Protesters storm stage during Ron DeSantis speech in New Hampshire

Desantis NH protesters
The ladies chanted "Jews against DeSantis," contending the Governor is anti-semitic.

Gov. Ron DeSantis braved a couple of protesters in the Granite State Friday night.

Addressing the New Hampshire GOP at the Amos Tuck Dinner, the Governor dealt with some women storming the stage chanting “Jews against DeSantis.

They were removed, with the Governor looking only briefly concerned before offering a quip to return proceedings to normalcy.

“You’ve got to have a little spice in the speech. You’ve got to have a little fun. Why do you want to pay the ticket for that to get in? But different strokes for different folks,” DeSantis said, before returning to his stump speech.

The group If Not Now took responsibility for “confronting Ron DeSantis at a GOP fundraiser in New Hampshire (Friday) evening. We’re making clear that DeSantis is an anti-semite whose actions and policies both support Israeli apartheid and put Jews in danger.”

The organization specifically cited the Governor’s upcoming trip to Israel as a matter of grievance.

“He’s making this trip as he gears up for his campaign for President, and as Israel’s far-right government continues its efforts to entrench apartheid rule over all parts of Israel and the West Bank,” the group tweeted. “In his last trip to the occupied West Bank, DeSantis signed agreements with orgs in illegal settlements. He even signed legislation ostensibly fighting antisemitism – in reality, it enables the right to frame Palestinians’ human rights as ‘discriminatory.'”

DeSantis’ in-state actions also earned their condemnation, including allegations that he “refuses to condemn the Nazis who demonstrate across his state and even show up to his fundraisers … allies himself with antisemitic Christian nationalists … (and) smears his political opponents as ‘Soros-funded.'”

Additionally, his ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee rankle the organization, which contends both “support occupation and apartheid at the expense of Jewish safety.”

See the interaction below:

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66 comments

  • When will Republicans stop lying?

    April 14, 2023 at 7:38 pm

    You will soon see how much of a coward and weak leader Desantis is… talks tough. No Peace until Freedoms are restored for ALL floridians

    • cassandra

      April 14, 2023 at 9:53 pm

      100% Agree

      • Robert Appel

        April 15, 2023 at 8:00 am

        Agree 100%

    • Foster

      April 15, 2023 at 2:03 am

      Will Democrats ever abandon fascistic brown shirt tactics when they lose the argument? Will Democrats ever recognize their authoritarianism? The irony of calling a man like Ron Desantis a hindrance to freedom is thick. If these republicans were all the things you say, why are libertarians on their side? Libertarians suddenly hate freedom and our constitution?

      • Sara Johnson

        April 15, 2023 at 8:42 am

        What have you been smoking? It’s the Repuglicans that want to take the abortion freedom away. There’s nothing authoritarian about Democrats. All they ever want to do is help people! It’s funny how republicans turn everything around and blame democrats for the things republicans want or have done themselves.That’s called Sociopathic!

        • Maria Garcia

          April 15, 2023 at 9:06 am

          It’s not the Republicans that want to take out abortion.
          It’s the word of God. God is against killing, specially your own child.

          • cassandra

            April 15, 2023 at 1:36 pm

            Where does your god say abortion is killing? Book, chapter, verse?

        • Rm

          April 15, 2023 at 10:07 am

          Abortion isn’t a freedom.. its murder

          • cassandra

            April 15, 2023 at 3:54 pm

            Enough of your anti-woman HATE SPEECH. It is just as offensive as racial or religious bigotry. It comes from the same sewer as NAZI lies about Jews drinking blood.

        • alice hecht

          April 18, 2023 at 5:35 pm

          thanks for your positive comments. I totally agree with you

      • Elliott Offen

        April 15, 2023 at 9:15 am

        @Foster: Democrats aren’t banning everything, creating harsher and harsher penalties for everyone and everything they don’t like, and calling for death penalty for drugs. Also, not claiming stolen election while they tighten up voting and try to steal elections using lies that incite deadly riots..to stop electoral vote counts.

      • Bruce Stoner

        April 15, 2023 at 1:56 pm

        Trump wants to toss out the constitution

        • joe hoss

          April 15, 2023 at 8:34 pm

          Guess you are a “stoner”!

