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"content": "\u003cp>Dr. Ramzi Salti met with his new students at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Arabic language course he has taught at the university for 25 years, students read the news and discuss current events. Salti, an advanced lecturer in the school’s Arabic program, told KQED he’s unsure how to incorporate the most recent conflict in Lebanon into his curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t had time to process any of it,” said Salti, whose family left Lebanon and immigrated to the United States 45 years ago. “But you cannot have a course about current events in the Middle East and not go there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern and anxiety have gripped the Bay Area’s Lebanese diaspora, a community of more than 5,000 people, according to estimates from the West Coast’s \u003ca href=\"https://honoraryconsulateoflebanon-uswestcoast.org/\">Honorary Consulate of Lebanon\u003c/a>, since Israel began pummeling southern Lebanon with airstrikes on Monday. More than 500 people were reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/middleeast/lebanon-civilian-death-toll-israel.html\">killed\u003c/a>, including 50 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands fled the region for Beirut, the country’s capital on the Mediterranean coast. The airstrikes follow a series of pager and other device explosions across the country facilitated by Israel. The coordinated attack on Hezbollah killed at least \u003ca href=\"https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/24/hezbollah-pager-explosions-lebanon-israel-middle-east-iran-us-policy/\">40 people\u003c/a> and injured 3,000 others. Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia and political party in Lebanon, have been locked in almost daily cross-border skirmishes since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Richard Kadi’s family lives near Saida, a city in southern Lebanon. The barrages fuel constant worries about his cousins and uncles. Kadi, who lives in Belmont, checks on them daily. It’s difficult, he said, for them to escape the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Millbrae on Sept. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The roads are congested,” Kadi said. “They are really afraid that there won’t be any gas for the cars, or there won’t be any food or bread. People are worried and scared, and they don’t know how far this is going to escalate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MJ Azzi, who came to the United States as a student six years ago, is in constant communication with her parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are very scared,” she said. “They say that whatever it is that they have been dreading to happen for the past many months is happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salti said that the situation has spiraled more dramatically than his friends and family in Lebanon expected. They’re now afraid the country could get dragged into the worst conflict in its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there is a sense of doom, unfortunately, that has overtaken people who maybe had too rosy of a picture before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salti remembers what he calls “a beautiful childhood” in the country. Lebanon was a cultural powerhouse for much of the 20th century. It has the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14647308\">liberal media\u003c/a> in any Arab country. Lebanese artists produced Arabic-language pop music, books and movies, and Beirut was known as the “Paris of the Middle East.” Many Lebanese people speak Arabic, English and French, and the country’s many religious and ethnic minorities are guaranteed representation in government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12005195 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-018-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, Lebanon was stable for three decades after gaining independence from France in the early 1940s. Salti recalled the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, which began as a clash between Lebanese Christians and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Then, the U.S., Syria, Israel and Iran got involved in the 15-year conflict that displaced nearly 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waves of Lebanese have left the country since. Many fled when Israel invaded and occupied southern Lebanon in 1982 and again in 2006 during the Israel-Hezbollah war. Hezbollah was founded after Israel’s invasion in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history looms heavily over this week’s fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s been the story of Lebanon for the past 50 years,” said Kadi, who emigrated from Lebanon 24 years ago. “Every now and then, there’s been bombardment attacks or airplanes flying over our heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger Lebanese, like Azzi, have been traumatized by the periodic violence, as well as the port explosion that rocked Beirut in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never plan for the future,” said Azzi, 27. “I grew up in a climate of instability, and it just feels like it’s been the same for as long as I’ve known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is home to the second-largest Lebanese diaspora in the U.S. after Michigan. Thousands gather annually at the Bay Area Lebanese Festival held in August in downtown Redwood City. On weekends, Kadi and friends play soccer and cards together, and they meet on Sundays at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kadi isn’t part of a political organization, he and others in the community share their opinions about the inflamed tensions in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People see things differently, from different perspectives,” Kadi said. “Of course, people blame Hezbollah. But at the end of the day, it’s the bigger power who can actually serve justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area politicians have called for an end to the violence. East Bay Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord), who voted against providing offensive weapons to Israel earlier this year, is among the elected officials urging the Biden administration to pursue a ceasefire in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see America assert that there has to be a regional and international pressure on both sides to stop and to get to a discussion about long-term peace, which means coexistence,” DeSaulnier said. “We’re tempting World War III. Not to be over reactionary, but smaller conflicts, as history has taught us, can escalate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his final speech addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Joe Biden said, “Nobody wants to see full-scale war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A solution is still possible,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Salti and Kadi hoped for a stronger statement from Biden. As they wait for a ceasefire, they find hope in community and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he’s not teaching, Salti hosts a radio program and podcast called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993183/ramzi-salti-champions-indie-arab-musicians-with-arabology-podcast\">Arabology\u003c/a>. Each \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/arabology/sets/podcasts\">two-hour episode\u003c/a> is filled with facts about Arabic music and artists, woven through an array of indie-Arabic tracks and remixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s planning an episode on Lebanese music featuring, Salti said, “everything that’s beautiful about Lebanon, not the war and destruction.” Included in the mix is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb7WKF3WLV0\">I Love You, Lebanon\u003c/a>,” a song released in 1970 by Fairuz, whom he called “the Diva of Lebanon.” The nostalgic lyrics summarize the love that a lot of Lebanese have for their country, Salti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a song about peace, about loving Lebanon through its best times and worst times,” he said. “It’s the best medication I could recommend right now in terms of Lebanese music that can be healing and empowering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was absolutely horrified when I saw Dr. Marya’s post,” Wiener told KQED. “She is a professor at UCSF, and for her to basically publicly encourage people to harass a first-year med student is just unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who co-chairs the Legislative Jewish Caucus, said the committee has been focused on the experiences of Jewish students on the state’s college campuses since the Hamas attack on Israel that killed over 1,200 civilians on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and Marya \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003439/a-ucsf-student-advocate-spoke-up-for-faculty-of-color-then-she-was-fired\">clashed online\u003c/a> in January after Marya wrote that the “presence of Zionism” in U.S. medicine should be examined as a “structural impediment to health equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She promoted a conspiracy theory that ‘Zionist doctors at UCSF were going to harm patients,’ which is an old antisemitic conspiracy theory about Jewish doctors,” Wiener said. “And now she’s at it again, trying to demonize med students — her own students at her own institution — because they are Israeli. It’s completely unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya, who co-founded Do No Harm, a policy advocacy coalition, has been a vocal proponent of a cease-fire resolution. In San Francisco, she has long been known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855177/doctor-musician-and-activist-rupa-marya-offers-a-healing-balm-on-new-april-fishes-album\">local physician, musician and activist\u003c/a>. In 2021, she co-authored \u003cem>Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice\u003c/em>, a book about how the socioeconomic background of patients can influence their health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never come up against the kind of repression and, specifically, racist repression that I’ve seen and experienced since I’ve said ‘stop bombing hospitals,’” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003439/a-ucsf-student-advocate-spoke-up-for-faculty-of-color-then-she-was-fired\">told KQED earlier this month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya, who has since deleted her X account, did not respond to KQED’s request for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1536x888.