Congress Passes Antisemitism Legislation In Attempt To Quell University Protests
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
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Summary
New York police officers arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters who’d occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday night while pro-Israeli counterprotestors attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA.
Meanwhile, an overwhelming majority of House lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of passing the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, a bill that critics say could create an overboard definition of what counts as anti-semitic speech on college campuses and other educational institutions. Todd Zwillich, a longtime Washington reporter and friend of the show, explains how the bill is part of a cynical ploy on the part of Republicans to divide Democrats.
And in headlines: Arizona lawmakers voted to reverse the state's Civil War-era abortion ban, the Federal Reserve moved to keep interest rates flat, and the U.S. could have more than 100 million doses of bird flu vaccines available for people within four months if the disease jumps to humans.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday May 2nd. I'm Priy Anabindee. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day, where we too are afraid of bees. |
| 0:09.0 | A little girl in North Carolina complained of hearing monsters in her wall, |
| 0:12.0 | and it turns out she was hearing more than |
| 0:13.6 | 50,000 bees in her wall. Horrifying objectively worse than whatever she could have |
| 0:18.7 | been imagining. How do you as her parents convince this little girl that it is safe to go to sleep ever again? |
| 0:24.9 | No. Just a nightmare. |
| 0:26.8 | I'd rather the monsters. |
| 0:28.2 | Truly. |
| 0:28.8 | On today's show, Arizona lawmakers rescind the state's abortion bill from the 1800s. |
| 0:35.0 | Plus, vaccines are being shipped to the US to combat the possible transmission of bird flu to humans. |
| 0:40.0 | But first, as pro-Palestinian protests continued to escalate on college campuses all across the country, |
| 0:46.0 | we saw victories for student protesters at both Northwestern University and Brown University this week. |
| 0:52.0 | At Brown, administrators agreed to discuss |
| 0:54.6 | and later vote on divesting funds |
| 0:56.4 | from Israel and entities that profit from the war in Gaza. |
| 0:59.3 | And at Northwestern, the University |
| 1:00.9 | did not commit to divestment, but they did promise to be more |
| 1:03.8 | transparent about their financial holdings and to create scholarships for five |
| 1:07.4 | Palestinian undergraduate students as well as slots for visiting Palestinian |
| 1:11.3 | professors. Okay so what does this mean moving forward? |
| 1:14.7 | Obviously, divestment has been a big goal of many of these student protests, so in that respect, |
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