The Electronic Intifada

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...

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: P...

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://electronic...

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 instr...

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,...

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/blog...

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://electronici...

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...

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 upc...

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 es...

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-barro...

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 e...

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 su...

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 s...

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 n...