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Interesting listen: a conversation of @ayoub and @aurelmondon.bsky.social on the mainstreaming of the far right:

The Far Right is Not Inevitable
https://fromtheperiphery.com/2024/07/05/163-the-far-right-is-not-inevitable-w-aurelien-mondon/

#media #MainStreaming #FarRight #politics #liberalism #fascism #WWII #FromThePerifery #EUpol #UKpol

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/

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.

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

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

My latest

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

My latest

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

My latest: Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope

https://www.hauntologies.net/p/notes-on-assadism-zionism-fascism

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

Wendy Pearlman's interview with Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 'Genocide in Syria, Gaza, and Beyond' has been republished by @antidotezine

https://antidotezine.com/2025/07/26/genocide-in-syria-gaza-and-beyond/

"Israel is committing a genocide right now and has been committing a genocide for nearly two years. That's it. Any attempt to ‘debate’ this is nothing less than complicity in the genocide. End of." @ayoub
#gaza

https://www.hauntologies.net/p/the-genocidaires-can-never-rest?r=4gelo5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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

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

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

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

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!

"The Zionist War on Yiddish in Palestine", por @ayoub en Der Spekter.

«Language played a crucial role in defining the Zionist ideal. Many of those involved in advocating for Yiddish as a recognized language of the Jewish people saw their opponents as those advocating Hebrew as the sole language of the Jewish people, and vice versa. Given the context of pre-World War II politics, this also meant a certain intersection between these debates and debates on capitalism and socialism as well as diasporism, nationalism and internationalism.

(...)

The anti-Yiddish attitude prevalent among Zionists translated itself into what Israeli scholar Avi Lang called “linguistic fascism in the land of Zion.” Lang notes that “family lore in most Ashkenazi households in Israel will almost inevitably include stories of grandparents and great-grandparents experiencing discrimination whenever they spoke Yiddish in the streets of 1940s and 1950s Tel Aviv,” which included being “hit or spat at.”

(...)

The creation of a new Jewish identity under Zionism necessitated the presence of an identity that it could emulate or relate to and an “other” that it should discard. For Zionists the identity to be discarded was clear: the “diaspora Jew,” the Jew facing antisemitism in the West, who was viewed as “culturally stagnant, passive and backward.”

The European Gentile, the very source of the antisemitism that prompted Jews to turn to Zionism as a solution in the first place, on the other hand, became the identity Zionists wished to emulate. Putting it in a different way, the oppressor was to be emulated while the oppressed was to be discarded as a weak and dying breed.

(...)

There is a conscious effort to promote Jewish diasporist identity, which, in practice, means rejecting at least two of the four principles of Zionism as defined by Grabski: “The primacy of the Jewish community in Israel over Jewish communities around the world” and “attributing to Hebrew the status of being the main or even only national language in Palestine.” Whether the third principle, “the elevation of ethnic-religious conflicts over class conflicts,” is being challenged, and therefore linking diasporism to a more class-conscious internationalism, will depend on whether the rejection of Zionism is always coupled with an explicit politics of solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by the State of Israel.»

https://www.derspekter.org/the-zionist-war-on-yiddish-in-palestine/

In our capacity as clerks of the transcript archive for The Fire These Times podcast, we just added an oldie but goodie:

"The Inherent Toxicity of France's Islamo-Leftism Obsession."

It's episode #72 from spring 2021, but covers an issue that hasn't been as thoroughly analyzed in the Anglo-American context...and has now reached absolute crisis proportions.

Absolute must read/listen. @ayoub

https://thefirethesetimes.com/2021/04/10/72-the-inherent-toxicity-of-frances-islamo-leftism-obsession-with-rim-sarah-alouane/

For episode 200 (!) of The Fire These Times, @danaelkurd and I sat down with the brilliant @AstraTaylor 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