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Watch entire interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EgS8_y5JxIGuest: - Rania Khalek, BreakThrough News (breakthroughnews.org)
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYoTVMxdBncGuest: - Craig Mokhiber, international law expert
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EYYGBq3U8oGuest: - Dorotea Gucciardo, GLIA (glia.org)
Read more here and watch the video: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/lawsuit-challenges-trump-threat-imprison-americans-gaza-advocacyGuests: - Omar Shakir- Tariq Raouf
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwS9YbgaPUgGuests: - Dr. Mimi Syed, emergency physician- Wes Bryant, war crimes analyst
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfkVIM6gVxwGuest: - Helena Cobban, analyst and writer, helenacobban.substack.com
Watch entire episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ0Hyp8r-wYGuest:- Asem Alnabih, engineer, researcher, writer and journalist with Al-Araby TV
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKhtKKgXNBwGuest: - Zoe Rogers, Palestine Action activist
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/how-western-media-fueled-israels-genocide
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbWcsWEjO48Guest: - Ahmed Al-Najjar, reporter in Khan Younis
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I91lelvtEdAGuest: - Mouin Rabbani, analyst and editor of Jaddaliya
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuKVgSVWr0kGuest: - Roqayah Chamseddine, reporter and writer in Lebanon
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4rVPgKZ3AGuest: - Adam Johnson, media critic and author of How to Sell a Genocide
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUUlsYJDa1MGuest: - Muhammad Shehada, analyst and writer
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGNoer59pwGuest: - Maha Hussaini, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0TQJlYAcdkGuests: - Sara Larijani, University of Tehran- Taha Zeinali, University of Tehran
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42GzQ1VCRbYGuest: - Asem Alnabih, writer, engineer and correspondent for Alaraby TV in Gaza
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXO2_jiAWooGuest: - Dr. Setareh Sadeqi, assistant professor at the Faculty of World Studies at University of Tehran
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAZZnUyp1Q8Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/foundations-zionism-sabri-jiryis-and-fida-jiryisGuests: - Sabri Jiryis, author, The Foundations of Zionism- Fida Jiryis, translator, author of Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QN3VPhDZkcGuest: - Roqayah Chamseddine, journalist, researcher and co-host of Delete Your Account podcast
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKU_g5fW6LUGuest: - Donya Abu Sitta, writer
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqhQmH_mOLkGuest: - Muhammad Shehada, analyst and writer
Watch entire episode here: https://youtu.be/-gLkzSuRUTsGuest: Alex Mitov, former Dell employee
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyBpO4mDiFoGuest: - Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, surgeon
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgVultITs0cGuest: - Ahmed Al-Najjar, academic and journalist in Gaza
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hwgaSaCq8MGuest: - Dr. Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkAfkYKlbLkGuest: - Justin Podur, Anti-Empire Project
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8XxnPBYYHEGuests: - Ahmed Alnaouq, We Are Not Numbers and Palestine Deep Dive- Abubaker Abed, journalist
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIH7UwzL5mUGuest: - Maha Hussaini, journalist, researcher with Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7AyvPcOUOkGuest: - Laila Al-Arian, journalist and executive producer of Al Jazeera's Fault Lines
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx-C1w3aXtoGuest: Craig Mokhiber
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaGQNJ953zgGuest: - Peter Oborne, journalist and author
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REEY4sW7PeIGuest: - Eman Alhaj Ali, writer and EI contributor
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoJegr_C-PUGuest: - Asem Alnabih, writer, spokesperson for Gaza Municipality
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxmeZ3kKZvQGuest: - Helena Cobban, writer, journalist, director of Just World Educational
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eTwZIk1uP4Guests: - Jeremy Scahill, Drop Site News- Donya Abu Sitta, educator, writer in Gaza
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy2tffz7D2EGuest: - Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, writer, filmmaker
Watch entire episode here: https://youtu.be/i9uyMfhY85kRead more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/why-oakland-airport-shipping-death-weapons-israelGuests: - Monadel Herzallah, US Palestinian Community Network- Nadya Tannous, Palestinian Youth Movement
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUSCZiTukyAGuest: - Ahmed Abu Artema, writer
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91auXrrcS_YGuest: - Dr. Sami Al-Arian, professor
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zu7adJK-aUGuests: - Craig Mokhiber, international legal expert- Sawsan Samara, activist
Watch episode here: https://youtu.be/K1LnYMoqHxkRead more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/diaries-young-poet-gaza-batool-abu-akleenGuests: - Batool Abu Akleen, poet- James Harker, co-editor, "Voices of Resistance"- Basma Ghalayini, co-editor, "Voices of Resistance"
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfK_Y84VdpgGuest: - Abubaker Abed, journalist and contributor to The Electronic Intifada
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnOfek17lAGuest: - Omar Zahzah, author, Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
Watch episide here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNe8Vryp2UERead more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/what-does-israels-starvation-gaza-do-human-body
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfNLM5eJ2cgGuests: - Dyab Abou Jahjah, Hind Rajab Foundation- Shahd Abusalama, writer, scholar, artist
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbUc9yoX6IGuest: - Matt Kennard, investigative journalist, Palestine Deep Dive
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfaC1UJ7MwwGuest: - Ruwaida Amer, filmmaker, EI contributor
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwQpoWvNZk0Guest: - Donya Abu Sitta, writer
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erN8Jl2kb-sGuests: - Asem Alnabih, writer, spokesperson for Gaza Municipality- David Cronin, associate editor at The Electronic Intifada
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCWzluxvoRIGuest: - Shir Hever, economic analyst
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4nuYJp5RC0Guest: - Helena Cobban, Just World Educational
Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor of The Electronic Intifada, speaks to two members of the Palestinian Youth Movement to discuss the group’s most recent report exposing shipping giant Maersk’s integral role in the supply chain of the American-made F-35 warplane to Israel. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/shipping-giant-maersk-supplies-israel-warplanes
Jon Elmer, contributing editor, reports on the first week of the war with Iran launched by Israel on the morning of 13 June 2025.
Watch the video version in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FO8BmzoPzURead more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/why-israel-arming-isis-linked-gangs-gazaGuest: Muhammad Shehada, Palestinian writer and analyst
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5OROFiLLvYGuest: - Dr. Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXvvCOjdgjIGuest: - Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N61d-JkiyZcGuest: - Craig Mokhiber, international law expert
Watch entire episode here: https://youtu.be/gGBHWU5qJ18Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/students-achieve-israeli-divestment-victories-us-college-campusesGuests: - Richard Solomon, MIT student- Liza Behrendt, BDS Boston- Ani De Lira Lopez, USF student
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxRnpZuTaMGuests: - Donya Abu Sitta, reporter, live from Gaza- Jeremy Scahill, Drop Site News
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjVGZjSrGIGuests: - Franck Magennis, barrister with Garden Court Chambers- Abubaker Abed and Ali Abunimah live from Dublin, Ireland
Watch entire episode here: https://youtu.be/uOqNQCDKpa4?si=AoPNPTA5vOPZ10dNGuests: - Dr. Majed Jaber, emergency room physician- Afeef Nessouli, logistics coordinator, Glia.org
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atF2UwUPbuoGuests: - Asem Alnabih, spokesperson for Gaza Municipality- Current and former Microsoft employees with No Azure for Apartheid campaign
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugxnuhmAF4Guest: Dr. Nadeem Haddadin-Crowe
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSB59ZYwf4Guests: - Donya Ahmad Abu Sitta, journalist, writer and teacher- Daniel Day, UK activist- David Sheen, journalist
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRnMI7XQqzw- Guest: Abdaljawad Omar, Birzeit UniversityRead more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/omar-karmi/policy-national-suicide
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDeVCM3ky0Guests: - Ruwaida Amer, videographer and journalist- Kei Pritsker, BreakThrough News, co-director of The Encampments
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABiWbBrwJgoGuest: Bridget Rochios, certified nurse midwife
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXOr5wfYWlgGuest: Ahmed Alnaouq, co-director, We Are Not Numbers
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOhyjMGNFkGuest: Chris Godshall-Bennett, legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLp0BodMMcARead more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/breastfeeding-under-israeli-bombsGuest: Sandra Adler Killen, Glia.org, gina.org.uk
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLVy3us1ZQ4Guest: Tarek Loubani, ER physician and co-founder of Glia (glia.org)
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGN7X6Z4O9IGuest: - Miko Peled, author, human rights activist
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFpUAat_FT4Guests: - Zahed Rahman, critical care nurse live from Gaza- Josh Rushing, Al Jazeera English's Fault Lines
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzMIUCWTUroGuests: - Ahmed Masoud, writer- Helena Cobban, author and analyst
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAx1nEUvnoAGuests: - Craig Mokhiber, international law expert- Eli Clifton, researcher- Abubaker Abed, reporter
Dr. Sarah Lalonde describes methods of medical care when there are no basic supplies available due to Israel's siege.Watch episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LofG5_zO4GQRead more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/how-doctor-treated-palestinian-victims-israeli-torture
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdFbqAOHk1MGuests: - Zena Tahhan, freelance journalist- Wafic Faour of Vermonters for Justice in Palestine and Zoe Jannuzi of the American Friends Service Committee, Apartheid Free Communities campaign
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vHyixlLWWkRead more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/how-activists-are-disrupting-supply-chain-weapons-israelGuests: - Jeanine Hourani, Palestinian Youth Movement and Mask Off Maersk- Aisha Nizar, Palestinian Youth Movement and Mask Off Maersk
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKb9-so3hkGuests: - Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN- Columbia University students- Abubaker Abed
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNgit1hZjxgGuests: - Members of Taxpayers Against Genocide: Seth Donnelly, Maria Barakat, Hanna Barakat, Mary SamsonRead more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/holding-us-lawmakers-accountable-backing-gaza-genocide
Dr. Mimi Syed describes treating 4-year-old girl shot in head by Israeli sniper drone.Watch episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S0nzEFtEb0Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/emergency-medicine-doctor-reveals-what-she-saw-gaza
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfgH5nSD-UGuest: - Yves Engler, author
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZJx-FDrsK4Guest: - Ilan Pappe, historian, author
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6l9SD9d0VcGuest: Abubaker Abed, contributor
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv4bwQRnsosGuest: - Asem Alnabih, engineer, spokesperson for Gaza City Municipality
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgQQWID5-u0Guest: - Abed Ayoub, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGsMNLIteXwOn Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world.I had come to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice in Palestine and accountability for the genocide. But shortly before my first scheduled speaking event, I was grabbed off the street by undercover cops, and taken into custody.I’m thrilled now to be back in Amman with my family. I’ve received so many messages of love and support from far more people than I can individually thank. I want to take this opportunity to express how much these messages of solidarity mean to me and to all of us at The Electronic Intifada.Can speaking about Palestine really be deemed such a threat that those so-called democracies are resorting to naked police-state tactics of this kind? How far will they sink in the service of a genocidal regime?On a special Electronic Intifada Livestream today, I’ll talk about what I experienced and we’ll discuss the unprecedented levels of repression faced by independent journalism and the Palestine solidarity movement, and what I learned from this experience.We’ll also talk about the historic scenes as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians defied Israel’s effort to ethnically cleanse them, and joined a joyous procession of return to their homes in the north of Gaza.