      • cassandra

        April 15, 2023 at 3:38 pm

        Why are you babbling nonsense about Democrats? Brown Shirts? Authoritarianism? You are either ignorant or being intentionally malicious. These women are exercising their Free Speech and Protest Rights against a government that is violating their Human Rights. Why are you criticising women for demanding the same rights that you simply take for granted?

        Get ready for a lot more protesting.

        PS Libertarians? 2A

        • joe hoss

          April 15, 2023 at 8:38 pm

          Ther’s a right way & a wrong way to protest. Imagine if a security guard thought one of the women might kill or injure DeSantis & injured her in protecting him. Nothing to do with free speech, just common sense.

          • cassandra

            April 16, 2023 at 10:06 am

            Not right or wrong. Safer versus riskier.The women are protesting DeSantis’ supporting and profiting from Apartheid Israel’s rule and oppression of the Palestinian people. They are protesting Israeli occupation of much of Palestine. International crimes.

            They are protesting DeSantis’ refusal to condemn NAZIs and Christian nationalist antisemitism in Florida, which is endangering Jewish people’s lives. In other words, they are protesting for rights you were born with.

    • PopPopThePatriot

      April 15, 2023 at 7:47 am

      Name one freedom a Floridian has that another one does not. I’ll wait.

      • Earl Pitts American

        April 15, 2023 at 9:14 am

        Good morning America,
        Pay no attention to the leftist whiney diaper baby commenters. Over half of them are the same person posting under different monikers. As far as the “storming of the stage by fake Jews” nothing more than a political stunt. If it was real some of the “stage stormers” would be in jail or worse.
        In fact the organizers ( who did not storm the stage ) were hopefull some of their paid “fake Jews” stage stormers would get hurt or killed to further their twisted political agenda.
        I, Earl Pitts American full time genious/ part time security advisor, was there and ordered security not to hurt the paid ” fake Jew ” stage stormers.
        Thank you America,
        Pitts Up America
        Earl Pitts American

        • Mercury Shampoo Ed

          April 15, 2023 at 9:19 am

          “Full time genius.” Yeah right. Psychotic and narcissistic sociopath in need of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization. Disgusting anti-government terrorist and neo nazi propagandist. Big troll.

          • Earl Pitts American

            April 15, 2023 at 10:10 am

            Thank you for being my most recently hired contratlrian poster who’s job it is to make me, Earl Pitts American, look good to the readers. Son you are doing a great job, welcome aboard, and keep up the great work.
            Your Boss,
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          • joe hoss

            April 15, 2023 at 8:40 pm

            I would bet “shampoo” osd bald!

        • Bluesman7408

          April 15, 2023 at 10:06 am

          You might want to learn how to spell “genious “ before declaring yourself one! And before you say, it was a problem with the word to text translate, even my word to text software is smarter than this!

          • Earl Pitts American

            April 15, 2023 at 10:13 am

            Thank you spelling/grammer nerd,
            The answer is NO.
            There is no room for grammer nerds on Earl Pitts American’s payroll.
            Thank you Nerd,
            Earl Pitts American

          • Mercury Shampoo Ed 👍

            April 15, 2023 at 2:51 pm

            @Earl: Seek help for your narcissistic delusions before you are beaten or worse.

        • TJC

          April 16, 2023 at 10:33 am

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      • Forgotten Floridian

        April 15, 2023 at 1:09 pm

        Do you mean what freedom Floridians “don’t” have? Cause lately there’s been plenty

    • Cindi

      April 15, 2023 at 10:20 am

      What freedoms are you referring to? Florida was the only state not shutdown during the pandemic. It get tiring hearing everyone complain about DeSantis, Trump, etc. But corrupt biden and his administration get no complaints? biden & company have destroyed the entire nation!

      • JD

        April 15, 2023 at 4:22 pm

        Actually the state did shut down, thank you. I know because I was there (and still here).

        Shutdown By order of MoRon DeSantis

    • Hung Well

      April 15, 2023 at 3:27 pm

      When is this happening? What does soon mean? No Peace, you say? I live in Florida and it is very, very peaceful where I am. What is wrong with you?

