On this episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Israeli lawfare "backfires" in New Zealand; Bay Area supporters of imprisoned Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi rally for her release. (Photo: Protesters in Oakland, California, protest the imprisonment of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, 31 January. Image by Bill Hackwell)

On The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi denied bail in an Israeli military court; Activists celebrate the closure of a New York City diamond store owned by Israeli billionaire and settlement profiteer Lev Leviev. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-how-israel-couldnt-bear-ahed-tamimis-slap (Photo of Ahed Tamimi, Ofer prison, 20 December: Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)

Journalists and activists recall the first intifada and how the legacy of popular organizing during the 1987 uprising still resonates today. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/stones-slingshots-and-organizing-recalling-first-intifada (Image: Palestinian women confront Israeli soldiers, Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza, 1988. Robert Croma / Flickr)

This is the full interview with Ziad Abbas of the Middle East Children's Alliance. An excerpt of this interview was produced for The Electronic Intifada Podcast.

Trump appeals to his anti-Palestinian base by declaring Jerusalem as Israel's capital; As'ad AbuKhalil analyzes the latest power plays in Lebanon and the consequences of a strengthening alliance between the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-trump-rewards-israels-intransigence

Music: "Borderlands" by Naima Shalhoub. (Photo: Mahfouz Abu Turk / APA Images)

Human rights defender Issa Amro on trial in Israeli military court; US lawmakers seek to end financial complicity in Israel's torture of Palestinian children in military detention. Photo: Activists Farid al-Atrash (left) and Issa Amro (right) in front of the Ofer Israeli military prison on 29 October, after their first military tribunal. (Twitter)Music: Sharif Zakout.

Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/issa-amro-they-are-trying-put-me-jail

Graphic novelist Iasmin Omar Ata talks about the struggle for recognition in an interview with Marguerite Dabaie. Read Dabaie's full review of "Mis(h)adra" here: https://electronicintifada.net/content/visualizing-feeling/21841 and read the podcast blog post here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-visualizing-feeling

Anti-Palestinian groups are escalating attacks on a cafe over a mural honoring Rasmea Odeh. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-defending-palestinian-culture-oaklands-reems (Photo by Sharif Zakout)

Largest US organization of democratic socialists endorse Palestinian BDS call; A new book, "We Will Not Be Silenced," investigates resistance by students and scholars to intimidation and repression by Israel lobby groups. Music by Invincible. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-dsa-backs-boycott-campuses-fight-israels-censorship

Jalal Abukhater reports from Jerusalem; Josh Ruebner analyzes the Israel Anti-Boycott Act; and poet and activist Aja Monet talks about her Dream Defenders delegation to Palestine and reads from her new book of poetry. (Photo: Palestinians at the gate of al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, just before entering by the thousands, Jalal Abukhater on Twitter, 27 July)