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The University of California, Berkeley has provided Trump officials with the names of at least 160 students, faculty and staff in cases of alleged antisemitism on campus, in response to the administration’s sweeping crackdown on Palestinian solidarity activism. The administration has already threatened to cut off federal funding from academic institutions and has targeted international students involved in the pro-Palestine movement.
“There is no good evidence that antisemitism is rampant on campus,” says the philosopher Judith Butler, who teaches at UC Berkeley and whose name was among those shared with the Trump administration. “To take a position against genocide is certainly not an antisemitic thing to do. Most Jews are against genocide, and we were taught to be against genocide, and we were taught, as well, that 'never again' is a slogan that should apply to all people.”
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Journalist Chris Hedges warns that President Trump and his allies are “weaponizing” the shocking assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to crush dissent.
“We’ve reached a very frightening turning point,” says Hedges. “We’ve already seen an assault on civil liberties, on institutions, universities, the media, that are tasked with maintaining an open society. That will now be accelerated.”
Even though authorities are still trying to determine a motive in the killing, Trump has blamed “radicals on the left” for political violence, and top White House adviser Stephen Miller vowed to dismantle many progressive organizations. Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of shooting Kirk during a college event in Utah last week, grew up in a Republican family, and bullet casings found at the scene were engraved with references to various online and video games memes. Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox has claimed Robinson had “leftist ideology,” but did not share any evidence to support the claim. There has also also been speculation that Robinson may have been influenced by a far-right movement known as Groypers, which is tied to the white nationalist Nick Fuentes and had previously targeted Kirk for harassment.
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As Israel continues its campaign to erase Gaza City by systematically bombing residential buildings, schools, homes and tent encampments, we speak with Dr. Mohammed Saqr, the director of nursing at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the south of Gaza. He says medical workers, who are starving like the rest of the population, have nothing left to give amid hundreds of deaths and injuries each day.
“We are psychologically unstable, because we see [the] execution of civilians on a daily basis,” says Saqr. “We have no beds. We have to put patients on the ground — no supplies, no instruments. And things will go worse when the Israeli evacuation orders [displace] the Gaza City [residents] to come here to Khan Younis concentration camp.”
Saqr also describes the daily challenges of life in Gaza, saying he only owns a single pair of shoes that he shares with his five sons. “Please stop humiliating us. We are not animals,” he says.
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Democracy Now! Monday, September 15, 2025
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Democracy Now! Monday, September 15, 2025
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- Israel Continues Bombardment of Gaza City, Killing 25 Palestinians Today
- Arab Leaders Hold Emergency Meeting in Qatar to Discuss Israel's Strike in Doha
- Israeli Army Raids Home of Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Basel Adra
- Tyler Robinson, Accused of Assassinating Charlie Kirk, to Appear in Court Tuesday
- More Than 100,000 Anti-Immigration Protesters March in London
- Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Oil Refinery, as Romania Says a Russian Drone Entered Its Airspace
- The International Federation of Journalists Condemns Israel for Killing at Least Nine Yemeni Journalists
- U.S. Expresses Regret over ICE Raid Targeting South Korean Workers in Georgia
- Sushila Karki Sworn In as Nepal's Interim Prime Minister, Vows to Serve for Only Six Months
- Venezuelan Gov't Accuses U.S. Navy of Raiding Fishing Boat in Venezuelan Waters
- Trump Vows to Call a National Emergency and Federalize Washington, D.C.
- ICE Fatally Shoots Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez During Traffic Stop in Chicago
- ICE Agents Abduct Willian Gimenez, Who Accused Off-Duty Chicago Police Officers of Abusing Migrants
- Homeless Advocates Denounce Fox News Host Calling for Unhoused People to Be Executed
- New York Gov. Hochul Endorses Mamdani for Mayor of New York City
- Spanish Vuelta Bike Race Interrupted by Pro-Palestinian Protests
- Actors Display Signs of Support for Palestinians at Emmy Awards Ceremony
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Pt. 2 of our conversation with professor and philosopher Judith Butler whose name was recently shared by the University of California, Berkeley with the Trump administration in response to the administration’s sweeping crackdown on Palestinian solidarity activism.