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1920x1110.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF professor Dr. Rupa Marya faced backlash after sharing students’ concerns about an Israeli classmate’s military background. State Sen. Scott Wiener condemned the “toxic environment” at UCSF, and Chancellor Sam Hawgood promised swift action. \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood promised “immediate action to address the situation,” according to a letter \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UCSF/status/1838236238392054151\">published on social media\u003c/a>. A spokesperson for the UCSF declined to elaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campuses across the UC system have been roiled by conflict over the Israel-Hamas war. At UCSF, which is the city’s second-largest employer and serves over 40,000 patients a year, the graduate school and the university’s public hospitals are closely intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned staff and students have said the school is prohibiting them from speaking out against the health implications of a war that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gazas-first-polio-case-in-25-years-highlights-total-collapse-of-its-health-infrastructure\">destroyed\u003c/a> Gaza’s medical infrastructure and claimed more than 40,000 Palestinian lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the discussions with faculty are in huddled, quiet spaces for fear of being reprimanded, for fear of being counseled, for fear of being unfairly written up and in some cases publicly attacked,” Jess Ghannam, chair of UCSF’s faculty association, said. “There’s no place or space where we can openly and freely speak about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghannam declined to speak about Marya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 19, some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005478/university-of-california-is-accused-of-trying-to-silence-faculty-speech-about-war-in-gaza\">faculty members at UCSF\u003c/a> joined faculty from across the state to accuse the UC system of carrying out an illegal campaign to repress academic freedom in the wake of pro-Palestinian campus protests. This came after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003439/a-ucsf-student-advocate-spoke-up-for-faculty-of-color-then-she-was-fired\">UCSF employee was allegedly fired for expressing support for Marya\u003c/a> and then sharing colleagues’ complaints in an email, which was a violation of school policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF was also notably the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">site of the stiffest university opposition to student encampments\u003c/a> among Bay Area campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us are bearing witness to the fact that this genocide is going on, and health workers are uniquely qualified and obligated to speak up against this,” Ghannam said. “The idea that we would be silent in the face of this grotesque violence that’s being carried out right now goes against everything that we believe as health workers, as physicians, as nurses, as doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it goes against the very values of UCSF.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s completely unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya, who co-founded Do No Harm, a policy advocacy coalition, has been a vocal proponent of a cease-fire resolution. In San Francisco, she has long been known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855177/doctor-musician-and-activist-rupa-marya-offers-a-healing-balm-on-new-april-fishes-album\">local physician, musician and activist\u003c/a>. In 2021, she co-authored \u003cem>Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice\u003c/em>, a book about how the socioeconomic background of patients can influence their health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never come up against the kind of repression and, specifically, racist repression that I’ve seen and experienced since I’ve said ‘stop bombing hospitals,’” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003439/a-ucsf-student-advocate-spoke-up-for-faculty-of-color-then-she-was-fired\">told KQED earlier this month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya, who has since deleted her X account, did not respond to KQED’s request for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1536x888.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1920x1110.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF professor Dr. Rupa Marya faced backlash after sharing students’ concerns about an Israeli classmate’s military background. State Sen. Scott Wiener condemned the “toxic environment” at UCSF, and Chancellor Sam Hawgood promised swift action. \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood promised “immediate action to address the situation,” according to a letter \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UCSF/status/1838236238392054151\">published on social media\u003c/a>. A spokesperson for the UCSF declined to elaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campuses across the UC system have been roiled by conflict over the Israel-Hamas war. At UCSF, which is the city’s second-largest employer and serves over 40,000 patients a year, the graduate school and the university’s public hospitals are closely intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned staff and students have said the school is prohibiting them from speaking out against the health implications of a war that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gazas-first-polio-case-in-25-years-highlights-total-collapse-of-its-health-infrastructure\">destroyed\u003c/a> Gaza’s medical infrastructure and claimed more than 40,000 Palestinian lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the discussions with faculty are in huddled, quiet spaces for fear of being reprimanded, for fear of being counseled, for fear of being unfairly written up and in some cases publicly attacked,” Jess Ghannam, chair of UCSF’s faculty association, said. “There’s no place or space where we can openly and freely speak about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghannam declined to speak about Marya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 19, some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005478/university-of-california-is-accused-of-trying-to-silence-faculty-speech-about-war-in-gaza\">faculty members at UCSF\u003c/a> joined faculty from across the state to accuse the UC system of carrying out an illegal campaign to repress academic freedom in the wake of pro-Palestinian campus protests. 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Much of the policy is not new, but it centralizes rules regarding where and how students can protest, and it introduces a new reporting system for discrimination after multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989050/pro-palestinian-stanford-protesters-detained-after-occupying-presidents-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-profile antiwar protests\u003c/a> — including a barricade inside the office of the university’s president that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991389/press-freedom-groups-want-charges-dropped-against-stanford-student-journalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resulted in 13 arrests\u003c/a> — in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rule on facial coverings requires people to remove them for the purpose of identification “under circumstances covered by the Campus Disruptions Policy,” similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002150/uc-academic-workers-union-says-new-protest-policies-will-limit-free-speech\">policies introduced at other universities\u003c/a> this fall. People could be asked to remove masks for identification if they are violating policy by disrupting or preventing classes, lectures, meetings and other activities, obstructing the movement of any person around a campus building, or refusing to leave a building that is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a method of surveillance that a lot of students don’t necessarily feel comfortable with,” Emily Williams, who was a spokesperson for the Stanford Against Apartheid in Palestine coalition in the spring, told KQED. 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The policy was \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/02/preserving-free-speech-safety-white-plaza\">enforced in February\u003c/a>, ending a sit-in by pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus’ White Plaza that had lasted more than 100 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005209\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif., on April 25, 2024, calling for the university to divest from Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, Williams said that a later encampment set up in April was allowed to remain in place until June 5, when campus leaders dismantled it after the occupation of the president’s office by protesters. Stanford’s new president, Jonathan Levin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/stanford-debuts-freedom-expression-policy-19772135.php\">told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> two weeks ago that the school would enforce and be clear about its policies this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email shared with students on Tuesday, campus leaders said the new Freedom of Expression website provides interim guidance on “the application of freedom of expression principles in different contexts around campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus of our policies is on having reasonable, viewpoint-neutral time, place and manner rules that leave ample channels for expression,” the message from Provost Jenny Martinez and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Michele Rasmussen reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site also centralizes rules for events on White Plaza, where large “spontaneous” gatherings by campus affiliates are allowed without advance permission. 