From New York, this is Democracy Now.

I just wanted to die right now.

I think it's the only way I will find relief.

I don't want to be displaced again.

I'm so tired. I'm so tired.

I'm so tired.

I wish I could see you soon, even just for a moment and hug you before I die.

A voice note from a Palestinian medical student in Gaza City to her mentor, Dr. Mimi Syed.

Dr. Syed has just been denied re-entry for what would have been her third medical mission in Gaza.

We'll go to Amman to speak with Dr. Syed as Israel intensifies its military takeover of Gaza City.

Then to the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli government's approved a settlement plan

from far-right finance minister Bezal Smotrich to permanently divide the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem.

Whoever in the world is trying to recognize at Palestinian state today

will receive our answer on the ground.

Not with documents nor with decisions or statements, but with facts.

Facts of houses, facts of neighborhoods, roads, and of more and more Jewish families

building lives.

And finally, President Trump has once again attacked the Smithsonian for focusing too much

on, quote, how bad slavery was, unquote.

We go back into the Democracy Now archive to a 2020 conversation with Lonnie Bunch, founding

director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the time he'd

just been elevated to the position he holds today, secretary of the entire Smithsonian

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