FL S1684

Florida Senate Resolution sponsored by Senator Fine condemning Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as "anti-American, antisemitic, and racist" and urging all Florida colleges and universities to remove SJP chapters from their campuses

Cites the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack that killed over 1,000 people, wounded more than 3,000, and took over 250 hostages, and asserts that SJP's subsequent campus demonstrations effectively provided material support to designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad

References the State University System of Florida's October 24, 2023, memorandum deactivating SJP chapters at state universities under s. 775.33(3), Florida Statutes, which makes providing material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations a felony

Alleges ties between SJP and organizations linked to terrorism, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the PFLP-linked charity Samidoun, and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which is described as being under investigation by the Virginia Attorney General and sued by victims of the October 7 attack

Notes that despite the state university system's deactivation order, the University of Florida and the University of South Florida have failed to remove SJP from their campuses, and lists numerous universities nationwide—including Columbia, Brown, and UCLA—that have suspended their SJP chapters