The Electronic Intifada

Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQZyInLU-3s Guests: - Sewar Elejla, researcher - Ahmed Alsammak, journalist

Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5eCAsq9G4o Guests: - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer, Birzeit University

Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M42W4WPGCeE Guests: - Refaat Alareer, writer, educator in Gaza - Dr. Tarek Loubani, emergency room physician

Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHoMmeBbubg Guests: - Mahmoud Nasser, photojournalist and contributor to EI - Chris Gunness, former spokesperson for UN agency for Palestine refugees

Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdUjPoYnJI Guest: - Hatem Abudayyeh, US Palestinian Community Network

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv4ZpZkI_ZU Guests: - Ahmed Masoud, award-winning Palestinian and British writer from Gaza, living in London. Ahmed is the author of the novels Vanished and The Shroud Maker. His family is originally from the Palestinian village of Deir Snade, and he grew up in Gaza. - Yousef Aljamal, a Palestinian writer whose family was ethnically clea...

Watch full broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPr4lIzX_bE Guests: - Sadaf Doost, lawyer, Center for Constitutional Rights - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer, Birzeit University - Jon Elmer, EI contributing editor

Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkV2RmdDTTk Guests: - Hind Khoudary, journalist - Sewar Elejla, former doctor at al-Shifa Hospital - Jon Elmer, EI contributing editor

Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9J0_8cr4Eo Guests: - Ahmed Al-Sammak, MBA student in Dublin, Ireland. He previously worked as a journalist in Gaza, where he grew up - Louis Allday, writer, editor and historian - Jon Elmer, EI contributing editor

Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njuruv_2Kig Guests: - Ghada Ageel and Ghaida Hamdan - Roger Waters - Khalil AbuShammala

Watch entire livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIcRCyRYWYY On Friday, Gaza was completely disconnected from the outside world after all communications were cut off. There was a total blackout of the internet and phone network within Gaza as well, affecting everyone including emergency services and humanitarian workers. This came as Israel intensified its aerial extermination campaig...

Join us for breaking news and analysis as Israel's campaign of extermination by air, land and sea in Gaza continues for the 20th day on Thursday, 26 October. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YQLlPtPKYs Guests: - Refaat Alareer, writer and educator in Gaza - Rida Jawad, SOAS Alumni - Maryam Ofkir, SOAS Palestine Society - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer, Birzeit University - Jon Elmer, contributin...

Join us for breaking news and analysis as Israel's campaign of extermination by air, land and sea in Gaza continues for the 17th day on Monday, 23 October. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TAE4eT3oOc Guests: - Dr. Mads Gilbert, Norwegian physician - Calla Walsh and Max Geller, Palestine Action US/UK - Jon Elmer, researcher and journalist

Breaking news and analysis as Israel's campaign of extermination by air, land and sea in Gaza continues for the 14th day. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/watch-day-14-roundup-israels-attacks-gaza Guest: - Ahmed Abofoul, Legal Research and Advocacy Officer at the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq - Dr. Tarek Loubani, emergency room physician and co-founder of the...

"For the past 11 days, Israel has been bombarding the Gaza Strip, including my refugee camp -- Nuseirat -- where almost 600,000 Palestinians sought shelter and refuge at UNRWA schools," says Yousef Aljamal, a writer and researcher from Gaza who now lives in Turkey. Aljamal joined us for our livestream broadcast. We also discuss Israel's bombing, on Tuesday, of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, an...

Students across the US are facing relentless smears and doxxing attacks over their activism in support of Palestinian rights, as Israel continues its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. On episode 84, we speak with Palestine Legal's senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath, who lays out the current repressive atmosphere on campuses across the US and gives advice to students who can protect themselv...

"Death can be anywhere and everywhere," our executive director Ali Abunimah tells us in his opening remarks for the 16 October livestream. Guests: - Jon Elmer, journalist and researcher - Maha Hussaini, journalist and human rights activist in Gaza - Helena Cobban, veteran war reporter and writer Read more and watch the entire broadcast here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedm...

"How many people does Israel need to kill in order to be satisfied? How much blood? How many Palestinian kids?" Refaat Alareer tells The Electronic Intifada live from Gaza. And human rights activist Khalil Abu Shammala discusses how Palestinians in Gaza fear Israel is planning a "second Nakba." Plus: * Ali Abunimah discusses how US President Joe Biden is granting carte blanche to Benjamin Netanyah...

On our special livestream for 11 October, five days after Gaza fighters launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, human rights activist Khalil Abu Shammala describes Israel’s atrocities in al-Rimal neighborhood, a residential and commercial hub. Guests: Khalil Abu Shammala, Abdallah al-Naami, Abdaljawad Omar, Lowkey Read more and watch the entire broadcast here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-b...

“The whole room is filled with gunpowder. … We don’t deserve this. We’re not animals like the Israelis think. Our kids deserve better.” This is what our contributor Refaat Alareer, an academic and writer in Gaza City, told us on a special livestream broadcast of The Electronic Intifada Podcast. Alareer spoke to us on Monday evening from his home, as relentless Israeli bombs exploded in the backgro...

On episode 83, we take a look at baseball in Palestine and the growing sport despite Israel’s policies of movement restrictions, siege and apartheid. Baseball is relatively new to Palestine, with the sport taking off just in the last six years – and mostly in Gaza. However, athletes are working hard to make a place for themselves on the world stage. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/b...

On episode 82, we take a close look at the US Visa Waiver program and are joined by Abed Ayoub and Chris Habiby of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). The program would allow Israeli citizens to travel to the United States for business or tourism without having to apply for a visa as they do now. What would Israel’s admission to the program mean, especially for Palestinian Ameri...

On episode 81, Abdaljawad Omar and Jon Elmer return to talk about Israel's July invasion of the Jenin refugee camp and to analyze the growth of Palestinian resistance. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-81-look-inside-jenins-guerrilla-resistance-tactics

On episode 80, we speak with students and legal experts who are fighting back against the Israel lobby's smear campaigns. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-80-nyc-florida-students-fight-lobby-smears

On episode 79, Asa Winstanley and Ali Abunimah talk about Asa’s brand-new book, "Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn." Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-79-weaponising-anti-semitism