The Electronic Intifada

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

On episode 66, we speak with sociologist and activist Sheryl Nestel about the impact that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Anti-Semitism (IHRA) has had on Canadian activists, academics and students. Promoted by Israel and its lobby, the IHRA definition conflates criticism of Israel, on the one hand, with anti-Jewish bigotry, on the other. It has become the Israel lobby’s key weapon in North America and Europe to enforce censorship about Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. Nestel co-authored a brand-new report, “Unveiling the Chilly Climate: The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada,” as a project of Independent Jewish Voices Canada. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-66-how-anti-semitism-smears-impact-palestine-activists

On episode 65, we speak with Donald Wagner, a long-time Chicago-based activist for Palestinian rights, a Presbyterian clergyperson and the author of a new memoir, Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land. Forty years ago this month, during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, Israel’s then-defense minister Ariel Sharon sent Lebanese militia forces, the Phalangists, into the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut on false claims of so-called terrorism. Thousands were slaughtered in a three-day massacre and no one was ever tried for war crimes. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-65-sabra-and-shatila-40-years

On episode 64, we speak to contributors of a new literary anthology, Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, in which essays, poems and artwork illuminate the Palestinian experience of Gaza. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-64-light-gaza

On episode 63, we speak to Refaat Alareer, a professor, writer and father in Gaza, about the latest Israeli military assault on Gaza that killed nearly 50 Palestinians, including 17 children, in early August. "What Israel is doing is nonstop campaigns of mowing the lawn, killing as many Palestinians and putting us [in] a corner where we can't do anything to defend ourselves and our rights," Alareer tells us. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-63-raising-children-under-israels-bombs

On episode 62, we talk to activist and journalist Basel Adra about the situation in Masafer Yatta, an area in the South Hebron hills in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military is attempting to turn Palestinian villages into a firing zone. In May, the Israeli high court rubber-stamped the forced expulsion of more than 1,000 Palestinians from eight villages in the area. If Israel carries through with the forcible transfer -- a war crime -- it will be one of the single largest expulsions of Palestinians since 1967. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-62-defending-masafer-yatta

On episode 61, Nora speaks with Dov Baum from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), about a major divestment victory and what activists can learn from the two-year campaign leading up to it. General Mills, a US-based food corporation, announced on 31 May that it had sold its stake in an Israeli joint venture. This means that the company has divested completely from its Israeli business. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-61-how-general-mills-divested-apartheid

On episode 60, Nora speaks with Mohammed Abujayyab, a small-scale farmer and food security activist, about Palestine's agricultural economy under ongoing occupation and settler-colonial land theft. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-60-history-wheat-palestine

On episode 59, Nora and Asa welcome back journalist and researcher Jon Elmer to discuss Palestinian resistance to Israel’s escalations across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Elmer is a journalist and researcher, and he co-hosts The Brief Podcast with Nora. He spent years as a reporter inside Palestine, and covered the situation in Jenin and in Gaza. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-59-jenin-rises

On episode 58 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we discuss the significance of a recent statement by the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement and Palestinian liberation. The Crimson editors say they “regret and reject” their previous position that maligned BDS, and now recognize the potential the movement has for empowering Palestinians to fight against Israeli apartheid – especially on campuses. They also asserted that “support for Palestinian liberation is not anti-Semitic,” noting the “wake of accusations suggesting otherwise.” Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-58-how-students-are-fighting-adls-smear-campaigns

On episode 57, we speak with members of the NDN Collective about their recently released position paper on Palestinian liberation – “The Right of Return is LANDBACK.” Krystal Two Bulls, Demetrius Johnson and Nadya Tannous of the NDN Collective tell us that the resistance by Indigenous peoples to the US’ centuries-long programs of ethnic cleansing and forced relocation is strengthened by Palestinian resistance to Israeli settler-colonialism. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-57-landback-turtle-island-palestine

On episode 56 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we discuss Canada’s arms exports to Israel with researcher Michael Bueckert, and Dr. Tarek Loubani talks about making medical equipment for Gaza’s medics amid 15 years of Israel’s blockade and a constant, looming threat of war.

