The Electronic Intifada

Young dancers and hip hop emcees from Dheisheh refugee camp are on a US tour. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/young-palestinian-dancers-tell-stories-resistance (Photo: Dancers perform in Oakland, 19 March. Brooke Anderson)

Malaka Mohammed has been targeted by Israel lobby groups for her defense of Palestinian rights. For more, read: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-gaza-student-uk-speaks-out-against-harassment (Photo of Malaka Mohammed by Jeremy Abrahams) Read Malaka's post on Medium here: http://bit.ly/2nmLPZH And follow her on Twitter: @malakashwaikh

Youth protesters interrupted the senate hearing of David Friedman as US ambassador to Israel on Thursday, in an action they say was aimed at inspiring others to ensure senators block his confirmation. (Image: C-Span, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4657125/palestinian-protester-disrupts-friedman-nomination-hearing)

Reporter Charlotte Silver talks about the ongoing push by immigration attorneys to protect the rights of immigrants and refugees under the Trump administration's Muslim ban. (Photo by sarah-ji on Flickr, http://bit.ly/2jCWgHt)

Activists Amanda Weatherspoon and Nadya Tannous highlight strengthening solidarity between Black and Palestinian struggles. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-resisting-youth-incarceration-us-palestine (Image: Friends of Sabeel North America, https://nochildbehindbars.squarespace.com)

Hashem Abu Sham'a, who grew up in al-Arroub refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, wins prestigious Rhodes scholarship; a talk on BDS and activism by Omar Shakir and Rahul Saksena. (Photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills)

Journalists and authors Mohammed Omer and Jordan Flaherty join the podcast to talk about Palestine and activism. Music: Naima Shalhoub. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-gaza-fuel-emergency-daily-routine (Photo: A Palestinian man overlooks Gaza's power station in the central Gaza Strip, July 2015. Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

Activestills aims to do more than document protest in Palestine. The Electronic Intifada speaks with Activestills photographer Oren Ziv and co-editors Shiraz Grinbaum and Vered Maimon of the new book "Activestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel." For more: https://electronicintifada.net/content/photography-solidarity/18421

Law professor Katherine Franke dismisses claims that use of the term is akin to anti-Semitism. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/why-israels-actions-can-be-called-genocide (Photo: Anne Paq/ActiveStills)

The Electronic Intifada interviews Charlotte Kates, a Palestinian prisoner solidarity activist who was interrogated by Israeli forces and denied entry to West Bank; and Students for Justice in Palestine members Rahim Kurwa and Omar Zahzah who talk about the growth of the solidarity movement on US campuses as Israel lobby groups attempt to suppress student organizing.

Activists will put Hillary Clinton's values "to the test" when it comes to advocating for Palestinian children. Interview guests: Rania Khalek (The Electronic Intifada), Josh Ruebner (US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation), Jennifer Bing (American Friends Service Committee, No Way to Treat a Child Campaign). For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-dnc-delegates-support-palestinian-rights-even-if-democratic-party Photo: US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Facebook page)

More than 80 Minnesota legislators pressured the president of the University of Minnesota to malign and undermine a student divestment campaign. (Image: #UMNDivest supporters at the University of Minnesota, from UMNDivest Facebook page)

Issa Amro of Youth Against Settlements in Hebron arrested for "incitement" by Israeli army; and activists in Virginia successfully pressure lawmakers to drop anti-BDS bill. For the full story: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-how-palestinian-rights-activists-halted-virginias-anti-boycott (Image: Palestinian protesters hold banners during a demonstration against the closure of Shuhada street to Palestinians, on the 22nd anniversary of the closure, in the West Bank city of Hebron. 26 February. Wisam Hashlamoun / APA Images)

McGill students pass a BDS motion; and professors at US universities form Faculty for Justice in Palestine to support student organizing and protect academic freedom. Music: "Boycott Israel" produced by Don Martin. For the full story: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-canadian-students-back-israel-boycott-government-condemns-it (Image: activists at McGill University, from McGill BDS Action Network's Facebook page)