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_jGujJrObUGuests: - Dyab Abou Jahjah, co-founder, Hind Rajab Foundation- Donya Abu Sitta, contributor, teacher
Watch entire special episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb4Lr097sxUGuest: - Abubaker Abed, contributor
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCXpVBq4U0oGuests: - Ahmed Alnaouq, We Are Not Numbers- Shir Hever, BDS National Committee
Also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZzkmwwUG6QIn a special audio podcast episode dedicated to the voice and the words of Dr. Refaat Alareer, we weave together five separate interviews we conducted between 2014 and 2018.Alareer was a beloved professor, poet and mentor who helped sharpen countless young minds and who still inspires people all over the world. He was murdered by Israel on 6 December, 2023, along with six other members of his family in Gaza.
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76bFnkpWiwGuests: - Donya Abu Sitta, writer and teacher in Gaza- Chris Gunness, former UNRWA spokesperson
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O194r5IS3msGuests: - Prahlad Iyengar, MIT graduate student- Michel DeGraff, linguistics professor and director of MIT-Haiti Institute
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g0Zo145dYYGuests: - Tony Greenstein, Palestine campaigner and writer- Abubaker Abed, contributor- Dr. Mimi Syed, ER doctor
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAp4XkI__fMWe take questions from our audience in this special episode.
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE79E2f-UAYGuests: - Abubaker Abed, contributor- Yousef Aljamal, Refaat’s former student, colleague and close friend; Gaza Coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee’s Palestine Activism Program- Helena Cobban, writer with decades of experience and knowledge about the region; director of Just World Educational.
Watch full broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcsLMe1OB0Guest: - Dr. Issam Younis, director, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDySX_S8uWwGuest: - Heba Al-Nashef, midwife
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHyoSlqYcX8Guest: - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer at Birzeit University in Palestine
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUyMvefBbHMGuests: - Abubaker Abed, contributor- Kaleem Hawa and Nas Abd Elal, Palestinian Youth Movement/Mask Off Maersk campaign
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwlNgn5sWnkGuest: - Craig Mokhiber, former senior United Nations official
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG4vKgiu9rsGuest: - Ahmed Alnaouq, Palestine Deep Dive and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cor7VqVAtxEGuest: - Justin Podur, Anti-Empire Project and author of Siegebreakers
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1C_PQDQmMGuests: - Abubaker Abed, live from Gaza- Laila Al-Arian, executive producer of Faultlines (Al Jazeera)
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgeBd_DrGJsGuest: - Joseph Massad, professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB9CeW8nR04Guests: - Abubaker Abed, journalist in Gaza- Roqayah Chamseddine, Lebanon-based writer, journalist and co-host of Delete Your Account podcastTimestamps:00:00 Introduction01:54 Abubaker Abed reports from Gaza19:36 Discussion on Iran's missile strikes on Israel with Ali Abunimah50:55 Gaza news report with Nora Barrows-Friedman59:14 Roqayah Chamseddine reports from Lebanon about Israel’s killing of Syed Hasan Nasrallah and the situation in Lebanon as Israel escalates its bombardment of the country and Hizballah defends it against a possible Israeli invasion01:38:04 Jon Elmer reports on the latest from the battles in Gaza and Lebanon, along with Iraqi and Yemeni missile attacks on Israel02:28:23 Group discussion on Iran, Lebanon and Gaza; and where the war could go from here
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFa_1erCQ3gGuest: - Yousef Aljamal, writer, editor of "If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose"
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOciLuYJfQUGuest: - Dr. Majed Jaber in Gaza
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ytbLCcF3mAGuests: - Huda Ammori, Palestine Action UK- Max Geller, Palestine Action UK
Watch entire episode here: https://x.com/intifada/status/1835760972260069609Guests: - Mohamed Abdou, scholar and writer- Bryce Greene, graduate student at Indiana University
Watch entire broadcast here: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlyOEBOEJLGuest: - Matt Kennard, Declassified UK
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlfuA4_DffUGuest: - Hatem Abudayyeh, US Palestinian Community Network
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGp9sBF0Rw4Guest: - Steven Salaita, writer, professor at American University of Cairo
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIVpmfCpPXIGuest: - Dr. Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVUVsyJQWRkGuests: - Hatem Abudayyeh, March on the DNC Coalition, USPCN- Abubaker Abed, journalist in Gaza
How the ultra-right Kahanists infiltrated the US Democratic Party, with David Sheen by The Electronic Intifada
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pwsAMT1HWQGuest: - Helena Cobban, writer, reporter and director of Just World Educational
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkWFq_Wu2UsGuests:- Donya Abu Sitta, journalist in Gaza- Ilan Pappé, historian and author of "Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic"
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqmF_vlnRqoGuests: - Aseel Mousa, journalist - Michael Lynk, law professor at Western University and former UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories
Watch the video version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF52hZ8DqfcGuest: David Sheen is the author of "Kahanism and American Politics: The Democratic Party’s Decades-Long Courtship of Racist Fanatics."
Watch entire livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4btC6aYyqsGuest: - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer at Birzeit University, occupied West Bank
Watch entire livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2o8aRZoveEGuests: - Abubaker Abed, EI contributor- Shir Hever, political economist- Ahmed Masoud, novelist and playwright
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmIaZhYhOJgGuest: - Laila Al-Arian, executive producer of Faultlines (Al Jazeera)
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJrRmM16qkGuests: - Abubaker Abed, journalist - Aseel Mousa, journalist
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7dqBeohxsGuest: - Omar Karmi, The Electronic Intifada
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZAGuest: - Shir Hever is a political economist and the military embargo coordinator for the Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC). He is also the author of "The Privatization of Israeli Security" and "The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation," and lives in Germany.
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqCbhhONu7QGuest: - Helena Cobban, Just World Educational
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfFtT0WdnEGuest: - Dr. Tarek Loubani, Glia Project (glia.org)
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYI2rUPkNggGuest: Dr. Barbara Ransby, John D. MacArthur University Chair and Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois Chicago
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW1XN9lz1ZgGuest: - Dr. Khaled Dawas, British Palestinian surgeon
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCaU3MnTjmEGuests: - Abubaker Abed, journalist in Gaza- Dr. Adel Elsharkawy, pediatrician and neonatologist based in Calgary- Sabiya Ahamed, staff attorney at Palestine Legal- Shahd al-Hadid, student at Sheffield University
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih9cLcI-L_QGuests: - Bryce Greene, student organizer, Indiana University, writer at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)- Dr. Bikrum Gill, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech- Sherif I., organizer and filmmaker with Columbia University Apartheid Divest- Samuel Ahmed, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA- Jake E., Students for Justice in Palestine at California State Univ. Los Angeles
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA4oIKugdAMGuest:- Donya Abu Sitta, journalist and teacher in Gaza
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZpG2Phr0DYGuests: - Abubaker Abed, journalist in Gaza- Professor Mohamed Abdou, Columbia University
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7BIjQLSg18Guests: - Students from Columbia University, MIT, UPenn and Harvard Law
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCdl5F2zki0Guests: - Aseel Mousa, journalist- Paul Biggar, Tech for Palestine
Over the past six months, millions of people worldwide have taken to the streets to demonstrate in solidarity with Palestine and to demand that their governments call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.Many governments have responded and even the US abstained – rather than vetoed – a UN Security Council Resolution in March calling for a temporary ceasefire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and Malta have also committed to recognizing a Palestinian state, joining eight other EU member states, including Poland and Sweden who have already done so, even though the EU as a whole has yet to take this step.Nevertheless, Israel has continued its genocide in Gaza, seemingly unconcerned. And crucially, Israel’s most important allies, the US and the UK, have remained largely unmoved and continue to support Israel diplomatically and militarily, with little to no regard for popular feeling.This prompts the question of whether we have reached the limits of what Palestine activism can achieve or whether the current popular momentum can turn into an Apartheid South Africa moment, a moment of global solidarity that led inexorably to the collapse of South Africa’s racist regime.To discuss this, and more about the parallels and differences between Palestine activism and the anti-Apartheid movement, The Electronic Intifada talked to two veteran activists.Ghada Karmi has authored several books on Palestine, including her latest, One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel, as well as a memoir, In Search of Fatima that detailed her family’s flight from Jerusalem during the 1947-49 Nakba.Andrew Feinstein was a long-time anti-apartheid activist who became a parliamentarian for Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress party after the country’s first free elections in 1994.
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSEIoHJmSokGuest: - Dr. Mohammad Marandi, professor of English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran and noted political and strategic analyst
Watch entire episode here: Guests: - Liz Jackson, former attorney with Palestine Legal- Christina Harb, Berkeley middle school teacher
Watch entire broadcast here: Guest: - Antony Loewenstein, author of "The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World"
Watch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2WNlRwoyUgGuest: - Mohammad Marandi, professor of English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oKEFhy7Z6UGuests: - Abubaker Abed, journalist and contributor to EI- Dr. Yipeng Ge, physician- David Cronin, EI editor
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME4yVxbYsH4Guest: - Lex Takkenberg, former UNRWA staff, senior advisor with the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development and a lecturer at the institute of International humanitarian affairs at Fordham University
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F64B2L_Dt78Guest: - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank
Watch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21XJqsDG0QAGuest: - Darryl Li, professor and researcher
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saM09yo0crUGuests: - Ilan Pappé, historian and scholar- Dr. Ben Thomson, nephrologist
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skuo8AUN9HwGuests: - Alexis Villalobos, Activist- George Syrop, Hayward city council member- Noam Perry, American Friends Service Committee
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cziLmIexlskGuests: - Walaa Sabah, writer and project manager for We Are Not Numbers- Huda Ammori, Palestine Action
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5x_2_G_VQAGuests: - Dr. Arham Ali, pediatric critical care specialist, Loma Linda University Children's Hospital- Bryce Greene, journalist, activist
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykklx8iLo_0Guests: - Abubaker Abed in Gaza- John Mearsheimer, Wendell Harris Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_TpTsd2VQGuests: - Craig Mokhiber, former UN official- Dr. Thaer Ahmad, emergency room physician
Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kpw7HFMXk0Guest: Dr. Mads Gilbert, Norwegian physician
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw-y3CdR3UwGuests: - David Miller, professor- Farrah Koutteineh, activist in Ireland- David Cronin, editor, The Electronic Intifada
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIszjajpfkUGuest: Hazami Barmada, activist and organizer for protests outside Antony Blinken's home
Watch entire video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYMmlxo71ocGuest: Laila Baker, director for Arab states at UNFPA, the United Nations' agency for sexual and reproductive health.Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/watch-how-are-women-giving-birth-gaza
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THGfP0HMklkGuests: Laila El-Haddad, author; Chris Gunness, former UNRWA spokesperson
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5SmSy99IwGuest: Susan Akram, director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University's School of Law
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFhWIWG8PvUDay 110 with guest Helena Cobban on geopolitics (13:26); Gaza news with Nora Barrows-Friedman (:39); new revelations about 7 October with Asa Winstanley (44:38); Ali Abunimah responds to Washington Post's lies (1:02:27); and Jon Elmer with the latest on the resistance (1:27:15).
