The Electronic Intifada

The Electronic Intifada's contributor Budour Youssef Hassan talks about the recent uprisings across Palestine, how youth in particular are self-organizing their resistance protests and the impact of Israel's collective punishment policies. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israel-denies-palestinians-even-right-mourn (Photo: A Palestinian youth throws back a tear gas canister during clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, 20 November. Anne Paq/Activestills)

Brad Parker, attorney with Defence for Children International-Palestine, says that the current attacks on Palestinians are "part of a trend we've seen since 2014, where Israeli forces have used increasing lethal force, but also the use of excessive force, against Palestinian demonstrators -- particularly children." For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-killing-palestinian-children-inevitable-outcome-israeli-policies (Photo: Relatives of Ahmed Sharaka, 13, who was killed by Israeli troops on 11 October, mourn during his funeral in Jalazoun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 12 October. Shadi Hatem / APA Images)

Sami Suleiman of National Students for Justice in Palestine says that "It requires personal endurance to do this work and a willingness to face a lot of backfire." The national SJP conference happens this weekend in San Diego. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-why-new-israel-lobby-smears-are-good-news-activists (Image of past SJP national conference courtesy of NSJP's Facebook page)

New York-based poet Remi Kanazi talks about his work and shares some of his poems from his brand-new book, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israels-massacres-cant-be-erased-says-poet-remi-kanazi (Photo of Remi Kanazi by Christopher Hazou)

Activist Stephanie Westbrook talks about the ongoing boycott campaign against SodaStream as the company sets to close its main production facilities in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank and move it to the Naqab/Negev desert in present-day Israel. The move will make SodaStream complicit in the further displacement of Palestinian Bedouin communities. (Image: SodaStream spoof ad from the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation)

"The rubble from our house is still there," says Gaza-based writer, editor and educator Refaat Alareer. In this podcast, we talk about Gaza a year after Israel's attack and feature interviews with Alareer, Laila El-Haddad and Charlotte Silver, plus music by Naima Shalhoub and Marcel Khalife. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-year-gaza-attack-has-been-slow-death (Photo: Palestinian boys walk past the rubble of houses destroyed in the 2014 Israeli attack. Abed Rahim Khatib / APA Images)

Haidar Eid sings about "the ravages of occupation, apartheid and genocidal blockade," he says. "But also a reflection of the range of human emotions under these circumstances, from fierce resistance and commitment to freedom to love and romance." This is a sample from his new album Gaza Blues: Hymns of Love, Death and Resistance.

Nerdeen Kiswani, 21, told The Electronic Intifada she was subjected to a series of interrogations which included "bizarre" questioning related to her involvement with Students for Justice in Palestine. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israel-blocks-us-citizen-visiting-palestine (Photo: Nerdeen Kiswani)

Jeremy Corbyn, the surprise frontrunner in the leadership election for the UK Labour Party, says he would impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel if he were to become prime minister in 2020. The Electronic Intifada's Asa Winstanley interviews him in London. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/jeremy-corbyn-backs-boycott-israeli-universities-involved-arms-research (Photo: Asa Winstanley)

Dave Zirin, author and sports editor of The Nation, joins us to talk about the decision by NBA players and league officials to align themselves with Republican Party bankroller Sheldon Adelson for a tour explicitly promoted to fight the BDS movement. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-nba-players-anti-bds-propaganda-tour-israel (Photo: NBA player Omri Casspi playing for Israel against Finland, 2010. Jaripk/Wikimedia Commons)