The Electronic Intifada

New York-based poet Remi Kanazi talks about his work and shares some of his poems from his brand-new book, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israels-massacres-cant-be-erased-says-poet-remi-kanazi (Photo of Remi Kanazi by Christopher Hazou)

Activist Stephanie Westbrook talks about the ongoing boycott campaign against SodaStream as the company sets to close its main production facilities in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank and move it to the Naqab/Negev desert in present-day Israel. The move will make SodaStream complicit in the further displacement of Palestinian Bedouin communities. (Image: SodaStream spoof ad from th...

"The rubble from our house is still there," says Gaza-based writer, editor and educator Refaat Alareer. In this podcast, we talk about Gaza a year after Israel's attack and feature interviews with Alareer, Laila El-Haddad and Charlotte Silver, plus music by Naima Shalhoub and Marcel Khalife. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-year-gaza-attack-has-been-slow-...

Haidar Eid sings about "the ravages of occupation, apartheid and genocidal blockade," he says. "But also a reflection of the range of human emotions under these circumstances, from fierce resistance and commitment to freedom to love and romance." This is a sample from his new album Gaza Blues: Hymns of Love, Death and Resistance.

Nerdeen Kiswani, 21, told The Electronic Intifada she was subjected to a series of interrogations which included "bizarre" questioning related to her involvement with Students for Justice in Palestine. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israel-blocks-us-citizen-visiting-palestine (Photo: Nerdeen Kiswani)

Jeremy Corbyn, the surprise frontrunner in the leadership election for the UK Labour Party, says he would impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel if he were to become prime minister in 2020. The Electronic Intifada's Asa Winstanley interviews him in London. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/jeremy-corbyn-backs-boycott-israeli-universities-involved-arms-research (Photo:...

Dave Zirin, author and sports editor of The Nation, joins us to talk about the decision by NBA players and league officials to align themselves with Republican Party bankroller Sheldon Adelson for a tour explicitly promoted to fight the BDS movement. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-nba-players-anti-bds-propaganda-tour-israel (Photo: NBA player Omri Cassp...

Muayad Alayan says his debut feature film Love, Theft and Other Entanglements attemps to "gives the stage to the characters and the story." (Photo: Still from the film, courtesy of http://www.lovetheftandotherentanglements.com/)

Two Jewish anti-Zionist activists are facing up to eighteen months in prison after they nonviolently protested a fundraiser for the Israeli army in May. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-activists-charged-criminals-disrupting-israeli-army-fundraiser (Photo: An image posted by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces shows soldiers with their faces obscure...

Brad Parker of Defence for Children International-Palestine and Jennifer Bing of the American Friends Service Committee talk about the recent Capitol Hill briefing on Israel's violations of Palestinian children's rights. The briefing included testimony by Palestinian American teenager Tariq Abukhdeir, who was brutally beaten by Israeli police last summer. (Photo: Screenshot of Brad Parker, Tariq A...

A team of Canada-based physicians has paired up with four major hospitals in the Gaza Strip to install solar panels and provide reliable energy 24 hours a day to emergency rooms, intensive care units and operating theaters. Dr. Tarek Loubani talks about the EmpowerGAZA project. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-solar-panels-gaza-hospitals-aim-ease-healthca...

Students at Marquette University in Wisconsin are organizing against a recent attempt to silence Palestine solidarity activism and the watering-down of a divestment resolution. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/wisconsin-student-government-censors-criticism-firms-abetting-israels (Photo from MU Divest campaign)

Approximately 130 members of faculty at NYU have joined a growing campaign to urge the university to divest from companies profiting from Israel's crimes. (Photo: NYU Students for Justice in Palestine members march in New York, from NYU-SJP Facebook page)

Durham County had joined the boycott of South African goods during the 1980s apartheid era, and current campaigners were able to "use that as precedent for them taking action on [private security firm] G4S." (Photo from Jewish Voice for Peace, part of the Durham Drop G4S campaign in North Carolina)

Filmmakers Malek Rasamny and Matt Peterson have begun producing short documentary films about the common struggles between Palestinian refugees and First Nations communities on reservations across the North American continent. In this interview, Rasamny told The Electronic Intifada that it's important to link the struggles together because of the "general historical similarities between the Palest...