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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.
The Electronic Intifada is an independent online news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world.
Social media has become a new tool of anti-Palestinian suppression even though these platforms were initially instrumental in advancing the Palestinian struggle. Omar Zahzah joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss Big Tech’s role in Israel’s genocide. His new book is about how digital platforms and technology companies support the Israeli settler-colonial project … Continued
Israel murdered a group of journalists, including Anas Al-Sharif, in a targeted airstrike on their tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City on 10 August. Hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah speak with Dyab Abou Jahjah from the Hind Rajab Foundation. He explains how they tracked down the Israelis responsible for the reporters’ deaths … Continued
Britain’s direct involvement in genocide by supplying Israel with real-time military intelligence hits the mainstream media. Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley to explain how a pilot’s transponder that was accidentally left on fed his exposé of British spy planes over Gaza. On the Resistance Report, the Electronic Intifada’s contributing editor Jon Elmer tells … Continued
The governments of France, Britain and Canada are among the latest to announce that they plan to recognize a Palestinian state in the coming weeks. Is this a real shift in policy, a means to put effective pressure on Tel Aviv to end its genocide in Gaza? The Electronic Intifada’s executive director, Ali Abunimah, looks … Continued
This week on the show, Asem Alnabih, the spokesperson from the Gaza Municipality, joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to talk about the daily struggle for life in Gaza. The Electronic Intifada’s contributor Donya Abu Sitta discusses the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s massacres of Palestinians as they face Israel’s latest displacement orders, and the … Continued
This week on the show, we take a break from the news cycle to discuss understanding Hamas. 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 it helped shape the resistance … Continued
Canada-based emergency physician, Tarek Loubani, speaks with host Nora Barrows-Friedman. He is the medical director and co-founder of Glia, an international medical solidarity organization with field clinics inside Gaza. They discuss how Gaza doctors endure the impossible in the midst of the IDF’s targeting of hospitals and the people who work there. Dr. Sarah Lalonde … Continued
This week on the show, hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah speak with author, journalist and director of Just World Educational Helena Cobban. She analyses the US/Israeli war on Iran and how the 12-day war impacted Gaza. On the Resistance Report, the Electronic Intifada’s Jon Elmer takes us inside the battle of Khan Younis. He … Continued
This week on the show, we take a break from the news cycle for a special episode that looks at the history of Zionism and why it is a racist and colonial ideology. Dissident Israeli historian Illan Pappé speaks with hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah about Zionism’s roots in European colonial ambitions. Longtime Palestine … Continued
This week on the show, veteran investigative journalist and co-founder of Drop Site News, Jeremy Scahill, joins us to discuss U.S. and Hamas negotiations and what he thinks are Trump’s real Gaza ceasefire terms. The Electronic Intifada’s contributor Donya Abu Sitta joins us live from Gaza and tells us about the bombing of her neighbours … Continued
