{"id":69202,"date":"2026-03-17T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/uf-college-republicans-sue-after-suspension-over-nazi-salute-post\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:54:59","slug":"uf-college-republicans-sue-after-suspension-over-nazi-salute-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/uf-college-republicans-sue-after-suspension-over-nazi-salute-post\/","title":{"rendered":"UF College Republicans sue after suspension over Nazi salute post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida campus group says the suspension over an off-campus post violated free speech<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A dispute among student Republican groups in Florida over alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/antisemitism\">antisemitic<\/a> behavior is heading for a courtroom after a chapter at the state\u2019s flagship university was suspended for an online post featuring two people giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2026\/03\/16\/florida-college-republicans-antisemitic\">Nazi salutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, University of Florida (UF) blocked campus operations of the school\u2019s College Republicans after the group\u2019s state leadership said it had disbanded the chapter for engaging in \u201ca pattern of conduct that violated its rules and values, including a recent antisemitic gesture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/17\/university-of-florida-republican-lawsuit-nazi-post\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida campus group says the suspension over an off-campus post violated free speech Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A dispute among student Republican groups in Florida over alleged antisemitic behavior is heading for a courtroom after a chapter at the state\u2019s flagship &#8230; <a title=\"UF College Republicans sue after suspension over Nazi salute post\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/uf-college-republicans-sue-after-suspension-over-nazi-salute-post\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UF College Republicans sue after suspension over Nazi salute post\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}