Florida State Senate puts Students for Justice in Palestine in their place

Last month the Florida state senate took unprecedented action to shine the spotlight on the nefarious activity of the organization known as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

The Sunshine State Senate passed a resolution entitled “A Resolution condemning Students for Justice in Palestine for its support of foreign terrorist organizations and antisemitic actions.”

This important resolution pointed out that SJP planned and organized a series of demonstrations on college campuses across America after the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in which over 1,000 Israelis, Americans and others were murdered, 3,000 wounded and 250 Israelis and Americans taken hostage.

These campus demonstrations, some of which turned violent and were declared riots and unlawful occupations, and targeted Jewish students, in effect amounted to providing material support for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both of which are officially designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The resolution goes on to point out that one of the founders of SJP was a member of the Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), another designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. The PFLP issued a statement of support for SJP’s activities in American campuses.

It also references a 3 May 2024 Wall Street Journal article which revealed that the campus demonstrators received months of training from the designated terrorist charity Samidoun, as well as SJP, which suggests they had prior knowledge that some time of attack or major event was in the offing.

During a search of the home of two SJP leaders in Virginia, police found Hamas and Hezbollah flags, firearms and ammunition, foreign passports and documents calling for “Death to America.”

The resolution goes on to close with an important, emphatic statement:

Be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

            That the Senate of the State of Florida condemns the organization Students for Justice in Palestine as an Anti-American, antisemitic, and racist organization that has no place in American life and urges all Florida colleges and universities to remove Students for Justice in Palestine from their campuses.