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/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-83-how-palestines-baseball-team-made-history

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 Americans whom Israel regularly subjects to racial profiling and deportation at points of entry?

Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-82-will-visa-waiver-program-allow-israel-keep-racist-entry

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

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 control.

Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-78-how-israel-tests-weapons-palestinians

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://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-77-zionisms-inevitable-demise

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-friedman/podcast-ep-75-unpacking-zionism-and-global-hypermilitarism

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 legal harassment.

We are joined by Suhad Babaa, producer of the documentary film Boycott which follows the fight against these anti-constitutional measures, and Alan Leveritt, publisher of The Arkansas Times, one of the subjects of the film.

Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-battle-against-anti-bds-state-laws