The Electronic Intifada

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

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://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-73-fighting-lobbys-racism-lara-sheehi

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-friedman/podcast-ep-69-no-tech-apartheid

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, while seeking to build the state of Israel.

Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-68-how-zionists-collaborated-nazis

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 Jake Tapper and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an Israel lobby group.

Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-67-katie-halper-fired-over-israel-criticism