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Democracy Now! 2025-05-15 Thursday

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Democracy Now!

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for May 15, 2025; “Trump’s Fake Refugees”: As U.S. Welcomes White South Africans, Trump Falsely Charges “Genocide”; Israel’s “Crime of Apartheid”: New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day; “Surveillance Humanitarianism”: As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:17.0

It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about.

0:22.6

Sixty white South Africaners have arrived in the U.S. after being granted refugee status,

0:30.6

even as the U.S. suspends refugee resettlement for almost everyone else in the world,

0:36.6

we'll go to South Africa to speak with

0:39.6

an Afrikaner journalism professor whose new piece is headlined Trump's fake refugees,

0:46.8

and we'll speak with a black South African political analyst about race, power, and the politics

0:53.1

of distraction. Then Palestinians mark the 77th

0:57.7

anniversary of the Nakhba, when some 700,000 Palestinians fled from or were violently expelled

1:05.9

from their homes, as Israel also carried out massacres upon its founding.

1:11.6

Men of Palestinian say they face a second Nakhba today.

1:16.6

Despite all of the circumstances, we are maintaining our land and rooted here.

1:23.6

Our right of return will never be forgotten forgotten and Palestine will always be Palestine.

1:28.3

We'll speak with a Cornell University professor, lead author of a major new report released

1:35.3

by U.S. academics called apartheid in Israel that concludes Israel's treatment of Palestinians

1:41.3

meets the legal threshold of apartheid. And as Israel's brutal assault

1:46.9

continues, we'll also look at a starvation in Gaza report with Alex DeWall, author of

1:55.3

mass starvation, The History and Future of Famine. All that and more coming up.

2:03.6

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

2:11.6

I'm Amy Goodman.

2:12.6

Officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes have killed over 100 people in the past day.

2:18.9

The majority of them, children and women, as Palestinians grow increasingly desperate in their

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