@thefirethesetimes.com
The Fire These Times is a podcast by writer and researcher Elia @ayoub.bsky.social and friends connecting academics, writers, artists and activists from around the world to “build the new in the shell of the old.” Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
Dana and Elia don't like the fact that we're #Mamdani's age. We also talked about his victory means.
Out wherever you listen to podcasts
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It's out! I had a fun time recording this with @ayoub.bsky.social
On what mamdani means for arab and muslim Americans of a certain age (i.e. me) and what we can learn from the campaign about palestine, activism, etc etc
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The interview is full of sharp analysis and clear insights for resistance in our current moment as well as building the movements that will help bring forth the world we all deserve. Give it a read, and make sure to subscribe to @thefirethesetimes.com wherever you get your podcasts.
Caught up on episodes #193 and #194 of the @thefirethesetimes.com podcast with Amos Goldberg on Gaza, the Holocaust, Holocaust studies and genocide studies and this whole, oftentimes very silly, debate — really informative for those who care thefirethesetimes.com/2025/05/25/i...
This cannot be the new normal
The Gaza famine and genocide cannot become the new normal. The latest episode of The Fire These Times is now available everywhere.
With @ayoub.bsky.social @leilashami.bsky.social @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social @essssraaa.bsky.social & @karena1.bsky.social
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loved this conversation and so appreciate the space for independent thought @thefirethesetimes.com has created
TFTT+STIR Special: Our Region After Samir Kassir: 20 Years Commemoration w/ Ziad Majed
20 years ago today, the Assad regime assassinated Samir Kassir in Beirut. On this special ep published with @thefirethesetimes.com, Ziad Majed, his friend and comrade, joins us to talk about his legacy - and how much has changed since. On all podcast apps and: www.patreon.com/posts/130502...
In case I've only recommended this podcast 999 times:
I edited this episode. It's really powerful. Hearing Maram speak at length about her daily life in Gaza under Israeli siege and bombardment is just ... I don't know how to communicate how privileged we are to hear the stories of someone resisting genocide. We need to listen, we need to do more.
TFTT 195 and 196/ The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid
We spoke to Gaza journalist Maram Humaid about the many layers of Israel's genocide @thefirethesetimes.com. There was even an Israeli airstrike nearby during our recording.
The full episode is available for free here www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...
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Intent, Holocaust Studies and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg
Intent and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg
Holocaust Studies and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg
This is a long episode so it is divided it in two parts.
Part 1 is out wherever you get your podcasts.
You can also listen to the full episode on Patreon, for free, here www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...
Finally, they spoke about “The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History”, which Goldberg co-edited with Bashir Bashir, and argue for the necessity of new horizons in our imaginaries.
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This is especially relevant with the Gaza genocide as there have been scholars of the Holocaust who have previously argued that no genocides could compare to it, while also being willing to argue that Israel is fighting the new Nazis. Such ahistorical statements are deeply problematic.
Goldberg and Ayoub also got into Hitler's 1939 Reichstag speech to explore how 'intent' has been used to understand genocides historically, and how the legal tradition risks setting back Holocaust and Genocide studies decades.
Intent, Holocaust Studies and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg
In this episode of The Fire These Times, Goldberg and Ayoub also got into how genocides are often preceded by claims of self-defense. In fact, claims of self-defense by the party committing genocide are common throughout history. Israel is no exception to this rule. www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...
In 2024, Goldberg wrote a paper for the Journal of Genocide Research exploring how the question of ‘intent’ is used in discussions around genocides, including the Gaza one. It's open access.
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Intent, Holocaust Studies and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg
Amos Goldberg
Amos Goldberg is an Israeli historian of the Holocaust who called Israel's war on Gaza a genocide. He joined @ayoub.bsky.social to talk about the ways 'intent' is used to mislead the public, and whether the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is in crisis.
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Ayman is also host of two amazing podcasts that are part of @fromtheperiphery.com! Politically Depressed (similar themes to that video) as well as the Mutual Aid Podcast @mutualaidpod.bsky.social
PODCAST: We Are the Children of the Children of War thefirethesetimes.com/2025/05/05/w... @thefirethesetimes.com @ayoub.bsky.social @justinsalhani.bsky.social @fromtheperiphery.com #photojournalism #journalism #photography
For @thefirethesetimes.com @justinsalhani.bsky.social and I spoke about what it’s like to be the children of the children of war. Our parents were active in the 1975-90 Lebanon wars - his father, Claude Salhani, as a photojournalist and my parents with the Red Cross
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It's the first Saturday of the month when our members meet up with Patreon supporters for our hangout! We talk all things FTP, TFTT, PolDep, MAP and more. We will also talk about the first episode of the @syriapodcast.bsky.social coming out this week.
Zoom link here www.patreon.com/posts/128044...
In this wonderful conversation with @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @ayoub.bsky.social mentions his work looking into the "bloodless civil war" between Yiddish and Hebrew and we are incredibly excited to be publishing it next week.
Bella conversazione sulla riscoperta della tradizione del Bund - l'unione dei lavoratori ebrei - e cosa possa significare per l'oggi l'intraducibile parola yiddish "Doikayt".
Really looking forward to learning more about this history:
Cited this in my final lecture ❤️
Seriously, you probably need to listen to this, but it just doesn’t seem like a thing that you need to listen to. I think you should trust me. Just listen.
post-🎧 reflections:
the Bund & the concept of "Hereness" mirrors the practice of mutual aid in that both ask of us to start w. where we are & what we have. both ask of us to stop looking outward for solutions & instead build & invest in our current geographical temporality.
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"And this earth belongs to you just as much as it does to anyone"
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social and @ayoub.bsky.social talk about the Jewish Labour Bund, and how their concept of Doikayt ('Hereness') resonates today
Out now on all podcast apps and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...
