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

3/13/2025, 9:46:57 AM

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My latest on Hauntologies: Spartacus in Palestine (extracts) https://www.hauntologies.net/p/spartacus-in-palestine

Spartacus in Palestine

Elia Suleiman's 'The Time That Remains', Kubrick's 'Spartacus' and Omar El Akkad's 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'

Scene showing a screening of Spartacus to schoolchildren

"Spartacus in Palestine”

Hauntologies.net 10 March 2025

This is because the story of Spartacus has been appropriated by the West and is a good example of the contradictions within Western liberalism, that same liberalism being currently challenged by fascism. As Omar El Akkad argues in One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, "one of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption, in hindsight [my emphasis], of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism" but "while the terrible thing is happening - while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed - any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization." In other words, because they are sufficiently removed from our time, some struggles, like that of the Spartacus uprising, are praised for their bravery and perseverance. At the same time, similar struggles, like the Palestinian one today, are condemned.

"Spartacus in Palestine”

Hauntologies.net 10 March 2025

Palestinians do not get to be the underdog in this story, even though their opponent, Israel, is backed by the most powerful behemoth the world has ever seen, the USA. They don't get to be that because they still insist on being alive. Perhaps if they allow themselves to be crushed they may one day be romanticized. Once their homes are all demolished, their people exiled and their culture extinguished beyond the four walls of a bookshop, movie theater or museum, their names may finally be spoken out loud.

"Spartacus in Palestine”

Hauntologies.net 10 March 2025

Palestinians are cursed for not being all long dead and buried. Their existence is a thorn on the side of those who wish to erase their very name. I'm reminded of a scene in Jean-Luc Goddard's Notre Musique (2014) which I've referenced many times in recent years. In it, the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish is speaking with the lIsraeli- French Jewish actor Sarah Adler. He explains (in Arabic) that we know of Trojan victims through the words of the Greek tragedian Euripides. Instead, Darwish says, he was "“looking for the poet of Troy because Troy didn't tell its story.” These are the stories that are missing. Troy, Palestine.

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