On Start Making Sense: Sarah Sophie Flicker finds lessons for us in the Danes’ refusal to cooperate with Hitler, and historian David Myers on Trump’s $1 billion fine against UCLA.
This 1943 photo shows a boat carrying people during the escape across the Oresound of some of 7,000 Danish Jews who fled to safety in neighboring Sweden as Denmark three years after the German Nazi invasion.(AFP via Getty Images)
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In WWII, Denmark rescued a larger proportion of their Jewish population than any other country – 95%. How they did it suggests how we can resist Trump’s attacks on undocumented residents. Sarah Sophie Flicker explains – she’s an organizer who’s a co-founder of the Women’s March on Washington.
Also: Donald Trump is demanding that UCLA pay a $1 billion fine for antisemitism on campus – in addition to the $584 million in cuts to medical and scientific research already imposed by his administration. But one Billion? Why not one Trillon? David Myers will comment – He’s a distinguished professor at UCLA who teaches Jewish history.
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During World War II, Denmark rescued a larger proportion of their Jewish population than any other country—95 percent. How they did it suggests how we can resist Trump’s attacks on undocumented residents. Sarah Sophie Flicker explains—she’s an organizer who’s a cofounder of the Women’s March on Washington.
Also: Donald Trump is demanding that UCLA pay a $1 billion fine for antisemitism on campus—in addition to the $584 million in cuts to medical and scientific research already imposed by his administration. One billion dollars? Why not $1 trillion? David Myers will comment. He’s a distinguished professor at UCLA who teaches Jewish history.
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As Trump’s support collapses, he has lashed out in two directions–sending an unprecendented number of ICE agents to Minneapolis, where one of them murdered Renee Good, and sending the military to Venezuela, where he says he has seized control of the oil industry. Harold Meyerson comments.
Also: Twenty Minutes Without Trump: There’s a new TV series about how capitalism came to Communist China, 30 episodes made for Chinese TV by the great Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, running now on the Criterion Channel. John Powers, critic-at-large on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, explains.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.