Democracy Now! Wednesday, May 8, 2024
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- U.N. Warns Gaza Could Run Out of Fuel & Drinking Water After Israel Seized Rafah Crossing
- Biden Withholds 3,500 Bombs from Israel, But U.S. Approves Another $827M for Israel
- Families of Israeli Hostages Urge Netanyahu to End War on Gaza
- Police Raid Encampments at U. of Illinois & Fashion Institute of Technology
- RISD Students Occupy Campus Building
- Cousin of Rabbi Meir Kahane Arrested After Driving Into Pro-Palestinian Protest in NYC
- Jewish Voice for Peace Criticizes Biden's Antisemitism Speech at U.S. Holocaust Museum
- Judge Rejects Mistrial Motion After Stormy Daniels Testifies in Trump Trial
- Death Toll in Brazil Tops 90 After Catastrophic Flooding
- Xi Jinping Visits Belgrade on 25th Anniversary of NATO Bombing of Chinese Embassy
- Florida Sues Biden Administration over Transgender Protections
- Tennessee Company Fined $649,000 for Employing Children to Clean Slaughterhouses
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Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Gaza solidarity protests continue at college campuses across the nation — as does the police crackdown. This comes as more than 50 chapters of the American Association of University Professors have issued a statement condemning the violent arrests by police at campus protests. At Dartmouth College last week, police body-slammed professor and former chair of Jewish studies Annelise Orleck to the ground as she tried to protect her students. She was charged with criminal trespass and temporarily banned from portions of Dartmouth’s campus. She joins us to describe her ordeal and respond to claims conflating the protests’ anti-Zionist message with antisemitism. “People have to be able to talk about Palestine without being attacked by police,” says Orleck, who commends the students leading protests around the country. “Their bravery is tremendous and is inspiring. And they really feel like this is the moral issue of their time, that there’s a genocide going on and that they can’t ignore it.”
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In Rafah, we speak with Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri about Israel tightening restrictions on humanitarian aid, refusing a ceasefire deal and planning to invade the city where over a million Palestinians are sheltering. Israel’s military seized control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, blocking humanitarian aid from entering the besieged territory, and trapping Palestinians under heavy Israeli bombardment. This comes after Israel also closed the Karem Abu Salem crossing in southern Gaza this weekend after a Hamas attack killed four Israeli soldiers. “Israel is not allowing the entry of the humanitarian aid to Gaza, which is perceived as a lifeline,” says al-Satarri, who reports Palestinians are “in despair” as Israel orders a third of Rafah’s population to move ahead of their invasion. “They understand that more destruction, more devastation, more death and deprivation is coming for them.” Al-Satarri also speaks about Israel banning Al Jazeera, one of the only international outlets with reporters in Gaza. “I think they want to silence Al Jazeera and they want to silence all the free media for the sake of preventing any further exposure of the things that are happening on the ground.”
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Even after Hamas accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal Monday, Israeli forces moved in with tanks to seize the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Israel says the ceasefire deal falls short of its demands, and Hamas has called for “international intervention.” Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy says the limited information and political maneuvering of all parties raises more questions than answers right now, but the core issue is whether all parties can maintain a sustained end to hostilities. “In addition to testing each other, the Hamas and Israeli parties are testing the United States of America and the Biden administration in an unprecedented way,” says Levy. “Hamas detects that the U.S. may finally be serious about offering a sustained calm.” While Levy says growing external pressure from global protests are “having an impact,” he doubts U.S. and Israeli leaders feel they must change course yet. “The pressure does not feel sufficient that Netanuahu’s politics needs him to accept a ceasefire. He still thinks he can wiggle out of this,” says Levy. “If this deal doesn’t go through, I fear we’re in for the much longer haul.”
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, May 7, 2024
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- Israel Begins Ground Invasion of Rafah After Hamas Agrees to Ceasefire
- Israel Used U.S. Weapons in Lebanon Attack That Killed 7 Health Workers
- Students Continue Gaza Solidarity Protests, Defying Arrests, Suspensions
- Harvard and MIT Students Defy Deadlines for Ending Protests, Receive Faculty Support
- SUNY Purchase Agrees to Student Demands; Columbia Cancels Commencement Ceremony
- Gaza Solidarity Encampments Form in Copenhagen, Barcelona; French High Schoolers Join Movement
- Belgian Police Arrest 132 Climate Activists During Act of Peaceful Civil Disobedience
- Bomb Attacks on IDP Camps In Democratic Republic of Congo Kill 12 People, Incl. Children
- Voters in Chad Cast Presidential Ballots 3 Years After Military Takeover
- Russia to Launch Drills for Possible Deployment of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
- Tunisian Police Raid Refugee Encampments; Hundreds Reportedly Bused Then Abandoned in the Desert
- Heavy Rains Kill at Least 17 People in Haiti, Flood Thousands of Homes
- Judge Merchan Fines Trump for Violating Gag Order for the 10th Time, Threatens Jail
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Police have now arrested more than 2,500 students at pro-Palestine protests across the U.S., yet students continue to call for an end to the war on Gaza and universities’ investment in companies that support Israel’s occupation of Palestine. We speak to three student organizers from around the country: Salma Hamamy of the University of Michigan, president of the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, about the commencement ceremony protest she helped organize, and Cady de la Cruz of the University of Virginia and Rae Ferrara of the State University of New York at New Paltz about police crackdowns on their schools’ encampments. De la Cruz was arrested in the UVA raid and banned from campus without an opportunity to collect any of her belongings. She says repression has strengthened the resolve of many protesters, who are willing to risk their academic futures to push for divestment. “All of us there felt like we have more time on our hands … than the people of Gaza,” she explains, “We would hold it down for anything.”
