FWIW, I asked my former partner, who is an actual Palestinian anarchist in the West Bank, about this organization "Fauda" that has been getting a lot of attention.

Not one to mince words, here's what she had to say, which I share with her permission, "I only saw their Instagram page. It's clear that they are a bunch of social media lazy fucks sitting on their ass somewhere in Europe as I don't see any Fauda taking place here and they're not even posting visuals from Palestine. I have serious questions about them, for now I would say don't trust them or count they are organizing on the ground."

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Someone transcribed a Fauda video[1] and posted it a few places online, and folks why are we all boosting this? It just sounds like the edgelord wing of Anonymous wants become Hamas. This is complete dogshit drivel we shouldn't be supporting.

This group pops out of nowhere and starts asking for money and suddenly all of us who generally don't know fuck all about OTG things in that region blast it everywhere.

This kinda shit happens every time there is some hot new uprising somewhere in the world. Some fucking weirdos capture the white/western audience's attention by being slightly more media savvy than everyone else, and then they start asking for money and declaring themselves the voice of that region.

I'm possibly also talking out of my ass because I don't *know* that they're full of shit, but they are extremely fucking fishy, and I can't find *anyone* who can say that they know anything about them prior to their seeming sudden appearance in our collective knowledge just a few weeks ago.

I don't really care if I'm wrong about their OTG activity, because their statements just sound like prescriptivist bullshit. But then again, BRRN is in to them and they love doing some platformist top-down anarchist shit too. Birds of a feather.

Anyway, I wrote a too-fucking-long zine about this kind of behavior titled Affinity Fraud. Can we please try to be a little more discerning when encountering possible allies? If there is something to be gained, some people will lie and misrepresent themselves to seize those benefits.

[1]: Here's the full statement I'm referencing. https://anarchistnews.org/content/statement-fauda-anarchist-group-palestine

We are excited to announce that we are working with the Marie Goldsmith Project to publish the first two books in their project!

The first book will be a fully translated and annotated version of Goldsmith’s Revolutionary Syndicalism and Anarchism: Struggle with Capital and Power (1920). It will contain a Foreword by Prof Ruth Kinna and cover art/spot illustrations by the incredible @nobonzo

This book will also include a detailed introduction from Søren Hough @sorenhough and Chris Coquard broadly covering Goldsmith's biography to help contextualize her writing in Revolutionary Syndicalism.

The second book, provisionally titled Marie Goldsmith: Titan of Anarchism, will be a robust, scholarly footnoted compilation of essays by and about Marie Goldsmith. The title comes from a eulogy for Goldsmith delivered by Nestor Makhno.

Now it’s all hands on deck to keep pushing to afford the remaining printing, research, and translation costs! https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/marie-goldsmith-project

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