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5HLRmcH6T0Guests: - Haidar Eid, activist, writer and professor- Ahmed Abofoul, international lawyer with Al-Haq- Shahd Abusalama, scholar and activist
On episode 86, Asa Winstanley and Tamara Nassar talk to Amal Saad, a world leading scholar of Hizbullah and the resistance axis. Saad is a politics lecturer at Cardiff University in South Wales and is the author of the book Hizbullah: Politics and Religion. We discussed Hizballah's unprecedented war against Israel in defense of Gaza, the true nature of the resistance axis and much more. Read more:
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tLb7C2YcW4Guests: - Michael Lynk, former UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory- Ahmed Masoud, novelist
On episode 85, Tamara Nassar speaks to writer and lecturer Abdaljawad Omar live from the occupied West Bank for a special episode on the interlinked histories of Zionism and anit-Semitism and what Israel represents in European collective imagination. Read more:
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX4crtU6OT0Video and witness accounts recently published by Israeli media reveal new details about how Israeli forces killed their own civilians on 7 October.On today’s livestream, we take a look at a new investigation published by The Electronic Intifada. We reveal how an Israeli general ordered tanks to fire on a house with Israeli civilians in it that day in Kibbutz Be’eri and then tried to cover the incident up with a fake story of heroism.Now relatives of those he killed are demanding the truth.That general, Barak Hiram, also appears to have originated one of the most poisonous fabrications Israel told about 7 October: The atrocity tale that Hamas fighters tied up and executed children in cold blood.That lie, told directly to President Biden by Benjamin Netanyahu, helped lay the ground for genocide.Nora Barrows-Friedman will give us an update on the situation in Gaza, where Israel’s unrelenting genocide continues to take an horrific toll.And Jon Elmer walks us through the latest videos that help us understand the fighting and resistance on the ground. I hope you’ll be there as we discuss all the latest developments.
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuPjbinvX_AGuests: - Craig Mokhiber, human rights lawyer- Hammam Farah, psychotherapist and political activist
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuNV_HYFdW8Guest: - Paul Biggar, Irish tech innovator. Paul is the founder and CEO of Darklang, a next-generation developer tool. He was also the founder of CircleCI. His blog: https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML_DqEhph0gGuest: - Abdaljawad Omar
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcjoB_K3DgwGuests: - Yousef AlJammal- Shaimaa Ziara- Jehad Abusalim- Nour Nemer- Ahmed Nehad- Eman Elhaj Ali (pre-recorded)- Malak Zakout- Khaled El-Hissy- Zainab Basheer (pre-recorded)- Younes El-Hallaq (pre-recorded)
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQZyInLU-3sGuests: - Sewar Elejla, researcher- Ahmed Alsammak, journalist
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5eCAsq9G4oGuests: - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer, Birzeit University
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M42W4WPGCeEGuests: - Refaat Alareer, writer, educator in Gaza- Dr. Tarek Loubani, emergency room physician
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHoMmeBbubgGuests: - Mahmoud Nasser, photojournalist and contributor to EI- Chris Gunness, former spokesperson for UN agency for Palestine refugees
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdUjPoYnJIGuest: - Hatem Abudayyeh, US Palestinian Community Network
Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv4ZpZkI_ZUGuests: - Ahmed Masoud, award-winning Palestinian and British writer from Gaza, living in London. Ahmed is the author of the novels Vanished and The Shroud Maker. His family is originally from the Palestinian village of Deir Snade, and he grew up in Gaza.- Yousef Aljamal, a Palestinian writer whose family was ethnically cleansed from the town of Aqer, near Lydd, in 1948. Yousef grew up in Gaza’s Nusairat refugee camp, where his family remains.- Jon Elmer, EI's contributing editor
Watch full broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPr4lIzX_bEGuests: - Sadaf Doost, lawyer, Center for Constitutional Rights- Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer, Birzeit University- Jon Elmer, EI contributing editor
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkV2RmdDTTkGuests: - Hind Khoudary, journalist- Sewar Elejla, former doctor at al-Shifa Hospital- Jon Elmer, EI contributing editor
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9J0_8cr4EoGuests: - Ahmed Al-Sammak, MBA student in Dublin, Ireland. He previously worked as a journalist in Gaza, where he grew up- Louis Allday, writer, editor and historian- Jon Elmer, EI contributing editor
Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njuruv_2KigGuests: - Ghada Ageel and Ghaida Hamdan- Roger Waters- Khalil AbuShammala
Watch entire livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIcRCyRYWYYOn Friday, Gaza was completely disconnected from the outside world after all communications were cut off. There was a total blackout of the internet and phone network within Gaza as well, affecting everyone including emergency services and humanitarian workers.This came as Israel intensified its aerial extermination campaign and launched bigger ground raids into the besieged territory.Connectivity began to return on Sunday revealing to the world more of Israel's atrocities and destruction. The death toll has now passed 8,000.Guests: - Huda Ammori, Palestine Action- Ahmed Alnaouq, director of We Are Not Numbers- Jon Elmer, The Electronic Intifada- Tamara Nassar, The Electronic Intifada
Join us for breaking news and analysis as Israel's campaign of extermination by air, land and sea in Gaza continues for the 20th day on Thursday, 26 October.Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YQLlPtPKYsGuests: - Refaat Alareer, writer and educator in Gaza- Rida Jawad, SOAS Alumni - Maryam Ofkir, SOAS Palestine Society - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer, Birzeit University- Jon Elmer, contributing editor at The Electronic Intifada
Join us for breaking news and analysis as Israel's campaign of extermination by air, land and sea in Gaza continues for the 17th day on Monday, 23 October. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TAE4eT3oOcGuests: - Dr. Mads Gilbert, Norwegian physician- Calla Walsh and Max Geller, Palestine Action US/UK- Jon Elmer, researcher and journalist
Breaking news and analysis as Israel's campaign of extermination by air, land and sea in Gaza continues for the 14th day.Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/watch-day-14-roundup-israels-attacks-gazaGuest: - Ahmed Abofoul, Legal Research and Advocacy Officer at the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq- Dr. Tarek Loubani, emergency room physician and co-founder of the Glia Project- Jon Elmer, journalist and researcher
"For the past 11 days, Israel has been bombarding the Gaza Strip, including my refugee camp -- Nuseirat -- where almost 600,000 Palestinians sought shelter and refuge at UNRWA schools," says Yousef Aljamal, a writer and researcher from Gaza who now lives in Turkey.Aljamal joined us for our livestream broadcast. We also discuss Israel's bombing, on Tuesday, of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, and the enormous propaganda efforts Israel -- and the West, abetted by corporate media -- are engaging in to absolve all responsibility. Guests:- Yousef Aljamal, writer and researcher- Jon Elmer, journalist and researcher- Abdaljawad Omar, academic and lecturer at Birzeit University, occupied West Bank
Students across the US are facing relentless smears and doxxing attacks over their activism in support of Palestinian rights, as Israel continues its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip.On episode 84, we speak with Palestine Legal's senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath, who lays out the current repressive atmosphere on campuses across the US and gives advice to students who can protect themselves from these attacks. Read more:
"Death can be anywhere and everywhere," our executive director Ali Abunimah tells us in his opening remarks for the 16 October livestream. Guests: - Jon Elmer, journalist and researcher- Maha Hussaini, journalist and human rights activist in Gaza- Helena Cobban, veteran war reporter and writerRead more and watch the entire broadcast here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/watch-day-10-roundtable-israels-attacks-gaza
"How many people does Israel need to kill in order to be satisfied? How much blood? How many Palestinian kids?" Refaat Alareer tells The Electronic Intifada live from Gaza. And human rights activist Khalil Abu Shammala discusses how Palestinians in Gaza fear Israel is planning a "second Nakba." Plus: * Ali Abunimah discusses how US President Joe Biden is granting carte blanche to Benjamin Netanyahu to commit atrocities* Journalist Jon Elmer has the latest military analysis of the Palestinian resistance fight against IsraelWatch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhP7jQBtzyY&ab_channel=TheElectronicIntifada
On our special livestream for 11 October, five days after Gaza fighters launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, human rights activist Khalil Abu Shammala describes Israel’s atrocities in al-Rimal neighborhood, a residential and commercial hub.Guests: Khalil Abu Shammala, Abdallah al-Naami, Abdaljawad Omar, LowkeyRead more and watch the entire broadcast here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/watch-day-5-roundtable-israeli-attacks-gaza-west-bank
“The whole room is filled with gunpowder. … We don’t deserve this. We’re not animals like the Israelis think. Our kids deserve better.”This is what our contributor Refaat Alareer, an academic and writer in Gaza City, told us on a special livestream broadcast of The Electronic Intifada Podcast.Alareer spoke to us on Monday evening from his home, as relentless Israeli bombs exploded in the background.Guests: Refaat Alareer, Shahd Abusalama, Abdaljawad Omar, Jon Elmer. Read more and watch the entire broadcast here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/watch-day-3-roundtable-gazas-al-aqsa-flood
On episode 83, we take a look at baseball in Palestine and the growing sport despite Israel’s policies of movement restrictions, siege and apartheid.Baseball is relatively new to Palestine, with the sport taking off just in the last six years – and mostly in Gaza. However, athletes are working hard to make a place for themselves on the world stage.Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-83-how-palestines-baseball-team-made-history
On episode 82, we take a close look at the US Visa Waiver program and are joined by Abed Ayoub and Chris Habiby of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). The program would allow Israeli citizens to travel to the United States for business or tourism without having to apply for a visa as they do now.
What would Israel’s admission to the program mean, especially for Palestinian Americans whom Israel regularly subjects to racial profiling and deportation at points of entry?