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The site says permission won’t be denied based on the “viewpoint of speakers or participants,” but organizers must follow registration rules and work with campus authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New policy also tightens rules on recording and taking photos of lectures and official course-related activities and limits allowed photos for personal use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Widespread recording may chill open discussion within classrooms when students are faced with the possibility of a comment made in class ‘going viral’ on social media,” the policy reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second website linked in the provosts’ email also introduces a new Title VI process for students to report discrimination, replacing the university’s Protected Identity Harm Reporting (PIHR) protocol. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-police-department\">San Francisco Police Department\u003c/a> officers were deployed to eight pro-Palestinian campus protests across Northern California during the spring and summer, according to a presentation that SFPD officials will give to the city’s Police Commission on Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requests for mutual aid were made through the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services to support campus police and other law enforcement agencies responding to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984645/photos-campus-protests-grow-across-bay-area\">the encampments and other demonstrations\u003c/a> that rocked college campuses this year in protest of university investments in companies with ties to Israel or weapons manufacturing during the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officers made no arrests, recorded no use of force, and none were injured, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD officers traveled as far as UC Santa Cruz, where a student allegedly spat on one of them, and Cal Poly Humboldt, where 32 people were arrested and a local reporter was\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Alh9T0dzVE\"> detained and zip-tied\u003c/a> amid protesters’ occupation of an administration building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the city, officers responded to San Francisco State, UC San Francisco, a University of California regents meeting at the system’s Mission Bay campus, and the private University of San Francisco, where personnel did not want a uniformed SFPD presence on campus, the report said. The response at USF included only monitoring by on-duty officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley, one sergeant and 17 officers were deployed to a May 31 protest where students and demonstrators occupied a building, the report said, and university police did not have enough officers to safely address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986578\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents fill the yard at Anna Head Alumnae Hall in Berkeley on May 16, 2024, an abandoned UC Berkeley building near People’s Park that pro-Palestinian activists occupy. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police Commissioner Kevin Benedicto requested the report in late spring when protests were ramping up across the country. He said that the lack of reported use of force is positive but that the high number of officers on the UC Berkeley campus raises some questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seventeen officers and a sergeant is a huge deployment,” Benedicto told KQED. “I just do want to make sure that we’re asking the right questions and that we’re really keeping up strong efforts to ensure really smart resource allocation of our very scarce police resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt, SFPD responded to a request from university police for 250 external law enforcement officers on April 27, \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/cal-poly-humboldt-palestine-protest-police/\">according to an email obtained by The Appeal\u003c/a>. Cal Poly Humboldt police policy permits officers to seek assistance from outside law enforcement if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12004860 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-015-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails show law enforcement officers developed an action plan to combat what they described as the “threat of domestic violent extremism and criminal behavior” supposedly presented by protesters, and they shared these plans and materials with incoming officers from around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One SFPD sergeant and 10 officers were deployed to the Redwood campus at 11 p.m. on April 29, SFPD said. SFPD provided “a uniformed presence,” “traffic control,” and “assisted in a skirmish line one block away” from where local police and Humboldt County sheriff’s deputies were making arrests, according to the report. Officers also received overtime for the deployments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Support only for local police as needed/necessary due to possible violent participants,” SFPD said in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Quezada, a photographer for the Eureka Times-Standard who was escorted off the campus on April 30, said there were officers “from all over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers were “fully armed with everything that I can imagine law enforcement or a militarized person could have,” Rouhollah Aghasaleh, an assistant professor at Cal Poly Humboldt’s School of Education, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griffin Mancuso, the editor in chief of the Cal Poly Humboldt student-run paper, the Lumberjack, said students heard rumors leading up to the April 29 raid that officers from out of town were coming to campus. The evening that hundreds of riot police arrived to arrest protesters and take down barricades, Mancuso said he saw police cars from other counties parked around the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that that was a possibility going in, that there would be a fairly wide variety of officers,” Mancuso said. “I think [local police] were kind of preparing for the worst. I personally expected it to escalate way more than it actually did. And thankfully it didn’t. But I can only assume that’s why they pulled in officers from around California. We don’t really have a super extensive police force here, and we certainly don’t have the kind of gear that other forces do from bigger cities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benedicto said deployment decisions are made by the San Francisco police chief and command staff, not the Police Commission, which is tasked with setting policy and has some oversight authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to micromanage the department in terms of its individual deployment decisions. That’s not something the commission wants to be in the position of doing or does,” Benedicto said. “I think the outcome, hopefully, is to ensure that the public are aware that this is how their resources are being used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many Palestinian Americans have been trying — for nearly a year — to evacuate family members out of Gaza. But evacuating loved ones is an opaque process with rapidly changing conditions at the borders. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3121522037&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:55] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Palestinians around the world have been scrambling to get family out of Gaza since Israel began its siege there, including many Palestinian Americans here in California. But it’s an agonizing process, one that requires lots of money and a whole host of things to go right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] Death is chasing them. It’s not a game. It’s a life or death. I see my brother’s faces. I see my my nieces and nephews. I’m trying I’m seeking any type of help just to save their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:41] Today, the long, relentless process of getting family out of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:02:35] Since the siege of Gaza started, the Palestinian diaspora across the world has was scrambling to help their family members. They’ve been scrambling for options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] Nisa khan is an audience engagement reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:02:50] Rolla Alaydi is a Pacific Grove resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:02:52] I am a mom. I am an educator. I was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza called Al-Maghazi Refugee camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:03:02] Rolla came to the U.S. as a masters student in Texas and then later moved to California. So she’s been living in America for a long time, and she’s a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:03:11] Having a shelter and having three meals a day. This is the blessing in the same terms as a curse for me that I am the blessed one here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:03:22] All of her family is still in Gaza. She’s the eldest daughter, so she’s very protective of her family, always talking to them on WhatsApp. So still very connected to her home in Gaza. In mid-October, she sort of woke up and then suddenly became responsible for all their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:03:41] My family, my brothers, my sister in laws, my nephews, my nieces, that they are very young, very vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:03:50] Some of the kids are really sick. One of her brothers needs insulin. And as we know, there’s just widespread destruction right now in Gaza. The Israeli armed forces killed over 41,000 Palestinians. Over 94,000 have been injured. And just almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced. And that includes role Rolla’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:11] Rula is one of many Palestinian Americans who’ve been trying to evacuate family out of Gaza since October 7th. How hard is it, first of all? And he said to even do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] So even before the siege of Gaza, it has always been hard for Palestinians to travel. That’s always been the case. One of the greatest barrier is that they need to be physically on a list, basically to leave Gaza and or Egypt. Even legal experts are not exactly sure who’s in charge of this list to get those Palestinian families name on it. The U.S. State Department will like they have to talk to Egypt, Egypt government say you have to talk to Israel. Israel’s like you have to talk about it to the U.S. A lot of lawyers say like we don’t really know who who who’s in charge of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:00] Is there any sort of special visa involved?