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Our guest is the Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass, the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. She is the recipient of the 2024 Columbia Journalism Award, and on Wednesday she addressed the graduating class of the Columbia Journalism School in New York City. Hass discusses the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, why journalists should “resist the normalization of evil and injustice,” Israel’s recent censorship of Al Jazeera, its maintenance of a strict apartheid system, its complete rejection of the prospect of Palestinian statehood and more. “Israel took Palestinian life, liberty and freedom as hostage for the past 75 years,” says Hass. “You go to Tel Aviv, you think you are in New York or you are in London — and 40, 50 kilometers away, Palestinians live in cages.”
We also play an excerpt from the student and faculty-led “People’s Graduation” held Thursday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in response to Columbia University’s crackdown on student protest, which culminated in the administration’s cancellation of university-wide commencement. Centering Palestinian solidarity, the People’s Graduation featured speakers including the Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi, who praised the work of student journalists. While “our institutions have failed us these past seven months, … we listened to your radio stations if we wanted the truth,” she said.
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Democracy Now! Friday, May 17, 2024
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- "We Don't Want Ships. We Want Safety": Displaced Gazans Reject U.S. Pier; U.N. Calls for Land Access
- Spain Bars Ships with Weapons For Israel; 13 Foreign Ministers Warn Against Israel's Rafah Assault
- "Israel's Genocide Has Reached New and Horrific Stage": South Africa Requests Urgent ICJ Intervention
- Police Raid and Arrest Students at Gaza Solidarity Encampments at UC Berkeley, DePaul University
- WaPo: Billionaires and Execs Urged Eric Adams to Send Police to Columbia's Gaza Encampment
- SCOTUS Overrules Challenge to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- NYT: Upside-Down Flag Seen Outside Alito's Home in Jan. 2021, a Symbol Used by Election Deniers
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Pardons Known Racist Who Murdered BLM Protester in 2020
- Texas Storms Kill 4, Cut Power to a Million Customers
- Biden Admin to End New Leases in U.S.'s Largest Coal-Producing Region
- Ron DeSantis Eliminates Climate Change as Priority in Florida's Energy Policy
- Congolese Mourners Call Out Rwanda and Western Supporters for "Genocide" on Its People
- HRW Says Rwanda Denied Entry to Its Researcher
- Another Deportation Flight Leaves the U.S. for Haiti Despite "Grave Dangers"
- DOJ Moves to Reclassify Marijuana
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Human Rights Watch has documented ethnic cleansing in the West Darfur region of Sudan by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militias against the Masalit people and other non-Arab communities. “These allied militia and the RSF then, from April until June, conducted a rampage of killings, of lootings, of torture, of rape,” says Belkis Wille, associate director with the Crisis, Conflict, and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch. She says international actors must cut off the flow of arms to all warring parties, but adds there is little “political will” to enforce an arms embargo in Sudan.
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Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from some areas in the northeastern region of Kharkiv as Russian forces continue a new offensive that has displaced thousands. This latest setback for Ukraine comes more than two years after Russia invaded the country. Human Rights Watch has documented several incidents of Russian soldiers summarily executing surrendering Ukrainian soldiers, with drone footage showing the killings “in clear detail,” says Belkis Wille, associate director with the Crisis, Conflict, and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch. “They take off their vests, they put down their helmets, they lie on the ground and put their hands up. And then we see them being executed by Russian soldiers in cold blood.”
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A new Human Rights Watch Report finds Israeli forces have attacked humanitarian aid convoys and facilities at least eight times since October 7 despite being given their coordinates. Israeli authorities did not issue advance warnings to any of the aid organizations before the attacks, which killed at least 15 people, including two children, and injured at least 16 others. More than 250 aid workers have been killed in Gaza over the past seven months, according to the United Nations. “Aid workers, unfortunately, die in conflict zones,” says HRW researcher Belkis Wille. “What’s really unique in the context of Gaza is the high number in such a short period of time.”
Wille also discusses a recent U.S. government report that found Israel has likely violated international law in its assault on Gaza but that it could not make that conclusion definitively — a “shocking” finding, she says. “The United States absolutely has to start doing more to limit military assistance to Israel. … And it needs to do far more to protect civilians more broadly.”
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Aid agencies are running out of food in southern Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing offensive in Rafah and the shutdown of the two main border crossings in the south. Some 1.1 million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation, according to the United Nations, while a “full-blown famine” is taking place in the north. Meanwhile, some Israelis have been blocking aid from reaching the Gaza border, including a violent attack on trucks carrying humanitarian relief through the occupied West Bank earlier this week, when settlers threw food packages on the ground and set fire to the vehicles at the Tarqumiyah checkpoint near Hebron. “They did whatever they want,” says Israeli lawyer and peace activist Sapir Sluzker Amran, who documented the attack on the aid convoy. She says Israeli soldiers appeared to be working with the settlers, refusing to intervene. “They were just standing aside like there is nothing that they can do, like it’s normal, what’s happening.”
