Ron DeSantis says letting pro-Hamas students go unpunished will see the US ‘commit suicide as a country’

Ron DeSantis believes that pro-Palestinian groups should be banned on college campuses and claims that allowing them to continue would lead to the end of the United States.

Florida’s governor has led Republicans’ calls to have all foreign students showing pro-Hamas sentiments stripped of their visas and deported from the country.

“Are we, as a country, just going to commit suicide and allow groups to spread that openly side with terrorist organizations?” DeSantis wondered Sunday morning during an interview with NBC Meet the Press.

Fellow 2024 Republican contender Vivek Ramaswamy says DeSantis’ calls to ban pro-Palestinian groups violate these students’ First Amendment rights and contribute to “cancel culture.”

But DeSantis has pushed back against this narrative.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the US would ‘commit suicide’ if pro-Palestinian groups were allowed to remain on college campuses

“This is not cancel culture,” DeSantis said Sunday, adding, “It’s not a First Amendment issue, it’s material support of the terrorism issue.”

Florida has a law against any group that supports terrorist organizations, which DeSantis says pro-Palestinian organizations are doing because they have not only expressed support but also aligned themselves with Hamas terrorists.

Hamas terrorists invaded Israel earlier this month in a multi-front attack that led to the largest single-day massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust.

So far, 1,400 Israeli people have been killed in the conflict, and thousands more have died in Gaza, including both Hamas terrorists and civilians used as shields by the brutal group.

US officials confirm that more than 30 Americans have also been killed in the conflict, and that there are about a dozen missing people believed to be being held hostage in Gaza.

Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian demonstrations have sprung up across the US

DeSantis said pro-Palestinian groups in the US have allied themselves with Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel earlier this month.

But Republicans argue that these groups are allied with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization and the de facto government of the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.

DeSantis has specifically stated that although people try to separate Palestinians from Hamas, they are one and the same because the people voted this group into power.

He also says that pro-Palestinian groups on campuses have made the link with Hamas.

“This group, they themselves said in the aftermath of the Hamas attack, that they not only stand in solidarity, but they are part of this Hamas movement,” DeSantis told NBC host Kristen Welker.

‘Yes, you have the right to demonstrate, but you cannot provide material support to terrorism. They are allying themselves with Hamas,” he added.

“They shouldn’t get a cent of tax money.”