You say that some members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) harbor antisemitism. You don’t know the facts.

SJP has been linked to terror groups. Some have defined SJP as a campus front for Hamas at the University of California at Berkeley. According to watchdog groups, the principal backers of SJP include founders, financial patrons and ideological supporters who have been connected to Islamist terror organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Look them up.

How do you feel about terrorists murdering babies, taking hostages and raping women? Ask SJP members before you write that just “some” are antisemitic.

Shari Portnoy, Delray Beach

Anti-Jewish hatred

The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board naively acts as of these faux Kristallnacht demonstrations against Jewish students are somehow similar to American civil rights demonstrations. (“Silencing Anti Israel Speech is Wrong”).

The antisemitic mob that recently assaulted Jewish students at Tulane University exposes these Jew-hating demonstrators for what they are.

Richard Sherman, Margate

Self-preservation, not censorship

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) supports Hamas and praises its slaughter of Jews. It explicitly endorses Palestinians’ use of terrorism and violence to achieve its political goals. It reportedly distributed posters glorifying the terrorist parachutists who slaughtered 200 young people at the music festival. It engenders hatred of Jews on campuses, like the one at Cooper Union College in New York City, where Jewish students had to barricade themselves in a library for their safety.

Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment, and which therefore may be restricted, include incitement, defamation, obscenity and threats. Demanding antisemitic clubs like Students for Justice in Palestine be kicked off campuses is not the stifling of dissenting voices, but a call for decency and self-preservation.

Holly Rothkopf, Boynton Beach

A matter of editorial irony

You would have to laugh, if it were not so sad, after reading the editorial, “Silencing anti-Israel student speech is wrong.”

The editorial board does not believe Gov. Ron DeSantis should have given an order to shut down Students for Justice In Palestine. I tend to agree with the editorial in that respect.

The big issue is how ironic this editorial is, discussing some minor pro-Palestinian rallies in Florida, when the newspaper has been shutting down news around the country and world about vile Pro-Palestinian (Hamas) rallies in Brooklyn, Berkeley and Chicago — all of them Democrat-run cities and states.

It is almost as if we have two different newspapers. But we can find it elsewhere. Think Fox News. I pay a fortune to get this paper and should at least be allowed to read both sides of issues.

Mark Goldstein, Boca Raton

Student safety is paramount

Gov. DeSantis’ move to shut down Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on Florida campuses is allowed under the U.S. Constitution.

While freedom of speech is generally absolutely sacrosanct, SJP grossly abuses its status as a student group to harass, threaten and terrorize Jewish students. There is no right to chase Jewish students and others who support the free, democratic State of Israel off campuses. Allowing SJP to remain on campus is akin to allowing vile KKK events.

Hate has no place on campus. SJP is openly aligned with the murderous Hamas terrorist group which operates as an effective arm of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which labels the United States as the Great Satan. Student safety must come first.

Michael J. Szanto Ph.D., Fort Lauderdale

Editor’s Note: We respect readers’ opinions on this and all other issues. As the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism notes, “While we profoundly disagree with what SJP represents … the First Amendment protects even hateful or offensive speech.” ADL added: “The best answer to hateful speech is not censorship, but more speech.”