Palestine

The bill provides $45 million in grants to secure Jewish schools and institutions and other places that could be vulnerable to hate crimes. The Senate will take up the measure on Wednesday.

In an extraordinary scene that included dozens of lawmakers turning their backs on the proposal's sponsor, the Florida House on Tuesday rejected a resolution that called for an "immediate de-escalation and cease-fire" in the war between Israel and Hamas.

Lauren Pineiro is one of the "Tampa 5," a group of people who face charges following a protest at the University of South Florida in March. She condemned the DeSantis administration’s push to deactivate a pro-Palestine student group on Florida campuses.

Organized by the South Florida Coalition for Palestine, it is pushing for a ceasefire to allow more humanitarian aid to enter the war-torn Gaza Strip and to “stop the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

State University System Chancellor Ray Rodrigues sent a letter to Florida university presidents with instructions to "deactivate" a pro-Palestine student group on campuses.

They described efforts to deactivate chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine on at least two campuses – including the University of South Florida – as an aggressive and likely unconstitutional application of a terrorism law because it would limit students' rights to protected speech.

DeSantis's office says the state has arranged to send drones, weapons and ammunition to Israel as it prepares for an incursion of Gaza.

In calling for the chapters to be disbanded, Ray Rodrigues said they could be restarted in ways that comply with state law.

Barbara Pariente, the first Jewish woman on the Florida Supreme Court: In America, "freedom for the speech we hate"

More than a hundred people gathered in Tallahassee’s Cascades Park to show support for Palestine.

Project Dynamo officials say they're preparing to save some of the thousands of Americans stuck in Gaza and Israel in a mission they're calling "Operation Promised Land."

Tariq Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian-American teen who was beaten and detained by Israeli police earlier this month, returned home last night after being…