{"id":192290,"date":"2026-03-15T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192290\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:58:09","slug":"university-of-florida-disbands-college-republicans-chapter-over-alleged-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192290\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida disbands College Republicans chapter over alleged antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Florida\u00a0Federation of College\u00a0Republicans\u00a0disbanded its\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Florida\u00a0chapter\u00a0and asked the school to remove it as a student organization due to\u00a0alleged\u00a0misconduct that includes\u00a0antisemitism, the\u00a0university\u00a0said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The request was based on the federation\u2019s own investigation that uncovered a \u201cpattern of conduct that violated its rules and values, including a recent antisemitic gesture,\u201d the\u00a0university\u00a0wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>The federation asked the school to \u201cdeactivate\u201d its Republican\u00a0chapter\u00a0while the group tries to restart the\u00a0chapter\u00a0with new leadership, the\u00a0university\u00a0wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38784471\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/107910097_586717515320345_6049891004788569862_n.jpg\" alt=\"Logo for the Florida Federation of College Republicans.\" class=\"wp-image-38784471\"  \/>The\u00a0Florida\u00a0Federation of College\u00a0Republicans\u00a0disbanded its\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Florida\u00a0chapter\u00a0and asked the school to remove it as a student organization. FFCRGOP\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38784470\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2260546551.jpg\" alt=\"Students walk through the University of Florida archway on a sunny day.\" class=\"wp-image-38784470\"  \/>Students walk through the University of Florida archway on Dec. 7, 2022. TNS<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s post said it is \u201ccommitted to preventing and addressing\u00a0antisemitism\u00a0and other forms of discrimination and harassment\u201d that threaten and disrupt the school community, and that it will help the federation reactivate its local\u00a0chapter\u00a0when it is reformed.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Florida\u00a0Federation of College\u00a0Republicans\u00a0did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement is the second report this month of antisemitic behavior by a conservative group at a\u00a0Florida\u00a0school.<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u00a0International\u00a0University\u00a0said on March 5 that law enforcement\u00a0is investigating\u00a0a Miami Herald \u200breport that prominent members of the local Republican Party and conservative student leaders exchanged racist, antisemitic \u200cand homophobic messages in an online group chat.<\/p>\n<p>The Herald reported that logs of the leaked WhatsApp group chat showed participants, including prominent local Republican Party officials and student leaders of FIU\u2019s Turning Point USA\u00a0chapter, a conservative youth group founded by slain activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Florida\u00a0Federation of College\u00a0Republicans\u00a0disbanded its\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Florida\u00a0chapter\u00a0and asked the school to remove it as a student organization due to\u00a0alleged\u00a0misconduct that includes\u00a0antisemitism,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41480,18924,28,30,29,4219,2512,4278],"class_list":["post-192290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-antisemitism","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-republicans","tag-university-of-florida","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}