Elia Ayoub (he/him) / is on Nostr

Dad, partner, writer, researcher, podcaster, editor and human to two dogs. Founder of The Fire These Times (.com), co-Founder of From The Periphery (.com) and Newsletter writer at Hauntologies (.net).

I have a Phd in Cultural Analysis focusing on hauntings and memory in #Lebanon, and I explore alternative futurisms such as #Solarpunk. I also research and write on #Israel-#Palestine, #Syria and #Lebanon, where I’m from. #London-based.

Last Notes

2025-04-20 16:19:54

Read how the BBC covers Israel’s own ‘inquiry’ into the IDF massacre of Palestinian medics weeks after Israel was proven to have lied about it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24q6201d8yo
I previously covered how they reported on the massacre https://www.hauntologies.net/p/how-media-outlets-covered-israels

2024-11-12 23:25:06

Genuinely difficult to overstate what a catastrophe Biden has been to both of my peoples - Palestinians and Lebanese. He paved the way for Trump and I have nothing but rage and disgust for that man. If America wasn't profoundly broken he'd be standing trial at The Hague by now.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/12/despite-thirty-day-gaza-aid-ultimatum-us-says-support-for-israel-will-proceed
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/472/557/131/928/461/original/86cecc2f49e0eaa1.png

2024-10-14 06:35:41

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

2024-10-08 18:33:10

The invading Israeli army raising their flag on Lebanese territory.
Add that to Biden’s long list of victories this year, and add one more example of international law not applying to #Israel.
The forces of genocide are already in #Lebanon.
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/273/232/569/504/594/original/d8fb6aa4f41ede92.mp4

2024-09-26 05:02:36

#Israel sent a truck full of the decomposing bodies of nearly 90 Palestinians to #Gaza yesterday with no explanations. #Genocide
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAWkOovKHE5

2024-08-19 19:31:20

There is no longer any doubt in my mind that unless there is an immediate ceasefire and arms embargo on Israel, a wider war is inevitable. It’s the next logical step for a fascist regime led by Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich and their ilk. I’ve never been more afraid for our entire region.

2024-06-08 17:40:48

The entirety of the media establishment is one geared to downplaying, whitewashing or justifying White supremacy. This cannot get clearer.
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/582/226/417/989/505/original/2b7e3a7f3a1ea09a.jpeg

2024-06-05 20:22:45

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This image is quite something isn’t it. Taken today during #JerusalemDay, the day far right extremists are allowed to force all Palestinians out of Jerusalem to celebrate their victory in 1967 and occupation of East Jerusalem.
This guy is a Palestinian journalist. He was just there. #Israel #Palestine
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/565/876/297/579/239/original/c38c85a5f5383b91.jpeg

2024-06-05 20:20:14

Imagine if these kids were Muslims attacking a Jewish reporter instead of the other way around.
And yes these are children attacking a Palestinian reporter because they are taught from a young age to hate Muslims and Arabs because we are some descendants of some Biblical enemy, or something.
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/565/440/549/799/555/original/7c90fe22c036ae9e.jpeg
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/565/866/398/936/520/original/ecff0493aaa0042a.jpeg

2024-06-04 19:03:42

Incredible testimony given Israeli pinkwashing: story of IDF soldiers executing queer Lebanese men as they’re having sex during the Israeli occupation of Lebanon. They executed them for fun.
Here’s the story: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7zdJpov92S/?igsh=eDQzMWhpNWVvMWZo

2024-06-02 06:09:49

What a reckless article by The Guardian’s Europe correspondent which betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the Far Right.
Meloni being cozy with von der Leyen doesn’t mean Meloni isn’t as far right anymore. The piece itself documents her fascist politics against LGBTQ+ rights, the free press and immigration.
What it does mean is von der Leyen being fine with the Far Right under some conditions. It means the EU as a whole is fine with the Far Right. 1/2
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/02/giorgia-meloni-italy-far-right-prime-minister-eu

2024-05-25 08:39:57

why are so many communist parties still stuck on this boring aesthetic? Nothing says ‘we are uncreative af’ as reproducing what feels like old CIA propaganda aesthetics and thinking you look edgy
Image: “the communists are coming: join the communist revolutionary international”
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/500/827/341/198/852/original/0780c5a78b03d9ca.jpeg

2024-05-23 13:46:27

So what do you call this level of hatred? This fanatical desire to annihilate an entire civilisation?
Image description: Israeli occupation soldiers set fire to Gaza’s Al Aqsa University library and took photos of themselves doing it
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/490/707/972/365/447/original/dbfbc7eea47960ac.jpeg

2024-05-23 07:31:37

Incredible report: “Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.”
This makes the EU directly complicit in human trafficking, torture and murder of black people.
https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/desert-dumps/