The Electronic Intifada

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGsMNLIteXw On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world. I had come to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice in Palestine and accountability for the genocide. But shortly before my first scheduled speaking event, I was grabbed off the street by undercover cops, and taken into custody. I’m thrilled now to be back in Amman with my family. I’ve received so many messages of love and support from far more people than I can individually thank. I want to take this opportunity to express how much these messages of solidarity mean to me and to all of us at The Electronic Intifada. Can speaking about Palestine really be deemed such a threat that those so-called democracies are resorting to naked police-state tactics of this kind? How far will they sink in the service of a genocidal regime? On a special Electronic Intifada Livestream today, I’ll talk about what I experienced and we’ll discuss the unprecedented levels of repression faced by independent journalism and the Palestine solidarity movement, and what I learned from this experience. We’ll also talk about the historic scenes as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians defied Israel’s effort to ethnically cleanse them, and joined a joyous procession of return to their homes in the north of Gaza.

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_jGujJrObU Guests: - Dyab Abou Jahjah, co-founder, Hind Rajab Foundation - Donya Abu Sitta, contributor, teacher

Watch entire special episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb4Lr097sxU Guest: - Abubaker Abed, contributor

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCXpVBq4U0o Guests: - Ahmed Alnaouq, We Are Not Numbers - Shir Hever, BDS National Committee

Also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZzkmwwUG6Q In a special audio podcast episode dedicated to the voice and the words of Dr. Refaat Alareer, we weave together five separate interviews we conducted between 2014 and 2018. Alareer was a beloved professor, poet and mentor who helped sharpen countless young minds and who still inspires people all over the world. He was murdered by Israel on 6 December, 2023, along with six other members of his family in Gaza.

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76bFnkpWiw Guests: - Donya Abu Sitta, writer and teacher in Gaza - Chris Gunness, former UNRWA spokesperson

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O194r5IS3ms Guests: - Prahlad Iyengar, MIT graduate student - Michel DeGraff, linguistics professor and director of MIT-Haiti Institute

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g0Zo145dYY Guests: - Tony Greenstein, Palestine campaigner and writer - Abubaker Abed, contributor - Dr. Mimi Syed, ER doctor

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAp4XkI__fM We take questions from our audience in this special episode.

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE79E2f-UAY Guests: - Abubaker Abed, contributor - Yousef Aljamal, Refaat’s former student, colleague and close friend; Gaza Coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee’s Palestine Activism Program - Helena Cobban, writer with decades of experience and knowledge about the region; director of Just World Educational.

Watch full broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcsLMe1OB0 Guest: - Dr. Issam Younis, director, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights

Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDySX_S8uWw Guest: - Heba Al-Nashef, midwife

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHyoSlqYcX8 Guest: - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer at Birzeit University in Palestine

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUyMvefBbHM Guests: - Abubaker Abed, contributor - Kaleem Hawa and Nas Abd Elal, Palestinian Youth Movement/Mask Off Maersk campaign

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwlNgn5sWnk Guest: - Craig Mokhiber, former senior United Nations official

Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xs8c1nh2tA Guest: - Maura Finkelstein, writer, scholar (https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/)

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG4vKgiu9rs Guest: - Ahmed Alnaouq, Palestine Deep Dive and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cor7VqVAtxE Guest: - Justin Podur, Anti-Empire Project and author of Siegebreakers

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1C_PQDQmM Guests: - Abubaker Abed, live from Gaza - Laila Al-Arian, executive producer of Faultlines (Al Jazeera)

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgeBd_DrGJs Guest: - Joseph Massad, professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB9CeW8nR04 Guests: - Abubaker Abed, journalist in Gaza - Roqayah Chamseddine, Lebanon-based writer, journalist and co-host of Delete Your Account podcast Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:54 Abubaker Abed reports from Gaza 19:36 Discussion on Iran's missile strikes on Israel with Ali Abunimah 50:55 Gaza news report with Nora Barrows-Friedman 59:14 Roqayah Chamseddine reports from Lebanon about Israel’s killing of Syed Hasan Nasrallah and the situation in Lebanon as Israel escalates its bombardment of the country and Hizballah defends it against a possible Israeli invasion 01:38:04 Jon Elmer reports on the latest from the battles in Gaza and Lebanon, along with Iraqi and Yemeni missile attacks on Israel 02:28:23 Group discussion on Iran, Lebanon and Gaza; and where the war could go from here

