WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Stop WOKE Act Makes Florida Campuses Safe for Jews
Marc Sarnoff
August 22, 2025

…In Florida, free speech doesn’t mean the right to shut down classes or menace classmates. In early 2024 Mr. DeSantis warned administrators that protests and intimidation won’t be tolerated at commencement. At FIU, multiple screenings of “Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre”— Hamas’s own footage of rape, torture, kidnapping and murder—went forward despite attempts to hijack the room. Florida has protected viewpoint diversity against the woke wave while attacking the machinery of ideological control; DEI preferences in faculty hiring are out. Final hiring authority now rests with university presidents, and tenure comes with accountability: a five-year post-tenure review. READ MORE