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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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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
On October 9th, Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya announced what he called a permanent ceasefire, declaring that Gaza had “endured two years of genocide” and would “never belong to its enemies.” Veteran investigative journalist and co-founder of Drop Site News Jeremy Scahill joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to take us inside the Gaza ceasefire … Continued
On September 29th, Trump announced his 20-point so-called Gaza peace plan at the White House alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah speak with filmmaker Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, author of An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Forces Made a Nation. He describes the new proposal as a colonial … Continued
Israel wiped entire Palestinian cities off the map. Writer, poet, and journalist Ahmed Abu Artema joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss what he saw and experienced during the genocide and how he was evacuated to the Netherlands last month. He explains that: “they are claiming that [they] are fighting Hamas. They murdered … Continued
Earlier this month, Israel bombed Qatar’s capital city, targeting the Hamas negotiating team which had been meeting to discuss a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza. Professor Sami Al-Arian joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley to talk about the consequences of these strikes. He also gives his take on the escalating and intensifying … Continued
The “Uniting for Peace” resolution allows the UN General Assembly to step in and suggest collective action to member states when the Security Council is unable to take necessary steps to protect global peace and security. Hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah speak with former senior UN official Craig Mokhiber about why he thinks this … Continued
The Washington Post published a leaked proposal circulating in the White House to develop the so-called Gaza Riviera called the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust – or the GREAT plan. The Electronic Intifada’s executive director, Ali Abunimah, tells us why this dystopian proposal for Gaza should remind us of plans for the Nazi … Continued
Forced and sustained starvation is “shaving years off” of Palestinians’ lives, especially children, whose cognitive and growth development is dependent on good nutrition in their earliest years. Host Nora Barrows-Friedman speaks with Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a member of Healthcare Workers for Humanity and an emergency physician who has worked in Gaza for years. He explains … Continued
