The Electronic Intifada

For the second show in our new podcast format, hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley are joined by Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone Project and co-host of the excellent Moderate Rebels podcast. Read more about this episode here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-2-how-israel-helps-latin-american-death-squads As someone with long history with The E...

Joining Nora Barrows-Friedman as co-host for the first time is her colleague and fellow reporter Asa Winstanley. This week we take a deeper look at Asa’s latest investigative article, “Fake Labour accounts fueling ‘anti-Semitism crisis’,” which went viral soon after publication. We discuss how the story came about and the wider background of events in the UK Labour Party over the last few years. W...

On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Student supporters of Palestinian rights resist smears, repression and intimidation from UCLA administration, Zionist groups and local lawmakers; Professor Rabab Abdulhadi is vindicated in a fight against a lawfare suit intending to keep her silent. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-las-israel-lobby-fails...

On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: University of Michigan punishes professor for refusing to write a recommendation letter for a student wishing to study abroad in Israel; Major Jewish communal organizations fund far-right wing, Islamophobic and homophobic groups. Guests: - Radhika Sainath, staff attorney, Palestine Legal - Stephanie Skora, researcher Read more here: https://elect...

The US and Israel have long exchanged programs to share practices of police militarization, mass surveillance, violent repression of communities and movements that both governments define as a threat, and racial profiling. Plus: A Palestinian American secretly recorded her interrogation by Israeli officers at Ben Gurion airport. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman...

On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: The Episcopal Church takes action to support Palestinian rights; Germany implements municipal and national crackdowns on Palestine activism. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-episcopal-church-votes-refuse-profits-israeli-crimes (Photo: Members of the Episcopal Church join a protest outside an immigrant d...

Activists with the Virginia Campaign for Human Rights talk about how they are fighting the proposed changes by Israel advocacy organizations that deliberately distort or omit Israel's historic and current violations of Palestinian rights. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israel-lobby-seeks-erase-occupation-virginia-schoolbooks (Photo: Israel's illeg...

On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Human rights activists keep up pressure on Philadelphia Orchestra over its Israel tour; Ehud Barak protested in San Francisco. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/philadelphia-orchestra-teams-israeli-soldiers

Dr. Tarek Loubani describes being shot in the legs by Israeli sniper as Gaza hospitals are forced to improvise with lack of basic supplies. Photo courtesy of Tarek Loubani (in blue scrubs, in a photo taken on 11 May. His colleague, Mousa Abu Hassanein, second from right, was shot and killed on 14 May). Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-clearly-marked-gaza...

On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: A report from the Great March of Return, after Israeli forces kill dozens of Palestinians in Gaza; excerpts of talks by Ghada Karmi, Joseph Massad, Ilan Pappe and Salman Abu Sitta. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/horrific-unprecedented-israel-massacres-almost-60-palestinians-gaza (Photo: Palestinian prot...

Israel denies entry to the executive director and board chair of the Center for Constitutional Rights, using false information from Zionist blacklisting websites; author Sunaina Maira explains why the academic boycott is growing in popularity across US universities despite lawfare campaigns aimed at silencing scholars. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-isr...

Two young activists with the Demiltarize! Durham2Palestine coalition talk about the significance of banning local police training programs with Israeli forces. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-how-durham-activists-led-city-ban-police-training-israel(Photo: Ajamu Dillahunt of BYP-100 addresses a rally outside Durham city hall, 16 April. https://twitter.com...

"Every Palestinian was a target" at March of Return in Gaza; Scholars call for an end to Study Abroad in Israel programs at US universities. Photo: Palestinian protesters take part in a mass protest demanding the right to return to their homeland, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 30 March. (Ashraf Amra / APA images)

On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Israeli lawfare "backfires" in New Zealand; Bay Area supporters of imprisoned Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi rally for her release. (Photo: Protesters in Oakland, California, protest the imprisonment of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, 31 January. Image by Bill Hackwell)

On The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi denied bail in an Israeli military court; Activists celebrate the closure of a New York City diamond store owned by Israeli billionaire and settlement profiteer Lev Leviev. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-how-israel-couldnt-bear-ahed-tamimis-slap (Photo of Ahed Tamimi, Ofer prison, 20...

Journalists and activists recall the first intifada and how the legacy of popular organizing during the 1987 uprising still resonates today. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/stones-slingshots-and-organizing-recalling-first-intifada (Image: Palestinian women confront Israeli soldiers, Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza, 1988. Robert Croma / Flickr)

This is the full interview with Ziad Abbas of the Middle East Children's Alliance. An excerpt of this interview was produced for The Electronic Intifada Podcast.

Trump appeals to his anti-Palestinian base by declaring Jerusalem as Israel's capital; As'ad AbuKhalil analyzes the latest power plays in Lebanon and the consequences of a strengthening alliance between the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-trump-rewards-israels-intransigence Music: "Borderlands" by Naima Shalhoub. (Photo: Mahf...

Human rights defender Issa Amro on trial in Israeli military court; US lawmakers seek to end financial complicity in Israel's torture of Palestinian children in military detention. Photo: Activists Farid al-Atrash (left) and Issa Amro (right) in front of the Ofer Israeli military prison on 29 October, after their first military tribunal. (Twitter)Music: Sharif Zakout. Read more: https://electronic...

Graphic novelist Iasmin Omar Ata talks about the struggle for recognition in an interview with Marguerite Dabaie. Read Dabaie's full review of "Mis(h)adra" here: https://electronicintifada.net/content/visualizing-feeling/21841 and read the podcast blog post here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-visualizing-feeling

Anti-Palestinian groups are escalating attacks on a cafe over a mural honoring Rasmea Odeh. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-defending-palestinian-culture-oaklands-reems (Photo by Sharif Zakout)

Largest US organization of democratic socialists endorse Palestinian BDS call; A new book, "We Will Not Be Silenced," investigates resistance by students and scholars to intimidation and repression by Israel lobby groups. Music by Invincible. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-dsa-backs-boycott-campuses-fight-israels-censorship

Jalal Abukhater reports from Jerusalem; Josh Ruebner analyzes the Israel Anti-Boycott Act; and poet and activist Aja Monet talks about her Dream Defenders delegation to Palestine and reads from her new book of poetry. (Photo: Palestinians at the gate of al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, just before entering by the thousands, Jalal Abukhater on Twitter, 27 July)

The Democratic Party's members are rapidly shifting their opinions about the US-Israel relationship, activists say. Will elected officials follow suit? More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-california-democrats-defend-right-boycott-israel (Photo: Anti-BDS bills are designed to suppress Palestine rights activism in the US. Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr)

Dozens of US scholars are protesting a recent vote by the Modern Language Association (MLA) to "refrain from endorsing" the academic boycott of Israel; Canadian activists push the leftist New Democratic Party (NDP) to adopt a more progressive policy on Palestine. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-mla-anti-boycott-vote-could-encourage-repression Music: "Pai...