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:05:04] So there’s a couple of things to keep in mind at this family. Immigration visas, that’s one avenue. But as we all know, like for many different people, the application process just has a long, long backlog. One of the other rules is humanitarian parole, which is when a person outside the United States request to be brought into the country on special humanitarian grounds, such as like a medical emergency. There’s also TPS, Temporary Protected Status. That’s like a designation from like the U.S. government, homeland Security for certain countries. There’s something that’s happening there that it’s dangerous for nationals to return safely to the country. We saw this for Ukraine. We saw this for Haiti during a national disaster and includes things like ongoing armed conflict during the invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. government really kind of jumped to create a program called Uniting for Ukraine. It is a temporary parole program that really helped kind of extend TPS like options to Ukrainians. But one thing is that lawyers who say it’s like we are seeing kind of a double standard because there was not kind of a jump to help Palestinians in the same situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] One obvious probably element of this is the money it takes to get someone out of Gaza. Right. Can you talk a little bit about that and how much it I mean, how much does it cost to get someone out of Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] So how I even got to know about Rolla is that I saw that she had a go fund me, though, circling around a lot of like San Francisco Bay Area Instagram pages. There’s a lot of money needed housing, food, medical care. The filing fees, there is travel. This permits. We’ve been hearing a lot of reports, even in NPR, that a lot of families are being asked for for bribes by a lot of Egyptian officials. It could be as high as $10,000 per adult and like $5,000 per child. It does take a lot of money and people have really large families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:59] I know Rolla is very familiar with this process and just how hard it is to get family out of Gaza. And I know that in April, her brothers were actually approved to leave Gaza. They got on this list that you’re talking about to cross the Egyptian border. What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:07:18] It was late April when Rolla found out that her brothers were on the list and they’re approved to leave Gaza on May 20th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] I went on April the 28th. I took with me vitamins. Medicine. Medicine for epilepsy. For my niece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] She’s going to be seeing some of her nieces and nephews for the first time. I actually could not wait to see them for the first time and hug them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:07:44] I was so excited. So I kept counting the days and the hours. The first thing I was thinking, okay, I’m going to buy them a lot of food. So took like six hours to work and learned that it’s my turn to sign them. And after I signed, it was me waiting for them. They were scheduled to leave on May 28th, and then the Rafah border was shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:08:10] Israel began its military offensive in Rafah in on May 6th, and the Egyptian border was closed. Then she had to go back to America because she just wasn’t able to get them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] I was so close to see them and like them and. And I was just kind of impossible even just to wish to see them. With all Gaza being besieged and the borders shut down. Nothing in, nothing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:39] I mean, that’s awful Nisa. I mean, like, she’s already been through so much in the last couple of months. And then to sort of have that sense of hope and excitement and then just to have the door closed on your face, I mean, how do you deal with that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:08:54] I think it’s just a struggle every day. She says like she’s really trying to hold it together. She says she doesn’t want to break down crying in front of her son. She’s really trying to hold together. It is. It’s awful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:09:06] Twice I went to the hospital since October the seven, and I’m trying to tell myself, I don’t want to be weak. I want to be sick. I need to knock every single door, go through any process that I have to just to save them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] Her like form of like release this out every Sunday in Monterey County. She goes to near the beach and she sits at this table and she basically has like a tabling where she just talks about Palestinian culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:09:37] We have like kind of an educational table. So I shared the Arabic coffee. I share one meal of Palestinian cuisine. I have my book there. I have some like Palestinian item, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:09:52] Slowly like people in the community in Monterey has just been sort of coming up to her and they started showing up every week. She has made friends for a lot of people, a lot of people who have faced similar things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] They talk to me, they hear my voice. I talk about my family. They see their pictures. I share with them the videos. So it’s a small community, but I feel the the support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:10:19] When I went in June, like this entire group called Veterans for Peace showed up. But the big reason why they showed up is that a group of like kind of counter-protesters started showing up supportive of the former President Trump. They were having these huge like Make America Great Again signs yelling at the pro-Palestinian protesters, getting into like debates about it. I think one thing about roles, as she spent a lot of time, kind of like refusing to get into debates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:10:47] Once in a while, I’d be like, you know, having someone who would disagree with me on such token politics is like, I’m not in a position to discuss with you a political issues or anything. I have a family that they need me the most and I’m trying to save them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:11:04] She tries to like, you know, defuse tensions between the Trump supporters and the pro-Palestinian push us just by just offering everyone watermelon coffee. Like, she’s just like, I’m not getting sucked into anything. Like I’m here to talk about my family. But I do think Sunday kind of like rejuvenates her in a way. She feels kind of like the love from like, the new friends that she has made, the new people that she’s able to talk to in the middle of the night and just talk to her about her feelings. She does say like it gives her a boost of energy. I think those Sundays are really important to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:32] Yeah. And I mean, she’s again, one of many Palestinian Americans here who are trying to raise money and get support from their community to get their family out of Gaza. Do you get the sense that they feel supported by their neighbors and community members?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:11:50] I’m sure they’re feeling support from people who are really showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Lamea Abuelrous \u003c/strong>[00:11:54] I still feel hopes. I still feel like, you know, there is a people around this world. They have good heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:12:01] Another person has a very similar story to Rolla is Lamea Abuelrous. She is a cafe owner at Temo’s Cafe here in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Lakshmi Sarah \u003c/strong>[00:12:09] Why did you end up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Lamea Abuelrous \u003c/strong>[00:12:11] The Bay Area? How did you. Marriage? Yes, my husband brought me here. Okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:12:16] She was born in Gaza City and but came to the United States in 1992 and started running the cafe in the mission since 2014. It’s this really beautiful place. Rustic vibe, Pink walls. It is a really cute cafe. I like the chai there. And the big thing that capture the attention is like this pink wall. And on it is a quote from a Palestinian poet that says, Without hope, we are lost. She basically is the eldest daughter in her family, too, like Rula. And she has so many family members, including her father, who are stuck in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Lamea Abuelrous \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] The minute I talk to my dad, I could feel his arm and hear his voice, how exhausted. And he said, you know, we don’t know how long we’re going to stay alive, how long we’re going to survive because situation every single day got worse and worse than before. It’s not a good feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:13:13] When she first started her go fund me to support her family in the first month, she only got like $350. It was not a lot of money. She was alone. She didn’t know what to do. And then people from the community started stepping up. There’s a local organization called The Ruby is for Women and the nonbinary people, kind of a creative working space. They held this event where like kind of like over 100 people showed up. They’re musicians. There is performance kind of ways to like, again, support her family and support her go fund me, basically. When you stop by her cafe, people are stopping by and they’re always asking, like, I heard about you on Mission Local local news. I heard you from Instagram and stuff like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Lamea Abuelrous \u003c/strong>[00:13:51] An old man, he walk into my shop and he said, Are you the owner of Temo’s cafe? I said, Yes. How can I help you? And he was like, and I read about, you know, you have family in Gaza. You know, I’m not that rich. But what I could offer for you now is just the $20 I have. I was like, my God, I feel I didn’t know what the feeling I have that moment. I just want to give him a hug. 