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

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

Please try and find BBC articles on Russian massacres in Ukraine that center the claims made by the Russian state. You won’t find them.

Compare that with how they continue to give Israel the right to center its own claims even after being proven to have lied hundreds of times.

It’s not just malpractice. It’s complicity. These are editorial decisions.

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

AJ putting the number as at least 342 killed by Israel in Gaza.

The ‘ceasefire’ is over.

I wrote this two months: why I cannot mourn Gaza.

Because we all knew Israel was note done with the genocide.

https://www.hauntologies.net/p/this-moment

Israel has issued new forced displacement orders in Gaza

Trump got a list of thousands of people to target by Betar, the fascist movement that dates back to the 1930s. By fascist I mean fascist. It was founded as a fascist group. It is an explicitly genocidal group.

Mahmoud Khalil was just their first target.

They have now abducted another Palestinian student of Columbia, Leqaa Kordia, as well as an Indian one, Ranjani Srinivasan. They accused Ranjani of ‘supporting Hammas’ (ICE misspelled Hamas).

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/14/us-arrests-second-student-imposes-receivership-on-columbia-university

Jewish Voice for Peace is occupying Trump tower to demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release, no muslim ban ever and to stop arming Israel

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHJWluoAV1v

Now on Patreon: Black anarchism, abolition and the radical tradition, with William C Anderson in conversation with Elia Ayoub for The Fire These Times - with a new introduction for Black History Month.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/black-history-w-121921370

This is not good: Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying. The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.

https://www.theverge.com/news/608145/apple-uk-icloud-encrypted-backups-spying-snoopers-charter

Don’t let the worst people in our societies benefit from the Trump momentum. Even if they lose in the end they can cause a lot of suffering. We can minimize those. Any single life saved is worth it.

Protect trans kids from these ghouls.

Don’t cede any grounds anywhere to transphobia and racism. If you’re seeing this becoming normalised where you work or live resist it. I know there are caveats to this depending on how vulnerable you are, but apply this general rule.

Please don’t confuse Trump says or Trump wants with the US having the capacity to do the thing Trump says or wants. What he’s proposing is monstrous, but not surprising. It’s the logical next step of existing US policy, and it has a long track record of failing.

My worry isn’t even just the threat itself, but the pain and suffering he can cause even if it ultimately fails. Again, the US military has a long track record of failing to achieve its own stated goals, and this would be unlike anything they’ve ever tried.

My worry is basically that the US is unable to do anything effectively besides mass destruction. That’s the only thing the US state has been good at for a long time now. Them ‘failing’ in Gaza would still mean more widespread horrors.

In case this isn’t clear: Palestinians are not going anywhere. You’ve failed for a century to erase Palestinians and you will fail again.

The audio version of the above is available on hauntologies.net

Otherwise, it's out on Patreon tomorrow and on all public feeds this Friday

https://spore.social/@ayoub/113896723361692789

Scene featured in the text: the ex-comrades of the Lebanese Communist Party being interviewed

https://www.hauntologies.net/p/lebanons-lost-communist-future

Scene featured in the text: Ibrahim, former communist who joined #Hezbollah, talking to Maher Abi Samra

https://www.hauntologies.net/p/lebanons-lost-communist-future

#Lebanon

My latest: #Lebanon 's lost communist future, a look at Maher Abi Samra's 2011 film 'We Were Communists'

https://www.hauntologies.net/p/lebanons-lost-communist-future

Some extracts