Elia Ayoub (he/him)

I write essays, research and do podcasts but I’m mostly a full-time dad to a human toddler and two dogs.

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From Ain Saadeh 🇱🇧, in Brighton 🇬🇧

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Newsletter: Hauntologies: https://www.hauntologies.net
Media Collective: From The Periphery: https://fromtheperiphery.com

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2026-01-21 21:51:23 GMT

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115933930461326205
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2025-11-30 20:36:56 GMT

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Here's a quick episode on what the upcoming class on Lebanon (starting Jan 2026) is about and how you can register
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZtPEBJgruXo4ToiNFyxZ8 (and on any other podcast app)
All details here too: https://thefirethesetimes.com/2025/11/30/the-first-masterclass-is-here-jan-feb-2026/
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2025-11-17 10:04:17 GMT

RE: https://spore.social/@ayoub/115491186231393601
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.
#note1kjc…t5ap

2025-11-04 11:27:29 GMT

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: [email protected]
Signal: @ ayoub.02

2025-08-27 09:23:25 GMT

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

2025-08-08 20:32:58 GMT

My latest
https://www.hauntologies.net/p/a-map-the-sea-and-many-olive-trees

2025-08-07 10:41:37 GMT

My latest
https://www.hauntologies.net/p/break-the-dam-release-the-river

2025-08-05 15:16:01 GMT

My latest: Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope
https://www.hauntologies.net/p/notes-on-assadism-zionism-fascism
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2025-08-04 12:20:59 GMT

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. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2f7jPuIhnurBNnkaQrUH2Y?si=3e5b254e85d643b3
The full episode is already available on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/135686921
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2025-07-29 11:34:22 GMT

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"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/29/aidrops-aid-futile-msf-israel-gaza-war-middle-east-latest-news-updates

2025-07-28 16:13:59 GMT

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

2025-07-28 11:22:32 GMT

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 calling the IDF's actions in Gaza a genocide.
Watch the video and read the 88-pages report entitled "Our Genocide" here
https://www.btselem.org/publications/202507_our_genocide

2025-07-26 10:24:32 GMT

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 an American soldier opening fire at Palestinians and then yelling 'I think you hit one!'
I have been saying this for months now: they are *literally* hunting human beings.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cy8k8045nx9o

2025-07-18 20:27:04 GMT

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!

2025-06-30 15:34:19 GMT

For episode 200 (!) of The Fire These Times, @npub1wne…cvnh and I sat down with the brilliant @npub1l4n…zue2 and Naomi Klein to talk about the rise of end times fascism.
On all podcast apps and Patreon (free) https://www.patreon.com/posts/132864144
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2025-06-23 16:13:51 GMT

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’
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/06/eu-israel-timid-review-of-eu-israel-association-agreement-a-greenlight-to-israels-genocide/

2025-06-22 13:32:58 GMT

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

2025-06-17 08:29:32 GMT

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 https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-gaza-food-2db06796a4721b5696e1279532dede42
45 on Tuesday https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/dozens-killed-in-gaza-waiting-for-food-trucks-says-health-ministry
They're just opening fire on people queuing for food. It's like they're hunting

2025-06-16 11:00:42 GMT

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
https://www.newarab.com/news/malaysian-groups-plan-1000-ship-flotilla-break-gaza-siege

2025-06-16 10:10:57 GMT

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I genuinely believe a good chunk of the work is 'simply' destabilising these assumptions

2025-06-16 09:53:41 GMT

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

2025-06-16 09:28:46 GMT

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yes thank you, I edited it now

2025-06-16 09:25:12 GMT

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You're not doing better journalism by obfuscating the former. You're just deciding what to focus on and what to obfuscate.
end of thread

2025-06-16 09:24:53 GMT

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Framing is always a choice. You can choose to obfuscate most forms of violence, that which is committed by the state, and only focus on less common, and usually short-lived, outbursts of violence by protesters - but that is always a choice.

2025-06-16 09:24:44 GMT

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If you are, have the decency to say so openly. It's the least you can do. Don't hide behind pseudo-’objective’ language.

2025-06-16 09:24:34 GMT

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Similarly, if the story you care about is ‘professor throws a rock’ rather than ‘nuclear-armed state illegally and brutally occupied an entire territory for 18 years', are you not making a value judgment as to which lives matter, and which do not?