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-82-will-visa-waiver-program-allow-israel-keep-racist-entry
On episode 81, Abdaljawad Omar and Jon Elmer return to talk about Israel's July invasion of the Jenin refugee camp and to analyze the growth of Palestinian resistance.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-81-look-inside-jenins-guerrilla-resistance-tactics
On episode 80, we speak with students and legal experts who are fighting back against the Israel lobby's smear campaigns.
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On episode 79, Asa Winstanley and Ali Abunimah talk about Asa’s brand-new book, "Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn."
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-79-weaponising-anti-semitism
On episode 78, we're joined by journalist, filmmaker and best-selling author Antony Loewenstein to talk about his latest book, "The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World."
Loewenstein's book is a meticulously researched exposé on how Israel tests weaponry and surveillance technology on Palestinians, perfecting what he calls the architecture of control.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-78-how-israel-tests-weapons-palestinians
On episode 77, acclaimed author, academic and physician Ghada Karmi is back on the podcast to talk about the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Nakba and her new book, One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel.Karmi was born in Jerusalem. When she was a child, she was amongst the 800,000 Palestinians who were forcibly expelled from Palestine in 1948. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-77-zionisms-inevitable-demise
On episode 76, our colleague Omar Karmi joins us to talk about the current political situation in Palestine.We discuss the possible fate of the Palestinian Authority and its continued collaboration with Israel as its partial control deteriorates in the occupied West Bank.Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-76-impossibility-two-state-solution
On episode 75, author, professor and organizer Nada Elia talks about her brand-new book, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine.Elia analyzes the historical and present-day struggle against Zionism while keeping a focus on how Israel’s militarism and settler-colonialism deliberately affects women.Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-75-unpacking-zionism-and-global-hypermilitarism
On episode 74, we continue our focus on legislative attempts to crush the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign for Palestinian rights in the US.More than 30 US states have passed measures condemning or attempting to restrict the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign for Palestinian rights, according to Palestine Legal, a group that defends activists for Palestinian rights from legal harassment.We are joined by Suhad Babaa, producer of the documentary film Boycott which follows the fight against these anti-constitutional measures, and Alan Leveritt, publisher of The Arkansas Times, one of the subjects of the film.Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-battle-against-anti-bds-state-laws
We speak to Lara Sheehi, assistant professor of clinical psychology at George Washington University in Washington DC, who has been at the center of recent Israel lobby attacks.Sheehi is joined by her lawyer Abed Ayoub, executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, to talk about how she is resisting the smear campaign and collusion by her university.Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-73-fighting-lobbys-racism-lara-sheehi
On episode 72, we speak with Abdaljawad Omar Hamayel, a PhD student and lecturer in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University in Palestine, to talk about the current situation on the ground in the occupied West Bank. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-72-new-generation-resistance-does-not-fear-israel
On episode 71, we continue our discussion with Ali Abunimah about the most significant stories of 2022, taking a deeper look at Palestinian and international response and activism to stop Israel’s crimes.Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-71-palestine-2022-part-2
On episode 70, Ali Abunimah joins The Electronic Intifada Podcast to take a look at our top stories of 2022. We discuss Israel’s escalating violence, the far-right lawmakers in Israel’s parliament or Knesset, the state of journalism and ongoing Western complicity in Israel’s apartheid system.Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-70-palestine-2022-part-1
On episode 69, we speak to two tech workers who have been organizing against Project Nimbus, a billion-dollar contract between Google and Amazon to build data centers in Israel on behalf of the Israeli military and government.
The technology will be used by Israel and its military to further surveil, contain and expel Palestinians.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-69-no-tech-apartheid
On episode 68, we speak with activist and blogger Tony Greenstein, a veteran of the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK, about his new book Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation. With an anti-Zionist analysis, Greenstein’s book dives into the history of the Zionist movement’s collaboration with the far right, even including Nazi Germany, while seeking to build the state of Israel.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-68-how-zionists-collaborated-nazis
On episode 67, Nora, Asa and Ali talk to journalist Katie Halper about how she was recently fired by The Hill – the latest example of corporate news censorship of commentators who criticize Israel.
Halper had prepared a monologue in defense of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s correct declaration that Israel is an apartheid state, after the lawmaker came under racist attacks by corporate news pundit Jake Tapper and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an Israel lobby group.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-67-katie-halper-fired-over-israel-criticism
On episode 66, we speak with sociologist and activist Sheryl Nestel about the impact that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Anti-Semitism (IHRA) has had on Canadian activists, academics and students. Promoted by Israel and its lobby, the IHRA definition conflates criticism of Israel, on the one hand, with anti-Jewish bigotry, on the other. It has become the Israel lobby’s key weapon in North America and Europe to enforce censorship about Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.
Nestel co-authored a brand-new report, “Unveiling the Chilly Climate: The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada,” as a project of Independent Jewish Voices Canada.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-66-how-anti-semitism-smears-impact-palestine-activists
On episode 65, we speak with Donald Wagner, a long-time Chicago-based activist for Palestinian rights, a Presbyterian clergyperson and the author of a new memoir, Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land.
Forty years ago this month, during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, Israel’s then-defense minister Ariel Sharon sent Lebanese militia forces, the Phalangists, into the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut on false claims of so-called terrorism.
Thousands were slaughtered in a three-day massacre and no one was ever tried for war crimes.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-65-sabra-and-shatila-40-years
On episode 64, we speak to contributors of a new literary anthology, Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, in which essays, poems and artwork illuminate the Palestinian experience of Gaza.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-64-light-gaza
On episode 63, we speak to Refaat Alareer, a professor, writer and father in Gaza, about the latest Israeli military assault on Gaza that killed nearly 50 Palestinians, including 17 children, in early August.
"What Israel is doing is nonstop campaigns of mowing the lawn, killing as many Palestinians and putting us [in] a corner where we can't do anything to defend ourselves and our rights," Alareer tells us.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-63-raising-children-under-israels-bombs
On episode 62, we talk to activist and journalist Basel Adra about the situation in Masafer Yatta, an area in the South Hebron hills in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military is attempting to turn Palestinian villages into a firing zone.
In May, the Israeli high court rubber-stamped the forced expulsion of more than 1,000 Palestinians from eight villages in the area.
If Israel carries through with the forcible transfer -- a war crime -- it will be one of the single largest expulsions of Palestinians since 1967.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-62-defending-masafer-yatta
On episode 61, Nora speaks with Dov Baum from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), about a major divestment victory and what activists can learn from the two-year campaign leading up to it.
General Mills, a US-based food corporation, announced on 31 May that it had sold its stake in an Israeli joint venture.
This means that the company has divested completely from its Israeli business.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-61-how-general-mills-divested-apartheid
On episode 60, Nora speaks with Mohammed Abujayyab, a small-scale farmer and food security activist, about Palestine's agricultural economy under ongoing occupation and settler-colonial land theft.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-60-history-wheat-palestine
On episode 59, Nora and Asa welcome back journalist and researcher Jon Elmer to discuss Palestinian resistance to Israel’s escalations across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Elmer is a journalist and researcher, and he co-hosts The Brief Podcast with Nora. He spent years as a reporter inside Palestine, and covered the situation in Jenin and in Gaza.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-59-jenin-rises
On episode 58 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we discuss the significance of a recent statement by the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement and Palestinian liberation. The Crimson editors say they “regret and reject” their previous position that maligned BDS, and now recognize the potential the movement has for empowering Palestinians to fight against Israeli apartheid – especially on campuses.
They also asserted that “support for Palestinian liberation is not anti-Semitic,” noting the “wake of accusations suggesting otherwise.”
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-58-how-students-are-fighting-adls-smear-campaigns
On episode 57, we speak with members of the NDN Collective about their recently released position paper on Palestinian liberation – “The Right of Return is LANDBACK.”
Krystal Two Bulls, Demetrius Johnson and Nadya Tannous of the NDN Collective tell us that the resistance by Indigenous peoples to the US’ centuries-long programs of ethnic cleansing and forced relocation is strengthened by Palestinian resistance to Israeli settler-colonialism.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-57-landback-turtle-island-palestine
On episode 56 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we discuss Canada’s arms exports to Israel with researcher Michael Bueckert, and Dr. Tarek Loubani talks about making medical equipment for Gaza’s medics amid 15 years of Israel’s blockade and a constant, looming threat of war.
On episode 55, we speak with professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa of San Francisco State University about their ongoing fight against attempts to silence Palestine scholarship.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-55-how-fight-university-censorship
On episode 54, we are joined by representatives of major Palestinian civil society organizations Sahar Francis and Ahmed Abofoul to talk about current progress in bringing an investigation into Israel’s crimes to the International Criminal Court, even as Israel – and the US and Canada – have tried to stifle progress.
Francis is the director of Addameer, the Prisoner’s support and Human Rights Association, and Abofoul is a legal researcher and advocacy officer at Al-Haq, a group that documents Israel’s human rights violations.
Addameer and Al-Haq are among six Palestinian civil society groups that Israel’s defense minister Benny Gantz designated last fall as “terrorist” organizations – an attempt to disrupt and destroy the work of these groups and especially their gathering of evidence for the ICC investigation.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-54-palestine-litmus-test-international-law
On episode 53, The Electronic Intifada’s director Ali Abunimah joins Asa and Nora for a roundtable discussion on Ukraine, NATO, the imperialist push toward war with Russia and how it all relates to Palestine.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-53-whitewashing-ukraines-nazis
On episode 52, we discuss the overt hypocrisy of the current Western-led rush to implement boycotts and sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine as many of the same institutions and politicians reject Palestinian calls to sanction Israel.
On episode 51, Nora speaks with activist, scholar and contributor to The Electronic Intifada Shahd Abusalama and her lawyer, Giovanni Fassina of the European Legal Support Centre.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-51-defeating-censorship-uk-campus
Economist Shir Hever on cyber mercenaries, weapons lobbyists and the collapse of Israel's infrastructure.
On episode 49, Nora and Asa speak with Adie Mormech and Max Geller of Palestine Action, the group that has organized sustained direct actions at Israeli-owned Elbit Systems arms factories in the UK.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-49-how-uk-activists-closed-israeli-arms-factory-good
On episode 48 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Asa and Nora are joined by colleagues Maureen Clare Murphy and Tamara Nassar for a roundtable discussion on some of our top stories of 2021.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-48-gaza-cyberwarfare-and-resistance
On episode 47, Asa and Nora speak with David Miller, a sociology professor and leading critic of the Israel lobby who was fired by the University of Bristol on 1 October. Miller was sacked after a years-long campaign of smears by that same lobby.
He talks about his ongoing work researching the history of Zionism, Israel’s state ideology, and how the lobby’s efforts to smear and silence him has only led him to speak louder.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-47-why-we-have-talk-about-zionism
On episode 46, we speak to representatives of two of six major Palestinian rights groups Israel has recently designated as “terrorist” organizations.
