Notices by Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social), page 2

Their projection of moral superiority means nothing to me. You did the Holocaust and then hid behind Israeli settler colonialism and genocide. Nothing else fucking matters. You failed.

That's also why I don't believe at all that the Germans feel guilt about the Holocaust. Supporting Israel as their staatsräson is the coward's way out. And we pay the price for shitty German politics because apparently Germany just gonna Germany.

This sort of politics is broadly speaking how the West approaches the Holocaust as well. It doesn't deal with history seriously. It skips the critical work of memory entirely. It infantilizes and fetichizes Jews instead of taking seriously the work of critical Jewish thinkers.

Jews were not some passive observers of a horror that befell them. They fought. Zionists today seem particularly obsessed with denying that Jews fought back. They lost because the rest of the world failed to act on time. It's the West and the Soviets that failed the 20th century.

There's a reason Nazis were so worried about the influence of Jewish thinkers in Europe and that's because they were the most consistent voice for revolutionary change Europe had seen. What antisemites saw as 'rootlessness' was actually a desire to be rooted wherever you are.

While so much of Christian Europe was busy obsessing over the 'Jewish question' (which should be called 'we don't know how to deal with the Other because our conception of identity barely moved beyond the toddler stage of philosophy' but that's too long).

And because of the anarchist-y bits in me, I do not take the nation state for granted. This means that I have no problem learning how to make sense of my own Lebanese/Palestinian/Levantine family's history of displacement by reading Benjamin or Levi or Arendt etc.

I don't see them as the 'Other'. They're my kin. As Baldwin put it re the Black experience, I view those who create a negative 'Other' as revealing more of themselves than of the 'Other'. That's how I view so much of the past century of European history.

I'm not convinced with the European project and I don't see it going anywhere good unless they take seriously their Jewish heritage because to this day I don't believe most Europeans really understand what *they* lost with the Holocaust.

Ok that's enough - f- zionism and free palestine

Recent European Jews for #Palestine speech at the EU parliament. These are my kin.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBL7onDCJRb/

#Israel destroyed the Ottoman-era market a few days ago and now destroyed the Ottoman-era bldg housing the Nabatiyeh municipality, killing the mayor and many more. They committed the 3rd massacre in the biblical city of Qana in 3 decades.

Since our ruins matter more than our lives: if they expand their bombardment of the Bekaa it will almost certainly lead to the collapse of the temples of Jupiter and Bacchus/Dionysus, two of the largest, best preserved Roman temples in the world. #Lebanon

#Israel doesn’t believe in a two-state solution. It doesn’t believe in a one-state solution.

It is committing a #genocide in #Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

What do you think their final solution is to the Palestinian Question? Is this rocket science? Do they need to spell it out every day 24/7 for them to be believed?

And why is the Israeli ambassador to the UK not expelled yet?

Germany is a parody of Germany

Germany is a parody of Germany, part 2

Germany is a parody of Germany, part 3

Germany is a parody of Germany, part 4

This is a ‘Green’ politician. Germany’s foreign minister. Granddaughter of a literal Nazi.

Openly justifying the Israeli bombing of schools in Gaza.

USAID officials regularly meet their Israeli counterparts at the notorious rape camp. Can’t make this up.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/14/usaid-gasa-aid-meetings-sde-teiman?CMP=share_btn_url

Visualising the #Gaza genocide one grain at a time. Surreal.

Via https://www.instagram.com/reel/DA4N087tWV6
#Israel

My social circles are all queer lefties in #Lebanon who have opposed Hezbollah for years and I *PROMISE YOU* not one of us has any doubt right now that Hezbollah is the only thing stopping Lebanon from complete extermination by the Israelis.

That bothers you? THEN STOP #ISRAEL