The Electronic Intifada

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...

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 th...

“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 say...

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...

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...

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...

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 eng...

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-ba...

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 mu...

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 W...

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...

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 Abdu...

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...

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 address...

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://electronici...

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...

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...

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 (...

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-barrow...

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 th...

"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 pos...