The Electronic Intifada

On episode 36, Nora and Asa host a discussion on the advances of Palestinian resistance tactics and Israel's strategic mistakes during Israel's latest assault on Gaza.

We are joined by our colleague and The Electronic Intifada's executive director Ali Abunimah and journalist and researcher Jon Elmer.

On episode 35 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Nora, Asa and our colleague Tamara Nassar join Lara Elborno and Michael Schirtzer of the Palestine Pod to talk about the first few days of the US-backed Israeli attacks on Gaza.

“An occupied people has a right to engage in armed resistance against a foreign occupation. That’s it. Period,” says Elborno. “There is no right for a colonial power to engage in a merciless assault against a civilian population that it cages.”

Since we recorded this episode, Lara’s relative, Hassan Elborno, was killed by Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip. He was a farmer working on land near the eastern boundary line with Israel.

Later on in the program, Nora and Asa talk to Joharah Baker, a journalist and translator based in the Old City of Jerusalem, who discusses the last month of Israeli settler pogroms and attempts to expel Palestinians from the nearby neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

Baker also talks about the complicity of Joe Biden and US lawmakers in aiding and abetting Israel’s war crimes.

“Anyone who looks to Biden as any kind of game-changer … sorry, they’re just delusional,” she says. “The only way that policy will change is through funding. It has to be money, there’s really no other way. But I don’t see that happening yet. But I think that there is a movement … people are the ones who will make those changes.”

Video production by Tamara Nassar

Theme music by Sharif Zakout

See: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-35-israels-war-gaza-and-jerusalem

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On episode 34 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Asa and Nora speak to journalist Rania Khalek.

We discuss the way the Palestine solidarity movement has been divided on the issue of Syria over the last decade.

Rania lives in Lebanon and her reporting from the region has provided critical insights into the wars there in recent years.

For more info, read:https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-34-how-syria-divided-palestine-solidarity

On episode 32 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, rapper, activist and all-round renaissance man Lowkey joins Asa and Nora to talk about:

- The purge of anti-Zionist academics from UK institutions

- Islamophobia and the Israel lobby’s role in promoting it

- The role of artists in defending Palestinian rights

- The state of the corporate music industry

- What he did in the years he took time off music

- Drill, a hip-hop genre with a bad reputation

... And much more

Lowkey has always used his music to support the things he believes in: not least the cause of Palestinian liberation.

He talks about the price of speaking out on these issues: being censored and marginalized.

Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-32-lowkey-talks-palestine-music-and-censorship

On episode 31 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Nora and Asa discuss Israel’s vaccine apartheid and are joined by physicians and writers Dr. Ghada Karmi and Dr. Osama Tanous.

It was recently reported that Israel is giving thousands of “spare” vaccines to foreign countries in exchange for political support, while denying vaccines to 5 million Palestinians under its military rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israel is failing in its obligations under international law as an occupying power by not offering the vaccine to the Palestinians of occupied territory.

Karmi and Tanous explain how occupation and settler-colonialism impact not just COVID-19 outcomes for Palestinians but public health in Palestine overall.

For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-31-israels-vaccine-apartheid

For video version and more background, go to: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-30-israels-war-labour-and-democrats

In our pilot video episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Ali Abunimah joins Asa and Nora for an in-depth look at the new US president.

What does the Joe Biden administration and the return of the pro-war, Israel-allied Democrats to the White House mean for Palestine and Palestinians?

Ali explains that the grassroots of the Democratic Party has become much less pro-Israel in recent years, while party leaders have resisted the push to stand with Palestinians.

On Episode 28 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we present excerpts of a recent discussion about the years-long struggle of five imprisoned Palestinian American men who led the Holy Land Foundation, a Texas-based charity.

This panel commemorates more than ten years since the unjust prosecution of The Holy Land Five: Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Ghassan Elashi, Mufid Abdulqader, and Abdulrahman Odeh, who are each serving between 15 and 65 years in federal penitentiaries.

Hosted by Miko Peled, author of the 2018 book “Injustice: The Holy Land Foundation Five” the discussion features daughters of the Holy Land Five, in addition to Leena Al-Arian, Executive Director of the Coalition for Civil Freedoms and the daughter of Dr. Sami Al- Arian, another Palestinian-American who was deported on trumped up charges.

For more information: https://mikopeled.com/2020/11/27/12-years-of-injustice-the-story-of-the-holy-land-foundation-five/

On episode 27 of The Electronic intifada Podcast, Asa and Nora are joined by Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in the UK.

PSC recently concluded a week of direct action to amplify the growing opposition to Israel's apartheid system, the ongoing expulsion of Palestinians from their land, the 13-year siege on Gaza and the formal annexation of the occupied West Bank.

Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-27-vision-equality-jerusalem

Music: "Rafif," Kamilya Jubran

Photo: Ben Jamal (Palestine Solidarity Campaign)

On Episode 26 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we have an in-depth conversation with former UK Labour MP Chris Williamson.

Williamson was the only Labour MP under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership period to recognize the truth about the party’s “anti-Semitism crisis” – that it was a manufactured disinformation campaign orchestrated by the pro-Israel lobby and the right.

Image: Chris Williamson addressing a Jewish Voice for Labour protest against the IHRA “working definition” in 2018. The document conflates legitimate criticisms of Israel with anti-Semitism. (Stephen Chung/Newscom)

On Episode 25 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we speak with writer and author Steven Salaita and EI's Ali Abunimah about the phenomenon of what Salaita calls Muslim Zionists.

These are organizations and their leaderships that purport to represent Muslim Americans but work closely with Israel lobby groups to undermine and silence Palestinian rights advocates.

Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-25-muslim-zionists

Image: Steven Salaita (Haymarket Books)