And a human rights activist in Burlington, Vermont, talks about working to encourage the city council to pass a resolution in explicit support of the Palestinian-let boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
On episode 45, leading Palestinian intellectual Joseph Massad joins Asa and Tamara for a wide-ranging discussion on the current and historical role of the Palestinian Authority as a collaborationist body with Israeli apartheid, repression and colonization.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-45-palestinian-authority-and-other-collaborators
On episode 44, Nora and Asa speak with the lead organizers of a new initiative calling on musicians to refuse to book shows in Israel and stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
We also feature a conversation with author and educator Mona Hajjar Halaby about her new memoir.
On episode 43, Nora and Asa speak with Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard, the founders of Palestine Action.
Palestine Action was started in the UK last year to take direct action against Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.
Activists have carried out sit-ins and sabotage against Elbit premises, shutting factories down, smashing windows, damaging equipment, graffiting and splashing walls with red paint to symbolize Palestinian blood.
Palestine Action has taken more than 70 actions against Elbit in its first year, including 20 high-profile occupations of sites and factories.
On episode 42, we speak with several human rights defenders who have been on the front lines of direct action to stop Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are just a sample of countless protestors who have taken action in support of Palestinian rights, especially after Israel’s May attacks on Gaza, which killed some 245 Palestinians in the coastal enclave, including dozens of children.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, activists and longshore workers successfully prevented an Israeli-owned cargo vessel from docking and unloading at the Port of Oakland in early June.
The action was part of an international wave of protests – under the banner of #BlockTheBoat – organized by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC).
We speak to Wassim Hage of AROC and Aisha Mansour of the grassroots community group Falastiniyat in Seattle, Washington, which supported a protest at the port in that city. 11 participants were arrested at the Seattle action, Mansour told The Electronic Intifada.
Block the Boat protests were held in British Columbia, Canada, as well.
In Prince Rupert, members of the International Longshore Workers Union were punished with unpaid suspension by Dubai Ports World, which operates a terminal at the port. Dubai Ports World is owned by the Dubai government.
But the suspension was reportedly rolled back, in a victory for the workers.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, members of the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), along with local anti-racist groups, held a sit-in protest at the offices of Representative Jan Schakowsky on 10 June.
The action demanded that the member of congress co-sponsor HR 2590, Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act, a bill written and introduced by Minnesota Representative Betty McCollum.
USPCN says that 25 activists “gathered in Schakowsky’s office and insisted that she sign on to the bill, which would place conditions on US aid to Israel so that it could not be used to imprison children, demolish Palestinian homes, or annex Palestinian land.”
USPCN staged another protest at Schakowsky’s office on 8 July.
Protesters hold a sign. Human rights defenders demand that Illinois Representative Jan Schakowsky support a bill that prevents US from funding Israeli abuse of Palestinian children. (USPCN) And in the UK, members of Palestine Action once again scaled the roof of a factory owned by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in Leicester, forcing the factory to close for several days.
We feature two interviews of Palestine Action members, Richard Barnard and Ferhat Ulusu who were involved in the factory occupation, conducted in late May by The Electronic Intifada’s contributor Mohamed Elmaazi.
“This is my memory. This is my history. This is my life,” 81-year-old Yacoub Odeh tells us about his childhood and experience of expulsion from the Jerusalem village of Lifta in 1948.
“The beautiful life that I dream … and struggle to restore this beautiful life, to go back home. To go back home. To plan our village, to renovate our houses, and to live … like everyone [else] under the sun,” he says.
On episode 41, we speak to Odeh about Lifta and his community’s 73-year struggle to return to their homes.
We are also joined by Umar al-Ghubari of Zochrot, an organization promoting acknowledgment and accountability for the ongoing injustices of the Nakba.
Al-Ghubari and Odeh both lead political tours inside Lifta, where Odeh and other refugees from Lifta are forbidden to return to live under Israel’s racist laws.
On episode 40, author and editor of The Grayzone Max Blumenthal returns for a wide-ranging discussion. We begin with his latest article, on the Israel lobby’s manufactured claims of anti-Jewish bigotry in order to distract from the recent attacks on Gaza and Jerusalem.
At exactly the same time there were massive popular demonstrations in support of Palestinians, claims that there was a new wave of anti-Semitism plagued the corporate media.
But Max investigated and found these were entirely without a basis of fact.
On episode 39, Nora, Asa and Tamara discuss ongoing Silicon Valley tech censorship of Palestine-related speech.
We are joined by Omar Zahzah, a member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) and the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Saliem Shehadeh, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In late April, Zoom, Facebook and YouTube blocked a live-streamed event featuring prominent activists from Palestine and South Africa.
On episode 38, Nora speaks with Dr. Tarek Loubani about the immediate devastation to Gaza’s medical and public health infrastructure during and after the recent Israeli attacks.
This comes on top of the slow collapse of the medical system due to Israel’s draconian 14-year-old siege.
Loubani works alongside doctors at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the Strip’s main trauma center.
“All the reports I was getting were saying things I wasn’t used to hearing, from people who I know don’t tend to exaggerate,” Loubani says.
On episode 37, we discuss media suppression and how the corporate press covered the recent attacks on Gaza.
We are joined by Greg Shupak, a contributor to The Electronic Intifada and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). He is also the author of The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media.
On episode 36, Nora and Asa host a discussion on the advances of Palestinian resistance tactics and Israel's strategic mistakes during Israel's latest assault on Gaza.
We are joined by our colleague and The Electronic Intifada's executive director Ali Abunimah and journalist and researcher Jon Elmer.
On episode 35 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Nora, Asa and our colleague Tamara Nassar join Lara Elborno and Michael Schirtzer of the Palestine Pod to talk about the first few days of the US-backed Israeli attacks on Gaza.
“An occupied people has a right to engage in armed resistance against a foreign occupation. That’s it. Period,” says Elborno. “There is no right for a colonial power to engage in a merciless assault against a civilian population that it cages.”
Since we recorded this episode, Lara’s relative, Hassan Elborno, was killed by Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip. He was a farmer working on land near the eastern boundary line with Israel.
Later on in the program, Nora and Asa talk to Joharah Baker, a journalist and translator based in the Old City of Jerusalem, who discusses the last month of Israeli settler pogroms and attempts to expel Palestinians from the nearby neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Baker also talks about the complicity of Joe Biden and US lawmakers in aiding and abetting Israel’s war crimes.
“Anyone who looks to Biden as any kind of game-changer … sorry, they’re just delusional,” she says. “The only way that policy will change is through funding. It has to be money, there’s really no other way. But I don’t see that happening yet. But I think that there is a movement … people are the ones who will make those changes.”
Video production by Tamara Nassar
Theme music by Sharif Zakout
See: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-35-israels-war-gaza-and-jerusalem
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On episode 34 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Asa and Nora speak to journalist Rania Khalek.
We discuss the way the Palestine solidarity movement has been divided on the issue of Syria over the last decade.
Rania lives in Lebanon and her reporting from the region has provided critical insights into the wars there in recent years.
For more info, read:https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-34-how-syria-divided-palestine-solidarity
On episode 32 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, rapper, activist and all-round renaissance man Lowkey joins Asa and Nora to talk about:
- The purge of anti-Zionist academics from UK institutions
- Islamophobia and the Israel lobby’s role in promoting it
- The role of artists in defending Palestinian rights
- The state of the corporate music industry
- What he did in the years he took time off music
- Drill, a hip-hop genre with a bad reputation ... And much more
Lowkey has always used his music to support the things he believes in: not least the cause of Palestinian liberation.
He talks about the price of speaking out on these issues: being censored and marginalized.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-32-lowkey-talks-palestine-music-and-censorship
On episode 31 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Nora and Asa discuss Israel’s vaccine apartheid and are joined by physicians and writers Dr. Ghada Karmi and Dr. Osama Tanous.
It was recently reported that Israel is giving thousands of “spare” vaccines to foreign countries in exchange for political support, while denying vaccines to 5 million Palestinians under its military rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israel is failing in its obligations under international law as an occupying power by not offering the vaccine to the Palestinians of occupied territory.
Karmi and Tanous explain how occupation and settler-colonialism impact not just COVID-19 outcomes for Palestinians but public health in Palestine overall.
For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-31-israels-vaccine-apartheid
For video version and more background, go to: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-30-israels-war-labour-and-democrats
In our pilot video episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Ali Abunimah joins Asa and Nora for an in-depth look at the new US president.
What does the Joe Biden administration and the return of the pro-war, Israel-allied Democrats to the White House mean for Palestine and Palestinians?
Ali explains that the grassroots of the Democratic Party has become much less pro-Israel in recent years, while party leaders have resisted the push to stand with Palestinians.
On Episode 28 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we present excerpts of a recent discussion about the years-long struggle of five imprisoned Palestinian American men who led the Holy Land Foundation, a Texas-based charity.
This panel commemorates more than ten years since the unjust prosecution of The Holy Land Five: Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Ghassan Elashi, Mufid Abdulqader, and Abdulrahman Odeh, who are each serving between 15 and 65 years in federal penitentiaries.
Hosted by Miko Peled, author of the 2018 book “Injustice: The Holy Land Foundation Five” the discussion features daughters of the Holy Land Five, in addition to Leena Al-Arian, Executive Director of the Coalition for Civil Freedoms and the daughter of Dr. Sami Al- Arian, another Palestinian-American who was deported on trumped up charges.
For more information: https://mikopeled.com/2020/11/27/12-years-of-injustice-the-story-of-the-holy-land-foundation-five/
On episode 27 of The Electronic intifada Podcast, Asa and Nora are joined by Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in the UK.
PSC recently concluded a week of direct action to amplify the growing opposition to Israel's apartheid system, the ongoing expulsion of Palestinians from their land, the 13-year siege on Gaza and the formal annexation of the occupied West Bank.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-27-vision-equality-jerusalem
Music: "Rafif," Kamilya Jubran Photo: Ben Jamal (Palestine Solidarity Campaign)
On Episode 26 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we have an in-depth conversation with former UK Labour MP Chris Williamson.
Williamson was the only Labour MP under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership period to recognize the truth about the party’s “anti-Semitism crisis” – that it was a manufactured disinformation campaign orchestrated by the pro-Israel lobby and the right.
Image: Chris Williamson addressing a Jewish Voice for Labour protest against the IHRA “working definition” in 2018. The document conflates legitimate criticisms of Israel with anti-Semitism. (Stephen Chung/Newscom)
On Episode 25 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we speak with writer and author Steven Salaita and EI's Ali Abunimah about the phenomenon of what Salaita calls Muslim Zionists.
These are organizations and their leaderships that purport to represent Muslim Americans but work closely with Israel lobby groups to undermine and silence Palestinian rights advocates.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-25-muslim-zionists
Image: Steven Salaita (Haymarket Books)
On Episode 24 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we speak with boycott activists who are taking on major corporations complicit in Israeli settlements and weapons manufacturing industries.
