Notices by Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)

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 my work knows that I platform critical Jewish voices. My MA thesis was on Yiddish & Hebrew, I do memory studies which incl Holocaust studies, and I am co-producing a Jewish podcast by three radical Jews. I’m also a writer for 972mag.

So what’s up Mastodon? Am I too Arab for you?

Yuval Abraham announces that he will sue the city of Berlin

#Germany #Israel #Palestine #Genocide

Standing ovation in #Berlin as Yuval Abraham speaks in response to the city's slanderous accusation: "History is knocking on Germany's door again and you are failing again"

#Genocide #Israel #Gaza

This is the official Berlin city description of No Man’s Land, a movie co-directed by an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Arab about the Israeli occupation.

German politics is f-ed up, grotesque and insulting on so many levels. Devoid of any self-awareness, and they’re only getting worse.

#Germany #Israel #Palestine #Genocide

Whatever is left of #COP is being destroyed from within by petrodictatorships like #Azerbaijan and their ‘democratic’ allies. When we say we can’t have climate solutions without human rights we’re not just being romantics. It literally cannot work otherwise.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmzvdn9e18o

#Israel -i soldiers are so used to genocide that some of them are surprised that they can be identified online by the videos they themselves post of their crimes in #Gaza

There is another home grown pro-terrorism movement in the UK that openly glorifies mass violence against other communities, but they’re not Muslim so it’s not considered a national issue. To be this young and full of hate is a societal problem. This is your brain on Zionism. This kid happens to be Jewish but this behavior can be seen in any community that endorses dehumanising discourse. You don’t even have to be Israeli to be affected by it.

Microsoft fired employee Hossam Nasr for organising a vigil for commemorating the lives of Palestinians killed by #Israel in #Gaza. Even expressing sadness over a genocide is against Microsoft’s rules.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-fires-employees-who-organized-vigil-for-palestinians-killed-in-gaza/

https://x.com/hossam_mabed/status/1850669324186648852

Cartography of #Genocide by Forensic Architecture was just released. #Gaza #Israel https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide

Israeli ‘journalist’ just threatening all Arabs on German TV, calling us dogs.

Somehow feels appropriate that this is spoken in German.

#Genocide #Israel

This person gets it. Protest in front of Blinken’s hotel in Tel Aviv.

Sign says “stop the bloodshed” in Hebrew, Arabic and English.

The elder on the ground is wearing an #Israel Black Panthers party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panthers_(Israel)) and the sign says “from the river to the sea, only peace will set us free”

#Israel ‘s goal is not to just weaken Hezbollah but to apply the Dahieh doctrine to the entirety of #Lebanon. Effectively this means rendering all of Lebanon unliveable.

You can bookmark this if you want. I promise you this is the goal.

#Lebanon is the only Arab country from where #Israel was forced to retreat without gaining anything. They’ve never forgiven us for that.

The Israeli army demolishing a traditional Lebanese house for fun. Some of these houses go back to the Ottoman era.

#Lebanon #Israel

My profile probably confuses a lot of people because I'm a Lebanon-raised Palestinian-Lebanese quasi-anarchist who learned some Hebrew and did my MA on the linguistic politics of Yiddish and Hebrew. A 🧵

I'm obsessed with Jewish history and consider radical Jewish thinkers as my primary influences (besides James Baldwin, naturally). Levi, Arendt, Goldman, Bookchin, Solotaroff, Walter Benjamin, Bauman, Graeber, Postone, Butler, Shohat and so many more.

I still have this poster in my flat and I have a Yiddish shirt that reads "down with the police". I take Doikayt very seriously. My MA thesis basically looked at Yiddish Doikayt/Here-ness versus Hebrew-oriented Zionism as the there-ness (this is a generalization)

One thing I'm proud of is that I predicted in my 2016 thesis that the resurgence of anti-Zionist Jewish politics is going to grow significantly in the coming decade as Israel becomes more fascist, and the gap between (esp) American Jews and Israel will only grow - and, well ...

But I want to emphasize that I do not see these Jewish thinkers as just influences. I've come to identify with Jewish history as the history of my kin. So when I say I'm not over the Holocaust, I mean it. I think about it almost every day. It still makes me angry.

This is why German pro-Israelism pisses me off so much as well. It's not just because it contributes to the suffering of my people, but because cowards piss me off and I find German politics to be the politics of moral cowards. Empty, mediocre, pathetic, deadly.