2025-06-16 09:24:25 GMT

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If it does include the cops, and given that they are most often than not the instigators of violence rather than mere recipients, wouldn't it be the ‘fair and balanced’ approach to see more articles about police violence than about protesters being violent?

2025-06-16 09:24:16 GMT

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Finally, if ‘riots’ are synonymous with ‘violence’, does that include police violence? If not, why? What are you taking for granted? Why are you taking for granted that you live in a society where police violence is common?

2025-06-16 09:24:08 GMT

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If ‘riots’ are a response to an injustice, however unpleasant you may find them, shouldn't you first seek to contextualise it by giving that injustice the context you owe your readers/listeners/viewers?

2025-06-16 09:24:00 GMT

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Did people wake up, felt bored, and thought to themselves today I shall risk arrest for the lolz? If the social contract was actually maintained and the state was doing ‘its part’ of providing social services (etc) wouldn't that make ‘riots', less likely to occur?

2025-06-16 09:23:50 GMT

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Doing so does not require you to ‘like’ the ‘riot'. It just requires you to seek to understand before seeking to explain a situation.

2025-06-16 09:23:41 GMT

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It's a choice between seeking to understand and seeking to obfuscate. There could be a 100 articles on a ‘riot’ that start from the premise of ‘riot bad’ instead of seeking to ask the simply question of why.

2025-06-16 09:23:31 GMT

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So what does that tell us? When reporting on ‘violence’ caused by much weaker actors against much stronger and much more violent actors, you have a choice: do you contextualise the weaker violence against the backdrop of the stronger violence, or do you not? It's a choice you make.

2025-06-16 09:23:21 GMT

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What if I added that Edward Said visited the Khiam prison that day? The prison that served as a torture camp for resistance fighters (look up Soha Bechara's story) and run by Israel and their proxy militia 'the South Lebanon Army'? What does a rock mean with that context in mind?

2025-06-16 09:23:12 GMT

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What if in addition to everything just mentioned, I added that Edward Said had not been to Lebanon since 1982? Since the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, preceded by the siege of Beirut and the Sabra and Shatila massacre, started?

2025-06-16 09:23:02 GMT

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A year after that happened, the Freud Society of Vienna canceled a talk by Edward Said - because he threw a rock. Did Viennese high society cancel talks by Israelis for partaking in actual mass violence including genocide? Let me know when you find one example.
https://archive.is/7f1dy#selection-263.4-263.27

2025-06-16 09:22:45 GMT

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That did not stop ‘the discourse', of course. Here's Caroline Glick for Newsweek. The Israelis were not 'protecting their border', a border which did not exist 5 minutes ago and which, for 18 years, included all of southern Lebanon.
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2025-06-16 09:22:08 GMT

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while also openly committing a genocide in Gaza and only talking of annexing all of Palestine was not harmed by the throwing of a rock.

2025-06-16 09:21:55 GMT

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The nuclear-armed and US-funded state that occupied south Lebanon, continues to occupy the Syrian Golan Heights, continues to occupy Palestinian territories, and is now back to occupying parts of south Lebanon and even more of the Syrian Golan Heights

2025-06-16 09:21:46 GMT

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If you memory-hole 18 years of occupation, and decades more of Israeli violence, it just looks like a man being violent. If you integrate reality, that action becomes symbolic. Nothing even actually ‘happened’ to the Israelis.

2025-06-16 09:21:36 GMT

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Edward Said was, of course, well aware of the Israeli occupation. He wrote about it many times. So, in July of 2020, he threw a rock at the separation wall dividing the newly-liberated south Lebanon and Israel.

2025-06-16 09:21:23 GMT

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Just six years later, during the 2006 Hezbollah-Israel war, Israel dropped an additional 4 million cluster munitions. People still die from these today. Kids still stumble upon mines, farmers (or their animals) still walk into them. People are still maimed or killed as a result of these mines.

2025-06-16 09:21:12 GMT

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Back then, we were still learning of the horrors of the 18-year-long occupation. The Khiam prison (look it up) had just been liberated, and so much was still being discovered. Israel had left thousands of mines around.

2025-06-16 09:21:02 GMT

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Israeli forces had just withdrawn from southern Lebanon, the territory they had been occupying since 1982. Their occupation was marked by widespread torture, disappearances and murder. Edward Said went there a few weeks after those same troops withdrew.

2025-06-16 09:20:53 GMT

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Let's add some details: where and when was this?
Southern Lebanon.
3 July 2020.
What was happening then?

