mastodon 4.7.3I write essays, research and do podcasts but I’m mostly a full-time dad to a human toddler and two dogs.
Words in 972Mag, Al Jazeera, Al Jumhuriya, Shado Mag etc
From Ain Saadeh 🇱🇧, in Brighton 🇬🇧
To support me: https://ko-fi.com/eliajayoub
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.
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
Perfect encapsulation of how the Gaza genocide is just another job in Israel. Banality of evil, just following orders, and so on. It’s so institutionalised most individual participants do not have to think about it too much. This is how you streamline mass murder.
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: https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/
Bsky thread: https://bsky.app/profile/ayoub.bsky.social/post/3mg3o47zs5k22
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
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
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’
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"
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!
For episode 200 (!) of The Fire These Times, @danaelkurd@mastodon.social and I sat down with the brilliant @AstraTaylor@journa.host 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
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
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.
My latest: Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope
https://www.hauntologies.net/p/notes-on-assadism-zionism-fascism
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
Just sharing coz this might be consequential. He’s currently the 3rd most popular candidate and there’s a chance he endorses Trump: RFK Jr has a body count with actual kids dying as a direct result of what he did. He faced no consequences and in many ways just benefited from it.
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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
The full episode is already available on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/135686921
