A Student Journalist Explains the Protests at Yale
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Anika Arora Seth, the editor-in-chief and president of the Yale Daily News, joins Tyler Foggatt to share what it has been like covering campus protests since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th. Seth explains both the global and university-specific forces at play that led to the arrest of forty-seven protesters on Yale’s campus this week, and lays out how the university has responded to concerns over students’ safety during the protests.
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| 0:51.1 | For nearly an entire school year, college campuses across the U.S. have been consumed by the war in Gaza and allegations of anti-Semitism. |
| 1:03.0 | Protests first broke out shortly after the October 7th attack, in which Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israelis and took another 250 hostage. |
| 1:12.4 | The Israeli government responded with a military campaign that has killed 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:20.1 | But over the last few days, the protests surrounding this war, and the responses from university leaders to those protests have significantly ramped up. |
| 1:29.2 | Police in riot gear detained protesters at Columbia University, loading them into multiple buses |
| 1:34.1 | as they cleared out students who had camped out in tents on the school's South Long. |
| 1:38.4 | From New York University, you can actually see police in riot gear here, |
| 1:42.4 | dismantling the encampment, arresting multiple people. |
| 1:46.4 | This morning, police say at least 45 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested at Yale University |
| 1:52.4 | for violating Yale's policies and instructions. |
| 1:57.1 | So you yourself were also threatened with arrest, right, just because you and other reporters were there trying to cover what was happening? |
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