2025-06-16 09:20:43 GMT

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Taken without context, as the Right likes to do, it seems bizarre: a famous academic throwing a rock?

2025-06-16 09:20:31 GMT

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If you erase the latter and only look at the rock, you're memory-hole-ing most of reality.
Take an example: Edward Said (photo above) once threw a rock.

2025-06-16 09:20:16 GMT

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You need to be able to compare a rock thrown by a protester with tanks and jets and mass incarceration and ICE kidnapping children and border cops letting innocent people die of thirst and teargas and torture and more.

2025-06-16 09:20:06 GMT

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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.

2025-06-16 09:20:01 GMT

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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.

2025-06-16 09:19:39 GMT

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) https://www.hauntologies.net/p/framing-violence
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2025-06-11 08:27:54 GMT

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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. https://www.thenational.scot/news/23988289.sky-news-israeli-ambassador-denies-palestinians-right-state/

2025-06-11 08:27:50 GMT

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. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25167720.jimmy-carr-hosts-secret-israeli-party-british-museum/

2025-06-11 08:25:58 GMT

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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 starts disgusting you like it disgusts me.
Here's an article version of the above https://www.hauntologies.net/p/germany-wants-to-rewrite-its-holocaust

2025-06-11 08:25:31 GMT

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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”. https://bsky.app/profile/ayoub.bsky.social/post/3lrb4hkmysk2n
2- A groundbreaking report by Israeli journalist Itay Mashiach exposes how Germany’s antisemitism monitoring mechanisms are being exploited to stigmatize migrant communities, minimize the threat of the far-right, & delegitimize human rights activism. https://bsky.app/profile/yossibartal.bsky.social/post/3lrct4qql222q

2025-06-10 21:53:22 GMT

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 the three hosts Alexia Levy-Chekroun, Yonathan Busquila Listik and Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik.
It's free and already available on both Spotify and apple Podcasts (more soon)
Support us here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/131179917
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2025-06-10 08:54:30 GMT

Melanie O'Brien, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-committing-genocide-gaza-says-top-legal-scholar-melanie-obrien

2025-06-09 13:40:13 GMT

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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.

2025-06-09 13:40:03 GMT

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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.

2025-06-09 13:39:18 GMT

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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.

2025-06-09 13:39:08 GMT

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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?

2025-06-09 13:38:56 GMT

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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.

2025-06-09 13:38:44 GMT

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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.

2025-06-09 13:38:32 GMT

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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.

2025-06-09 13:38:22 GMT

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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.

2025-06-09 13:38:12 GMT

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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.

2025-06-09 13:38:02 GMT

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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.

2025-06-09 13:37:47 GMT

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 https://www.hauntologies.net/p/germany-wants-to-rewrite-its-holocaust
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2025-06-03 19:58:22 GMT

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will check thanks. To be clear, what I oppose is the vast majority of AI junk and slop that is being shoved down our tropes but I am not against specific tools in specific circumstances. LLMs can certainly be used in interesting ways.
I just don't trust the industry

2025-06-03 19:46:14 GMT

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.

2025-06-02 13:53:35 GMT

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What a baffling world we live in where you could apply basic logic to understand something and yet have this entire political and media apparatus, backed by 'analysts' who have abandoned any pretenses of reason, geared towards proving that war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.

2025-06-02 13:53:28 GMT

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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.

2025-06-02 13:53:20 GMT

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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.

2025-06-02 13:53:17 GMT

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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.

2025-06-02 13:53:04 GMT

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 - fck Hamas - but it is an insult to our basic capacity to understand anything to continue believing that this genocide is ongoing because Hamas still exists. It's just not. That is simply wrong.

