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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

This is uncomfortable timing but I have to advertise my upcoming 2nd class on Lebanese history and politics. There are still a few spots left if you're interested. All the info is here: thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass Bsky thread […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

Here's a quick episode on what the upcoming class on Lebanon (starting Jan 2026) is about and how you can register Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6ZtPEBJgru… (and on any other podcast app) All details here too […] [Original post on spore.social]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

RE: spore.social/@ayoub/115491186231393… Amazed at the responses. I'll likely have to do (at least) two separate sessions to accommodate everyone! You can still register your interest and I'll send you an update with all the details.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

Hey y'all, will soon start an online class on Lebanese history and politics. If you're interested, send me an email or Signal. Please say why you're messaging. I'll send an email/text (no more) with more details soon. Email: ayoub@thefirethesetimes.com Signal: @ ayoub.02

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025

Recs for best place to sell illustrations, posters and the like? I do these for fun and some of them are quite nice (if I may say so myself). I know the big ones like Etsy and co but I’m hoping for something that’s ethical while also being affordable for buyers If that still exists

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Happy to announce that The Kashmir Question is finally out on @thefirethesetimes.com with Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes Part 1, Origins, is out on all podcast apps. open.spotify.com/episode/2f7jPuIhnu… The […] [Original post on spore.social]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

The UN's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) has declared that Famine is now unfolding in Gaza. They describe this as "the worst case scenario." The World Food Programme describes the famine as "unlike anything this century" […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

My latest (free): The Génocidaires Can Never Rest - We must haunt them and confront them wherever they go www.hauntologies.net/p/the-genocida…

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

BREAKING - B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel call Israel's actions in Gaza genocide Given how important Israeli voices are in this context for obvious reasons: we now have Israel's two leading human rights NGOs in addition to many of its leading Holocaust and Genocide scholars […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

I witnessed the IDF shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population" In the video shared you see […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

I know I haven't been as active on The Fire These Times or Hauntologies. Unfortunately, finances aren't the best these days so I'm spending more time looking for other sources of income. I'm hoping this isn't a permanent problem, but who knows. Appreciate everyone's support!

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2025

For episode 200 (!) of The Fire These Times, @danaelkurd and I sat down with the brilliant @AstraTaylor and Naomi Klein to talk about the rise of end times fascism. On all podcast apps and Patreon (free) www.patreon.com/posts/132864144

The poster showing our four faces with the title being The Rise of End Times Fascism

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2025

Amnesty International accuses the EU of serving as a 'green light to Israel's genocide' -- ‘Timid’ review of EU-Israel Association Agreement a ‘greenlight to Israel’s genocide’ […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

Maybe it's a bad idea for the quasi-entirety of Western foreign policy to be dependent on one Israeli man and one American man

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

We're now at nearly 100 Palestinians killed in 2 days by the Israelis while waiting at food centers / for food trucks. 34 on Monday apnews.com/article/israel-palestini… 45 on Tuesday […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

Malaysian activists are trying to gather a 1,000 ships from around the world to sail to Gaza in unison to break the Israeli blockade This comes after Israel illegally stopped the Madleen at sea and Egypt continues to stop the land convoy to Gaza […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

Friends in Beirut hearing Israeli drones a lot these days, and they're louder. The goal is to keep the entire civilian population, already struggling with PTSD (without the 'post' in PTSD), on edge - all the time, 24/7. Kids are growing up with the constant sound of Israeli drones

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

The same goes with unseen versus seen violence. You may think that some person with a rock at a protest is the violent one, but to do that you need to erase the daily mass violence inflicted by the state on citizens and non-citizens.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

The thing about monopoly of violence is, well, that the state has the monopoly on violence. Journalism can be better at recognising that fact instead of wasting time talking about ‘violent protests'. Civilians never have the monopoly on violence. The state always does.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

What does a 2020 photo of Edward Said throwing a rock at the wall separating newly-liberated southern Lebanon and Israel have in common with the LA protests? A few thoughts on how 'violence' if framed. Article version (support if you can) www.hauntologies.net/p/framing-viol… 🧵 below

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

The Israeli ambassador to the UK openly supports annexing all of Palestine, which is against both international law and the UK's explicit policy. She has stated this repeatedly. The UK has done nothing and she is still Israel's ambassador to the UK […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

Last month Jimmy Carr hosted a secret Israeli party with Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the Israeli ambassador to the UK. Carr who once 'joked' that no one talks about the 'positives' of the Holocaust and then cited the Nazi genocide of Roma and Sinti people […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

Not only is Germany labeling an activist group comprised of German Jews “foreign extremists” - Tell me, is there some precedent of Germany categorizing Jews as foreigners? - but Jews are the ones doing the work to expose Germany's weaponization of antisemitism. Let me know when any of this […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

