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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2025-03-31 19:48:34 UTC

The Israelis hunted down 15 paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) and other civil servants in Gaza, killed them one by one, and then dumped their bodies in a mass grave. This was last week, 23rd of March.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/israel-killed-15-palestinian-paramedics-and-rescue-workers-one-by-one-says-un

2025-03-31 09:08:20 UTC

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I did what now? Feel free to cite anything I did as the shit thing you're accusing me of, or don't tag me with such smears. My record is pretty clear, and there are hours of audio content, not to mention thousands of words worth of articles, of me explaining carefully when comparisons are ethical and when they are not. If you're not willing to engage, don't. And don't tag me alongside other accounts I have nothing to do with.

2025-03-31 09:06:18 UTC

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Thanks! I saw that. I promise that I'm considering it all the time, but as of now I still don't feel like I can. The second I have enough of an income to support myself I'm moving to Ghost

2025-02-06 13:38:15 UTC

Why was this marked as sensitive content? Because there’s an Arab with his face covered?
It’s literally an ad used by pro-Israel groups.
From: @npub1vlk…m0nh
https://spore.social/@ayoub/113955017096460622

2025-02-04 20:14:18 UTC

100s of papers on the far right: this is a bad strategy
dozens and dozens of case studies: really bad strategy
Labour MPs:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/04/group-of-labour-mps-urge-no-10-to-be-tougher-on-migration-to-fend-off-threat-from-reform?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2025-01-20 13:23:17 UTC

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that's not the story here. The story is that he did invite people he *wants* to be political leaders including as British PMs. He invited world leaders in addition to those he likes like Farage and co.

2025-01-19 14:41:06 UTC

Trump did not invite France’s Macron, the UK’s Starmer or Germany’s Scholz for the inauguration but instead invited those countries’ fascists Reconquest/Zemmour (France), the AfD/Weidel (Germany) and Reform/Farage (UK).
As a friend just said, it’s not an inauguration. It’s a rally.

2025-01-13 14:04:11 UTC

Any good pods/episodes on the english and british civil wars? And yes I do mean basically anything from like war of the roses-ish to the wars of the three kingdoms-ish

2024-12-27 21:49:07 UTC

Israel has crossed all lines of basic humanity 100s of times. There is no going back for that state. It will either be stopped or it will continue to consume everything around it while consuming itself. The irony here is that those who call themselves ‘pro-Israel’ have revealed themselves to be nothing more than genocide apologists. If they cared about their precious state’s longevity they would’ve sounded the alarms themselves. They would’ve recognised that committing genocide destroys you too.

2024-12-08 08:34:58 UTC

The moment women and children were released by Syrian rebels from Assad’s #Saydnaya prison. This is really emotional. They are clearly scared of what’s happening so the rebels are telling them “don’t be afraid, we are the revolutionaries. Go get out.”
ASSAD PUT CHILDREN IN THOSE ROOMS
#Syria
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/616/282/790/665/490/original/cdf6572844f6bb96.mp4

2024-11-26 10:50:23 UTC

Anyone on that instance can confirm? https://mastodon.de/@katzenberger/113548743877973882

2024-11-22 08:21:29 UTC

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And if my timeline is correct my posts were muted around the time I posted about the ICC arrest warrants

2024-11-22 07:50:58 UTC

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Does anyone know how we can get a concrete reasons given by the Mastodon.social mods? I want them decent and brave enough to simply state the why.
And if they dare say antisemitism they can expect a very long essay about how weaponising antisemitism has been one of the main tools used by the far right to make threaten both Arab/Muslims and Jews.
And I will demand an apology.

2024-11-22 07:29:28 UTC

I’m being told that the largest Mastodon instance - mastodon.social - is now hiding my profile.
One person telling me it’s because of German obsession with making up antisemitism where there is none.
Anyone who knows me and my work knows that I frequently platform critical Jewish voices. My MA thesis was on Yiddish and Hebrew, I do memory studies which includes Holocaust studies, and I am co-producing a Jewish podcast by three radical Jews.
So what’s up Mastodon? Am I too Arab for you?
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/525/428/439/135/259/original/a048b9ca1f3a5728.jpeg

2024-11-21 18:28:55 UTC

Germany having to decide between supporting the law or supporting genocide is quite the German dilemma

2024-11-21 07:22:26 UTC

Listen to the Biden admin’s own reasoning as to why they were the only country on planet Earth besides #Israel
to oppose an *immediate ceasefire in #Gaza and the immediate release of Israeli hostages*
And tell me that the Biden admin isn’t monstrous.
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/519/737/066/805/812/original/42e76fca2f8c663f.mp4

2024-11-06 08:15:23 UTC

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we don’t disagree. I just also think there’s no other realistic alternative than pushing liberals to the left / build a progressive coalition.
I’m not absolving them of anything either. It’s also their fault, even though I think millions were going to vote for Trump regardless. It doesn’t change the fact that the Dems fucked this up big time.