2025-05-26 19:01:04 GMT

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Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2025-05-22/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/00000196-f3a3-d6d3-ab9e-f3bbf6070000
https://archive.md/yI4Dy
Barak Ravid shared it too https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1926480805070569726

2025-05-26 18:47:17 GMT

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
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2025-05-11 10:17:36 GMT

Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution is out!
In Episode 1, @npub1qjq…zvaq and I go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?
Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
https://www.patreon.com/posts/128666665
Part of From The Periphery Media Collective
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2025-05-11 09:10:01 GMT

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

2025-05-01 17:40:07 GMT

It was only a matter of time before something that involves Meta will try and do this
There is zero doubt in my mind that Whatsapp’s privacy will be compromised for profit
Please use Signal as much as possible
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-private-processing-generative-ai-security-risks/

2025-04-30 19:15:50 GMT

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While we're at it, check out Language Transfer. It's free and the labor of the extremely passionate Mihalis Eleftheriou
https://www.languagetransfer.org/courses

2025-04-30 19:01:06 GMT

Enshittification embraced by Duolingo
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https://www.engadget.com/ai/Duolingo-will-replace-contract-workers-with-ai-for-content-creation-123058970.html

2025-04-29 10:21:40 GMT

No pls don't stay away
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2025-04-28 12:17:29 GMT

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Thanks!

2025-04-28 12:17:15 GMT

My latest -
Starry, Starry Night: Fatima Hassouna's Loud Death
A loud death means doing the memory work against forgetfulness, not in some distant future, but right here, right now.
https://www.hauntologies.net/p/starry-starry-night-fatima-hassounas

2025-04-25 20:22:26 GMT

Dana El Kurd is joined by
Michael Paarlberg to talk about El Salvador’s ‘state of exception’ under Nayib Bukele, how Trump sees that as a model, the conditions of prisons, and what this all means.
On all podcast apps + https://www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-190-what-in-127286796
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2025-04-25 20:20:11 GMT

"And this earth belongs to you just as much as it does to anyone else"
Molly Crabapple and I talk about the Jewish Labour Bund, and how their concept of Doikayt ('Hereness') resonates today.
On all podcast apps as well as https://www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-189-doikayt-127000904
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2025-04-24 22:40:32 GMT

Hafez al-Assad, the Puppy Killer
That One Footage of the Syrian Army, And Why I Can't Get Over It
https://www.hauntologies.net/p/hafez-al-assad-the-puppy-killer

2025-04-24 17:13:20 GMT

Sure seems bad for a government to text professors to ask if they’re Jewish
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/23/trump-eeoc-barnard-columbia-texts-jewish/

2025-04-23 09:56:27 GMT

Out now everywhere :) I spoke to Molly Crabapple about the importance of Doikayt now and her upcoming book on the Jewish Labour Bund. We also ranted about tech bros' lack of culture. https://www.patreon.com/posts/127000904
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2025-04-22 19:49:58 GMT

So this happened, ‘rising in World Politics’
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/383/349/223/986/050/original/e00c116f74900dcc.jpeg

2025-04-22 15:50:30 GMT

Thank you for sharing. We’ve made the Patreon link public as well https://www.patreon.com/posts/126803711
From: @npub1spr…6uj0
https://ni.hil.ist/@mu/114382258492670299

2025-04-21 22:42:25 GMT

Still a classic
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/378/365/032/658/676/original/e24e3f66760a0eea.jpg

2025-04-21 17:06:17 GMT

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Thank you! Soon to be the Ghost newsletter (will move out of Substack)

2025-04-21 16:10:14 GMT

My latest
https://www.hauntologies.net/p/ordo-amoris

2025-04-20 16:22:51 GMT

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Please try and find BBC articles on Russian massacres in Ukraine that center the claims made by the Russian state. You won’t find them.
Compare that with how they continue to give Israel the right to center its own claims even after being proven to have lied hundreds of times.
It’s not just malpractice. It’s complicity. These are editorial decisions.

2025-04-20 16:19:54 GMT

Read how the BBC covers Israel’s own ‘inquiry’ into the IDF massacre of Palestinian medics weeks after Israel was proven to have lied about it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24q6201d8yo
I previously covered how they reported on the massacre https://www.hauntologies.net/p/how-media-outlets-covered-israels

2025-04-20 08:45:27 GMT

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Mom: mom, my moon, my life, eat your cereals
Kid: mom I don’t want to
Mom: mom you should eat your cereals
Kid: okay mom
*eats cereals*
Mom: bravo mom, may you bury me, you are so cute
(Yes the parent also says Mom/Dad when talking to the child - don’t ask)

2025-04-20 08:39:58 GMT

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Grocer : you’re among family and in safe territory! the sun shines brighter in your presence!
Regular Customer: oh love of my heart, how’s your mother’s health?
G: praise God, better
R: praise God
*45 minutes later*
G: the cucumbers are on sale

2025-04-20 08:39:32 GMT

Translating everyday Arabic conversations can be amusing as they sound like a Shakespearean drama