Podcast: This week in EI headlines - 26 April 2012

This week on The Electronic Intifada podcast: An update on the collective hunger strike now underway by approximately 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including a football star; what daily life is like for a family in a West Bank village completely encircled by an Israeli settlement and steel fences; the first Palestinian family in East Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood is evicted to make way for Jewish settlers; Ali Abunimah comments on three videos making headlines on the Electronic Intifada this week; and news from the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement as the Methodist church considers a major divestment initiative this coming week.

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Thank you EI. Will this podcast and future editions be accessible from iTunes store?

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They played this podcast on Flashpoints, the program Nora used to co-produce at KPFA, Berkeley's Pacifica Radio station, on Thursday and said they will be doing so each Thursday. If you go to the iTunes Store and search for kpfa Flashpoints it will come up.

Nora Barrows-Friedman

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Nora Barrows-Friedman is a staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, and is the author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine (Just World Books, 2014).