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The feeling I have all the time, it makes me feel like, you know, life is too short, even even for us here. Like, you know, hearing bad news about your loved one, it’s. My God.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:26] Any updates on the status of Rolla’s family’s evacuation now, or Lamea’s?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:15:34] Unfortunately not. Rolla is constantly posting on Instagram, showing pictures of her nieces and nephews, just trying to really, like show them that they have dreams, they have a life, and they just want people to know, remember who they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:15:49] It’s hard when we sure wouldn’t be sure to share, like happy pictures and happy faces. And we said we want people to remember us as the beautiful faces. So don’t show like, you know, misery or suffering. The people remember us by name, so they don’t even want me to say like, my brother. They say, is this is Alma? This is Amina Salim going in school. They want people to remember them as a human with names and stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:23] Well, Nisa, thank you so much for joining us on the show. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:16:27] Yeah, Thank you so much for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many Palestinian Americans have been trying — for nearly a year — to evacuate family members out of Gaza. But evacuating loved ones is an opaque process with rapidly changing conditions at the borders. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3121522037&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:55] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Palestinians around the world have been scrambling to get family out of Gaza since Israel began its siege there, including many Palestinian Americans here in California. But it’s an agonizing process, one that requires lots of money and a whole host of things to go right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] Death is chasing them. It’s not a game. It’s a life or death. I see my brother’s faces. I see my my nieces and nephews. I’m trying I’m seeking any type of help just to save their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:41] Today, the long, relentless process of getting family out of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:02:35] Since the siege of Gaza started, the Palestinian diaspora across the world has was scrambling to help their family members. They’ve been scrambling for options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] Nisa khan is an audience engagement reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:02:50] Rolla Alaydi is a Pacific Grove resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:02:52] I am a mom. I am an educator. I was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza called Al-Maghazi Refugee camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:03:02] Rolla came to the U.S. as a masters student in Texas and then later moved to California. So she’s been living in America for a long time, and she’s a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:03:11] Having a shelter and having three meals a day. This is the blessing in the same terms as a curse for me that I am the blessed one here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:03:22] All of her family is still in Gaza. She’s the eldest daughter, so she’s very protective of her family, always talking to them on WhatsApp. So still very connected to her home in Gaza. In mid-October, she sort of woke up and then suddenly became responsible for all their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:03:41] My family, my brothers, my sister in laws, my nephews, my nieces, that they are very young, very vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:03:50] Some of the kids are really sick. One of her brothers needs insulin. And as we know, there’s just widespread destruction right now in Gaza. The Israeli armed forces killed over 41,000 Palestinians. Over 94,000 have been injured. And just almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced. And that includes role Rolla’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:11] Rula is one of many Palestinian Americans who’ve been trying to evacuate family out of Gaza since October 7th. How hard is it, first of all? And he said to even do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] So even before the siege of Gaza, it has always been hard for Palestinians to travel. That’s always been the case. One of the greatest barrier is that they need to be physically on a list, basically to leave Gaza and or Egypt. Even legal experts are not exactly sure who’s in charge of this list to get those Palestinian families name on it. The U.S. State Department will like they have to talk to Egypt, Egypt government say you have to talk to Israel. Israel’s like you have to talk about it to the U.S. A lot of lawyers say like we don’t really know who who who’s in charge of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:00] Is there any sort of special visa involved?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:05:04] So there’s a couple of things to keep in mind at this family. Immigration visas, that’s one avenue. But as we all know, like for many different people, the application process just has a long, long backlog. One of the other rules is humanitarian parole, which is when a person outside the United States request to be brought into the country on special humanitarian grounds, such as like a medical emergency. There’s also TPS, Temporary Protected Status. That’s like a designation from like the U.S. government, homeland Security for certain countries. There’s something that’s happening there that it’s dangerous for nationals to return safely to the country. We saw this for Ukraine. We saw this for Haiti during a national disaster and includes things like ongoing armed conflict during the invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. government really kind of jumped to create a program called Uniting for Ukraine. It is a temporary parole program that really helped kind of extend TPS like options to Ukrainians. But one thing is that lawyers who say it’s like we are seeing kind of a double standard because there was not kind of a jump to help Palestinians in the same situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] One obvious probably element of this is the money it takes to get someone out of Gaza. Right. Can you talk a little bit about that and how much it I mean, how much does it cost to get someone out of Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] So how I even got to know about Rolla is that I saw that she had a go fund me, though, circling around a lot of like San Francisco Bay Area Instagram pages. There’s a lot of money needed housing, food, medical care. The filing fees, there is travel. This permits. We’ve been hearing a lot of reports, even in NPR, that a lot of families are being asked for for bribes by a lot of Egyptian officials. It could be as high as $10,000 per adult and like $5,000 per child. It does take a lot of money and people have really large families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:59] I know Rolla is very familiar with this process and just how hard it is to get family out of Gaza. And I know that in April, her brothers were actually approved to leave Gaza. They got on this list that you’re talking about to cross the Egyptian border. What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:07:18] It was late April when Rolla found out that her brothers were on the list and they’re approved to leave Gaza on May 20th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] I went on April the 28th. I took with me vitamins. Medicine. Medicine for epilepsy. For my niece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] She’s going to be seeing some of her nieces and nephews for the first time. I actually could not wait to see them for the first time and hug them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:07:44] I was so excited. So I kept counting the days and the hours. The first thing I was thinking, okay, I’m going to buy them a lot of food. So took like six hours to work and learned that it’s my turn to sign them. And after I signed, it was me waiting for them. They were scheduled to leave on May 28th, and then the Rafah border was shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:08:10] Israel began its military offensive in Rafah in on May 6th, and the Egyptian border was closed. Then she had to go back to America because she just wasn’t able to get them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] I was so close to see them and like them and. And I was just kind of impossible even just to wish to see them. With all Gaza being besieged and the borders shut down. Nothing in, nothing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:39] I mean, that’s awful Nisa. I mean, like, she’s already been through so much in the last couple of months. And then to sort of have that sense of hope and excitement and then just to have the door closed on your face, I mean, how do you deal with that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:08:54] I think it’s just a struggle every day. She says like she’s really trying to hold it together. She says she doesn’t want to break down crying in front of her son. She’s really trying to hold together. It is. It’s awful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rolla Alaydi \u003c/strong>[00:09:06] Twice I went to the hospital since October the seven, and I’m trying to tell myself, I don’t want to be weak. I want to be sick. 