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The Owen Jones Podcast

Cops Crush Gaza Encampment At UPenn - Where Are Free Speech Warriors Now?

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

After cops crush a peaceful encampment protesting over Israel's genocide in Gaza at the University of Pennsylvania, I talk to Eliana Atienza, one of the student leaders, and Dr. Dagmawi Woubshet, member of the Faculty for Justice in Palestine group.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone Jordan Rokai here my brand new album the Loop is out now. This album is about parenthood

0:12.0

it sort of made me reflect on the way I was

0:14.3

parented and it's made me reflect a lot on my parenting style and all the issues I face

0:18.8

internally as well and how that may come across and project onto my child so it's a story of parenthood and I can't

0:25.8

wait for you to hear it and I really hope you enjoy it. So over the last few weeks we've seen across the United States but also elsewhere

0:36.7

student encampments protesting against Israel's genocidal onslaught against Gaza.

0:42.1

I'm actually here in Dublin and I was here at an

0:44.8

encampment which was victorious Trinity College Dublin. They demanded that

0:49.5

the University authorities

0:53.8

divests from Israeli companies including those directly linked I should say to the

0:55.4

illegal settlements in the West Bank after five days of that encampment the

0:59.6

authorities gave in and accepted the demands. Now in the United States, this was a point the

1:05.9

protest leaders here in Dublin made, we've seen brutal repression, both a

1:10.6

combination of police attacks on these

1:13.1

encampments as well as pro-Israel thugs which in for example

1:18.2

in Los Angeles came in brutally and basically rioted whilst the police looked on and attacked students.

1:27.0

Now one of these encampments is at U Penn, which is obviously an extremely prestigious university in the United States.

1:35.2

They've been, their encounter was set up on the 25th of April.

1:39.0

Now yesterday in the early hours, they were subjected to the police including riot cops in

1:46.6

riot gear and storming in and doing engaging in a mass arrest.

1:53.0

Let's just see a clip now from what happened at Y-pen. We want. We will not stop. We will not rest to school.

2:17.0

I really delighted to be joined by Dagmarie. He was a faculty member and Eliana who is a sophomore young undergraduate member as I suppose we would say

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