End Scholarships for Students Supporting Hamas

A new set of bills proposed by Republican legislators in Florida would pull scholarships from students found supporting a foreign terrorist group.

The proposed legislation would require universities to revoke any public funding assistance for offending students and reclassify them as “out-of-state” pupils, forcing them to pay higher tuition fees. Institutions of higher education would also be compelled to “report through the Student and Exchange Visitor Program of the United States Department of Homeland Security,” House Bill 465 explains, “information relating to the current status of a student who is attending the institution on an F-1 student visa if that student promotes any foreign terrorist organization.”

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“Florida taxpayers should not be in the business of subsidizing the education of terrorist sympathizers who wish to do us, and others, harm,” Blaise Ingoglia, the senate bill sponsor, noted in a statement. “The heinous terrorist attack on October 7 have pulled back the curtain and exposed the rampant antisemitism happening on the campuses of colleges and universities throughout this country.”

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