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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Ron DeSantis Twice Went to Israel to Sign Censorship Laws (Bonus Episode)

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Rumble

Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Glenn discusses the insane pro-Israel laws signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and what these laws reveal about Israel's influence on U.S. politics. 

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0:00.0

Sometimes there are certain events that take place in the world that you can't believe what you're seeing and you try and alert people to how shocking and disturbing and alarming it is.

0:21.8

And for whatever reason,

0:23.0

sometimes it just doesn't get the attention that you think it deserves.

0:26.3

People are focused on other things or it just doesn't quite resonate at the moment.

0:31.6

And sometimes you just have to accept that at the right moment.

0:34.5

People are going to realize what it is that you've been trying to get

0:38.4

them to see from, maybe they'll see it from someone else, maybe they'll finally, it'll finally

0:42.6

break through, and they're going to start to react. Such is the case for me when it comes to

0:48.4

what I consider to be something so unbelievable, just something so, something so extreme and bizarre, but revealing that I couldn't actually

1:02.3

believe that it happened when I first discovered that it did.

1:05.8

And it took me a lot of time to research and confirm, and I realized that it happened not

1:09.5

once but twice.

1:11.8

What I'm talking about here is the fact that Ron DeSantis, while he was serving as the governor

1:18.1

of Florida, a state in the United States, on two occasions, not one but two, once in 2019,

1:26.5

flew to Israel in order to sign into law a bill that had been passed by the Florida legislature, which governs what people in Florida can say, what they can think, what they can do, and punishes them if they don't comply.

1:45.0

And they were bills related to Israel and anti-Semitism.

1:48.5

And he flew to Israel in front of Israeli officials and signed the law,

1:53.2

not in the capital of Florida in Tallahassee or anywhere else in Florida.

1:58.0

He flew to Israel as the governor, an American governor, to sign these laws.

2:02.8

It happened once in 2019 and then again in 2023.

2:07.9

And both times these were laws that were designed to punish people in various ways

2:15.6

who were acting out of animus toward Israel or animus toward Jews.

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