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She feels kind of like the love from like, the new friends that she has made, the new people that she’s able to talk to in the middle of the night and just talk to her about her feelings. She does say like it gives her a boost of energy. I think those Sundays are really important to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:32] Yeah. And I mean, she’s again, one of many Palestinian Americans here who are trying to raise money and get support from their community to get their family out of Gaza. Do you get the sense that they feel supported by their neighbors and community members?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:11:50] I’m sure they’re feeling support from people who are really showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Lamea Abuelrous \u003c/strong>[00:11:54] I still feel hopes. 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And on it is a quote from a Palestinian poet that says, Without hope, we are lost. She basically is the eldest daughter in her family, too, like Rula. And she has so many family members, including her father, who are stuck in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Lamea Abuelrous \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] The minute I talk to my dad, I could feel his arm and hear his voice, how exhausted. And he said, you know, we don’t know how long we’re going to stay alive, how long we’re going to survive because situation every single day got worse and worse than before. It’s not a good feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan \u003c/strong>[00:13:13] When she first started her go fund me to support her family in the first month, she only got like $350. It was not a lot of money. She was alone. She didn’t know what to do. And then people from the community started stepping up. There’s a local organization called The Ruby is for Women and the nonbinary people, kind of a creative working space. They held this event where like kind of like over 100 people showed up. They’re musicians. There is performance kind of ways to like, again, support her family and support her go fund me, basically. When you stop by her cafe, people are stopping by and they’re always asking, like, I heard about you on Mission Local local news. I heard you from Instagram and stuff like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Lamea Abuelrous \u003c/strong>[00:13:51] An old man, he walk into my shop and he said, Are you the owner of Temo’s cafe? I said, Yes. How can I help you? And he was like, and I read about, you know, you have family in Gaza. You know, I’m not that rich. But what I could offer for you now is just the $20 I have. I was like, my God, I feel I didn’t know what the feeling I have that moment. I just want to give him a hug. 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"content": "\u003cp>Anti-war activists accused of participating in a protest that shut down the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-bridge\">Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> in April pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges ranging from conspiracy to false imprisonment in San Francisco on Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">blocked the bridge on Tax Day\u003c/a> to decry U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza and to demand a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of supporters packed the hallways at the Hall of Justice to rally for the defendants, known as the Golden Gate 26. Eight face felony conspiracy charges and 18 have been charged with misdemeanors. Collectively, the entire group faces more than 1,000 charges of false imprisonment linked to people who were caught in the traffic jam on the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Wozniak, an attorney representing the protesters facing felony charges, has called this an “unprecedented charging decision” by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to preempt future protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the type of case that people should be in jail for,” Wozniak said. “The community recognizes the long history of political activism in the Bay Area and recognizes that this is an utterly ridiculous waste of resources on behalf of D.A. Jenkins and clearly an attempt to chill political speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal team of the defendants facing felony charges plan to argue that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000881/attorneys-for-golden-gate-bridge-protesters-demand-das-recusal-alleging-pro-israel-bias\">district attorney should have recused\u003c/a> herself from the case based on what they have called a “pro-Israel bias.” They demanded more information about the content of two private meetings she held with the Israeli Consulate and about gifts she received during those meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004880\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-066-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Highway Patrol officers ask for people to disperse after demonstrators shut down the southbound lanes of I-880 on the morning of April 15, 2024, in West Oakland. The protesters, engaging in a multi-city ‘economic blockade in solidarity with Palestine,’ marched from the West Oakland BART station to the 7th Street on-ramp and onto the freeway. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In April, the district attorney’s office said the charges were not political.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Charging decisions are made based on the facts, evidence and the law,” the office said in a statement. “We do not pursue political prosecutions under any circumstances at any time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office also said Jenkins would recuse herself in the case of a conflict of interest and that it is not unusual for her to conduct meetings with foreign officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins has previously said that the Golden Gate Bridge protest compromised public safety and caused “extreme threats” to those trapped on the bridge during the morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal defense attorneys and legal experts have questioned her approach to prosecuting the protesters, especially the controversial\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999854/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-surrender-to-face-controversial-false-imprisonment-charges\"> false imprisonment charges,\u003c/a> which defined delayed motorists as victims. In past mass prosecutions, protesters have typically faced misdemeanor charges for blocking a roadway and for disobeying the orders of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12000881 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in the days after the Golden Gate Bridge protest, the district attorney put out a call on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BrookeJenkinsSF/status/1780616603954204930\">social media\u003c/a> to anyone trapped on the bridge on April 15, saying that they may be entitled to financial compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We depend on prosecutors to be reliable, fair, and equitable in their charging decisions,” Wozniak said. “And if you have two similar actions, they should be charged the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last year, a group of 78 pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to call for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza. The so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970376/demonstrators-pack-the-court-to-support-activists-arrested-for-blocking-bay-bridge-last-month\">Bay Bridge 78\u003c/a> were charged with five misdemeanors each — including false imprisonment — and reached an agreement to avoid jail time in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Lederman, an attorney with the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, who represented the Bay Bridge 78, said there was no difference in conduct between the two cases and that claims of false imprisonment are “far-fetched.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lederman, in the Bay Bridge case, one motorist did receive a “small amount” of restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone who was trapped on the Bay Bridge became ill and required an ambulance. The costs were then divided among the 78 Bay Bridge protesters before their cases were dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in the case of the Golden Gate 26, the D.A. seems to be seeking some large amount of restitution,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999854/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-surrender-to-face-controversial-false-imprisonment-charges\">initially surrendered to police\u003c/a> in early August after a warrant was issued for their arrest by the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The felony defendants will return to court on Sept. 30, and those facing misdemeanors will return to court at the end of October. If found guilty of criminal charges, the protesters would face years of jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wozniak said that after their hearing on Monday morning, his clients “feel empowered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know that they’re on the right side of justice, on the right side of history,” he said. “And as we see across this country — week in, week out — the people are willing to put their bodies on the line to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Makdisi said the program, announced Monday, represents an opportunity to build more understanding about the Palestinian people, who are often seen through the lens of conflict but who have a rich history of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it would also allow students and faculty to connect Palestinian history more deeply with related fields such as Indigenous, Latinx and Black studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important for us to contextualize and understand more deeply all the beauty, all the complexity of a pluralist people who have been very unfairly maligned and defamed. And at the same time, it can teach us a lot about ourselves,” Makdisi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a beautiful history that needs to be brought out. Of course, there are also tragic aspects to the history that we’re seeing play out right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A $3.25 million gift by anonymous donors led to the establishment of the program and the May Ziadeh Chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies, which holds a mandate of providing students with an opportunity to discuss and learn freely about Palestinian and Arab history, culture, politics and society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May Ziadeh was a pioneering Palestinian-Lebanese feminist, poet and writer, who played a key role in the Arab cultural renaissance in the modern Middle East. 