      • Mercury Ed

        April 15, 2023 at 6:54 pm

        I guess it would be peaceful out in the woods with no money.. eating rhubarb and smoking dope. Not a care in the world.

    • Keystone Keys

      April 16, 2023 at 11:41 am

      Florida Democrats are effete, impotent, inept and inconsequential.

  • PeterH

    April 14, 2023 at 8:06 pm

    The Republican Klown Kar is making itself known
    ! Mike Pompeo won’t be boarding! He’s decided to let the two premier Klowns duke it out…… allowing the only adults in the 2024 election to set a new course for our great country! VOTE ALL REPUBLICANS OUT OF OFFICE!

    • brian

      April 15, 2023 at 8:35 am

      and you would prefer this country going down the toilet with the idiot clowns that are running the country now ? you must have been dropped on your head as a newborn !!!

      • David Pakman

        April 15, 2023 at 9:22 am

        👆”People are starving and riding horses to work! Vote for Orange Hitler or the planet will explode! Send Orange Berlusconi all your money!”😆

  • Acid Head Ed 👍

    April 14, 2023 at 8:09 pm

    That wasn’t sht. We wanna see a hundred far left whackos dog pile the man. We wanna see a naked, trans mob pile on top of him.

  • DeSantis is soooo brave...

    April 14, 2023 at 9:08 pm

    …that he signed away a crucial human right that women have had for decades at 11pm, behind closed doors, in Ohio.

    • joe hoss

      April 15, 2023 at 8:43 pm

      Self defense is a human right. Murder, I don’t think so.

  • Richard Bruce

    April 14, 2023 at 9:32 pm

    Those religious ultra conservative Amish are at it again.

  • Swamp Rat

    April 14, 2023 at 9:47 pm

    Ah yes more left wing lunatics storming the state. Then there is Hakeem Jeffries and his racist Uncle and Hakeem’s racist comments that get under reported by the main stream media. House Negroes protecting their master Hakeem.

    • Bert Stimson

      April 14, 2023 at 9:55 pm

      Yikes

    • David Pakman

      April 14, 2023 at 10:02 pm

      House men like Clarence Uncle Tom Thomas AkA Uncle Cracker? Ashli Babbitt’s ghost does not approve your message. I asked her on the Ouija board.

      • joe hoss

        April 15, 2023 at 8:50 pm

        Turn the murder of Ashli Babbitt around. A negro woman killed by a white shooter during the Jan 6th incident. The howling would be still going on. CBS, CNN & their ilk would be doing weekly reports & Sunday morning interviews. A piece of shit grifter in minn gets killed while fighting arrest & the cop goes to jail? Totally F’ ked up!

        • David Pakman

          April 16, 2023 at 7:19 am

          Now you want to bring race to the table see? Ashli Babbitt broke through the window of the Senate chamber at gunpoint while Congress people fled. She was drunk on the lies perpetuated by Trump’s bruised ego. You people supported the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse so now we don’t want to hear it. The people inside the Capitol were there to disrupt the electoral vote count. That’s a crime… you people are pro crime plain and simple.

  • Billy the Bamboozler McPill Mill

    April 14, 2023 at 10:05 pm

    DeSantis will be riding around in a pope mobile and living on a virtual military base before it’s all over with. Might be in his 70’s before the trans mob gets to him on a golf course at The Villages.

    • joe hoss

      April 15, 2023 at 8:52 pm

      You might be correct about the trans mob. They’re as confused as you seem to be!

  • nail

    April 14, 2023 at 10:15 pm

    Someone should have held him down and put a tattoo on his arm! Ass Hole would fit the arm of the Authoritarian.
    Now we know why not one US Congressperson from Fl has given DeSatan a thumbs up.
    He needs to find a Class A 500 sq ft office in East Chippee, Alaska before the rest of the radical fringe extremists are released from DC in 2024.
    His glass jaw is cracking and when he gets on that stage, oh, man, it will shatter. I just want see trump attack the wimp and the watch Desatan sink to the ground and cry…

    • Swamp Rat

      April 14, 2023 at 10:21 pm

      DeSantis won re-election convincingly. What other proof do you need? Meanwhile Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is a supporter of anti semite and racist Hakeem Jeffries and his Uncle. Her district is full of Jewish people but they don’t pay attention while Hakeem suddenly doesn’t remember what he wrote years ago. Shame on you DWS. then again many of us know you as the phony you are.