The student government at the University of Illinois-Chicago unanimously passed a divestment resolution on Monday evening. Also, divestment resolution veto bypassed at the University of South Florida as student-led campaigns grow. Music: "The Emperor's Clothes" by Invincible. For the full story: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-student-organizing-pays-divestment-victories-chicago-and-florida (Image: A student activist wears Chicago-area campus divestment campaign buttons at the UIC divestment hearing, posted by Twitter user @nashalam)

Issa Amro, coordinator of Youth Against Settlements, talks about the ongoing sit-in protest at a checkpoint in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron to protest a "closed military zone" order and daily violence against Palestinian residents of the city by soldiers and settlers. For more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-israeli-army-making-our-lives-impossible-says-hebron-activist (Image: Sit-in protest at checkpoint/Youth Against Settlements [@twitter.com/YASHebron])

Rafeef Ziadah is a London-based poet and activist. Her newest CD, We Teach Life, combines poetry and music and makes a deliberate connection between activism and art. Hazem Jamjoum interviews Ziadah for The Electronic Intifada. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-rafeef-ziadah-why-its-difficult-separate-politics-poetry (Photo courtesy of Rafeef Ziadah)

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)

Muayad Alayan says his debut feature film Love, Theft and Other Entanglements attemps to "gives the stage to the characters and the story." (Photo: Still from the film, courtesy of http://www.lovetheftandotherentanglements.com/)

Two Jewish anti-Zionist activists are facing up to eighteen months in prison after they nonviolently protested a fundraiser for the Israeli army in May. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-activists-charged-criminals-disrupting-israeli-army-fundraiser (Photo: An image posted by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces shows soldiers with their faces obscured holding up gift cards given to them by the organization. Via Facebook)

Brad Parker of Defence for Children International-Palestine and Jennifer Bing of the American Friends Service Committee talk about the recent Capitol Hill briefing on Israel's violations of Palestinian children's rights. The briefing included testimony by Palestinian American teenager Tariq Abukhdeir, who was brutally beaten by Israeli police last summer. (Photo: Screenshot of Brad Parker, Tariq Abukhdeir and Jennifer Bing from video of the briefing)

A team of Canada-based physicians has paired up with four major hospitals in the Gaza Strip to install solar panels and provide reliable energy 24 hours a day to emergency rooms, intensive care units and operating theaters. Dr. Tarek Loubani talks about the EmpowerGAZA project. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-solar-panels-gaza-hospitals-aim-ease-healthcare-disaster (Photo: Screenshot from video of Loubani talking about al-Shifa hospital's solar panel success, which EmpowerGAZA is hoping to replicate in other Gaza hospitals)

Students at Marquette University in Wisconsin are organizing against a recent attempt to silence Palestine solidarity activism and the watering-down of a divestment resolution. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/wisconsin-student-government-censors-criticism-firms-abetting-israels (Photo from MU Divest campaign)

Approximately 130 members of faculty at NYU have joined a growing campaign to urge the university to divest from companies profiting from Israel's crimes. (Photo: NYU Students for Justice in Palestine members march in New York, from NYU-SJP Facebook page)

Durham County had joined the boycott of South African goods during the 1980s apartheid era, and current campaigners were able to "use that as precedent for them taking action on [private security firm] G4S." (Photo from Jewish Voice for Peace, part of the Durham Drop G4S campaign in North Carolina)

Filmmakers Malek Rasamny and Matt Peterson have begun producing short documentary films about the common struggles between Palestinian refugees and First Nations communities on reservations across the North American continent. In this interview, Rasamny told The Electronic Intifada that it's important to link the struggles together because of the "general historical similarities between the Palestinians and the native peoples here [in the US]." (Photo: Screenshot from "We Love Being Lakota," a film by Rasamny and Peterson.)