Tampa, FL – As protests erupt on college campuses across the country targeting Jewish students and praising Hamas terrorists, Senator Rick Scott has been unequivocal in calling for protections for Jewish students, as well as for these universities to lose their federal funding for allowing events that promote antisemitism on their campuses.

Meanwhile, Columbia University this week announced a plan to capitulate to the terrorist-sympathizers by going to online classes for the rest of the school year rather than protect their Jewish students.

This comes after recent reporting that Columbia hired a visiting professor who they knew had previously declared his allegiances to Hamas and celebrated the October 7 massacre as a “dedicated few,” who worked in “stealth mode” to defeat a “larger enemy” in Israel.

Some examples of the antisemitic chants and statements at Columbia University include:​

• A protester stood in front of pro-Israel students who were waving Israeli and American flags with a sign reading, “Al-Qassam’s next targets,” referring to the military wing of the Hamas terrorist organization.

• A man yelled at two Jews, “Never forget the 7th of October. That will happen not one more time, not five more times, not 10 … 100 … 1,000 … 10,000 … The 7th of October is going to be every day for you.”

• A crowd chanted, “Al-Qassam, you make us proud; kill another soldier now!”

• Demonstrators yelled “Jews, Jews” in Arabic and others were saying “Go back to Poland.”

• A group of demonstrators off-campus chanted, “We say justice, you say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!”

• “Hamas we love you. We support your rockets too!”

• “Red, black, green, and white, we support Hamas’ fight!”

• A person in the encampment said, during a speech, “Let it be known that it was the Al-Aqsa Flood [Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel] that put the global intifada back on the table again. And it is the sacrificial spirit of the Palestinian freedom fighters that will guide every struggle on every corner of the earth to victory.”

• She continued, “Remember that militancy breeds resistance. Thousands upon thousands of students around the world have been moved to rebel because of your militancy.”

• Members of the encampment created a “human wall” after a leader yelled, “Zionists have entered the camp!” The leader then directed the people there to take “one step forward … push them out of the camp.”

• When asked if he condemns Hamas, a Columbia student responded, “I don’t need to condemn anybody. I condemn you motherf—ker!”

• Another student led the following chants: “From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab!” and “Resistance [Hamas] is justified!”

• During a high-intensity protest, people chanted, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution!”

• Students chanted, “Say it loud and say it clear: “We don’t want no Zionists.”

• People gathered and protested around a “By any means necessary” banner.

• An individual anti-Israel protester screamed, “We are all Hamas, pig! Long live Hamas.”

• An individual said to Laura Loomer, a far-right activist, “Kill All Zionists” and told her he “loves Hamas” because “they kill Zionists.”

• To a police officer named Ahmed, a protester outside Columbia yelled, “Traitor to his people! Get the f—k out of here, have some shame. Don’t f—king show your face here again you piece of s—t. Your mom is a wh—e.”

• A poster outside the encampment reads, “Admitted students — enroll in revolution.”

• A speaker told Columbia students during a speech, “Don’t work, don’t go to class, don’t research. Act out your Marxist and post-colonial ideas!”

At Biden’s event in Tampa this week, pro-Hamas protestors showed up to call on Biden and his handpicked socialist senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell to embrace the terror group and made calls for “From the river to the sea! Palestine will be free!” a slogan calling for the extermination of Israel.

Statement from Team Rick Scott Spokesman Will Hampson: “Sympathizing with terrorists has become a platform of the Democrat Party. Joe Biden, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell are weak cowards for standing with the pro-terrorist mobs. Them standing by, or even proudly cheering, as Jewish students are being threatened and Democrat voters call for more terrorism against the Jewish people is despicable. They are so afraid of upsetting their antisemitic voter base that they are abandoning their Jewish constituents. Congresswoman Mucarsel-Powell, who seemingly loves to talk about ‘threats to democracy,’ is silent. If her standing silent in the face of calls for terrorism and extermination isn’t disqualifying, then what is?”

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