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Democracy Now! 2024-04-18 Thursday

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Democracy Now!

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for April 18, 2024; Meet USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum: School Cancels Commencement Speech by Pro-Palestinian Student; The New McCarthyism: Congress Grills Columbia Univ. President Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech; Columbia Students Risk Arrest, Suspension to Maintain Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Campus; Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power

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0:00.0

You're going to. From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:17.0

My question to you, are mobs shouting from the river to the sea Palestine will be free or

0:25.4

long live the infantata are those anti-Semitic comments? When I hear those terms I

0:32.2

find them very upsetting.

0:35.0

The president of Columbia University is grilled at a congressional hearing about anti-Semitism on campus

0:41.0

and what critics call the silencing of pro-Palestinian

0:44.7

voices. We'll be joined by two Barnard Columbia professors. One of them signed

0:50.4

an open letter from Jewish professors calling the hearings a new McCarthyism.

0:56.6

But first, the University of Southern California cancels the commencement address of its

1:02.1

valedatoria for what it claimed were the commencement hate campaign.

1:03.0

For what it claimed were safety reasons

1:06.0

after she became the subject of an online anti-Palestinian hate campaign.

1:10.0

I was contacted by the administration on Monday actually this past Monday

1:16.1

shortly before the statement was released that I would unfortunately no longer

1:20.8

be allowed to give the commencement address for the class of

1:25.4

2024. We'll speak with Asna Tabassum. All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now.

1:35.0

Democracy Now.

1:39.0

The War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

1:42.0

Israeli forces have killed at least 11 people,

1:45.1

including five children and strikes

1:47.0

on the southern city of Rafa.

1:48.8

Israel's repeatedly attacked the city

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