The Electronic Intifada

Watch entire livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIcRCyRYWYY On 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 campaig...

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=3YQLlPtPKYs Guests: - Refaat Alareer, writer and educator in Gaza - Rida Jawad, SOAS Alumni - Maryam Ofkir, SOAS Palestine Society - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer, Birzeit University - Jon Elmer, contributin...

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=0TAE4eT3oOc Guests: - 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-gaza Guest: - 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...

"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, an...

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 themselv...

"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 writer Read more and watch the entire broadcast here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedm...

"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 Netanyah...

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, Lowkey Read more and watch the entire broadcast here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-b...

“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 backgro...

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/b...

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 Ameri...

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. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-80-nyc-florida-students-fight-lobby-smears

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 contr...

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://elec...

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-...

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 le...

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:...

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-fried...