      • David Pakman

        April 14, 2023 at 11:40 pm

        Tell us about Laura Loomer’s nose job.

  • Mark Clausen

    April 15, 2023 at 12:26 am

    Hate to break it to the cross dressers out there, this “trans movement” is going to fade into history faster than a fidgit spinner..
    In 20 years it will only come up when our kids are looking for a good laugh… Kinda like avacado appliances but WAY more hilarious!

  • Jane Whiten

    April 15, 2023 at 2:21 am

    Russian collusion, kids in cages, IRS investigating democrat enemies 501C3s, hands up don’t shoot, mostly peaceful protests, summer of “love”, getting a vaccine will slow the spread… I doubt these protestors read and lack the ability to think. If they did, they would realize Democrats have been lying to them and are the baddies while republicans are just mostly useless.

  • Luke Gromski

    April 15, 2023 at 2:25 am

    So sick of leftist fascistic activities like this! Grow up

    • Billy the Bamboozler McSewer

      April 15, 2023 at 9:25 am

      Nothing about what happened is fascist. Nothing whatsoever. A mosquitoes brain is bigger than yours. Stick to cart attendant at Walmart and dish washing at restaurants you idiot.

  • P Reese

    April 15, 2023 at 9:06 am

    Gays, Trans, blacks, teachers, Disney, people of religions other than White Christians, universities, safety from pandemics, It would take too much space to list everything. Of course, you may not think any of these groups or concerns apply to you, but, it starts with one and flows to everyone eventually.

  • woke to the yolk

    April 15, 2023 at 9:21 am

    We pay Rona to be Governor of FLORIDA. But he spends most of his time out of state on his “book tour” and won’t even be honest about his real job as a presidential candidate. Rona Deceivus. He should resign to run NOW!!!

  • Pill Mill Bill

    April 15, 2023 at 9:47 am

    He’s cooking his goose as far as becoming president is concerned.. and he doesn’t care as long as he’s crowned king of Florida sub-apes and religious whackos.

  • Jerry

    April 15, 2023 at 12:03 pm

    Shame on you Desantis supporters. Why are you closing your eyes to a fascist, authoritarian dictator to be? Or is that what you want for our country?

    • joe hoss

      April 15, 2023 at 8:57 pm

      Somewhere I’m missing the point. Please help me understand what he has done to illicit names like fascist, dictator, etc.

      • Jerry

        April 15, 2023 at 11:31 pm

        Check “Dictator” in the dictionary. ” A person who acts in an autocratic manner”. Desantis…yes.

    • Keystone Keys

      April 16, 2023 at 11:55 am

      That this bothers you, and people like you, brings great joy.

      • Jerry

        April 16, 2023 at 6:35 pm

        I bet you enjoy pulling the wings off butterflies, too.

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  • Pill Mill Bill

    April 15, 2023 at 4:37 pm

    Laura Loomer for president 🤡
    Neo nazi Jew with bad nose job.😆😂😭

    • joe hoss

      April 15, 2023 at 9:01 pm

      I read she is anti moslem. That makes her a nazi-jew?
      By the way, her nose is cute.

      • Pill Mill Bill

        April 15, 2023 at 10:55 pm

        Because she’s a far right Jew. That makes about as much sense as a black klansmen. The right wing pretends to like Jews because of the Bible and of course they hate Muslims… but once a right winger finds out that a Jew is left wing… it’s out with the anti-semitism and anti-semitic conspiracy theories. They’re full of sht.
        I guarantee Loomer looks like an elephant in the face without makeup.

  • Keystone Keys

    April 16, 2023 at 11:49 am

    Florida Democrats would have preferred Gillum for Governor, whom, let’s remember, was found naked in a hotel room with a naked gay male escort who overdosed on meth. Gillum, lets remind all of the Democrats, is now on trial for after being indicted for lying to FBI agents and defrauding campaign mega donors and organizations that believed they were donating to legitimate political causes. Gillum and Florida Democrats. Perfect Together!

  • J Ramey

    April 28, 2023 at 7:22 pm

    You’re an idiot! Typical coming from a slimy demonrat.

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