On episode 55, we speak with professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa of San Francisco State University about their ongoing fight against attempts to silence Palestine scholarship. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-55-how-fight-university-censorship

On episode 54, we are joined by representatives of major Palestinian civil society organizations Sahar Francis and Ahmed Abofoul to talk about current progress in bringing an investigation into Israel’s crimes to the International Criminal Court, even as Israel – and the US and Canada – have tried to stifle progress. Francis is the director of Addameer, the Prisoner’s support and Human Rights Association, and Abofoul is a legal researcher and advocacy officer at Al-Haq, a group that documents Israel’s human rights violations. Addameer and Al-Haq are among six Palestinian civil society groups that Israel’s defense minister Benny Gantz designated last fall as “terrorist” organizations – an attempt to disrupt and destroy the work of these groups and especially their gathering of evidence for the ICC investigation. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-54-palestine-litmus-test-international-law

On episode 53, The Electronic Intifada’s director Ali Abunimah joins Asa and Nora for a roundtable discussion on Ukraine, NATO, the imperialist push toward war with Russia and how it all relates to Palestine. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-53-whitewashing-ukraines-nazis

On episode 52, we discuss the overt hypocrisy of the current Western-led rush to implement boycotts and sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine as many of the same institutions and politicians reject Palestinian calls to sanction Israel.

On episode 51, Nora speaks with activist, scholar and contributor to The Electronic Intifada Shahd Abusalama and her lawyer, Giovanni Fassina of the European Legal Support Centre. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-51-defeating-censorship-uk-campus

Economist Shir Hever on cyber mercenaries, weapons lobbyists and the collapse of Israel's infrastructure.

On episode 49, Nora and Asa speak with Adie Mormech and Max Geller of Palestine Action, the group that has organized sustained direct actions at Israeli-owned Elbit Systems arms factories in the UK. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-49-how-uk-activists-closed-israeli-arms-factory-good

On episode 48 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Asa and Nora are joined by colleagues Maureen Clare Murphy and Tamara Nassar for a roundtable discussion on some of our top stories of 2021. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-48-gaza-cyberwarfare-and-resistance

On episode 47, Asa and Nora speak with David Miller, a sociology professor and leading critic of the Israel lobby who was fired by the University of Bristol on 1 October. Miller was sacked after a years-long campaign of smears by that same lobby. He talks about his ongoing work researching the history of Zionism, Israel’s state ideology, and how the lobby’s efforts to smear and silence him has only led him to speak louder. Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-47-why-we-have-talk-about-zionism

On episode 46, we speak to representatives of two of six major Palestinian rights groups Israel has recently designated as “terrorist” organizations. And a human rights activist in Burlington, Vermont, talks about working to encourage the city council to pass a resolution in explicit support of the Palestinian-let boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

On episode 45, leading Palestinian intellectual Joseph Massad joins Asa and Tamara for a wide-ranging discussion on the current and historical role of the Palestinian Authority as a collaborationist body with Israeli apartheid, repression and colonization. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-45-palestinian-authority-and-other-collaborators

On episode 44, Nora and Asa speak with the lead organizers of a new initiative calling on musicians to refuse to book shows in Israel and stand in solidarity with Palestinians. We also feature a conversation with author and educator Mona Hajjar Halaby about her new memoir.

On episode 43, Nora and Asa speak with Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard, the founders of Palestine Action. Palestine Action was started in the UK last year to take direct action against Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. Activists have carried out sit-ins and sabotage against Elbit premises, shutting factories down, smashing windows, damaging equipment, graffiting and splashing walls with red paint to symbolize Palestinian blood. Palestine Action has taken more than 70 actions against Elbit in its first year, including 20 high-profile occupations of sites and factories.

