Crisis on Campus

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A firestorm has been raging on many American college campuses. Ignited by the devastating October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the catastrophic war in Gaza, the outrage deeply divided American campuses and in some places devolved into hate-filled rhetoric and arrests. FRONTLINE and Retro Report have been following the escalating turmoil since the war began — talking to people on all sides of the divide, investigating how universities have responded, how powerful interests joined the fray, and how the conflict over the conflict ultimately spiraled out of control. From director James Jacoby (Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza, Amazon Empire, Age of Easy Money) and Retro Report producers Scott Michels and Joseph Hogan, Crisis on Campus examines how the debate over one of the world’s most intractable and complex conflicts has gripped American college campuses.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audiocast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.0	We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you listen.
0:11.0	Right now, here is the audio cast of Crisis on Campus. You're going to. College protests reaching a boiling point after days of an encampment on
0:40.4	April 30th, 2024.
0:48.0	Protesters condemning the war in Gaza had barricaded themselves in a building at Columbia University. They demanded the school sever ties with Israel.
0:58.0	I believe that we won't win.
1:01.0	I believe that we will win. The protesters say on social media if Columbia tries to remove them by force
1:08.8	the school will both have blood on its hands.
1:11.6	Less than 24 hours later, Columbia University called in the police.
1:17.0	It looks like a military grade vehicle that is coming down Amsterdam right now with protesters on.
1:24.0	Okay, we see an officer approaching a window right now.
1:27.0	With Kungstruh, it's...
1:29.0	Wow.
1:31.0	The first officer has entered the window, People are screaming on the street in response.
1:37.6	I am now seeing the NYU dozens going into the city as well. We have not be.
1:45.0	We are not going to be.
1:46.0	We are not going to have a justice.
1:48.0	We shall not do that.
1:50.0	What? What? What?
1:52.0	? Police officers enter the building and start detaining students.
1:57.0	The clashes at Columbia that night were the culmination of months of chaos sweeping across American college campuses.
2:08.0	Three pounds died.
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