewhere and you're just going to commandeer the road because you have this, this ideological protection?"
DeSantis noted that in Miami when protests happened, it took "10 minutes" for the demonstrators to get "dragged off the road where they belong."
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