Guests: Huda Ammori, Palestine Action; Dalit Baum and Noam Perry of American Friends Service Committee.
Photo: Palestine Action
On episode 23 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, author and activist Susan Abulhawa discusses her new novel Against the Loveless World.
Abulhawa’s Palestinian protagonist and narrator, Nahr, tells the story of her life from solitary confinement inside an Israeli prison cell called “the cube.”
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-23-against-loveless-world
On episode 22 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we ask how powerful the Israeli army really is.
Author Shir Hever has researched in depth the economic factors behind Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as the Israeli arms and surveillance technology industries.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-22-why-israel-isnt-powerful-it-wants-us-think
On Episode 21, we are joined by Lubnah Shomali, advocacy manager with Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights to talk about the detrimental effects that international aid agencies place onto Palestinian civil society.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-21-how-eu-polices-palestinian-rights-groups
Photo: Lubnah Shomali, Badil (Eyewitness Palestine)
Professor Joseph Massad joins us to discuss Israel's theft of Palestinian land and the current Trump-Netanyahu annexation plan.
Added to previous annexations, Massad argues that the plan could mean about 70 percent of the West Bank is declared as under Israeli "sovereignty" -- far higher than the 30 percent usually discussed by the media.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-20-joseph-massad-annexation
Photo: Palestinians in Gaza City demonstrate against Israel's annexation plans, 1 July 2020. (Ashraf Amra/APA Images)
Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace and Kristian Davis Bailey of Black for Palestine discuss the revolutionary moment in the US as people rise up against police violence and strengthen solidarity with Palestinians.
Photo: Palestinians in Bethlehem hold a vigil for George Floyd and Iyad Hallaq, 2 June. (Abedalrahman Hassan/APA Images)
Filmmaker and activist Iara Lee was a passenger on the Mavi Marmara, part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that was intercepted and raided by Israeli commandos on 31 May, 2010. Israeli forces killed 9 people aboard the ship. She tells us about her experience and how she's still pursuing justice ten years later.
We also feature an interview with Mohammad Samara, a nurse and activist in Nablus, about the COVID-19 pandemic in the occupied West Bank.
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-18-israels-mavi-marmara-massacre-10-years
Photo: The Mavi Marmara, part of the 2010 Freedom Flotilla hijacked by Israel. The subsequent backlash in global public opinion led Israeli spies to begin monitoring Palestine solidarity groups. (Wikipedia)
"The coronavirus has exacerbated, in fact highlighted, the racist system that exists in the country," says lawyer Diana Buttu.
Israel initially only provided COVID-19 testing to cities and towns where most of the inhabitants are Jewish. Towns inside Israel with a large Palestinian population have been ignored, Buttu explains.
Now, she says, “the numbers of cases of Palestinians who have tested positive is on the rise, mostly because there has been such a push by Palestinians to have testing in these areas.”
Nora and Asa also discuss how they are coping on coronavirus lockdown in the US and UK, and Asa gets into a recent leaked British Labour Party report.
Image: Palestinians distribute cleaning supplies amid fears of the spread of COVID-19, near Hebron. Mosab Shawer/APA Images
Dr. Mona El-Farra is the Health Chair of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society of the Gaza Strip and a member of the Union of Health Work Committees. Dr. Mona is also the director of Gaza Projects for the Middle East Children's Alliance (mecaforpeace.org)
Photo: Ashraf Amra / APA Images
Dealing with a problem like the COVID-19 pandemic consists of three major pillars: diagnosis and identification of infected patients, protection of healthcare workers, and treatment, Dr. Tarek Loubani tells The Electronic Intifada Podcast. "In Gaza, those three pillars of a response to an infectious pandemic like this, not one of them is intact."
Guests: Dr. Tarek Loubani, Reidun Garapick
Photo: Palestinian youths disinfect people as a preventive measure amid fears of the spread of the coronavirus, Gaza City, 23 March, 2020. (Mahmoud Ajjour/APA Images)
On episode 15 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, filmmaker and journalist Abby Martin, joined by her lawyer, Gadeir Abbas, discusses her recent free speech lawsuit against the state of Georgia and its anti-BDS law.
Later in the episode, activist and writer Tony Greenstein explains the state of anti-Zionist politics following the struggle over the UK Labor party.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-15-resisting-censors
In Episode 14 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Nora and Asa welcome back As'ad AbuKhalil, a professor of political science at California State University Stanislaus and a commentator on Middle East politics, to the show to discuss the aftermath of US president Donald Trump's assassinations of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the leader of Iraqi militias that were instrumental in the defeat of ISIS -- so-called Islamic State.
Photo: A Palestinian holds a flyer at the mourning service for Qasem Soleimani in Gaza City, 4 January. (Ashraf Amra/APA Images)
On episode 13 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Nora and Asa are joined by Ali Abunimah to discuss the most significant stories of 2019.
"We have no option but to hold onto hope and to keep struggling for the world we want to live in," Ali says.
"We see Palestinians holding on, we see that spirit of steadfastness still there and we see people around the world" advocating for Palestinian rights, he adds.
Image: A Palestinian protester dressed as Santa Claus holds a sign on the remains of a demolished Palestinian house. Bethlehem, 23 December 2019. (Abedalrahman Hassan/APA Images)
Journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin joins Nora and Asa to talk about the production of her documentary film, Gaza Fights for Freedom. Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since 30 March, 2018. Read more on this episode here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-12-gaza-fights-freedom For more information on the film, visit https://gazafightsforfreedom.com/
Lana Ramadan, international advocacy director of the Palestinian prisoners' support organization Addameer, joins Nora and Asa to talk about a recent raid on their office by Israeli forces, current conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and those under administrative detention, and the work that Addameer does to hold Israel accountable.
For more information, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-11-israeli-jailers-break-palestinians-ribs
Photo: Lana Ramadan, Addameer
We speak with political analyst Diana Buttu, former negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization and a Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, to talk about the outcome of the Israeli elections and the prospects for equality for Palestinians inside Israel and under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Music: "Ana Mish Politi" by Tamer Nafar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIYbJ2NYaQI)
Professor and writer As'ad AbuKhalil joins us to talk about Israel's election and prospects for justice for Palestinians. We also discussed what's behind Israel's recent attacks against Lebanon, Syria and Iraq; the solidification of the US-Israel-Saudi alliance and the Saudi-Qatari sectarian agitation campaign; and the ongoing war on Yemen. Plus, Asa gives us an update on being barred from the upcoming UK Labour Party conference.
For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-9-asad-abukhalil-israels-sham-elections
Music: "Enough" by Maysa Daw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDtNgm_eAOw) Image: As'ad AbuKhalil on Consortium News Live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zVoWDsLPX8)
On episode 8, we speak to attorney Radhika Sainath of Palestine Legal about a significant win in the fight for Palestine rights advocacy on US campuses.
Later in the broadcast, we discuss Siegebreakers – a new novel set in Gaza – with its author, Justin Podur.
Image: Ahmad Awad, who graduated in 2017, is one of five students who successfully sued Fordham University over its refusal to allow the establishment of Students for Justice in Palestine (Fordham SJP)
Music: “Wea’younha” by Sanaa Moussa
On episode 7, Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley host a discussion about Act.IL, an online influence campaign funded by the Israeli government.
They are joined by Michael Bueckert, who's been behind some of the most vital research on the group, publishing much of it to his @AntiBDSApp Twitter account(https://twitter.com/antibdsapp).
Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-7-behind-israels-troll-army
Music: "The Death of Neoliberalism" by Lowkey
Image: Still from a video on Act.IL's YouTube channel
Production assistance by Sharif Zakout
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On episode 6 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, co-hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley are joined by EI contributor Hamza Abu Eltarabesh in Gaza.
Abu Eltarabesh talks about the recent devastating attacks on Gaza by Israeli occupation forces and the ongoing struggle for the Palestinian right of return after 71 years of expulsion.
Following the interview with Abu Eltarabesh, we feature excerpts from a recent speech by Columbia University professor, historian and author Joseph Massad who argues that the Zionist movement and the Israeli state have always been implacably hostile to democracy and universal rights.
Special thanks to Tamara Nassar for translation.
For more: http://bit.ly/2Hy3q8U
Music: “Ala Khair" by @RevolutionMakers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oCFf93lGFo&feature=youtu.be)
Image: Palestinian protesters in Gaza gather to demand the right to return to their homeland on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, 14 May 2018. (Ashraf Amra/APA Images)
Production assistance by Sharif Zakout
On episode 5 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, co-hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley are joined by researcher and activist Stephanie Skora.
Skora's recent report, "Pride with Prejudice" questions the activities of A Wider Bridge, a pro-Israel group that claims to be concerned about gay, lesbian and transgender rights. The report demonstrates how the group relies on donors who have supported right-wing political campaigns.
With co-hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-5-how-gay-rights-group-uses-right-wing-funding-promote-israel
Music: "Send It" by Indigo Mateo ft. Lauren Jimenez (https://soundcloud.com/indigo-mateo)
Production assistance by Sharif Zakout.
This week on The Electronic Intifada Podcast, co-hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley are joined by Hatem Bazian, a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and chair of American Muslims for Palestine.
Bazian talks about being the target of a black ops intimidation campaign reportedly organized by Psy-Group, an Israeli intelligence firm staffed by former Mossad agents, which spied on activists and professors on US campuses.
Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-4-how-israel-spies-us-campaigners
Theme music and production assistance by Sharif Zakout
Music: "Dheisheh" by Excentrik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua9rCY1gza8)
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Podcast Episode 3: Demolishing the two-state fantasy
This week on The Electronic Intifada Podcast, hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley are joined by their colleague Tamara Nassar to discuss Israel’s recently increasing policies of rampant home demolitions and erasure of Palestinian villages.
We also focus on the increasing collaboration between Israel and dictatorial Gulf states.
Show notes with links: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-3-demolishing-two-state-fantasy
Photo: Palestinian protesters take part during a demonstration against Israel's plan to demolish the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, in the occupied West Bank, 5 October 2018. Shadi Hatem/APA Images
For the second show in our new podcast format, hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley are joined by Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone Project and co-host of the excellent Moderate Rebels podcast.
Read more about this episode here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-2-how-israel-helps-latin-american-death-squads
As someone with long history with The Electronic Intifada, there was a lot to discuss with Max, and the conversation is wide-ranging and global in outlook.
We take a look at the Integrity Initiative, a covert disinformation operation funded with millions of pounds from the British government’s foreign and defense ministries. The Grayzone Project has done some of the leading reporting on this shady outfit.