2024-10-27 19:41:29 UTC

How is this not front page news? #Sudan
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/381/086/772/226/046/original/dd8e0854385ed21a.jpeg

2024-10-24 15:44:25 UTC

Israeli ‘journalist’ just threatening all Arabs on German TV, calling us dogs.
Somehow feels appropriate that this is spoken in German.
#Genocide #Israel
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/363/167/038/997/359/original/b0ffa1d76dcad0f6.mp4

2024-10-23 18:35:08 UTC

Jnah and Ouzai #Beirut bombed by #Israel. No warnings given to the inhabitants.
Al Mayadeen TV reportedly hit. #Lebanon
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/358/176/563/140/098/original/b2c35074462374b1.jpeg

2024-10-13 09:09:18 UTC

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i’d like a single post without some German coming on here to say something fucked up like the genocide “is not good”. These are death squads and your weird relationships with your own history is not my problem. Holocaust survivors and historians have made the comparison. Who are you? And how dare you accuse me of Holocast denial? My academic field is memory studies.
I did an episode on the politics of comparison so if you’d like to educate yourself go for it https://thefirethesetimes.com/2024/09/20/the-holocaust-the-nakba-and-reparative-memory/

2024-10-08 21:24:36 UTC

Haaretz now using the phrase “Hezbollah villages” to describe mixed towns in a mixed area. Some of those towns are so old they’re mentioned in the bible. Hezbollah was formed in the 1980s.
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/273/908/317/374/913/original/db4e15bea31e2ad6.jpeg

2024-10-08 10:42:48 UTC

Ok yeah this is fascism. #Israel is a fascist state. They’re already at the stage of enjoying humiliating the untermenschen an entire year into the genocide in #Gaza. This woman is an Israeli citizen.
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/271/384/690/004/073/original/12e87095c43f3365.jpeg

2024-10-01 17:35:20 UTC

#Iran’s response to the assassination of #Nasrallah. Second video is from Nablus, first one I don’t know. From the looks of it many of the missiles hit Tel Aviv. #Israel 1/2
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/233/347/636/359/683/original/5a4db72f79f0030a.mp4

2024-10-01 15:05:11 UTC

Israeli Jewish *children* chanting “we don’t want Arabs in school.” Just think of how profoundly brainwashed their parents have to be for the children to be this hateful. They were chanting this in reference to an Arab child in that school.
They do not view Arabs as humans. #Israel
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/232/778/484/736/592/original/2a76888754aa77a0.mp4

2024-09-12 06:08:32 UTC

Very impressive project: a 12 hours radio programme on #Palestine featuring history lectures, poem readings, music and more. Mostly in English with some Arabic readings too.
In collab with Radio Alhara featuring sounds from the 1970s onwards.
https://thecouch.hethem.nl/until-liberation/

2024-09-11 06:13:45 UTC

France recognised Western Sahara as part of Morocco, meaning that Macron's France has formally accepted that territories can be conquered through military means. The US has provided Israel will all of the cover to do the same.
The more this becomes the status quo, the more very basic assumptions about sovereignty start crumbling, meaning any smaller nation to a bigger and more aggressive nation is at greater risk.

2024-09-09 13:21:14 UTC

Despite all its flaws the international law status quo remains better than the violently reactionary alternatives proposed by Putin, Jinping and their ilk. The problem now is that it is the USA actively destroying it to protect Israel, and it is a Democrat doing it.
If the Dems don’t radically change their ‘pro-Israel’ policy the consequences will be felt throughout the world - they already are.
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/107/800/674/961/924/original/3ba96b4cbde62a5f.jpeg

2024-09-05 11:35:00 UTC

#Macron picked a very rightwing prime minister even though the Left-Green alliance won the elections. France’s political system is proving to be very fragile and at this rate many worse scenarios are becoming more likely.
#Barnier said in 2021 that “#France should suspend all immigration from outside EU for up to five years.” He is a white supremacist.
Macron, in an amazing repeat of Weimar Germany, has decided that the Far Right ought to be the kingmakers just to avoid giving the Left power
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/084/733/419/215/741/original/8a9c4876c82ca4c6.jpeg
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/084/733/680/197/827/original/566a560bc8cf9d80.jpeg

2024-09-03 15:11:20 UTC

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The Germans then unblocked their initial block, and then reinstated it some months ago. This has been the general policy towards Ukraine. Now the Far Right in Europe is making it even more dangerous for everyone, Ukraine first and foremost, but Europe too.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/07/17/far-right-meps-vote-en-masse-against-pro-ukraine-resolution

2024-09-03 15:08:43 UTC

In 2022 on my podcast I had my buddy Romeo Kokriatski on. For those who dk, he's the co-host of the Ukraine Without Hype podcast, which is a must listen for English-language updates on Ukraine.
In our first or second chat on #TheFireTheseTimes I said that my fear for Ukraine is not Ukrainians' resolve, but Europeans' cynicism.
Germany led the way on that, effectively making it harder for Ukraine to defend itself for a long time. 1/?

