{"id":193175,"date":"2026-03-16T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193175\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:22:08","slug":"u-of-floridas-republican-club-disbanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193175\/","title":{"rendered":"U of Florida\u2019s Republican Club Disbanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Federation of College Republicans has disbanded the University of Florida\u2019s local student chapter after finding that some members \u201cengaged in a pattern of conduct that violated [the organization\u2019s] rules and values, including a recent antisemitic gesture,\u201d the University of Florida <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/uf\/status\/2032787674956767327?s=46\" target=\"_blank\">posted on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gainesville.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/03\/14\/uf-college-republicans-disbanded-after-controversial-photo-emerges\/89156776007\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Gainesville Sun reported<\/a> that the gesture consisted of two students performing a Nazi salute. <\/p>\n<p>In keeping with FFCR\u2019s policies, UF said it is \u201cin the process of deactivating the Local CR as a registered student organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UF\u2019s College Republicans linked the disbandment to an event they hosted featuring long-shot Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback, who has criticized America\u2019s ties to Israel and won praise from far-right, antisemitic commentator Nick Fuentes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c48 hours after we hosted James Fishback (@j_fishback) at the largest Candidate event at UF in nearly 10 years, @UF terminated our organization,\u201d the group posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>The post also said the group is affiliated not with FFCR but with the College Republicans of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey cited the FFCR, an organization that we are not a part of that has no authority over our chapter. We are proud members of a different organization,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/uscollegegop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@uscollegegop<\/a>,\u201d the club wrote on X. \u201cWe look forward to the University reinstating our club and correcting this statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The club has hired a lawyer, writing, \u201cThis is not the first time that FFCR has lied to silence christian conservative groups on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UF said it will work with the Florida Federation of College Republicans to reinstate the campus chapter under new leadership when the time comes.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"subscribe-box-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/themes\/custom\/ihe\/assets\/images\/svg\/envlope.svg\" alt=\"subscribe\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Federation of College Republicans has disbanded the University of Florida\u2019s local student chapter after finding that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18025,113,684,28,30,29,18024,960,115],"class_list":["post-193175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-higher","tag-jobs","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193175","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=193175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}