A Year After Being Shot in Vermont, Palestinian Student Hisham Awartani Sets His Sights on Home
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Listener supported WNYC Studios. |
| 0:10.6 | Tonight marks one year since three Palestinian college students were shot in downtown Burlington. |
| 0:16.0 | Family members have identified the college students as Tassin Ahmed, Kanaan Abdul Hamid, and Hisham |
| 0:22.7 | Awatani's mother says her son is now paralyzed from the chest down. |
| 0:29.4 | Authorities investigating the shooting as a possible hate crime. |
| 0:32.1 | Tonight we have updates from the families of one of those young men. |
| 0:36.2 | I got the text saying, |
| 0:38.5 | Granny, I'd been shot. |
| 0:39.3 | He shot. |
| 0:40.9 | My friend Tashin's first, |
| 0:43.4 | and then He sham, and that's when I ran away. |
| 0:45.4 | I didn't know if I was going to survive. |
| 0:46.8 | Didn't know if my friends were alive. |
| 0:49.4 | Palestinians students told you, |
| 0:51.1 | not divesting, made them unsafe. |
| 0:52.3 | And what are you doing? |
| 0:53.6 | Not divesting. |
| 0:57.0 | Hisham was shot because of your complicity. Shai! It's Notes from America. |
| 1:19.7 | I'm Kai Wright. |
| 1:20.8 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:23.3 | I was going to carve the turkey. |
| 1:25.9 | The food, I think, is the most exciting subject. |
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