2024-09-02 19:57:33 UTC

Just the man doing a genocide using a map in which the West Bank is completely gone. Totally normal stuff. Nothing to see here, just the West’s buddy pointing at a genocide on a screen
#WestBank #Genocide #Israel #Palestine
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/069/722/839/634/730/original/40362bd612dc13ee.jpeg

2024-08-29 19:02:56 UTC

The Biden admin is a master of gaslighting. They literally say that it could have been worse in Gaza were if not for their efforts.
Efforts? They kept on supplying Israel with weapons used to commit a genocide. It’s been 10+ months and they continue to declare victory. https://press.coop/@nytimes/113046771509413223

2024-08-28 21:28:58 UTC

No comment
#Gaza #Israel #Genocide
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/041/770/774/160/683/original/8611eda202fb274a.jpeg

2024-08-28 10:27:02 UTC

How great that journalism these days consists of just copy-pasting what governments say they’re doing
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/039/167/924/515/271/original/e196badad3e77a6e.jpeg

2024-08-05 14:11:59 UTC

The Israeli fascist politician Smotrich openly said it's moral to let 2,000,000 people starve to death in Gaza.
Stop being in denial of what we are dealing with here. This is a genocidal fascist regime that is comfortable throwing around Holocaust-level numbers of dead civilians.
https://x.com/assalrad/status/1820429615472455708

2024-07-31 05:25:51 UTC

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In addition to bombing Beirut and conducting a raid in Tehran, the Israelis have also killed four members of the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah group last night near Baghdad as well.
They’re absolutely losing. Their goal is to kill everyone. You don’t do this without getting a full-scale war.

2024-07-28 09:18:32 UTC

A banner at Pride in Neukolln compared cops and judges to pigs - a very common comparison on the radical left - and Tagesspiegel decided that this was really about Jews because pigs aren’t Kosher. It’s beyond farcical at this point. German media are just making stuff up.
This was after German cops beat up Pride demonstrators.
And yes ofc, they could have easily said this was islamophobic since porc isn’t Halal either, but they are fine with islamophobia
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/863/366/933/834/710/original/b03f2cd7e8e36ace.png

2024-07-27 15:02:17 UTC

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There are so many photos of emaciated children that immediately reminds me of photos of Holocaust survivors.
What Israel has unleashed on children is unspeakable.
45 US doctors who came back from Gaza are speaking out:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/26/world/open-letter-45-us-physicians-gaza

2024-07-27 14:59:55 UTC

Baby Amal was born two months premature in Gaza. She died four days later of malnutrition.
Amal means hope in Arabic.
Children are dying of starvation in their parents’ arms. Just try and even imagine what that’s like.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/25/middleeast/israel-gaza-children-starvation-malnutrition-intl

2024-07-27 08:52:23 UTC

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When the West is done slaughtering our kids y’all will have to wake up in a world where the world’s greatest horror, the Holocaust, was used to justify a genocide of children. Nothing will be the same anymore, for you either. Never Again has been proven to be a lie beyond any doubt.

2024-07-27 08:44:13 UTC

IDF soldier posting to social media a video of them blowing up the water reservoir in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighbourhood with the caption reading “in honor of Shabat” and set to music. #Gaza
They’ve turned an ancient religion of the oppressed into one of ultranationalism and genocide and are clearly having fun creating content for online clicks.
#Genocide is play for #Israel.
Reminds me of ultranationalist Serbs during the Bosnian genocide.
https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1816965332952555683
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/857/569/688/075/023/original/a13624a20440042a.mp4

2024-07-18 19:12:29 UTC

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Zionists soon learned not to hate the Germans as much anymore as they focused their anger on the indigenous Arabs instead. That’s why Netanyahu once claimed that Hitler didn’t really want to kill the Jews and that it was the Palestinian Mufti who convinced him to do so. That’s also Holocaust denial, but it’s fine coz an Israeli is doing it.
https://youtu.be/f9HmkRYlVZw?si=GHggKqlrawLH2yZ1

2024-07-18 19:10:16 UTC

This is not very well-known but imp. to understand: from the 1950s onwards Zionism came to increasingly define itself in contrast to the ‘weak Jew’ who died in the Holocaust. Zionists erased Jewish resistance fighters to claim that only Israeli Jews are capable of defending Jews. The diaspora Jew became emasculated, weak, like sheep in contest with the strong militarised ‘Sabra’ Jew who can protect himself. It’s a form of Holocaust denial as it erases Jewish agency in WWII.
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/809/070/659/756/871/original/4f9e0e20bb46640f.jpeg

2024-07-18 14:19:00 UTC

If those soldiers were Muslims you’d be calling them Jihadi extremists. But they’re Jews and members of a Western-backed army so all’s well. He is just casually walking on the Gaza beach, boasting of raiding and bombing a resort and then walks around a corpse while citing the Bible.
Hey you can even keep the beard. Just change the language to Arabic and the religion to Islam and you got yourself a terrorist.
What a wonderful world
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/807/923/718/920/092/original/7a65dee05b3508f9.mp4

2024-07-16 06:21:44 UTC

JD Vance on Bannon’s podcast: “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.”
Trump’s VP pick is fine with letting Russia invade all of Ukraine.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/15/jd-vance-trump-pick-explained?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other