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They say that campus officials issued up to two-week bans to many of the people arrested, leaving some without housing, campus resources, or places to take their final exams for the spring quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They flunked classes and had difficulty obtaining enough food during this period of time,” Rachel Lederman, a member of the legal team, said. “One of my clients couldn’t access an important health care appointment at the campus health center because she was banned from campus. The effects were pretty devastating, even though the ban was short term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late on May 30, police in riot gear were deployed to a pro-Palestinian encampment set up in a little-used parking lot near the base of UC Santa Cruz’s mountainous campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said that when students and professors heard police were arriving, many joined to stand in solidarity with the protesters. Throughout the night, she said police surrounded and squeezed in on them and eventually arrested and detained 112 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they were released, many were told they were temporarily banned from campus and could face a misdemeanor charge if they did not comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit filed by Lederman and the protesters’ legal team claims that UCSC officials illegally imposed a California penal code that allows the school to “withdraw permission for a person to be on campus.” The statute limits these temporary bans to 14 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the California Supreme Court has limited the scope of the legal code so that a ban without a hearing can only be imposed if a person’s presence on campus constitutes a “substantial and material threat of significant injury to persons or property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t present any such threat,” Lederman told KQED. “There was no violence or disruption caused by this protest. 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And part of my job was prevention of violence,” she said during a protest outside of the university’s campus on Friday. “I saw my colleagues being silenced as they spoke about genocide in Gaza. I spoke out. I felt a professional obligation to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re firing me for doing the job they hired me to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Bay Area universities are back in session for the fall semester, and with the return of classes comes the return of student organizers whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">mass demonstrations and encampments rocked campuses\u003c/a> across the country in the spring, including at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Rupa Marya, a UCSF professor of internal medicine, wrote a series of posts on X that claimed the “presence of Zionism” in U.S. medicine should be examined as a “structural impediment to health equity.” The posts sparked backlash, including from state Sen. 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Initially, she was told that she hadn’t violated any policies, but after forwarding one complaint to colleagues, she was notified that she wasn’t allowed to share the complaint against her. In August, she received an email that the university intended to terminate her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m being fired for speaking out in support of my Black and brown colleagues who are experts in health disparities,” she said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11986194 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/9AC167B8-3D82-4AF2-9121-585F5E8B99EB-e1715732459324.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement responding to claims by Caramagno that she was being fired for doing her job, UCSF said,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Privacy laws prevent us from commenting on any specific individual or situation. However, what is being discussed on social media is factually inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university still employs Marya. She said that for more than 20 years, she has advocated for communities of color, including during the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as for immigrant patients, women and LGBTQ communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never come up against the kind of repression and, specifically, racist repression that I’ve seen and experienced since I’ve said ‘stop bombing hospitals,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the protest, which was attended by about 100 doctors, nurses, students and staff, Caramagno stood on the sidewalk just off campus grounds. She has not been allowed to enter since the university initiated a formal investigation about a month ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her official termination date was Aug. 29, but the process has not officially ended, according to Caramagno, who said she has an upcoming hearing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of grieving and angry Israelis surged into the streets Sunday night after six more hostages – including a Berkeley native – were found dead in Gaza, chanting “Now! Now!” as they demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reach \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-netanyahu-sinwar-ceasefire-talks-c00b30d31ac8d25592ce63c2398097a5\">a cease-fire with Hamas\u003c/a> to bring the remaining captives home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mass outpouring appeared to be the largest such demonstration in 11 months of war and protesters said it felt like a possible turning point, although the country is deeply divided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s largest trade union, the Histadrut, further pressured the government by calling a general strike for Monday, the first since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that started \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">the war\u003c/a>. It aims to shut down or disrupt major sectors of the economy, including banking, health care and the country’s main airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cease-fire negotiations have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-war-news-08-21-2024-4153fa5fe0daf904f570f4e73f31d2c9\">dragged on for months\u003c/a>. Many blame Netanyahu for failing to reach a deal, which opinion polls show a majority of Israelis favor. But the prime minister also has significant support for his strategy of “total victory” against Hamas, even if a deal for the hostages has to wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people, some of them weeping, gathered Sunday night outside Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem. In Tel Aviv, hostages’ relatives marched with coffins to symbolize the toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really think that the government is making these decisions for its own conservation and not for the lives of the hostages, and we need to tell them, ‘Stop!’” said Shlomit Hacohen, a Tel Aviv resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of the six hostages found dead — including an Israeli-American — were reportedly scheduled to be released in the first phase of a cease-fire proposal discussed in July, and this only added to the sense of fury and frustration among the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing is worse than knowing that they could have been saved,” said Dana Loutaly. “Sometimes it takes something so awful to shake people up and get them out into the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military said \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-hostages-goldberg-polin-ade75fccee02f4f8e48cd1c2de784c06\">all six hostages were killed\u003c/a> shortly before Israeli forces arrived. “Whoever murders hostages doesn’t want a deal,” Netanyahu said, blaming the Hamas militant group for the stalled negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hostage was Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a native of Berkeley, who lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the attack. In April, a Hamas-issued video showed him alive, sparking new protests in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The army identified the others as Ori Danino, 25; Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Almog Sarusi, 27; Alexander Lobanov, 33; and Carmel Gat, 40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Israeli Health Ministry said autopsies had determined the hostages were shot at close range and died on Thursday or Friday. The army said the bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, around a kilometer (half a mile) from where another hostage \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-08-27-2024-696f8ee830207815efd31320976ef118\">was rescued alive last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, a