The Electronic Intifada

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.

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...