From the Editors

Highlighting important stories on and off The Electronic Intifada.

Podcast: Hundreds protest outside Israeli jail in solidarity with hunger striking prisoners

Palestinians launch protests across the West Bank demanding the release of political prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails.

Podcast: Brooklyn College BDS event "a victory" for free speech, academic freedom and Palestine solidarity movement

Reporter Alex Kane talks about the failed attempt by Zionist groups and even “progressive” officials in New York City to censor a talk on BDS at Brooklyn College.

Listen: EI's Ali Abunimah on why partitioning Palestine will never lead to peace

Listen to an in-depth interview with The Electronic Intifada Executive Director Ali Abunimah.

Podcast: Gaza family of 6 perish in fire caused by candle lit after electricity cutoff

Rami Almeghari talks about the current health, economic and infrastructure crisis in the Gaza Strip, after an impoverished family is killed when a fire sweeps their home due to a lit candle.

Podcast: "Israel's drunk with power," says Stop the Wall's Jamal Juma'

Jamal Juma’ of the Stop the Wall campaign talks about grassroots Palestinian resistance to Israel’s escalating colonization project.

Podcast: As Palestinian refugee population grows, so do rights violations

Amjad Alqasis of BADIL talks about two new surveys that look at the growing number of Palestinian refugees and how Palestinians consider themselves as a unified people despite Israel’s divisive efforts.

Podcast: Sounds from DAM's new hip-hop album Dabke on the Moon

On our podcast: Tamer Nafar of the ground-breaking Palestinian hip-hop group DAM speaks with EI about their new album; plus clips from two songs.

As Chicago murder rate jumps, a family mourns: former EI editor Matthew Cassel reports for Al Jazeera

Community centers in Chicago’s south side shut down for lack of funds while US tax dollars subsidize Israeli occupation.

EI's Nora Barrows-Friedman debates pro-Israel activist, former US government official on Al Jazeera

Nora Barrows-Friedman squares off against a pro-Israel lawyer behind efforts to silence Palestine solidarity activists and conflate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism on US campuses.

Podcast: Will Israel boycott movement win policy victories in 2013?

Josh Ruebner of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation assess the victories and growth of the international boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

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