military spokesperson, said Israeli forces found the bodies several dozen meters (yards) underground as “ongoing combat” was underway, but that there was no firefight in the tunnel itself. He said there was no doubt Hamas had killed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas has offered to release the hostages in return for an end to the war, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners, including high-profile militants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Izzat al-Rishq, a senior Hamas official, said the hostages would still be alive if Israel had accepted a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal that Hamas \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hamas-israel-gaza-ceasefire-negotiations-us-8509c5e68d57c96af99653c8292180b2\">said it had agreed to in July\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funerals began, with more outrage. Sarusi’s body was wrapped in an Israeli flag. “You were abandoned on and on, daily, hour after hour, 331 days,” his mother, Nira, said. “You and so many beautiful and pure souls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Divisions in Israel, and in the government\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Netanyahu has vowed to continue the fighting until Hamas is destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top security officials say the intense pressure on Hamas has created favorable conditions for a cease-fire deal. The army, noting the difficulty of rescue operations, has acknowledged that a deal is the only way to bring home large numbers of hostages safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics have accused the prime minister of putting his personal interests over those of the hostages. The war’s end likely will lead to an investigation into his government’s failures in the Oct. 7 attacks, the government’s collapse and early elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some analysts said the public outcry over the six hostages who died could signal a new level of political pressure on Netanyahu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is an earthquake. This isn’t just one more step in the war,” said Nomi Bar-Yaacov, associate fellow in the International Security Program at Chatham House, shortly before Sunday’s protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divisions also have been exposed within the government. Senior military and security officials, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, have warned that time is running out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu got into a shouting match at a security Cabinet meeting Thursday with Gallant, who accused him of prioritizing control of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/why-is-israel-demanding-control-over-2-gaza-corridors-in-the-cease-fire-talks/\">a strategic corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border\u003c/a> — a major sticking point in the talks — over the lives of the hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Israeli official confirmed the report and said three of the hostages — Goldberg-Polin, Yerushalmi and Gat — had been slated to be released in the first phase of a cease-fire proposal discussed in July. The official was not authorized to brief media about the negotiations and spoke on condition of anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the name of the state of Israel, I hold their families close to my heart and ask forgiveness,” Gallant said Sunday. The Cabinet was meeting Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A forum of hostage families has demanded a “complete halt of the country” to push for a cease-fire and hostage release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even a mass outpouring of anger would not immediately threaten Netanyahu or his far right government. He still controls a majority in parliament. But he has caved in to public pressure before. A general strike last year helped lead to a delay in his controversial judicial overhaul.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A family’s high-profile campaign\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Goldberg-Polin’s parents, U.S.-born immigrants to Israel, became perhaps the most high-profile relatives of hostages on the international stage. They met with U.S. President Joe Biden and Pope Francis and on Aug. 21, they addressed the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/democratic-national-convention-chicago-hostage-situations-national-national-ab7123fce37f420881242cade670659a\">Democratic National Convention\u003c/a> — after sustained applause and chants of “bring him home.” [aside postID=\"news_11988523,news_12000903,news_11999777\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden on Sunday said he was “devastated and outraged.” The White House said he spoke with Goldberg-Polin’s parents and offered condolences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 250 hostages were taken on Oct. 7. Israel now believes 101 remain in captivity, including 35 who are thought to be dead. More than 100 were freed during a cease-fire in November in exchange for the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. Eight have been rescued by Israeli forces. Israeli troops \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-12-15-2023-072436cece0f2351fadfed892e985554\">mistakenly killed three Israelis\u003c/a> who escaped captivity in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, when they stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7. Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not say how many were militants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, an Israeli strike hit a car on a road in southern Gaza and killed four Palestinians, according to Aqsa Martyrs Hospital officials and an AP journalist who counted the bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war has displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, often multiple times, and plunged the besieged territory \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-polio-who-vaccinations-3acaa0dcf9744810c51032f45e609a2f\">into a humanitarian catastrophe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In April, a Hamas-issued video showed him alive, sparking new protests in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The army identified the others as Ori Danino, 25; Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Almog Sarusi, 27; Alexander Lobanov, 33; and Carmel Gat, 40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Israeli Health Ministry said autopsies had determined the hostages were shot at close range and died on Thursday or Friday. The army said the bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, around a kilometer (half a mile) from where another hostage \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-08-27-2024-696f8ee830207815efd31320976ef118\">was rescued alive last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, a military spokesperson, said Israeli forces found the bodies several dozen meters (yards) underground as “ongoing combat” was underway, but that there was no firefight in the tunnel itself. He said there was no doubt Hamas had killed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas has offered to release the hostages in return for an end to the war, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners, including high-profile militants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Izzat al-Rishq, a senior Hamas official, said the hostages would still be alive if Israel had accepted a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal that Hamas \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hamas-israel-gaza-ceasefire-negotiations-us-8509c5e68d57c96af99653c8292180b2\">said it had agreed to in July\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funerals began, with more outrage. Sarusi’s body was wrapped in an Israeli flag. “You were abandoned on and on, daily, hour after hour, 331 days,” his mother, Nira, said. “You and so many beautiful and pure souls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Divisions in Israel, and in the government\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Netanyahu has vowed to continue the fighting until Hamas is destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top security officials say the intense pressure on Hamas has created favorable conditions for a cease-fire deal. The army, noting the difficulty of rescue operations, has acknowledged that a deal is the only way to bring home large numbers of hostages safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics have accused the prime minister of putting his personal interests over those of the hostages. The war’s end likely will lead to an investigation into his government’s failures in the Oct. 7 attacks, the government’s collapse and early elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some analysts said the public outcry over the six hostages who died could signal a new level of political pressure on Netanyahu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is an earthquake. This isn’t just one more step in the war,” said Nomi Bar-Yaacov, associate fellow in the International Security Program at Chatham House, shortly before Sunday’s protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divisions also have been exposed within the government. Senior military and security officials, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, have warned that time is running out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu got into a shouting match at a security Cabinet meeting Thursday with Gallant, who accused him of prioritizing control of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/why-is-israel-demanding-control-over-2-gaza-corridors-in-the-cease-fire-talks/\">a strategic corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border\u003c/a> — a major sticking point in the talks — over the lives of the hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Israeli official confirmed the report and said three of the hostages — Goldberg-Polin, Yerushalmi and Gat — had been slated to be released in the first phase of a cease-fire proposal discussed in July. 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