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We wish to link to this audio conversation, in which Ahmed talks with Joey Ayoub, Lebanese writer and researcher, about Stalinists (so-called “tankies”), genocide denial, red-brown alliances, and the uncomfortable affinities between large parts of the political left and authoritarianism. Originally published on Arab Tyrant Manual on November 14, 2019. Featured image courtesy Arab Tyrant Manual

Mentioned Articles and Links:

Moishe Postone at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research: Jews and the Left (2012)

Joey Ayoub: review of “Indefensible: Democracy, Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism” by Rohini Hensman

Joey Ayoub: review of “The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy” by Yassin Haj-Saleh 

The Charnel House: Structural antisemitism

Chris Chien: Ending the Idealization of the Other: Notes on the Queer POC Tankie

Joey Ayoub: An idea called Daraya

From Syria to Palestine: struggles against dictatorship, imperialism, and zionism. Panel at Left Forum 2017 With Ramah Kudaimi, Shireen Akram-Boshar, Jehad Abusalim and Joey Ayoub, hosted by Ashley Smith. 

Jehad Abu Saleem: On Suffering and Solidarity

Mohammed Suliman: Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse

Joey Ayoub: What’s behind Stop the War’s aversion to Syria voices?

On The Allies We’re Not Proud Of: A Palestinian Response to Troubling Discourse on Syria 

The Balkans in Rightwing Mythology 

Joey Ayoub and Leila Nachawati Rego: Izquierda Unida, Syria and the Death of European Internationalism

Oliver Kamm: Genocide-denying charlatans have poisoned the Left 

Firas Massouh: Left Out? The Syrian Revolution and the Crisis of the Left 

Michael Degerald: The left’s Warriors on Terror 

Donya Alinejad & Saskia Baas: Syria and the Problem of Left Solidarity

Ceren Türkmen: Calling Forth a New Internationalist Left 

Ramah Kudaimi: palestine separates liberals from radicals & then syria helps us figure out which radicals out for real liberation & which just ideologues

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