Democracy Now! 2025-05-29 Thursday
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for May 29, 2025; Fear, Repression & Brain Drain: U.S. Campuses Reeling as Trump Freezes, Revokes Student Visas; Mosquito Protocol: Ex-Israeli Soldier on Army’s Systematic Use of Palestinians as Human Shields; Jeremy Scahill: Shadowy Israeli-U.S. Aid Plan Is Weapon in “Netanyahu’s War of Annihilation” in Gaza
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:19.0 | The model of aid distribution proposed by Israel does not align with core humanitarian principle. |
| 0:28.8 | It will deprive large part of Gaza the highly vulnerable people of desperately needed assistance. |
| 0:38.3 | Israeli troops have fatally shot at least 10 Palestinians as they attempted to collect food and aid |
| 0:44.3 | amidst the chaotic unveiling of a new Israeli-U.S.-backed aid distribution plan run by a shadowy U.S. group that sidelines the United Nations. |
| 0:54.6 | We'll speak to Jeremy Scahill of DropSight News about this and proposals for a new ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 1:01.0 | Plus, we'll look at Israel's use of Palestinians as human shields in Gaza and the West Bank. |
| 1:07.3 | We'll talk to Nadav Weim, a former Israeli soldier who heads the group breaking |
| 1:13.6 | the silence. |
| 1:14.6 | We got testifiers from December 2023 telling us that they were ordered to use Palestinians |
| 1:20.6 | as human shields. And then we got to more and more testifiers, different units, different times |
| 1:24.6 | of the war in Gaza and different places on the Gaza Strip, which means that |
| 1:30.3 | it's a widely spread protocol in the IDF, and it's called the mosquito protocol using Palestinians |
| 1:36.3 | as human shields. |
| 1:37.3 | But first, the Trump administration's escalating its attacks on international students, |
| 1:43.3 | with Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing |
| 1:45.5 | the U.S. will begin aggressively revoking the visas of Chinese students. We'll speak to |
| 1:52.6 | Jamil Jaffer, head of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. All that and more |
| 1:58.3 | coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now. |
| 2:05.6 | Democracy Now.org, the war and peace report. |
| 2:08.6 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:09.6 | In Gaza, at least two people were crushed to death and two others fatally shot Wednesday, |
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