An inside look at the campus protests; plus, Israel at Eurovision

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

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Pro-Palestinian protests have been popping up at universities around the world, and in the last few days things have escalated at a number of those campuses. Columbia University called on police to shutdown the encampment on their university lawn and 300 people were arrested. At University of California Los Angeles, about 200 pro-Israel counter-protestors raided a pro-Palestinian encampment. To get first hand accounts of the protests, Brittany talks to two student journalists: Shaanth Nanguneri, an undergraduate reporter at UCLA, and Claire Davenport, a graduate reporter at Columbia University in New York.

Then, Eurovision may seem like a quaint, quirky event to Americans but it's a huge cultural event that easily surpasses the Super Bowl in terms of global viewership. And for an apolitical event, Eurovision can teach us a lot about geopolitics. This year, all eyes are on Israel, which is not European but has been a competitor since the 70s. With Israel's ongoing conflict in Gaza, there's a lot of politicking for and against its inclusion at the song contest. Brittany chats with Eurovision scholar Paul David Flood about Israel's controversial song and dance at Eurovision... and why Americans might want to pay attention.

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0:25.0	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's been a minute from
0:31.2	NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen
0:36.0	by accident. This week we're connecting the dots between student journalists, campus protests,
0:48.4	and the way our leaders remember history. Now how are these things connected? Well we're going to find out
0:55.4	with two student journalists. Shamp Nangoniri, an undergraduate reporter at
0:59.5	the University of California Los Angeles, and Claire Davenport, a graduate reporter at Columbia University in New York.
1:06.0	Schamp, Claire, welcome to it's been a minute.
1:09.0	Thank you so much, Brittany.
1:10.0	Thank you for hopping us.
1:11.0	To jump right in, for weeks, pro-Palestinian protests have been popping up on college campuses
1:16.5	around the world.
1:17.8	By some counts, there are at least 90 college campuses with students camped out or just recently had
1:24.4	students camped out calling for their administrations to divest their ties with
1:29.0	Israel and in many cases the United States military and this week things escalated.
1:35.2	On Tuesday Columbia University called on police to shut down the encampment on their
1:39.1	university lawn, 300 people were arrested.
1:45.0	And at UCLA, about 200 pro-Israel counter-protesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment.
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