I’d like to introduce you to Ahed ( @ahedalshaer ), whose fundraiser is verified by the butterfly effect project (#407 on the list). Ahed is younger than my little sisters and yet she has been forced to shoulder a great burden in seeking donations for both herself and seven members of her family. She is incredibly sweet, and the way she has documented her life is beautiful. Ahed an aspiring dentist who seeks safety and the ability to continue her education. I haven’t known her long, but looking at her blog brought me into her life – particularly her life on October 5th. Ahed speaks of going back in time to her practicum, to her freedom, to her livelihood, to her safety. She speaks of a return for her family.

The lack of donations sent to Ahed and her family threatens their survival and makes a terrible situation worse. When I look at Ahed’s blog I feel a mix of despair and anger at the world that has left Ahed desperate like this – she should not be left to do this on her own. She should not have to feel afraid when posts of hers do not gain traction and donations are stagnant. She should be provided for as much as possible, as should her family.

I’m begging you to hear Ahed's cries for help. Read her posts, see the beautiful life she has lived, and help her in continuing it. I’m also begging you to share Ahed's campaign, and to donate as much as you can spare to her and her family. Anything helps! It can be as small as the cost of a cup of coffee.

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to anyone who comes to my blog seeking help with fundraising campaigns, with the rate of asks i receive it's difficult to keep up with and answer all of them. if you send in a campaign that has been verified i will absolutely help to share it, and donate when i am able to do so! my heart is with Palestine

verified campaigns that have been sent to me so far are below (bolded are very low on funds) i'll continue to update this list as i receive asks related to verified campaigns

all of these people need aid. please donate what you can and reblog!

• Mahmoud Kahlaf & his family / €19,432 of €30,000 ; 151 here and 5 here
• Ahmed Alanqar & his family / €46,659 of €49,000 ; 264 here
• Abdelrahman, Ahmed Al-Nabih, & their family / €19,120 of €30,000 ; 218 here
• Nour Alanqar & her family / €17,369 of €40,000 ; verified here
• Bassam Shaqoura & his family / €27,420 of €45,000 ; 152 here
• Tamar Al Deeb & his family / €23,375 of €40,000 ; 191 here
• Mohammed Alanqar & his family / €51,229 of €58,000 ; 174 here
• Samer Abu Ras & his family / kr104,520 SEK of kr450,000 ; 196 here
• Diyaa Shamali & her family / $24,165 CAD of $90,000 ; 227 here
• Haya Nahed Alshawish & her family / €64,235 of €100,000 ; 26 here
• Ahmed Abu Hamad & his family / $13,183 of $50,000 ; 137 here
• Amira Alanqar & her family / €20,276 of €29,000 ; here
• Mahmoud AlBawali & his family / €31,829 of €50,000 ; here
• Abdelrahman & his family / €14,475 of €20,000 ; here
• Mohammed Aldeeb & his family / €34,243 of €55,000 ; 212 & here
• Musab Abedraboo & his family / £2,523 of £8,000 ; here
• Heba Al-Anqar & her family / €2,089 of €60,00 ; here

Last Updated: August 7th, 2024

Please look through Operation Olive Branch's spreadsheet of verified aid campaigns as well as @/el-shab-hussain and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet of verified campaigns to find families to donate to, and listen to Palestinians for other ways to send aid to Palestines trying to survive and escape the genocide being inflicted by isntreal

As you all know, my dear friend siraj ( @siraj2024 ) is a writer and journalist.

He had studied journalism and media studies and had just completed his masters a year before the zionist occupation began this genocide in palestine. He had been planning on pursuing his doctorate as well, before the occupation attacked with tanks and bombs, and destroyed the home he had taken a decade to build and that dream along with it.

Today he uses his blog to share with us daily updates- writing about the genocide and how it has affected not only him and his family, but also all people of palestine in all its gut wrenching reality.

Everyday he makes a 3km journey alone to get to a spot with stable internet connection, despite all the risks he may come across the way from the IOF. He spends an exorbitant fee to access the internet, just so he can reach out to us and share his writing with the world.

To put it into context, i would like to share a quote from Refaat Alareer who was a palestinian poet, writer, professor and activist.

"I'm an academic," Refaat Alareer said on day 3 of Israel’s genocide. "The toughest thing I have at home is an Expo marker. But if the Israelis invade ... I'm going to use that marker to throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is the last thing that I would be able to do."

This your reminder that every time Siraj updates, every time he is sending you his poetry, every time he picks up his pen to write at all- it is an act of resistance.

Yes, Gaza has been known as an open-air prison for years now, and yes there are very few places left in Gaza that can be called safe from the violence and illness imposed upon them by the occupation. With borders closed, there is nowhere to run.

