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The siege on Gaza and the role of the Palestinian Authority are critical context for the Israel’s assault on Gaza. On this episode we take a look at the history of the blockade and how Israel has ghettoized the Palestinian population.

Episode: 043 Gaza siege: A history
Date: 7 March 2024 | Length: 79:00

Briefing Notes

You can watch Jon and Nora’s EI Gaza war livestreams https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada/streams
You can follow Justin’s podcast work at the Anti-Empire Project and his writing at his substack newsletter.

We take a look at the Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange proposal that Hamas and the Qassam Brigades responded to Israel with following a proposal put forth by Mossad, Shabak, CIA, and Egypt intelligence chiefs in Paris.

You can watch this episode on the Anti-Empire Project’s Sit Rep series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyG87r_48a4

Episode: 042 Gaza ceasefire proposals
Date: 9 February 2024 | Length: 45:46

Briefing Notes

You can watch Jon and Nora’s EI Gaza war livestreams https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada/streams
You can follow Justin’s podcast work at the Anti-Empire Project and his writing at his substack newsletter.

On this episode, the October 7th military raid by the Qassam Brigades that collapsed the Israeli military’s Gaza Division. We take a look at the events of October 7th on the heels of an Israeli media report that broke down the raid into a minute-by-minute timeline from Israeli military and intelligence sources who participated in the battle that left the IDF broken and its soldiers captured.

This is a podcast version of an episode of the Anti-Empire Project’s Gaza War Sit Rep series: watch here.

Episode: 041 October 7th
Date: 20 January 2024 | Length: 52:57

Briefing Notes

You can watch Jon and Nora’s EI Gaza war livestreams https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada/streams
You can follow Justin’s podcast work at the Anti-Empire Project and his writing at his substack newsletter.

We are joined from the West Bank by Abdaljawad Omar to discuss the formations of Palestinian resistance during the intifadas of the 1980s and 2000s and how that trajectory led us to 7 October and the current war on Gaza.

Episode: 040 Remembering the Second Intifada
Date: 7 January 2024 | Length: 94:39

Briefing Notes

Watch Abdaljawad Omar on The Electronic Intifada and read his latest, “Can Palestinians mourn?”
Jon Elmer. Remembering the Second Intifada. (Al Jazeera English 2010)
You can watch Jon and Nora’s EI Gaza war livestreams https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada/streams

Nora and Jon are joined by Justin Podur to discuss the war on Gaza, now 72 days on.

You can watch this episode on the Anti-Empire Project youtube channel.

Episode: 039 War on Gaza
Date: 17 December 2023 | Length: 77:18

Briefing Notes

You can watch Jon and Nora’s EI Gaza war livestreams https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada/streams
You can follow Justin’s podcast work at the Anti-Empire Project and his writing at his substack newsletter.

Nora and Jon are joined by Justin Podur and Matteo Capasso to discuss the defence of Gaza and the implications of the battle for Israel and the Empire.

You can watch this episode on the Anti-Empire Report Youtube channel: Whose side is time on?

Episode: 038 War on Gaza
Date: 19 November 2023 | Length: 73:18

Briefing Notes

Capasso. Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. (Syracuse University Press 2023)
You can watch Jon and Nora’s EI Gaza war livestreams https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada/streams
You can follow our Gaza live updates page at electronicintifada.net/updates
You can follow Justin’s podcast work at the Anti-Empire Project and his writing at his substack newsletter.
You can follow The East is a Podcast on twitter and wherever you get your podcasts.

Nora and Jon are joined by friend of the show Justin Podur to discuss the war on Gaza, now three weeks on.

You can watch this episode on the Anti-Empire Report Youtube channel: Can Israel win through famine and bombing alone?

Episode: 037 War on Gaza
Date: 30 October 2023 | Length: 77:39

Briefing Notes

Read Justin’s essay on 7 October [Substack 1 Nov 2023]
You can watch Jon and Nora’s EI Gaza war livestreams https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada/streams
You can follow our Gaza live updates page at electronicintifada.net/updates
You can follow Justin’s podcast work at the Anti-Empire Project and his writing at his substack newsletter.

Nora and Jon are joined by longtime Gaza ER doctor Tarek Loubani to discuss the war on Gaza.