"If you want to understand not just Russiagate but how our media is acting as a permanent arm of the national security state, both in the UK and the US, you have to understand the Integrity Initiative scandal," Blumenthal says.
Run out of the offices of an obscure London think tank called the Institute for Statecraft, just what is this “initiative” up to?
How is it working to subvert Labour, the Democrats and the wider left in the UK and the US? Exactly what is its right-wing extremist agenda?
Since recording took place on the day the attempted coup in Venezuela was launched, we also talk about what's been going on there.
While Palestine is the top of the list of "foreign policy" issues that some social democrats are too quick to wave the white flag over, Venezuela is another clear example.
How does the US-led subversion of that country show that Israel is a leading part of a transatlantic alliance against progressive governments?
Finally, we also discuss "Russiagate" and how it is being weaponized against the left in the US and the UK, including against Palestine solidarity.
Photo: Palestinians in Gaza rally in support of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in front of the UN headquarters in Gaza City, 28 January. (Ashraf Amra/APA Images)
Music: Go Down Standing by Excentrik Production assistance by Sharif Zakout
Joining Nora Barrows-Friedman as co-host for the first time is her colleague and fellow reporter Asa Winstanley.
This week we take a deeper look at Asa’s latest investigative article, “Fake Labour accounts fueling ‘anti-Semitism crisis’,” which went viral soon after publication. We discuss how the story came about and the wider background of events in the UK Labour Party over the last few years. Who is behind the “anti-Semitism crisis” in Labour? Is this media narrative having an effect? How is Israel like ISIS? Has there been any official response to the story? What would Asa say to Jeremy Corbyn if he had another chance to interview him? And why do people who try to ban the term “Israel lobby” annoy the hell out of us?
Image: UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, 2016 (Sophie J. Brown, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremy_Corbyn,_Leader_of_the_Labour_Party,_UK.jpg)
Music: Go Down Standing by Excentrik f/Rythmatic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75IBELKprro)
Production assistance: Sharif Zakout
On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Student supporters of Palestinian rights resist smears, repression and intimidation from UCLA administration, Zionist groups and local lawmakers; Professor Rabab Abdulhadi is vindicated in a fight against a lawfare suit intending to keep her silent. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-las-israel-lobby-fails-ban-conference-palestinian-rights (Photo: National Students for Justice in Palestine)
On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: University of Michigan punishes professor for refusing to write a recommendation letter for a student wishing to study abroad in Israel; Major Jewish communal organizations fund far-right wing, Islamophobic and homophobic groups. Guests: - Radhika Sainath, staff attorney, Palestine Legal - Stephanie Skora, researcher Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-michigan-professor-punished-supporting-boycott (Photo: Emily Mathews/Flickr)
The US and Israel have long exchanged programs to share practices of police militarization, mass surveillance, violent repression of communities and movements that both governments define as a threat, and racial profiling. Plus: A Palestinian American secretly recorded her interrogation by Israeli officers at Ben Gurion airport. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-how-israel-helps-refine-us-tactics-repression (Photo: Jewish Voice for Peace - Philadelphia)
On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: The Episcopal Church takes action to support Palestinian rights; Germany implements municipal and national crackdowns on Palestine activism. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-episcopal-church-votes-refuse-profits-israeli-crimes (Photo: Members of the Episcopal Church join a protest outside an immigrant detention center in Texas. Photo by Jennifer Bing)
Activists with the Virginia Campaign for Human Rights talk about how they are fighting the proposed changes by Israel advocacy organizations that deliberately distort or omit Israel's historic and current violations of Palestinian rights. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israel-lobby-seeks-erase-occupation-virginia-schoolbooks (Photo: Israel's illegal wall in the occupied West Bank could be described as a "security fence" if Israel lobby groups are allowed to edit Virginia's textbooks. Najeh Hashlamoun / APA images)
On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Human rights activists keep up pressure on Philadelphia Orchestra over its Israel tour; Ehud Barak protested in San Francisco. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/philadelphia-orchestra-teams-israeli-soldiers
Dr. Tarek Loubani describes being shot in the legs by Israeli sniper as Gaza hospitals are forced to improvise with lack of basic supplies. Photo courtesy of Tarek Loubani (in blue scrubs, in a photo taken on 11 May. His colleague, Mousa Abu Hassanein, second from right, was shot and killed on 14 May). Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-clearly-marked-gaza-medics-shot-israeli-snipers
On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: A report from the Great March of Return, after Israeli forces kill dozens of Palestinians in Gaza; excerpts of talks by Ghada Karmi, Joseph Massad, Ilan Pappe and Salman Abu Sitta. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/horrific-unprecedented-israel-massacres-almost-60-palestinians-gaza (Photo: Palestinian protesters demand their rights during the Great March of Return, Rafah, Gaza Strip, 14 May. Photo by Mahmoud Bassam/APA Images)
Israel denies entry to the executive director and board chair of the Center for Constitutional Rights, using false information from Zionist blacklisting websites; author Sunaina Maira explains why the academic boycott is growing in popularity across US universities despite lawfare campaigns aimed at silencing scholars. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israel-scans-troll-websites-decide-who-can-enter
Two young activists with the Demiltarize! Durham2Palestine coalition talk about the significance of banning local police training programs with Israeli forces. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-how-durham-activists-led-city-ban-police-training-israel(Photo: Ajamu Dillahunt of BYP-100 addresses a rally outside Durham city hall, 16 April. https://twitter.com/Durm2Palestine/status/986005261939769345)
"Every Palestinian was a target" at March of Return in Gaza; Scholars call for an end to Study Abroad in Israel programs at US universities. Photo: Palestinian protesters take part in a mass protest demanding the right to return to their homeland, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 30 March. (Ashraf Amra / APA images)
On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Israeli lawfare "backfires" in New Zealand; Bay Area supporters of imprisoned Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi rally for her release. (Photo: Protesters in Oakland, California, protest the imprisonment of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, 31 January. Image by Bill Hackwell)
On The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi denied bail in an Israeli military court; Activists celebrate the closure of a New York City diamond store owned by Israeli billionaire and settlement profiteer Lev Leviev. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-how-israel-couldnt-bear-ahed-tamimis-slap (Photo of Ahed Tamimi, Ofer prison, 20 December: Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)
Journalists and activists recall the first intifada and how the legacy of popular organizing during the 1987 uprising still resonates today. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/stones-slingshots-and-organizing-recalling-first-intifada (Image: Palestinian women confront Israeli soldiers, Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza, 1988. Robert Croma / Flickr)
This is the full interview with Ziad Abbas of the Middle East Children's Alliance. An excerpt of this interview was produced for The Electronic Intifada Podcast.
Trump appeals to his anti-Palestinian base by declaring Jerusalem as Israel's capital; As'ad AbuKhalil analyzes the latest power plays in Lebanon and the consequences of a strengthening alliance between the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-trump-rewards-israels-intransigence Music: "Borderlands" by Naima Shalhoub. (Photo: Mahfouz Abu Turk / APA Images)
Human rights defender Issa Amro on trial in Israeli military court; US lawmakers seek to end financial complicity in Israel's torture of Palestinian children in military detention. Photo: Activists Farid al-Atrash (left) and Issa Amro (right) in front of the Ofer Israeli military prison on 29 October, after their first military tribunal. (Twitter)Music: Sharif Zakout. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/issa-amro-they-are-trying-put-me-jail
Graphic novelist Iasmin Omar Ata talks about the struggle for recognition in an interview with Marguerite Dabaie. Read Dabaie's full review of "Mis(h)adra" here: https://electronicintifada.net/content/visualizing-feeling/21841 and read the podcast blog post here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-visualizing-feeling
Anti-Palestinian groups are escalating attacks on a cafe over a mural honoring Rasmea Odeh. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-defending-palestinian-culture-oaklands-reems (Photo by Sharif Zakout)
Largest US organization of democratic socialists endorse Palestinian BDS call; A new book, "We Will Not Be Silenced," investigates resistance by students and scholars to intimidation and repression by Israel lobby groups. Music by Invincible. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-dsa-backs-boycott-campuses-fight-israels-censorship
Jalal Abukhater reports from Jerusalem; Josh Ruebner analyzes the Israel Anti-Boycott Act; and poet and activist Aja Monet talks about her Dream Defenders delegation to Palestine and reads from her new book of poetry. (Photo: Palestinians at the gate of al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, just before entering by the thousands, Jalal Abukhater on Twitter, 27 July)
The Democratic Party's members are rapidly shifting their opinions about the US-Israel relationship, activists say. Will elected officials follow suit? More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-california-democrats-defend-right-boycott-israel (Photo: Anti-BDS bills are designed to suppress Palestine rights activism in the US. Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr)
Dozens of US scholars are protesting a recent vote by the Modern Language Association (MLA) to "refrain from endorsing" the academic boycott of Israel; Canadian activists push the leftist New Democratic Party (NDP) to adopt a more progressive policy on Palestine. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-mla-anti-boycott-vote-could-encourage-repression Music: "Pain" by Palestine Street.(Photo: Students take part in a March 2014 rally against a decision by Boston’s Northeastern University to suspend Students for Justice in Palestine. Bryan MacCormack/LeftInFocus)
Laila El-Haddad interviews Joudie Kalla, author of the cookbook "Palestine on a Plate." For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-cuisine-more-whats-plate/20546 (Photo of Joudie Kalla: Ria Osbourne)
Israel's leaders continue to threaten the entire Lebanese population with another war. Activist, writer and scholar Rania Masri of the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel in Lebanon talks about the banning of Wonder Woman over the role of the lead actor, Gal Gadot, who was an Israeli soldier during the 2006 bombing of Lebanon. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-why-wonder-woman-banned-lebanon (Photo: Gal Gadot with Shimon Peres, from Gadot's Facebook page)
Pressure mounts on Radiohead to cancel their planned Tel Aviv gig; and Omar Barghouti and Nyle Fort discuss common resistance in the struggles for Palestinian and Black liberation. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/building-common-resistance-us-palestine (Photos: Barghouti and Fort [top], activists plead with Radiohead at a Berkeley performance in April [bottom]).
