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Journalist Antony Loewenstein discusses how repressive states look to Israel’s occupation industry and take note of its absolute impunity.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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, p…

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 expelle…

Ghada Karmi’s new book explains the inevitability of the one-state solution and a post-colonial future in Palestine.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

EI editor Omar Karmi analyzes what comes next for Palestinians.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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/pod…

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: ht…

Author and scholar Nada Elia talks about her new book, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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…

Diving into the fight to overturn US measures that prohibit taking part in boycotts of Israel.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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 co…

How a professor is pushing back against Israel lobby smears and holding George Washington University accountable for collusion.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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-resista…

Abdaljawad Omar on escalation of Israeli violence and resurgence of Palestinian militant factions.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

What were the most significant stories of the year?Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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…

We take a look at the top stories of the year.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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-barr…

Google and Amazon workers campaign to push Silicon Valley giants to drop major contract with Israel and its military.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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:/…

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 w…

Author Tony Greenstein talks about his new book “Zionism during the Holocaust.”Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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 cam…

Censorship and punishment over calling out Israeli apartheid is common practice in corporate media.Av Nora Barrows-Friedman

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-Je…

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 f…

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-gazaAv The Electronic Intifada

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 any…

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 f…

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 …

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 i…

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 …

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 an…

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.Av The Electronic Intifada

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 Addam…

On episode 53, The Electronic Intifada’s director Ali Abunimah joins Asa and Nora for a roundtable discussion on Ukraine, NATO, the imperialist push toward war with Russia and how it all relates to Palestine.Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-53-whitewashing-ukraines-nazis…

On episode 52, we discuss the overt hypocrisy of the current Western-led rush to implement boycotts and sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine as many of the same institutions and politicians reject Palestinian calls to sanction Israel.Av The Electronic Intifada

On episode 51, Nora speaks with activist, scholar and contributor to The Electronic Intifada Shahd Abusalama and her lawyer, Giovanni Fassina of the European Legal Support Centre.Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-51-defeating-censorship-uk-campusAv The Electronic Intifada

Economist Shir Hever on cyber mercenaries, weapons lobbyists and the collapse of Israel's infrastructure.Av The Electronic Intifada

On episode 49, Nora and Asa speak with Adie Mormech and Max Geller of Palestine Action, the group that has organized sustained direct actions at Israeli-owned Elbit Systems arms factories in the UK.Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-49-how-uk-activists-closed-israeli-arms-factory-good…