Since I published this two days ago there have been two new Germany updates: 1- Germany declared that Jewish Voice for a Just Peace (JS) are “foreign extremists”. bsky.app/profile/ayoub.bsky.social/… 2- A groundbreaking report by Israeli journalist Itay Mashiach […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Super happy to finally be publishing Hidah, which I'm co-producing as part of the From The Periphery media collective. Hidah is a new podcast aiming uplift counter-colonial conversations from within Jewish communities across the global diaspora. In E1, we meet […] [Original post on spore.social]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Melanie O'Brien, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-c…

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

By doing so they get to both demonise the Other - an old German tradition - while also downplaying and erasing the very real rise of the neo-Nazi and fascist Far Right, some of whom include pro-Israel actors who are envious of Israel's ethnosupremacist state and wish to replicate it at home.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

That way the Holocaust is no longer entirely rooted in European antisemitism and colonialism. It's a win-win for the German state: they get to displace their role in historical and modern antisemitism unto a population of 'foreigners' that have very little political capital in German politics.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

They can't have it both ways. If the Holocaust was wrong because *genocide is always wrong* then backing Israel's genocide is unjustifiable. If the Holocaust was wrong but also it allows Germany to displace their antisemitism problem unto 'foreigners', well that's quite convenient isn't it.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

Incidentally, this is itself antisemitic. If they can erase the Holocaust by backing Israel, then were the European Jews they murdered in the Holocaust ever really European? Or were they always foreigners, waiting for a Jewish state in the Middle East to be created for them?

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

By acting as if all one needs to do to atone for the Holocaust is to be pro-Israel one is essentially saying that the Holocaust is no longer a German problem, that they can atone for their crimes in Europe by backing a state in the Middle East committing genocide.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

Germany's complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians has nothing to do with its Holocaust guilt. It has everything to do with maintaining a sense of the past that allows them a way out of their role in the Holocaust. They want it to no longer be a German problem.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

Germany has been cracking down on civil liberties to make sure that no nuance is allowed in public discourse. They have cheapened the Holocaust itself by proving that it can be used to silence opposition to an ongoing genocide.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

Add to that the redefining of antisemitism as opposing Israel's actions and you get a German state that is fine with prosecuting Jews and non-Jews alike in the name of 'fighting antisemitism.' The most mundane of pro-Palestine events are thus turned into an existential crisis for the state.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

Germany is invested in the notion that *because* they are responsible for the Holocaust, they are also *best suited* to understand what antisemitism is. The idea that antisemitism is 'our' problem is inconceivable to German politics today. It is much easier to scapegoat foreigners instead.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

The overwhelming majority of antisemitic attacks on German soil are from the Far Right, but these are rendered illegible because it does not fit with the White supremacy that continues to define a lot of German politics.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better. 🧵 below and also www.hauntologies.net/p/germany-want…

""Frankly, we have imported antisemitism with the big numbers of migrants we have within the last 10 years."

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025

Are there tech reviewers (laptop/phones especially) that are anti-AI? Given how much junk is being forced on our devices, I don't even know who to trust to get critical information about tech products.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

I 100% believe that all hostages must be released immediately, but it's ridiculous to believe that this is why Netanyahu is continuing to launch a genocide that has literally also directly led to the deaths of said hostages. It's absurd to believe that ending the war isn't good for the hostages.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

The Israelis are openly starving children as *policy* and there are still people who think that this madness is about Hamas. Hamas even released hostages and Gaza was immediately rewarded with more bombings. Israel is literally talking of conquering Gaza and is publicly creating concentration camps.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

They have accepted virtually everything to stop this war and it is Netanyahu who continues to insist on continuing it until 'total victory.' This has happened dozens of times already. It's gonna be two years of this madness. There is virtually nothing left in Gaza but ruins and it's still ongoing.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

So much is being normalised by Israel's impunity. I don't know of any other context where one side of negotiations is publicly asking for the destruction of the other side as a precondition for the negotiation. It's Orwellian in its twistedness. You don't have to like a single thing about Hamas […]

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025

2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated in Three Zones 2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* They are ANNOUNCING concentration camps archive.is/Q7klW

"75% of Gaza to Be Occupied in Two Months; 2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated in Three Zones"

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025

Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution is out! In Episode 1, @leilashami and I go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria? Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts www.patreon.com/posts/128666665 Part of From The Periphery Media Collective

Illustration by Hisham Rifai. It shows a couple from the back with protesters in the background.

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Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025

Is there a way for Bluesky posts to be automatically republished here (or vice versa) without downloading or using a separate app/website?

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