Democracy Now! 2024-01-18 Thursday
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for January 18, 2024; Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza; Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians; Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate of Censorship After Her Hamburg Talks Are Canceled
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to. From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm really surprised at what happened to me. |
| 0:21.0 | I had felt that I was immune because I was an alumni of Indiana University, but I see the university administration is more sensitive and responsive to higher administrative pressure from the government |
| 0:35.8 | than the art to the welfare of their own community. |
| 0:39.8 | Council. |
| 0:41.3 | Today we talk to two Palestinian American artists. |
| 0:45.0 | Samia Hallaby's life retrospective three years in the making was cancelled by her |
| 0:51.0 | alma mater, Indiana University over her opposition to Israel's assault on |
| 0:56.2 | Gaza. |
| 0:57.2 | And we'll speak to Emily Josier, who was scheduled to give a talk in Berlin, Germany. |
| 1:03.3 | We'll also talk to German-American Jewish Holocaust survivor |
| 1:08.2 | Marion Ingram, who has stood outside the White House |
| 1:12.0 | for months calling for a Gaza ceasefire. |
| 1:15.2 | Her talks and her native Hamburg, Germany were cancelled. |
| 1:20.0 | Apparently my criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza has caused the politician to be very upset and it turns out that criticism of Israel is unacceptable to Germans. |
| 1:44.0 | And we'll hear from the Russian Jewish American writer |
| 1:48.0 | Masia Gessin. |
| 1:50.0 | A major award ceremony for her was cancelled in Germany. Today, art and resistance. |
| 1:57.0 | All that and more coming out. |
| 2:00.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. Pakistan's Air Force has launched retaliatory airstrikes on Iran as tension continues to |
| 2:16.4 | escalate across the region. |
| 2:18.4 | Nine people were reportedly killed in Iran, including three women and four children. |
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