On episode 42, we speak with several human rights defenders who have been on the front lines of direct action to stop Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are just a sample of countless protestors who have taken action in support of Palestinian rights, especially after Israel’s May attacks on Gaza, which killed some 245 Palestinians in the coastal enclave, including dozens of children. In the San Francisco Bay Area, activists and longshore workers successfully prevented an Israeli-owned cargo vessel from docking and unloading at the Port of Oakland in early June. The action was part of an international wave of protests – under the banner of #BlockTheBoat – organized by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). We speak to Wassim Hage of AROC and Aisha Mansour of the grassroots community group Falastiniyat in Seattle, Washington, which supported a protest at the port in that city. 11 participants were arrested at the Seattle action, Mansour told The Electronic Intifada. Block the Boat protests were held in British Columbia, Canada, as well. In Prince Rupert, members of the International Longshore Workers Union were punished with unpaid suspension by Dubai Ports World, which operates a terminal at the port. Dubai Ports World is owned by the Dubai government. But the suspension was reportedly rolled back, in a victory for the workers. Meanwhile, in Chicago, members of the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), along with local anti-racist groups, held a sit-in protest at the offices of Representative Jan Schakowsky on 10 June. The action demanded that the member of congress co-sponsor HR 2590, Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act, a bill written and introduced by Minnesota Representative Betty McCollum. USPCN says that 25 activists “gathered in Schakowsky’s office and insisted that she sign on to the bill, which would place conditions on US aid to Israel so that it could not be used to imprison children, demolish Palestinian homes, or annex Palestinian land.” USPCN staged another protest at Schakowsky’s office on 8 July. Protesters hold a sign. Human rights defenders demand that Illinois Representative Jan Schakowsky support a bill that prevents US from funding Israeli abuse of Palestinian children. (USPCN) And in the UK, members of Palestine Action once again scaled the roof of a factory owned by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in Leicester, forcing the factory to close for several days. We feature two interviews of Palestine Action members, Richard Barnard and Ferhat Ulusu who were involved in the factory occupation, conducted in late May by The Electronic Intifada’s contributor Mohamed Elmaazi.

“This is my memory. This is my history. This is my life,” 81-year-old Yacoub Odeh tells us about his childhood and experience of expulsion from the Jerusalem village of Lifta in 1948. “The beautiful life that I dream … and struggle to restore this beautiful life, to go back home. To go back home. To plan our village, to renovate our houses, and to live … like everyone [else] under the sun,” he says. On episode 41, we speak to Odeh about Lifta and his community’s 73-year struggle to return to their homes. We are also joined by Umar al-Ghubari of Zochrot, an organization promoting acknowledgment and accountability for the ongoing injustices of the Nakba. Al-Ghubari and Odeh both lead political tours inside Lifta, where Odeh and other refugees from Lifta are forbidden to return to live under Israel’s racist laws.

On episode 40, author and editor of The Grayzone Max Blumenthal returns for a wide-ranging discussion. We begin with his latest article, on the Israel lobby’s manufactured claims of anti-Jewish bigotry in order to distract from the recent attacks on Gaza and Jerusalem. At exactly the same time there were massive popular demonstrations in support of Palestinians, claims that there was a new wave of anti-Semitism plagued the corporate media. But Max investigated and found these were entirely without a basis of fact.

On episode 39, Nora, Asa and Tamara discuss ongoing Silicon Valley tech censorship of Palestine-related speech. We are joined by Omar Zahzah, a member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) and the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Saliem Shehadeh, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles. In late April, Zoom, Facebook and YouTube blocked a live-streamed event featuring prominent activists from Palestine and South Africa.

On episode 38, Nora speaks with Dr. Tarek Loubani about the immediate devastation to Gaza’s medical and public health infrastructure during and after the recent Israeli attacks. This comes on top of the slow collapse of the medical system due to Israel’s draconian 14-year-old siege. Loubani works alongside doctors at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the Strip’s main trauma center. “All the reports I was getting were saying things I wasn’t used to hearing, from people who I know don’t tend to exaggerate,” Loubani says.

On episode 37, we discuss media suppression and how the corporate press covered the recent attacks on Gaza. We are joined by Greg Shupak, a contributor to The Electronic Intifada and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). He is also the author of The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media.

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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐝𝐚 Visit our website for more reporting: http://electronicintifada.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/electronicintifada Twitter: https://twitter.com/intifada Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electronicintifada/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/intifada Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7g2IMlNS5SFPmj86cfXg4V Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-electronic-intifada-podcast/id972399937 #TheElectronicIntifada #TheElectronicIntifadaPodcast

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)

On Episode 24 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we speak with boycott activists who are taking on major corporations complicit in Israeli settlements and weapons manufacturing industries. Guests: Huda Ammori, Palestine Action; Dalit Baum and Noam Perry of American Friends Service Committee. Photo: Palestine Action

On episode 23 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, author and activist Susan Abulhawa discusses her new novel Against the Loveless World. Abulhawa’s Palestinian protagonist and narrator, Nahr, tells the story of her life from solitary confinement inside an Israeli prison cell called “the cube.” Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-23-against-loveless-world

On episode 22 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we ask how powerful the Israeli army really is. Author Shir Hever has researched in depth the economic factors behind Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as the Israeli arms and surveillance technology industries. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-22-why-israel-isnt-powerful-it-wants-us-think