In 2010, she was a co-founder of Jadaliyya, an online magazine published in English, Arabic, and French, and which is affiliated with the non-profit Arab Studies Institute, operating in Washington, D.C. and Beirut.
In May 2023, the Canadian MPPSarah Jama, a 28-year old, black, disability rights activist, came under criticism for retweeting a tweet that Noura Erakat wrote. The tweet, which the lobby group B'nai Brith Canada described as “unacceptable,” praised Khader Adnan, a Palestinian activist and prisoner in West Bank who died after an 87-day hunger strike in protest against Israel’s systematic and discriminatory use of administrative detention to imprison Palestinians without charge or trial and to "to expose the basic injustice in Israel’s military justice system and its casual denial of basic freedoms".[18][19][20] His cruel treatment had been condemned by many human rights groups and UN human rights experts.[21]
Erakat was said to be among three potential Palestinian American running mates for Dr Jill Stein, the left-wing Green Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2024 election.[22]
Personal life
She is the sister of Yousef Erakat, better known by his YouTube moniker, FouseyTube.[23][24] She is the cousin of Ahmed Erakat, a Palestinian man who was shot and killed by Israeli police after his vehicle rammed into one of the barriers at a military checkpoint near Abu Dis, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 23 June 2020. Noura has disputed the intentionality of this act.[25]
^Hass, Amira (May 4, 2023). "Adnan's Lone Strike Exposed the Difficulties of Collective Palestinian Struggle". Haaretz. Retrieved May 6, 2023. The fact that he reached 86 days without food or medicine – his longest hunger strike – indicates not only his determination, but also Israeli authorities' conscious decision to avoid compromising with him even if it leads to his death… Since 1967, there've been several mass hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners in protest of harsh prison conditions. At the end of 2011, Adnan was the first to go on a personal hunger strike against his administrative detention. His strike received a tremendous amount of attention, and he was eventually released – only to be arrested again three years later, and then again in 2018 and 2021… Adnan's mission to expose the basic injustice in Israel's military justice system and its casual denial of basic freedoms… His individual strikes have been successful to some extent: His 2011-2012 individual hunger strike led to a general hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners demanding an end to administrative detentions and an improvement to deteriorating prison conditions.
