Political Gabfest | Gaza is Starving

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the international condemnations of Israel’s actions. They also examine how the Trump administration is gaining control of both universities and the judiciary—through settlements with Ivy League institutions and a controversial judicial confirmation. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, David, Emily and John discuss the controversy surrounding American Eagle In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with Carl Hiaasen about his new book, Fever Beach, a political satire for the Trump Era. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Nora Moses Want more Political Gabfest? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Political Gabfest show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or visit slate.com/gabfestplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.
0:06.2	July 31st, July 31st, 2025, the Gaza is starving edition.
0:20.8	I'm David Plotz of Citycast.
0:22.5	I'm out of my usual haunts.
0:24.8	I'm in Salt Lake City on business.
0:27.3	Hello, Salt Lake City.
0:28.8	Also out of her usual haunts, Emily Bazelon, who's somewhere away from her home because she's got beautiful wood that is not her usual beautiful wood behind her.
0:36.5	Hello, Emily.
0:37.4	Hello, hello. I am in the
0:38.8	state of Maine and so glad to be here. And hi, John. Hi. John Dickerson, John Dickerson, in his usual
0:45.1	haunt. It's haunted. He is haunted. I'm haunted. CBS evening news. Hello, John from New York City.
0:52.4	Hello, David. Hello, Emily. You guys are super
0:56.6	refreshing this morning. I'm going to try and take some, I don't know, solace or I need some,
1:03.5	I need a boost and you guys are just the ones to give it to me. Well, we've got such cheery
1:07.4	topics. This week on the gap, this week on the Gabest, geez, this week on the Gab Fest, why is Gaza starving?
1:16.0	What is Israel trying to accomplish there?
1:18.7	And why is the world not working harder to stop it?
1:22.3	Then Brown and Columbia have now capitulated to Trump's holdup campaign of higher education.
1:30.3	Will Harvard capitulate? Should it capitulate? What does this portend?
1:34.5	Then Emil Beauvais, Trump Hatchetman, was confirmed to a federal appeals court, despite a lot of whistleblower evidence of alarming unjudicial behavior.
1:43.8	Is Trump's campaign to bring
1:46.1	the judiciary to heal working. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter.
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