Inside the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
University encampments have spread across the US since New York police first came onto Columbia University’s campus last week. In the second of a two-part series, The Take takes a look inside the Columbia encampment and the impact it’s having on campus.
In this episode:
- Fadi Shuman, Columbia University Student
- Talia Jane, @taliaotg, Freelance Journalist
- Jonathan Ben-Menachem, @jbenmenachem, Columbia University Student
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Fahrinisa Campana, Tabish Talib, Negin Owliaei, and Khaled Soltan with our host Malika Bilal. Chloe K. Li fact-checked this episode.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University that sparked a movement. |
| 0:19.0 | Free, free, free Palestine! Up and down the East Coast, those protests are spreading here in New York City. University that sparked a movement. |
| 0:24.0 | Up and down the East Coast, those protests are spreading. |
| 0:29.7 | Here in New York City, at NYU, at the news school, Yale, MIT, Taps, Vanderbilt, |
| 0:32.0 | University, at North Carolina Chapel Hill. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 0:52.8 | On Wednesday, we brought you the story of the last few months on Columbia's campus. |
| 0:55.8 | This is part two of that story. |
| 0:59.3 | Dr. Sheffick, Mr. Schuzer, |
| 1:02.0 | Ms. Shipman, and Mr. Greenwald, |
| 1:04.0 | you're here testifying today. On April 17th, Columbia University President |
| 1:07.9 | Nimat Manu Sheffique testified before a congressional committee. |
| 1:11.6 | And we are prepared to bring you back if we don't see more tangible progress. |
| 1:20.4 | The committee is investigating claims of anti-Semitism on the New York City campus. |
| 1:25.7 | Anti-Semitism has no place on our campus, and I am personally committed to doing everything |
| 1:31.0 | I can to confront it directly. |
| 1:34.4 | Shefique has been criticized by both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel students for how she's |
| 1:40.3 | handled protests at the university. |
| 1:44.3 | The same day as the hearing, in the morning, students had started an encampment and solidarity with Gaza. |
| 1:52.1 | They camped out on the lawn that sits between the main campus buildings, where students attend classes, have study sessions, get food. |
| 2:00.0 | The students were there to make some demands of Colombia. |
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