826 - University Challenge feat. Basil Zacharia Rodriguez (4/23/24)

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Will interviews Basil Zacharia Rodriguez, an activist and student at Columbia University involved with Columbia Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) about the ongoing demonstrations taking place there. They discuss the goals of the protests, the media response, and the University’s economic interests in both Palestinian occupation and displacing New Yorkers in Harlem. Then, Amber and Felix join to continue the discussion of the media freak-out over campus activism, as well as the trial of Donald Trump, and two reading series exploring the sexual pathologies of Spectator columnists and Rabbi Shmuley. Tickets to Will & Hesse’s Movie Mindset screening & talkback of Death Wish 3 in NYC on May 4: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chapo-trap-houses-movie-mindset-screening-of-death-wish-3-w-will-hesse-tickets-877569192077

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0:00.0	Hello everybody will here obviously as we begin this week much of the
0:06.6	countries and world's attention has been focused on upper Manhattan and
0:11.1	Columbia University and I've been pulling my hair out, seeing the ongoing
0:15.6	protests and arrests covered in the media. So I thought for my own sanity I would talk to one of the Columbia
0:22.1	students currently at Columbia,
0:24.5	currently camped out and occupying the campus for Palestine.
0:29.4	So I am thrilled to welcome to the show.
0:32.1	Basile Zakariah Rodriguez,
0:34.0	a student organizer at Quad
0:37.0	and the Palestinian Students Union.
0:39.0	Basel, welcome to the show.
0:40.0	Thanks so much for having me.
0:42.0	Basel, I can see from my camera here, are you currently in the Quad of Columbia right now?
0:48.0	Yes, so we are on the West Lawn right now at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and I think you brought up a really great
0:55.1	point that a lot of the attention has been on Upper Manhattan when in fact all
1:00.6	our organizers and protesters here are here solely for the reason of the ongoing
1:06.8	genocide in Gaza and in Palestine.
1:10.1	So we really want to shift attention away from Upper Manhattan and towards Palestine,
1:16.2	towards the liberation struggle that is ongoing and towards stopping the ongoing genocide,
1:21.4	which has killed over 40,000 Palestinians in the past seven months
1:25.6	alone.
1:26.6	I mean Basil I said like I've been pulling my hair out watching the media coverage of
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