Anne Paq and Ala Qandil of Obliterated Families talk about their multimedia project and US tour; Marguerite Dabaie speaks to Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh about his new book, White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/stories-gazas-obliterated-families (Photo: Reporter Ala Qandil, courtesy of Obliterated Families)
Actor and co-writer Tamer Nafar and director Udi Aloni discuss the stories behind the new film Junction 48. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/content/rapping-amid-palestines-ruins/20031
Young dancers and hip hop emcees from Dheisheh refugee camp are on a US tour. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/young-palestinian-dancers-tell-stories-resistance (Photo: Dancers perform in Oakland, 19 March. Brooke Anderson)
Malaka Mohammed has been targeted by Israel lobby groups for her defense of Palestinian rights. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-gaza-student-uk-speaks-out-against-harassment (Photo of Malaka Mohammed by Jeremy Abrahams) Read Malaka's post on Medium here: http://bit.ly/2nmLPZH And follow her on Twitter: @malakashwaikh
Youth protesters interrupted the senate hearing of David Friedman as US ambassador to Israel on Thursday, in an action they say was aimed at inspiring others to ensure senators block his confirmation. (Image: C-Span, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4657125/palestinian-protester-disrupts-friedman-nomination-hearing)
Reporter Charlotte Silver talks about the ongoing push by immigration attorneys to protect the rights of immigrants and refugees under the Trump administration's Muslim ban. (Photo by sarah-ji on Flickr, http://bit.ly/2jCWgHt)
Activists Amanda Weatherspoon and Nadya Tannous highlight strengthening solidarity between Black and Palestinian struggles. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-resisting-youth-incarceration-us-palestine (Image: Friends of Sabeel North America, https://nochildbehindbars.squarespace.com)
Hashem Abu Sham'a, who grew up in al-Arroub refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, wins prestigious Rhodes scholarship; a talk on BDS and activism by Omar Shakir and Rahul Saksena. (Photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills)
Journalists and authors Mohammed Omer and Jordan Flaherty join the podcast to talk about Palestine and activism. Music: Naima Shalhoub. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-gaza-fuel-emergency-daily-routine (Photo: A Palestinian man overlooks Gaza's power station in the central Gaza Strip, July 2015. Ashraf Amra/APA Images)
Activestills aims to do more than document protest in Palestine. The Electronic Intifada speaks with Activestills photographer Oren Ziv and co-editors Shiraz Grinbaum and Vered Maimon of the new book "Activestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel." For more: https://electronicintifada.net/content/photography-solidarity/18421
Law professor Katherine Franke dismisses claims that use of the term is akin to anti-Semitism. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/why-israels-actions-can-be-called-genocide (Photo: Anne Paq/ActiveStills)
The Electronic Intifada interviews Charlotte Kates, a Palestinian prisoner solidarity activist who was interrogated by Israeli forces and denied entry to West Bank; and Students for Justice in Palestine members Rahim Kurwa and Omar Zahzah who talk about the growth of the solidarity movement on US campuses as Israel lobby groups attempt to suppress student organizing.
Activists will put Hillary Clinton's values "to the test" when it comes to advocating for Palestinian children. Interview guests: Rania Khalek (The Electronic Intifada), Josh Ruebner (US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation), Jennifer Bing (American Friends Service Committee, No Way to Treat a Child Campaign). For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-dnc-delegates-support-palestinian-rights-even-if-democratic-party Photo: US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Facebook page)
More than 80 Minnesota legislators pressured the president of the University of Minnesota to malign and undermine a student divestment campaign. (Image: #UMNDivest supporters at the University of Minnesota, from UMNDivest Facebook page)
Issa Amro of Youth Against Settlements in Hebron arrested for "incitement" by Israeli army; and activists in Virginia successfully pressure lawmakers to drop anti-BDS bill. For the full story: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-how-palestinian-rights-activists-halted-virginias-anti-boycott (Image: Palestinian protesters hold banners during a demonstration against the closure of Shuhada street to Palestinians, on the 22nd anniversary of the closure, in the West Bank city of Hebron. 26 February. Wisam Hashlamoun / APA Images)
McGill students pass a BDS motion; and professors at US universities form Faculty for Justice in Palestine to support student organizing and protect academic freedom. Music: "Boycott Israel" produced by Don Martin. For the full story: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-canadian-students-back-israel-boycott-government-condemns-it (Image: activists at McGill University, from McGill BDS Action Network's Facebook page)
The student government at the University of Illinois-Chicago unanimously passed a divestment resolution on Monday evening. Also, divestment resolution veto bypassed at the University of South Florida as student-led campaigns grow. Music: "The Emperor's Clothes" by Invincible. For the full story: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-student-organizing-pays-divestment-victories-chicago-and-florida (Image: A student activist wears Chicago-area campus divestment campaign buttons at the UIC divestment hearing, posted by Twitter user @nashalam)
Issa Amro, coordinator of Youth Against Settlements, talks about the ongoing sit-in protest at a checkpoint in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron to protest a "closed military zone" order and daily violence against Palestinian residents of the city by soldiers and settlers. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israeli-army-making-our-lives-impossible-says-hebron-activist (Image: Sit-in protest at checkpoint/Youth Against Settlements [@twitter.com/YASHebron])
Rafeef Ziadah is a London-based poet and activist. Her newest CD, We Teach Life, combines poetry and music and makes a deliberate connection between activism and art. Hazem Jamjoum interviews Ziadah for The Electronic Intifada. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-rafeef-ziadah-why-its-difficult-separate-politics-poetry (Photo courtesy of Rafeef Ziadah)
The Electronic Intifada's contributor Budour Youssef Hassan talks about the recent uprisings across Palestine, how youth in particular are self-organizing their resistance protests and the impact of Israel's collective punishment policies. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israel-denies-palestinians-even-right-mourn (Photo: A Palestinian youth throws back a tear gas canister during clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, 20 November. Anne Paq/Activestills)
Brad Parker, attorney with Defence for Children International-Palestine, says that the current attacks on Palestinians are "part of a trend we've seen since 2014, where Israeli forces have used increasing lethal force, but also the use of excessive force, against Palestinian demonstrators -- particularly children." For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-killing-palestinian-children-inevitable-outcome-israeli-policies (Photo: Relatives of Ahmed Sharaka, 13, who was killed by Israeli troops on 11 October, mourn during his funeral in Jalazoun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 12 October. Shadi Hatem / APA Images)
Sami Suleiman of National Students for Justice in Palestine says that "It requires personal endurance to do this work and a willingness to face a lot of backfire." The national SJP conference happens this weekend in San Diego. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-why-new-israel-lobby-smears-are-good-news-activists (Image of past SJP national conference courtesy of NSJP's Facebook page)
New York-based poet Remi Kanazi talks about his work and shares some of his poems from his brand-new book, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israels-massacres-cant-be-erased-says-poet-remi-kanazi (Photo of Remi Kanazi by Christopher Hazou)
Activist Stephanie Westbrook talks about the ongoing boycott campaign against SodaStream as the company sets to close its main production facilities in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank and move it to the Naqab/Negev desert in present-day Israel. The move will make SodaStream complicit in the further displacement of Palestinian Bedouin communities. (Image: SodaStream spoof ad from the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation)
"The rubble from our house is still there," says Gaza-based writer, editor and educator Refaat Alareer. In this podcast, we talk about Gaza a year after Israel's attack and feature interviews with Alareer, Laila El-Haddad and Charlotte Silver, plus music by Naima Shalhoub and Marcel Khalife. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-year-gaza-attack-has-been-slow-death (Photo: Palestinian boys walk past the rubble of houses destroyed in the 2014 Israeli attack. Abed Rahim Khatib / APA Images)
Haidar Eid sings about "the ravages of occupation, apartheid and genocidal blockade," he says. "But also a reflection of the range of human emotions under these circumstances, from fierce resistance and commitment to freedom to love and romance." This is a sample from his new album Gaza Blues: Hymns of Love, Death and Resistance.
Nerdeen Kiswani, 21, told The Electronic Intifada she was subjected to a series of interrogations which included "bizarre" questioning related to her involvement with Students for Justice in Palestine. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israel-blocks-us-citizen-visiting-palestine (Photo: Nerdeen Kiswani)
Jeremy Corbyn, the surprise frontrunner in the leadership election for the UK Labour Party, says he would impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel if he were to become prime minister in 2020. The Electronic Intifada's Asa Winstanley interviews him in London. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/jeremy-corbyn-backs-boycott-israeli-universities-involved-arms-research (Photo: Asa Winstanley)
Dave Zirin, author and sports editor of The Nation, joins us to talk about the decision by NBA players and league officials to align themselves with Republican Party bankroller Sheldon Adelson for a tour explicitly promoted to fight the BDS movement. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-nba-players-anti-bds-propaganda-tour-israel (Photo: NBA player Omri Casspi playing for Israel against Finland, 2010. Jaripk/Wikimedia Commons)
Muayad Alayan says his debut feature film Love, Theft and Other Entanglements attemps to "gives the stage to the characters and the story." (Photo: Still from the film, courtesy of http://www.lovetheftandotherentanglements.com/)
Two Jewish anti-Zionist activists are facing up to eighteen months in prison after they nonviolently protested a fundraiser for the Israeli army in May. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-activists-charged-criminals-disrupting-israeli-army-fundraiser (Photo: An image posted by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces shows soldiers with their faces obscured holding up gift cards given to them by the organization. Via Facebook)
Brad Parker of Defence for Children International-Palestine and Jennifer Bing of the American Friends Service Committee talk about the recent Capitol Hill briefing on Israel's violations of Palestinian children's rights. The briefing included testimony by Palestinian American teenager Tariq Abukhdeir, who was brutally beaten by Israeli police last summer. (Photo: Screenshot of Brad Parker, Tariq Abukhdeir and Jennifer Bing from video of the briefing)
A team of Canada-based physicians has paired up with four major hospitals in the Gaza Strip to install solar panels and provide reliable energy 24 hours a day to emergency rooms, intensive care units and operating theaters. Dr. Tarek Loubani talks about the EmpowerGAZA project. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-solar-panels-gaza-hospitals-aim-ease-healthcare-disaster (Photo: Screenshot from video of Loubani talking about al-Shifa hospital's solar panel success, which EmpowerGAZA is hoping to replicate in other Gaza hospitals)
Students at Marquette University in Wisconsin are organizing against a recent attempt to silence Palestine solidarity activism and the watering-down of a divestment resolution. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/wisconsin-student-government-censors-criticism-firms-abetting-israels (Photo from MU Divest campaign)
Approximately 130 members of faculty at NYU have joined a growing campaign to urge the university to divest from companies profiting from Israel's crimes. (Photo: NYU Students for Justice in Palestine members march in New York, from NYU-SJP Facebook page)
Durham County had joined the boycott of South African goods during the 1980s apartheid era, and current campaigners were able to "use that as precedent for them taking action on [private security firm] G4S." (Photo from Jewish Voice for Peace, part of the Durham Drop G4S campaign in North Carolina)
Filmmakers Malek Rasamny and Matt Peterson have begun producing short documentary films about the common struggles between Palestinian refugees and First Nations communities on reservations across the North American continent. In this interview, Rasamny told The Electronic Intifada that it's important to link the struggles together because of the "general historical similarities between the Palestinians and the native peoples here [in the US]." (Photo: Screenshot from "We Love Being Lakota," a film by Rasamny and Peterson.)