Gaza, cyberwarfare and resistance | EI Podcast

On episode 48 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Asa and Nora are joined by colleagues Maureen Clare Murphy and Tamara Nassar for a roundtable discussion on some of our top stories of 2021.

As more human rights abuses inside Israel’s cyberwarfare industry were exposed, we talk about the technology itself and the Israeli military’s use of spyware that has been long field-tested on Palestinians.

“It’s not really about who this surveillance technology is being sold to,” says Tamara, “but whether such a technology should be able to exist in the first place.”

“Israel has always done this [surveillance], but it has greater tools to do this now,” Maureen adds.

We also reflect on our reporting during Israel’s May attacks on Gaza.

During the 11-day escalation, at least 260 Palestinians in Gaza were killed in Israeli strikes, including 66 children.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, inside Israel and at the boundaries with Lebanon and Syria, participated in unified resistance against Israeli colonialism and violence.

And Hamas’ armed wing displayed key advances in its resistance strategies.

Israel “didn’t know how to respond to this kind of national unity and power [of] the resistance, despite them not having the kind of military technology that Israel has,” Tamara says.

“And so it did things like bomb the Associated Press building, and the Al Jazeera building; it obliterated entire families in their homes, because that’s the only language it knows how to speak.”

Maureen explains that’s why “it’s up to people on the outside to organize more effectively, so that there is a cost on Israel – and to help change, as much as we can, that power equation. So [that] Israel can’t keep getting away with this like it does after each assault on Gaza."

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[joeiosbaker]

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[ghassanel-kadri]

Many thanks. FREE PALESTINE! Happy New Year.

[ajatala]

Long live Palestine and Palestinian resistance against colonial Israel

[Playam]

Excellent episode with 2 very incisive guests.

[debralegorreta]

God Keep the United States . . .
. . . away from the rest of the world.

[professorblack]

January 2022....Palestinians, now is the time to fervently push your agenda to the United Nations and America! Who doesn't realize this?

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