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Following massive, youth-led anti-corruption demonstrations in Nepal, the country’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks set to become interim prime minister. This week, protesters set fire to the Parliament and other government buildings, and at least 21 people were killed in a police crackdown. The protests continued even after the government lifted its ban on social media platforms and Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned.
“We don’t really know what is happening at the moment … since most of our state institutions have been either destroyed or are nonfunctional,” says Pranaya Rana, a writer and journalist based in Kathmandu. “We really are counting on the new generation, the Gen Z, who led the protests, to take us forward.”
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to more than 27 years in prison for plotting a military coup and seeking to “annihilate” democracy in Brazil following his election defeat in 2022. The sentencing marks the first time a former Brazilian head of state is brought to trial and convicted for attempting to overthrow the government. Bolsonaro and his co-conspirators, who were also sentenced to prison, hatched a plan that involved using armed forces to assassinate the President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
The decision was made amid political pressure from the Trump administration to drop the case against Bolsonaro. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged that the U.S. would “respond accordingly,” calling the ruling a witch hunt. “Latin American countries need to be united and have a very strong position to defend democracy and to defend our sovereignty and independence,” says Maria Luísa Mendonça, director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights in Brazil.
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Democracy Now! speaks with Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, about Israel’s recent move to expand settlements in the West Bank in an effort to erase the possibility of a Palestinian state. “They are doing everything in their power to make sure that a two-state solution can never happen,” says Hasan.
Hasan also comments on the deadly U.S. attack on a boat off the coast of Venezuela. “There’s no scenario in which you can say it was an imminent threat to the U.S.,” he says.
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President Trump announced on Friday that a suspect was in custody for the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Although the motive has not yet been established, Trump has escalated his attacks on the political left, saying, “We just have to beat the hell out of them.” Democracy Now! speaks with Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, who says that the right is using Kirk’s killing to smear the left.
“There’s a real rewriting of history going on. It’s what far-right regimes do after tragedies like this: They try and weaponize them to go after their enemies,” says Hasan. “None of us should celebrate political violence, because it’s a threat to all of us,” he adds.
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Democracy Now! Friday, September 12, 2025
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Democracy Now! Friday, September 12, 2025
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- Israel's Deadly Attacks on Gaza City Have Left 50,000 Palestinians Without Shelter
- Israeli Forces Arrest 1,500 Palestinians, Including Children, in Mass Raid on Tulkarem
- Netanyahu Approves New West Bank Settlements, Warning "There Won't Be a Palestinian State"
- U.N. Security Council Condemns Israeli Strike on Qatar
- Sens. Van Hollen and Merkley Say U.S. Is Complicit in Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
- Trump Announces Suspect in Charlie Kirk’s Murder in Custody
- State Department Threatens Action Against Immigrants Who Praise Killing of Charlie Kirk
- Trump to Honor Charlie Kirk with Posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Politicians Cancel Public Events, Citing Security Concerns in Wake of Charlie Kirk Killing
- Several HBCU Campuses Put on Lockdown After Receiving Threats in the Wake of Kirk's Murder
- Brazil's Supreme Court Sentences Ex-President Bolsonaro to Prison for Coup Attempt
- Michigan Judge Dismisses Criminal Charges Against "Fake Electors"
- Senate Republicans Vote to Fast-Track Confirmation of Trump's Judicial Nominees
- Federal Appeals Courts Allows Trump Admin to Cut Off Medicaid Funds to Planned Parenthood
- California Approves Bill Allowing Providers to Omit Names of Patients from Abortion Pill Bottles
- Trump Suggests Russia Sent Drones into Poland by "Mistake"
- Belarus Frees 52 Political Prisoners to Lithuania as U.S. Eases Sanctions
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