The Crisis On The Ground In Gaza
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Airstrikes have exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with numerous vital resources damaged or destroyed. We spoke with Inès Abdel Razek, advocacy director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, about the situation on the ground. Also, EU members called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The House passed an anti-Asian hate crimes bill, yesterday, which would speed up review of COVID-19 related hate crimes, help law enforcement to better identify anti-Asian bias, and more. We discuss the rise in anti-AAPI violence that led to the bill, plus the response to it.
And in headlines: the police officers in North Carolina responsible for shooting Andrew Brown Jr. will not face criminal charges, Rudy Giuliani's son will run for governor of NY, and cicadas get high and watch their butts fall off. Plus, Elise Hu from NPR and TED Talks Daily fills in for Akilah Hughes.
Show Notes:
Some organizations where you can make donations to help the people in Gaza:
- Human Concern – humanconcern.org/palestine-relief
- Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) – imeu.funraise.org
- Islamic Relief USA – irusa.org/middle-east/palestine
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 19th. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Elise Hugh in for Akila Hughes. |
| 0:10.2 | And I'm Gideon Resek and this is what a day the podcast that's recorded in the bed of an EV |
| 0:14.1 | truck driven by the president. |
| 0:15.4 | Yeah, he doesn't go easy either. He's flooring it. |
| 0:18.4 | The man is honestly obsessed with transportation. |
| 0:21.2 | All right. So first things first, we have a new amazing guest host with us today. |
| 0:32.2 | Elise Hugh, welcome to WOD. We are so, so happy to have you. |
| 0:35.5 | Elise, if you do not know, does basically everything she is the host of the podcast Ted Talks daily, |
| 0:42.4 | host at large or in PR, corresponded for Vice News and co-founder of the podcast company |
| 0:47.2 | Reasonable Volume. It is so amazing to have you with us. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm never too busy for you in the WOD squad, Gideon. |
| 0:53.4 | Thank you. On today's show, Congress sends a hate crime bill to the president to address |
| 0:58.4 | attacks on Asian Americans. Plus, we'll have headlines. |
| 1:02.4 | But first, the latest. |
| 1:03.7 | At least I can tell you the past few hours. I was just like running from stun grenades |
| 1:08.2 | in Chorshava right now. I just came back. That's why I said like, why should we do video or not? |
| 1:13.5 | Because I just took a shower just to get this conke water out. |
| 1:18.4 | Yeah, so that's Enez Abdul-Razik, advocacy director of the Palestine Institute for Public |
| 1:22.8 | Diplomacy, who I spoke with yesterday. And we're going to hear more from her in a moment |
| 1:26.5 | about what it's been like on the ground in Israel and Palestine. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, and I want to hear that. But first, Gideon, can you give us the latest updates from the |
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