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Dec 2023
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US shooting of Palestinian students spar...

Al Jazeera
About this episode

The shooting of three Palestinian students in the US state of Vermont is the latest incident in a surge of attacks against supporters of Palestine since October 7. How are communities coping with what they say is a post–September 11th climate of fear?

In this episode: 

  • Abed A. Ayoub (@aayoub), National Executive Director, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (@ADC)
  • Wafic Faour (@VTJP1948), Member, Vermonters for Justice in Palestine 
  • Beshara Doumani, Professor of Palestinian Studies, Brown University

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Sonia Bhagat, Chloe K. Li and our host Malika Bilal. Fahrinisa Campana fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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