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Democracy Now! 2024-05-17 Friday

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for May 17, 2024; “Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism

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0:00.0

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

0:17.0

Power and corruption abuse that comes with any power are manifested in different ways and areas in the Israeli society as in any other society.

0:31.0

But the Israeli domination over the Palestinians has been the most vile,

0:37.0

cruel, destructive and dangerous of all, and the least covered by the Israeli press in general.

0:43.0

Long time Israeli journalist Amir Ahas,

0:46.0

as Israel intensifies its attacks on Gaza

0:50.0

and South Africa calls on the International Court of Justice to order Israel to halt its

0:56.3

assault on Raffa.

0:58.2

We spend the hour with Haaritz correspondent Amira Haas, the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and

1:07.8

reporting from Gaza and the West Bank.

1:11.2

This week she addressed the graduating class of the Columbia Journalism School.

1:17.0

Many of the student journalists there threatened with arrest as they dare to go outside their doors to cover what was happening

1:26.2

on the Columbia campus with well over a hundred students arrested as a

1:31.4

Gaza Solidarity solidarity encampment.

1:34.0

The journalism that I chose to practice is based on the refusal to see injustice as normal. The refusal to normalize it to a point that we do not see it.

1:49.6

This is exactly what the students here in Colombia and in so many other campuses in the US and now in Europe have been doing.

1:57.0

Refuse to accept hell as normal.

2:01.0

All that and more coming up.

2:05.0

Welcome to Democracy Now.

2:10.0

Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

2:16.6

Israel's deadly attack Serafagazah strip are intensifying with thousands more Palestinians in northern Gaza now cut off from food and water

2:25.8

as Israel says its troops are fighting in Jabalia's city center.

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