Ron DeSantis rips Harvard for offering Palestinian students counseling

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'They're not doing anything to help their Jewish students who are now under attack.'

Here’s another indication that Ron DeSantis won’t be giving until it hurts during the next Harvard Law School fundraising drive.

During a Newsmax interview Saturday, the Florida Governor fumed about the university offering psychatric services to Palestinian students who are having trouble coping with the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

DeSantis told Rita Cosby “the response by a lot of these university administrators have been absolutely pathetic, particularly in places like the Ivy League and Harvard they’re offering counseling for Palestinian Arabs who may feel bad.”

“They’re not doing anything to help their Jewish students who are now under attack,” he added.

The Governor has made positioning himself against the Ivy League that educated him central to his national push over the last year, but the Israeli war against Hamas has allowed for a new batch of rhetorical broadsides.

During an event in Berlin, New Hampshire, hosted by the Never Back Down super PAC, the Florida Governor and Harvard Law School graduate called the university “woke central” and suggested that if he needed medical care, he wouldn’t want a Harvard doctor to provide it.

“I used to think to myself, like, you know, if anything ever happened, like me, my family, you know, my parents and they needed surgery, I’d want like a Harvard doctor to be in,” DeSantis said. “You know, now, if I saw a young Harvard doctor, I’d run the other way.”

“I mean, it’s like woke central, right, with all this stuff. Like, if you’re a doctor and you cannot tell me how many genders there are, I’ve got a problem with you,” he added. “I am not going to deal with this, but so much of it has been politicized. It’s sad.”

During an interview on Wednesday with The Blaze, Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested that student protests against Israel’s retaliation after Hamas attacks merit cutting off federal funding for the institution.

“We need to be reevaluating the role that the federal government has in the relationship we have with some of these universities,” DeSantis said. “We should not be pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into places like Harvard if they’re producing students that are basically aligning with Hamas terrorists.”

On Newsmax, he focused on Harvard again, as he wondered why those protesters are in the United States at all, saying that the demonstrations are “almost like they’re just pouring salt in the wounds by going out there and celebrating the atrocities.”

“There’s a sickness in our society when you have Harvard students signing these letters praising Hamas. And I just wonder, it’s like, why are you even in this country if that’s your belief on some of that stuff?”

Asked about the state of the Ivy League on the Howie Carr Show in the wake of pro-Hamas demonstrations at Harvard, Ron DeSantis denounced the protests as “absolutely appalling.”

“At this point with the Ivy League, with how nuts they’ve gotten, if I see a Harvard résumé across my desk, I’m running the other way,” DeSantis said.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


19 comments

  • Earl Pitts "America's BIG VOICE on The Right" American

    October 28, 2023 at 1:36 pm

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      October 28, 2023 at 1:49 pm

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        October 28, 2023 at 2:05 pm

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          October 28, 2023 at 2:18 pm

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            October 28, 2023 at 2:30 pm

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        • Earl Pitts is a Pedophile

          November 3, 2023 at 4:57 pm

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    • JD

      October 28, 2023 at 3:25 pm

      Trying to us threats and scare tactics because it’s all you got?

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  • rick whitaker

    October 28, 2023 at 1:45 pm

    desantis is pathetic. his attempt to out trump trump makes him unelectable. trump is the king of stupidity so why would any decent person want to emulate that.

  • Joseph Sook

    October 28, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    What about the Palestinians in Gaza who are currently being killed by Israeli bombardment Desantis? Oh that’s right their all anti semetic terrorist, and do not deserve any humanitarian aid or assistance according to your ignorant logic.

  • My Take

    October 28, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    Jews under attack ìn this country are in danger from rightwing white Christians, not Arabs.

    • rick whitaker

      October 29, 2023 at 9:38 am

      desantis is anti- american in many ways, why can’t floridians see that? fear, hate, and greed are 3 things i can think of.

  • Silly Wabbit

    October 28, 2023 at 5:39 pm

    DeSantis wacist.

    • Silly Wabbit

      October 28, 2023 at 5:39 pm

      Ugly, too.

  • Rachel Cohen

    October 29, 2023 at 4:33 am

    He’s right that Harvard sucks. They let him in. Not the school it once was.

    • MH/Duuuval

      October 31, 2023 at 10:32 pm

      It was within living memory that Ivy League schools, especially Yale, discriminated against all Semites.

  • Nolan Perreira

    October 29, 2023 at 10:53 am

    Not since WWII have antiJewish people been giving the opportunity to demonstrate against Jews without being condemned as Nazis. We now have Anti-Jewish people strung Europe and the Middle East actively opposing Israeli attempts to respond to the recent Gaza Palistinian attack.I ignored in the news are the massive stores of arms and food stores in the hundreds of miles of hidden tunnels, the Palestinian bunkers built below hospitals and residential buildings, This attack was not a spontaneous response, but a well planned declaration of war.

    • MH/Duuuval

      October 30, 2023 at 1:39 pm

      It’s called payback, and its less about religion than land.

      Israel is a Jewish state, but not all Israelis or all Jews, for that matter, support the consistent, long-term abuses of the Israeli state against Palestinians.

      Joe Bden has tried to point out that American zealots (Cheney, Rumsfeld) overreacted to 9/11, which led eventually to invading Iraq and Aanistan. The unintended consequences of these invasions continue today to cause negative effects in both countries and for the world writ large.

      • MH/Duuuval

        October 31, 2023 at 10:36 pm

        A think tank at Brown U. has put the bill for the US “war on terror,” so far, at $8 trillion, and perhaps, a million deaths, the majority being civilians..

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