Episode: 036 War on Gaza
Date: 16 October 2023 | Length: 21:07

Briefing Notes

You can follow Jon and Nora’s daily coverage of the war at https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada/streams.

Les Bélangers, Montreal’s first Haitian street gang, wasn’t the criminal enterprise it was painted as by Quebec police and a willing media in Canada in the 1980s. At first, it wasn’t even a gang; it was a group of friends who fought back against the racist violence that their community was routinely subjected to in city parks and schools, on the metro and in downtown bars. We are joined by the leader of Les Bélangers, Maxime Aurélien, and by Ted Rutland, professor at Concordia University in Montreal; they are together the authors of Out to Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal’s First Haitian Street Gang.

Episode: 035 Montreal’s first Haitian street gang
Date: 5 September 2023 | Length: 39:57

Briefing Notes

Aurélien and Rutland. Out To Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal’s First Haitian Street Gang. (Fernwood Press 2023)
Aurélien et Rutland. Il fallait se défendre: L’histoire du premier gang de rue haitien à Montréal . (Mémoire d’encrier 2023)

The Mohawk Warrior Society is one of the most successful militant organizations in North America. Their predecessors were key to the defeat of the French in Quebec and the United States in the War of 1812. Today, the Warriors are best known for their role in the 1990 Oka standoff against the Canadian army. In the new book, The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival, the movement for the first time tells its own history.

We are joined by the editors of this unique anthology of resistance, Philippe Blouin, Matt Peterson, Malek Rasamny and Kahentinetha Rotiskarewake and also by Kwetiio and Karennatha who, along with Kahentinetha, are members of the group Kanien’kehà:ka Kanistansera, the Mohawk Mothers.

Episode: 034 Mohawk Warrior Society
Date: 18 June 2023 | Length: 70:23

Briefing Notes

Karoniaktajeh Louis Hall. The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival. (PM Press 2023)
The Mohawk Mothers defend unmarked gravesites (APTN)
The Native and the Refugee. (Electronic Intifada 2015)
Jon Elmer on Mohawk blockades (Al Jazeera June 2010)
Jon Elmer on the Mohawk Warrior Society and the Canadian military (Inter Press 2007)
see also The Brief Podcast 023: 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance with Gord Hill

Israel attacks the al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and rocket-fire from Lebanon, Syria and Gaza points to the potential for a multi-front regional response to future Israeli violence.

Nora Barrows-Friedman and Jon Elmer discuss the latest events in Palestine.

Episode: 033 Flashpoint Jerusalem
Date: 13 April 2023 | Length: 36:27

Briefing Notes

Our previous episode, 032 West Bank escalation

Israel steps up its military attacks in the West Bank targeting a new generation of Palestinian fighters. Nora Barrows-Friedman and Jon Elmer are joined by Justin Podur to discuss the implications of the internal crisis in Israel and the ramping up of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

This joint broadcast with The Brief Podcast and The Anti-Empire Project is part of our interventions series.

Episode: 032 West Bank escalation
Date: 26 February 2023 | Length: 45:07

Briefing Notes

Israeli forces raid Nablus [Al Jazeera 22/2/2023]
Tech Leaders in Israel Wonder if It’s Time to Leave. [New York Times 23/2/2023]
Previous The Brief Podcast episodes on Palestine: Resistance in Jenin; Prison Break; Gaza War.
Previous interventions with the Anti-Empire Project: Colombia’s left turn; Settler Canada

Anti-Racist Action was unified behind a basic principle: “We go where they go. Whenever fascists are organizing or active in public, we’re there.” What began as street fighting in the punk scene soon developed into a militant direct action network with chapters across the US and Canada. Authors, KRISTIN SCHWARTZ and MICHAEL STAUDENMAIER, join us to talk about the newly released movement history, We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action.

Episode: 031 Anti-Racist Action
Date: 11 January 2023 | Length: 58:52

Briefing Notes

Schwartz, Staudenmaier, Lady, Clay and Hill. We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action (PM Press 2023); and in Canada: (University of Regina Press 2023)
Documentary about the Baldies, Minneapolis anti-racist skinheads in 1980s [Twin City PBS Oct 2021]
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund: Real solidarity for those fighting hate