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Electronic Intifada Radio highlights the week’s news, interviews and reports from The Electronic Intifada website, podcast and livestream broadcast with host Nora Barrows-Friedman.
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Twenty-nine political activists associated with the banned group Palestine Action are in British jails. Most have already been held on remand far longer than the normal six-month maximum which the law allows before trial. Four of these political prisoners have now been on hunger strike for well over a month. One of the hunger strikers, …
Maha Hussaini from Gaza speaks with hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah. She is an award-winning journalist and the head of Media and Public Engagement with Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. We discuss Israel’s pattern of killing and the advancing yellow line. Six political prisoners in British jails associated with the banned group Palestine Action have … Continued
On June 13th, 2024, Israel and the United States launched a 12-day war on Iran. Al-Jazeera’s Fault Lines series executive producer Laila Al-Arian joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to talk about their latest documentaries: “Target Tehran,” about the human cost of Israel’s attacks on Iran, as well as “The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya,” about the pediatrician in … Continued
On November 17th, the United Nations Security Council adopted UN Resolution 2803 to establish a Board of Peace as a so-called transitional authority to oversee Gaza reconstruction and the deployment of an International Stabilization Force with a two-year mandate. The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah reports on the latest in the Trump administration’s plan to occupy Gaza with a foreign force … Continued
This week on the show, we take a break from the news cycle to discuss the history and development of the Hamas political party and its armed wing. Writer and analyst Justin Podur joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to talk about Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s novel The Thorn and the Carnation. He gives insight into Sinwar’s thinking and how … Continued
On November 17th, the United Nations Security Council adopted the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza. Resolution 2803 effectively makes the United States and Israel the joint rulers of Gaza, aided by complicit governments from the region and around the world. Former senior UN human rights official and international human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber joins hosts Nora … Continued
The Gaza government media office stated on November 6th that barely a quarter of the expected and needed aid has entered the strip since the October 10th ceasefire, confirming that “the occupation continues its policy of strangulation, starvation, humanitarian pressure, and political blackmail against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” Dorotea Gucciardo speaks with host Nora … Continued
In the wake of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, Britain’s main political parties stood firmly behind the offensive, finding themselves on the same side as elements of the far right. Much of the British media reinforced these distortions, echoing official lines and leaving the public with a distorted picture of what’s really happening. While UK officials … Continued
On October 28th, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 104 Palestinians, including 46 children. Writer and journalist Eman Alhaj Ali joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to explain that the ceasefire exists on paper, but it is not implemented on the ground. She also talks about surviving the genocide. She was among a group evacuated … Continued
Despite the monumental scale of destruction in Gaza, Palestinians have begun efforts to rebuild their lives. Hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah speak with Asem Alnabih, spokesperson for the Gaza Municipality about life in Gaza since the announcement of the so-called ceasefire. On the Resistance Report, the Electronic Intifada’s contributing editor Jon Elmer covers the Israeli military’s … Continued
On October 10th, the clock started ticking on the first steps of the fragile ceasefire deal. Within days, Trump was doing victory laps in Israel and Egypt. Hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah join writer and journalist Helena Cobban to talk about the factors that might seal the fate of the ceasefire agreement that Israel … Continued
