Hidah: Jewish Counter-Colonial Thoughts

HIDAH 9/ Raw Reflections I

Wild Imagination for a savage future In this episode we invite our listeners to see how the (kosher) sausage is made and look behind the curtain of our chaotic process. This is a purposely pointless session where we set out to discuss our wild imagination of things we can produce. We mainly focus on texts we can write and references we are coming from. Hosts: ⁠⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠⁠ [https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2026.2653934], Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠⁠ [https://danielvoskoboynik.com/] Producers: Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠⁠ [https://thefirethesetimes.com/], ⁠⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.hauntologies.net/]) Music: ⁠⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠⁠ [https://gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/] This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠⁠ [https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery]

HIDAH 8/ The Present is Very Recent: The Ongoing Power of the ‘What if’

Remembering Alternative Histories Beyond Linear Timelines In this conversation, we speak with writer, journalist and From the Periphery co-founder Elia Ayoub. We talk about the Elia’s engagement with the politics of Yiddish, Arab Jewishness, linguistic fascism, alternate futures, hauntings, thinking about histories beyond timelines, and much more. This conversation was recorded in early 2025. Hosts: ⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠ [https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2026.2653934], Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠ [https://danielvoskoboynik.com/] Producers: Hannah Dvora & Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠ [https://thefirethesetimes.com/], ⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠ [https://www.hauntologies.net/]) Music: ⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠ [https://gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/] This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠ [https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery]

HIDAH 7/ Diasporism II: A positive account of diasporism

Another configuration is possible In this conversation we go deeper into some of the questions addressed in the previous episode. Alexia, Daniel and Yonathan think of ways of organizing as Jews and organizing Jewish community in a different manner. We reflect on whether the best way to organize is to disorganize and if by disorganizing one can organize differently. We talk about some of the central categories in the Jewish vocabulary today to ask whether they still hold value today: whether they still help us navigate the world we live in or whether we need to find new meanings to them. Hosts: ⁠⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠⁠ [https://www.internationalstudiesblog.nl/articles/resistance-disobedience-and-barbarity-connecting-walter-benjamin-to-decolonial-theory], Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠⁠ [https://danielvoskoboynik.com/] Producers: Maia Steinberg & Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠⁠ [https://thefirethesetimes.com/], ⁠⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.hauntologies.net/]) Music: ⁠⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠⁠ [https://gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/] This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠⁠ [https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery]

HIDAH 6/ Diasporism I: A different map for a different world

The possibilities and impossibilities of reclaiming an idea In this conversation, Alexia and Yonathan discuss a text by  Gabriel Abensour and Noémie Issan-Benchimol titled "Mapping diasporisms: for a Judaism of continuity [https://k-larevue.com/en/2024/09/12/mapping-diasporisms-for-a-judaism-of-continuity/]." We offer a critical engagement with their ideas and try to speculate what are the option they don't take into consideration but could prove interesting. By reflecting on their arguments, we try to frame a possible conceptualization of diasporism that does not stand between the two negative. This positive account of diasporism will be developed in the next episode as part II of this conversation. Hosts: ⁠⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠⁠ [https://www.internationalstudiesblog.nl/articles/resistance-disobedience-and-barbarity-connecting-walter-benjamin-to-decolonial-theory], Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠⁠ [https://danielvoskoboynik.com/] Producers: Maia Steinberg & Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠⁠ [https://thefirethesetimes.com/], ⁠⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.hauntologies.net/]) Music: ⁠⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠⁠ [https://gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/] This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠⁠ [https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery]

HIDAH 5/ Antisemitism today: How and why it matters?

Reflecting on antisemitism beyond simplicity and weaponization In this conversation, we reflect on the nature of antisemitism and its relevance in todays' world. We ask how it manifests and its problematic ramifications. We talk about its convoluted manifestations, the dangers of its weaponization and the question of Jewish integration. This leads us to the issue of philosemitism. The challenge our conversation aims to hold is accepting that antisemitism is both real and being instrumentalized. That it is the instrumentalization that often trivializes it and therefore that one must take antisemitism seriously to challenge its weaponization. Hosts: ⁠⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠⁠ [https://www.internationalstudiesblog.nl/articles/resistance-disobedience-and-barbarity-connecting-walter-benjamin-to-decolonial-theory], Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠⁠ [https://danielvoskoboynik.com/] Producers: Maia Steinberg & Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠⁠ [https://thefirethesetimes.com/], ⁠⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.hauntologies.net/]) Music: ⁠⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠⁠ [https://gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/] This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠⁠ [https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery]