i'm amy gogoodman with nermeen shaikh. een: we end today's show with a case that highlights what some are calling the "the palestine exception" to free speech on college campuses. here in new york, student at fordham university's lincoln center campus are fighting in court for their right to start a student for justice in palestine group. the student government approved the group unanimously but the dean of students over rule the approval singled stir up controversy" and be "polarizing." amy: on wednesday, the students were in court here in new york asking a judge to re-instate the student government's approval. one of the students who is suing to allow the club to be on campus is joining us now. ahmad awad has now graduated from fordham university. he initiated the process to get approval for the group and is the lead petitioner in the case against fordham. he is now a law student at rutgers university. also joining us dima khalidi, , director of palestine legal . we asked fordham university to join us but they said they a

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. rmeen: we turn now to yemen. on wednesday, norway's ministry of foreign affairs announced it will stop supplying weapons and ammunition to the united arab emirates, citing great concern over the humanitarian crisis in yemen. the uae is part of the saudi-led coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes in yemen for nearly three years. in 2016, norway sold nearly $10 million worth of weapons to the uae. meanwhile, the u.s. and britain continue to supply the saudis with billions of dollars worth of weapons. the u.s. also provides logistical military support to saudi arabia. the saudi air campaign has killed more than 10,000 civilians in yemen, which is the air world poorest country, and displaced more than million. threeamy: in december, doctors without borders said it suspected an outbreak of diphtheria in the country for the first time since 1982, with 28 deaths reported since august. meanwhile, the international committee of the red cross said the number of suspected cholera cases i

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. rmeen: in harlem, new york, hundreds of people attended the funeral of anti-police brutality activist erica garner, who died at the age of 27 on december 30 after an asthma-induced heart attack, four months after giving birth to her second child. erica's father, eric garner, was killed when police officers in staten island wrestled him to the ground, pinned him down and applied a fatal chokehold in 2014. outside the funeral, shannon jones of the anti-police brutality organization "why accountability" read from placards about erica's death. 30, 2017, erica died after suffering a heart attack. erica attributed her failing health to the trauma of racial injustice. a new study of mothers in new york city found that black likely are 12 times more mothers.an white and that racism kills. and that racism kills. fact five. 2017, erica gave , naming him eric after her father. hard, but you's have to keep going no matter how long it takes. we deserve justice no matter how long it takes. we deserv

nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. uninformed. that was the word white house chief of staff john kelly used to describe his boss president trump on thursday. according to "the washshington post," kelly told members of the congressional hispanic caucus that some of trump's hardline immigration policies, including his call to build a wall along the entire southern border, wewe ununinformed. kelly said -- "certain things are said during the campaign that are uninformed." during the same meeting, kelly reportedly said -- "the president is committed to a permanent solution to daca" -- the deferred action for childhood arrivals. but the president has struck a different tone. on twitter this morning, trump wrote -- "the wall is the wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day i conceived of it." in an intervieiew with reuters, trump also criticized a proposed bipartisan deal on immigration and border security as "horrible" an

nermeen shaikh: and you've talked about the massive discrepancy between women survivors remembering every single detail of what happened and male abusers completely forgetting. jessica leeds: yeah. women remember, in exquisite detail, when it happened, how it happened, where it happened, how they got out of it, how they got home. most of them talked about throwing their clothes away. most of them said that they felt responsible for what happened, and they women remember, in exquisite d'l anybody, even their parents or their spouses or everything. they remember it, whether they were eight years old or whether they were 30 years old. amy goodman: you said you never wore a dress on a plane again? jessica leeds: i stopped wearing skirts. i started -- pantsuits were the -- amy goodman: because he reached up your skirt. jessica leeds: yeah, yeah. and i cut my hair from being long to short. it was one of those things where you as -- and this is what i object to. you, as the victim, take on the responsibilities to, somehow or another, prevent these situations from happening. amy goodman: do you w