The Electronic Intifada

On episode 78, we're joined by journalist, filmmaker and best-selling author Antony Loewenstein to talk about his latest book, "The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World." Loewenstein's book is a meticulously researched exposé on how Israel tests weaponry and surveillance technology on Palestinians, perfecting what he calls the architecture of contr...

On episode 77, acclaimed author, academic and physician Ghada Karmi is back on the podcast to talk about the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Nakba and her new book, One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel. Karmi was born in Jerusalem. When she was a child, she was amongst the 800,000 Palestinians who were forcibly expelled from Palestine in 1948. Read more: https://elec...

On episode 76, our colleague Omar Karmi joins us to talk about the current political situation in Palestine. We discuss the possible fate of the Palestinian Authority and its continued collaboration with Israel as its partial control deteriorates in the occupied West Bank. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-76-impossibility-two-state-solution

On episode 75, author, professor and organizer Nada Elia talks about her brand-new book, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. Elia analyzes the historical and present-day struggle against Zionism while keeping a focus on how Israel’s militarism and settler-colonialism deliberately affects women. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-...

On episode 74, we continue our focus on legislative attempts to crush the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign for Palestinian rights in the US. More than 30 US states have passed measures condemning or attempting to restrict the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign for Palestinian rights, according to Palestine Legal, a group that defends activists for Palestinian rights from le...

We speak to Lara Sheehi, assistant professor of clinical psychology at George Washington University in Washington DC, who has been at the center of recent Israel lobby attacks. Sheehi is joined by her lawyer Abed Ayoub, executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, to talk about how she is resisting the smear campaign and collusion by her university. Read more here: https:...

On episode 72, we speak with Abdaljawad Omar Hamayel, a PhD student and lecturer in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University in Palestine, to talk about the current situation on the ground in the occupied West Bank. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-72-new-generation-resistance-does-not-fear-israel

On episode 71, we continue our discussion with Ali Abunimah about the most significant stories of 2022, taking a deeper look at Palestinian and international response and activism to stop Israel’s crimes. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-71-palestine-2022-part-2

On episode 70, Ali Abunimah joins The Electronic Intifada Podcast to take a look at our top stories of 2022. We discuss Israel’s escalating violence, the far-right lawmakers in Israel’s parliament or Knesset, the state of journalism and ongoing Western complicity in Israel’s apartheid system. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-70-palestine-2022-part-1

On episode 69, we speak to two tech workers who have been organizing against Project Nimbus, a billion-dollar contract between Google and Amazon to build data centers in Israel on behalf of the Israeli military and government. The technology will be used by Israel and its military to further surveil, contain and expel Palestinians. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-fried...

On episode 68, we speak with activist and blogger Tony Greenstein, a veteran of the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK, about his new book Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation. With an anti-Zionist analysis, Greenstein’s book dives into the history of the Zionist movement’s collaboration with the far right, even including Nazi Germany, w...

On episode 67, Nora, Asa and Ali talk to journalist Katie Halper about how she was recently fired by The Hill – the latest example of corporate news censorship of commentators who criticize Israel. Halper had prepared a monologue in defense of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s correct declaration that Israel is an apartheid state, after the lawmaker came under racist attacks by corporate news pundit J...

On episode 66, we speak with sociologist and activist Sheryl Nestel about the impact that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Anti-Semitism (IHRA) has had on Canadian activists, academics and students. Promoted by Israel and its lobby, the IHRA definition conflates criticism of Israel, on the one hand, with anti-Jewish bigotry, on the other. It has become the Isr...

On episode 65, we speak with Donald Wagner, a long-time Chicago-based activist for Palestinian rights, a Presbyterian clergyperson and the author of a new memoir, Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land. Forty years ago this month, during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, Israel’s then-defense minister Ariel Sharon sent Lebanese militia forces, the Phalangists, into the Sabra and Shatil...

On episode 64, we speak to contributors of a new literary anthology, Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, in which essays, poems and artwork illuminate the Palestinian experience of Gaza. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-64-light-gaza

On episode 63, we speak to Refaat Alareer, a professor, writer and father in Gaza, about the latest Israeli military assault on Gaza that killed nearly 50 Palestinians, including 17 children, in early August. "What Israel is doing is nonstop campaigns of mowing the lawn, killing as many Palestinians and putting us [in] a corner where we can't do anything to defend ourselves and our rights," Alaree...

On episode 62, we talk to activist and journalist Basel Adra about the situation in Masafer Yatta, an area in the South Hebron hills in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military is attempting to turn Palestinian villages into a firing zone. In May, the Israeli high court rubber-stamped the forced expulsion of more than 1,000 Palestinians from eight villages in the area. If Israel carries...

On episode 61, Nora speaks with Dov Baum from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), about a major divestment victory and what activists can learn from the two-year campaign leading up to it. General Mills, a US-based food corporation, announced on 31 May that it had sold its stake in an Israeli joint venture. This means that the company has divested completely from its Israeli business. R...

On episode 60, Nora speaks with Mohammed Abujayyab, a small-scale farmer and food security activist, about Palestine's agricultural economy under ongoing occupation and settler-colonial land theft. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-60-history-wheat-palestine

On episode 59, Nora and Asa welcome back journalist and researcher Jon Elmer to discuss Palestinian resistance to Israel’s escalations across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Elmer is a journalist and researcher, and he co-hosts The Brief Podcast with Nora. He spent years as a reporter inside Palestine, and covered the situation in Jenin and in Gaza. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net...

On episode 58 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we discuss the significance of a recent statement by the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement and Palestinian liberation. The Crimson editors say they “regret and reject” their previous position that maligned BDS, and now recognize the potential the movement has for empowering Pal...

On episode 57, we speak with members of the NDN Collective about their recently released position paper on Palestinian liberation – “The Right of Return is LANDBACK.” Krystal Two Bulls, Demetrius Johnson and Nadya Tannous of the NDN Collective tell us that the resistance by Indigenous peoples to the US’ centuries-long programs of ethnic cleansing and forced relocation is strengthened by Palestinia...

On episode 56 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we discuss Canada’s arms exports to Israel with researcher Michael Bueckert, and Dr. Tarek Loubani talks about making medical equipment for Gaza’s medics amid 15 years of Israel’s blockade and a constant, looming threat of war.

On episode 55, we speak with professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa of San Francisco State University about their ongoing fight against attempts to silence Palestine scholarship. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-55-how-fight-university-censorship

On episode 54, we are joined by representatives of major Palestinian civil society organizations Sahar Francis and Ahmed Abofoul to talk about current progress in bringing an investigation into Israel’s crimes to the International Criminal Court, even as Israel – and the US and Canada – have tried to stifle progress. Francis is the director of Addameer, the Prisoner’s support and Human Rights Asso...