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFa_1erCQ3g Guest: - Yousef Aljamal, writer, editor of "If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose"

Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOciLuYJfQU Guest: - Dr. Majed Jaber in Gaza

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ytbLCcF3mA Guests: - Huda Ammori, Palestine Action UK - Max Geller, Palestine Action UK

Watch entire episode here: https://x.com/intifada/status/1835760972260069609 Guests: - Mohamed Abdou, scholar and writer - Bryce Greene, graduate student at Indiana University

Watch entire broadcast here: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlyOEBOEJL Guest: - Matt Kennard, Declassified UK

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlfuA4_DffU Guests: - Abubaker Abed, journalist in Gaza - Hatem Abudayyeh, US Palestinian Community Network

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGp9sBF0Rw4 Guest: - Steven Salaita, writer, professor at American University of Cairo

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIVpmfCpPXI Guest: - Dr. Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVUVsyJQWRk Guests: - Hatem Abudayyeh, March on the DNC Coalition, USPCN - Abubaker Abed, journalist in Gaza

How the ultra-right Kahanists infiltrated the US Democratic Party, with David Sheen by The Electronic Intifada

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pwsAMT1HWQ Guest: - Helena Cobban, writer, reporter and director of Just World Educational

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkWFq_Wu2Us Guests: - Donya Abu Sitta, journalist in Gaza - Ilan Pappé, historian and author of "Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic"

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqmF_vlnRqo Guests: - Aseel Mousa, journalist - Michael Lynk, law professor at Western University and former UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories

Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZJWbQY982s

Watch the video version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF52hZ8Dqfc Guest: David Sheen is the author of "Kahanism and American Politics: The Democratic Party’s Decades-Long Courtship of Racist Fanatics."

Watch entire livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4btC6aYyqs Guest: - Abdaljawad Omar, lecturer at Birzeit University, occupied West Bank

Watch entire livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vodOVh6rBVo Guest: Rania Khalek

Watch entire livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2o8aRZoveE Guests: - Abubaker Abed, EI contributor - Shir Hever, political economist - Ahmed Masoud, novelist and playwright

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmIaZhYhOJg Guest: - Laila Al-Arian, executive producer of Faultlines (Al Jazeera)

Watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJrRmM16qk Guests: - Abubaker Abed, journalist - Aseel Mousa, journalist

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7dqBeohxs Guest: - Omar Karmi, The Electronic Intifada

Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA Guest: - Shir Hever is a political economist and the military embargo coordinator for the Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC). He is also the author of "The Privatization of Israeli Security" and "The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation," and lives in Germany.

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqCbhhONu7Q Guest: - Helena Cobban, Just World Educational

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfFtT0WdnE Guest: - Dr. Tarek Loubani, Glia Project (glia.org)

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyVPkGD46ic

Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYI2rUPkNgg Guest: Dr. Barbara Ransby, John D. MacArthur University Chair and Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois Chicago

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW1XN9lz1Zg Guest: - Dr. Khaled Dawas, British Palestinian surgeon

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCaU3MnTjmE Guests: - Abubaker Abed, journalist in Gaza - Dr. Adel Elsharkawy, pediatrician and neonatologist based in Calgary - Sabiya Ahamed, staff attorney at Palestine Legal - Shahd al-Hadid, student at Sheffield University

Watch entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih9cLcI-L_Q Guests: - Bryce Greene, student organizer, Indiana University, writer at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) - Dr. Bikrum Gill, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech - Sherif I., organizer and filmmaker with Columbia University Apartheid Divest - Samuel Ahmed, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA - Jake E., Students for Justice in Palestine at California State Univ. Los Angeles