The Electronic Intifada

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, w...

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 J...

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 Isr...

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 Shatil...

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," Alaree...

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...

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. R...

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...

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 Pal...

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 Palestinia...

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 Asso...

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 onl...

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.