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Democracy Now! Thursday, May 16, 2024
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- Gazans Flee Israeli Attacks Across the Territory as Chaos Reigns in Besieged Territory
- University Human Rights Network Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
- Israel's Far-Right Leaders Dispute Future of Gaza
- "Biden Is Making Jews the Face of the War Machine": First Jewish Biden Appointee Resigns over Gaza
- Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Interrogated by U.S. Agents at Detroit Airport
- Germany Lifts European Ban on British Palestinian Surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah
- "Refuse to Accept Hell as Normal": Amira Hass Delivers Graduation Speech as Students Keep Up Protests
- Sonoma State President Placed on Leave After School Agrees to Academic Boycott of Israel
- Unions Representing UC and Harvard Student Workers Challenge Violent Crackdown on Gaza Protests
- Prime Minister of Slovakia in Stable Condition After Assassination Attempt
- Far-Right Populist Geert Wilders Forms Dutch Coalition But Agrees Not to Become Prime Minister
- Putin Backs Beijing Peace Plan for Ukraine as He Meets with Xi Jinping in China
- France Declares State of Emergency in New Caledonia After 4 Killed in Clashes with Police
- Activists Say Javier Milei's Rhetoric and Policies Led to Deadly Attack on Lesbians
- Ex-Gambian Interior Minister Ousmane Sonko Convicted for Crimes Against Humanity
- SCOTUS Restores Louisiana Voting Map with Additional Black-Majority District
- Biden and Trump Agree to 2 Network Debates, Eschewing Debate Commission
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Students and workers at the City University of New York held a peaceful occupation Tuesday of the school’s Graduate Center in solidarity with Palestine and renamed its library “The Al Aqsa University Library,” after Gaza’s oldest public university, which was destroyed by Israel’s bombardment. This comes as over 500 faculty and staff at CUNY have signed a letter demanding the charges be dropped against at least 173 people arrested in April when NYPD violently raided a peaceful Gaza solidarity encampment on the City College campus. “This is really the most egregious example we’ve seen of violent repression of pro-Palestinian organizing,” says pro-Palestine activist and CUNY alumni Musabika Nabiha, who says the crackdown wasn’t in response to the tents, rallies or free food, but because the “encampment’s demands themselves proved a threat to the constant accumulation of profit and profiting off of genocide that CUNY is engaged in.” Alex Vitale, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at CUNY’s Brooklyn College, criticizes the school administration for being relatively harsh on student activists. ”CUNY is spending millions of dollars for a security apparatus that fails to address the real security needs of students and is really there in moments like this to be a tool, a kind of private army, for the administration to suppress student dissent.”
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Palestinians across the globe are marking the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — which means “catastrophe” in Arabic — when those establishing the state of Israel violently expelled over 700,000 Palestinians. Palestinian historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti says closer to 900,000 Palestinians were forced out or massacred during Israel’s founding, which is being celebrated inside Israel with calls to ethnically cleanse and settle the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. “The Nakba is continuing. This is a colonial continuum,” says Takriti. “It’s not enough to commemorate. It’s not enough to talk about it. We have to stop it right now. … The first step to doing that is to stop the genocide in Gaza.” Takriti lays out four principles for Nakba education: refuting Nakba denialism, recognizing the Nakba is part of an ongoing process of settler colonialism, stopping that process, and then reversing it by restoring Palestinian national rights.
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Democracy Now! speaks with Dr. Adam Hamawy, one of around 20 American medical workers trapped in Gaza after Israel closed the Rafah border crossing into Egypt. A plastic surgeon and Army veteran, Hamawy is on a volunteer mission with the Palestinian American Medical Association at the European Hospital in Khan Younis. Like many Gazans, the U.S. medical workers are now facing dehydration and other deadly health conditions. “We’re continuing to do our job. … It’s tiring, but this is exactly what we need to be doing,” says Hamawy, who calls on President Biden to stop supporting Israel’s assault on Gaza. “If my best friend is a serial killer, I’m going to stop being his friend.” Hamaway describes treating “massive” injuries to civilians in Khan Younis, where much of the city has been destroyed and vandalized in Hebrew. “It’s going to haunt all of us. … I’m here. I see it with my own eyes. At some point in time, everyone is going to see it.”
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In the historic criminal hush money election fraud trial of former President Donald Trump, New York prosecutors are wrapping up their case charging Trump with falsifying business records in an illegal effort to influence the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday, Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen admitted he misled the Federal Election Commission about hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. In cross-examination, defense attorneys tried to suggest Cohen was motivated by vengeance against Trump. “He’s the one who has firsthand knowledge of the actual deal that he and Donald Trump struck in order to pay the hush money, create a phony retainer, and ultimately falsify the business records,” says criminal defense lawyer Ron Kuby. “The boss betrayed him. And now he, indeed, is out for revenge.” Kuby says Trump and his right-wing allies are using the trial as a backdrop for politics, and discusses the possibility of Trump serving prison time. Kuby is also representing climate crisis activists arrested at Citibank headquarters in New York City during Earth Week last month and pro-Palestinian activists arrested at recent protests at Fordham University and SUNY Purchase. “I tend to view these struggles … as perennial struggles with each generation kind of rising up to do their part,” Kuby says. “I just have mad respect for the young people who are literally risking their education, their careers and their futures to stand up for the planet, to stand up against the slaughter in Gaza.”
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- Biden to Send Another $1 Billion in Arms to Israel as Palestinians Mark 76th Nakba Anniversary
- Palestinian Truck Drivers Face New Risks After Settlers Attacked Aid Convoy in West Bank
- Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Joins March Calling for Resettlement of Gaza
- Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupt Google Conference over Israel Contract
- Harvard Students End Encampment as Officials Agree to Discuss Divestment Demand
- House Speaker Mike Johnson Visits Trump Trial & Bashes Prosecution
- Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia Hold Primaries
- Ukrainian Forces Withdraw from Areas of Kharkiv Amid New Russian Offensive
- Protests in Georgia After Passage of "Foreign Influence" Bill
- Biden Places 100% Tariff on Chinese Electric Cars
- DOJ Says Boeing Violated Settlement, Could Face Criminal Prosecution
- Eight Migrant Farmworkers Die in Bus Accident Heading to Watermelon Farm
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