In the face of the ongoing genocide of Gaza, Tampa/USF Students for a Democratic Society marched on the 19th of Feb demanding their school divest from Israel.

The march demanded an end both to US aid to Israel and to the university’s own aid to Israel. These students are marching in defiance of DeathSantis’s SB 470, a bill to deny in-state tuition to pro-Palestine students and report them to Homeland Security.

If the bill passes, some students will have to drop out due to the massive tuition hike, others will leave pre-emptively to avoid the dangerous reporting to the DHS Gestapo. DeathSantis’s intention is that students would stay in school and drop their activism against Israel’s genocide but it is unlikely he will get that sort of compliance in the face of genocide.