2024 in Review: Inside the Gaza encampment at Columbia University
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As the year wraps up, we're looking back at ten of the episodes that defined 2024 at The Take. This originally aired on April 25. None of the dates, titles, or other references have been changed.
University encampments have spread across the US since New York police first came onto Columbia University’s campus last week. In the second of a two-part series, The Take takes a look inside the Columbia encampment and its impact on campus.
In this episode:
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Fadi Shuman, Columbia University Student
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Talia Jane (@taliaotg), Freelance Journalist
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem (@jbenmenachem), Columbia University Student
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Fahrinisa Campana, Tabish Talib, Negin Owliaei, Khaled Soltan, and Chloe K. Li, with Spencer Cline, Phillip Lanos, Mohannad al-Melhem, Hisham Abu Salah, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this update. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Malika here. |
| 0:12.5 | As 2024 comes to a close, we're reflecting on the stories that defined this year. |
| 0:18.1 | And at many university campuses, what defined the year was the student movement |
| 0:22.8 | against Israel's war on Gaza. |
| 0:25.2 | At Columbia University in New York, |
| 0:27.7 | students set up an encampment |
| 0:29.3 | to protest that quickly gained national attention. |
| 0:32.9 | But tensions escalated |
| 0:34.5 | when the university called in the New York Police Department, |
| 0:40.7 | leading to the arrests of students and employees. |
| 0:45.4 | Our team was on the ground, speaking with those at the heart of the encampment. |
| 0:50.0 | This episode originally aired on April 25, 2024. |
| 0:53.0 | All dates and references reflect that time. |
| 0:54.6 | Here's the show. |
| 1:08.1 | Today, inside the Gaza's Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University that sparked a movement. |
| 1:13.1 | Up and down the East Coast, those protests are spreading. |
| 1:18.8 | Here in New York City, at NYU, at the news school, Yale, MIT, Tufts, Vanderbilt, |
| 1:21.2 | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. |
| 1:29.6 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 1:41.9 | On Wednesday, we brought you the story of the last few months on Columbia's campus. |
| 1:44.9 | This is part two of that story. |
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