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The World Food Programme is warning northern Gaza has reached a “full-blown” famine that is spreading south. This comes after the Israeli military has spent months blocking the entry of vital aid into Gaza, attacking humanitarian aid convoys and opening fire on Palestinian civilians waiting to receive lifesaving aid. We get an update on conditions among the besieged and starving population of Gaza — including of children now suffering from the psychological effects of intense and prolonged trauma — from Dr. Walid Masoud, a vascular surgeon and a board member of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund who is just back from heading a medical mission to Gaza.
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As the death toll in Gaza soars to more than 34,700, Israeli authorities have taken Al Jazeera off the air in Israel and ordered Palestinians in eastern Rafah to evacuate ahead of an Israeli offensive. “The Israeli government is trying to conceal what’s happening in Gaza and trying to intimidate Al Jazeera … and delegitimize the whole coverage,” says Al Jazeera’s managing editor Mohamed Moawad, explaining this is “a strategy” to “try to make sure that the story doesn’t reach the world.” Over the past eight months, Al Jazeera has been one of the only international outlets with reporters on the ground inside Gaza, where at least three of its employees have been killed by Israel’s monthslong assault. Israel has been threatening to ban Al Jazeera for “incitement” via “a series of intimidations” for months, culminating in “a criminal act,” says Moawad. He calls on the international community, including the U.S. government, to condemn Israel’s suppression of a free press.
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Headlines for May 06, 2024; “Criminal Act”: Israel Bans Al Jazeera, Largest Int’l News Org. in Gaza, Ahead of Rafah Invasion; “They Are Starving,” Says Doctor Back from Gaza; World Food Programme Warns North in “Full-Blown Famine”; Revolt on Campus: Protests over Gaza Disrupt Graduation Ceremonies as Police Crack Down on Encampments
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- Israel Denounced for Ordering Displaced Palestinians in Rafah to Evacuate Again
- Campus Gaza Protests Keep Spreading Despite Police Crackdown; 2,500+ Arrested So Far
- Evergreen State College Agrees to Work Toward Divesting from Israel
- Education Dept. Investigating Columbia for Anti-Palestinian Discrimination
- "A Dark Day for Democracy": Israel Takes Al Jazeera Off Air, Raids Local Office
- Mass Protests in Israel to Demand Netanyahu Make Hostage Deal
- José Raúl Mulino, Stand-in for Ex-President Ricardo Martinelli, Wins Panama Presidency
- Major Flooding in Southern Brazil Kills at Least 78 People, with More Than 100 Missing
- 5-Year-Old Child Killed as Houston Is Battered by Rains and Flooding
- Conservative Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar Indicted for Bribery and Conspiracy
- Trump's Criminal Hush Money Trial Continues in New York
- Canadian Police Charge 3 Indian Suspects in 2023 Assassination of Sikh Leader
- Prominent British Palestinian Surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah Barred from France
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Nearly seven months of constant bombardment, siege and obstruction of aid deliveries have annihilated the healthcare system in Gaza. Last week, the Palestinian Health Ministry said that around 600,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip no longer have access to any kind of healthcare. The World Health Organization has said that Israel is “systematically dismantling” the health system in Gaza. Only 11 hospitals out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are partially functioning. At both of Gaza’s largest hospitals, Al-Shifa and Nasser, Palestinians found hundreds of bodies buried in mass graves after Israel raided and destroyed the facilities. Democracy Now! speaks with Dr. Ismail Mehr and Dr. Azeem Elahi just after they volunteered at the largest hospital still operating in Gaza, the European Hospital in Khan Younis. “The healthcare system has been always in a noose, and that noose tightens at times when there’s conflict,” says Mehr. “Right now that noose has completely just hung the healthcare system.”
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