The intent is to kill, the intent is to destroy and the intent of genocide is to erase the proof that Palestinians were ever there at all. As colonial narratives goes, zionists will weave their false stories about they are the true indigenous population of the land, about how occupied Palestine was an empty, desolate place before Zionists came in to build it up. Gazans are being forced out of their own homes and off their own land, in a more horrifying repetition and continuation of the Nakba, in the attempt to make sure there will be no one to contest those lies.

I have observed that evacuation funds tend to get more traction here than those dedicated to rebuilding in Gaza.

This is your reminder that rebuilding is resistance.

This is Siraj is fighting the only way he can- through documenting and through reaching out to the free world, and attempting to rebuild what he had lost. As a writer, a journalist his voice is the only weapon he has against the bullets, and the bombs.

I want to present to you a poem Siraj has written and has kindly allowed me to share with you all:

You will not defeat us, Israeli occupier

My pen will remain a witness to your actions. Your planes bombed our workplace and destroyed the tools we used in journalistic work, but they will not be able to erase our identity.

I will continue to write every night before bed, with a worn out pen and a torn cardboard.

Yes, I will not stop, no matter how great the challenges are.

I will write about the tent, the drinking water crisis, the famine, the genocide, and the ongoing massacres.

I will never forget anything about what we were in this war. This occupier will not defeat us. We will keep writing no matter how long the darkness lasts.

Please pay heed to Siraj’s determination. Siraj has gotten this far, only because he knows that he has many friends in the free world who will listen to him.

Right now, he is inviting you to help in rebuilding his house- and thus, in helping him resist the occupation.

Do not disrespect him by ignoring this call to action.

He has currently only raised $24,584 CAD / $30,000 (short term goal)

He needs to reach $30,000 within the week.

This gfm appears on hussein @/el-shab-hussein and nairuz @/nabulsi’s list of vetted fundraisers (#219) so please dont hesitate to share!

Please reblog and donate any amount you can! Get in contact with artists offering to do commissions in exchange for donations to Siraj's gfm- one by @sheplaysbassdotmp3 and other by @imjustheretotrytohelp

$24,608 / $82,000 goal

Only $24 have been raised in the past hour - we can do better than this. Please please please donate anything you can to Siraj, and if you can’t spare anything, reblog this post and boost his campaign. He and his family are in extreme danger and need our help!

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$24,652 ! Please keep donating and sharing as much as you can ! Let's see if we can make it to $25K before the day is done.

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Lol

[image ID: a screenshot of a post from badjokesbyjeff, dated April 28 2022. the post reads:

A Jewish man on the subway is reading an Arab newspaper

A friend of his, who happened to be riding in the same subway car, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached him. "Moshe, have you lost your mind? Why are you reading an Arab newspaper?" Moshe replied, "I used to read the Jewish newspaper, but what did I find? Jews being persecuted, Israel being attacked, Jews disappearing through assimilation and intermarriage, Jews living in poverty. So I switched to the Arab newspaper. Now what do I find? Jews own all the banks, Jews control the media, Jews are all rich and powerful, Jews rule the world. The news is so much better!"

/end ID]

The fact that this joke is stolen and the only thing this guy changed was switching "Nazi" to "Arab".

Hey, that's not fair! He also added an anti-miscegenation line.

Thank you everyone for reading and sharing my pinned post. Hate mail went from 50+ per hour to 0! Back to writing prompts soon <3

You harassed a Gazan genocide survivor off of Tumblr (he's had his account for over a decade, and on it, he's documented the horrific losses his family has suffered even before October 7th), doubled down on accusing all GFMs vetted by Palestinians on Tumblr of being part of an organized scam ring by hyperfocusing on the one GFM on that list that's sketchy (no regard, of course, to how this might effect the hundreds of other families trying to survive a genocide), quietly deleted all evidence of yourself being racist to the genocide survivor you fueled a harassment campaign against, never apologized for any of this, and now, after you've gotten to play the victim for a bit, you're doing a victory lap and celebrating the harm you've done.

But before you go back to your regular scheduling of stealing posts from Reddit and pretending they're your own, I think you're followers should know what the backlash against you is about.

Here's screenshots and a links to the posts you've quietly deleted:

NOTE: The person sending this ask is Mahmoud Balousha, a Palestinian refugee currently residing outside of the country. He's organizing several GFMs on behalf of his family, and is very much a real person.

Here's a post from his Palestinian friend (another long-time Tumblr user), with a reply from one of the people who has been in daily contact with Mahmoud and helped him set up a fundraiser.

Anyway, here's how writing-prompt-s decided to reply to Mahmoud's plea for help:

I'll repost my own reply here, since you never acknowledged it, and never apologized to Ahmed (90-ghost):

This is really not my story to tell. It feels very uncomfortable to shared Ahmed's history like this, and to see how he's been forced to be this public about his loss and trauma in order to be believed (and then to see you, still doubting him!).

Ahmed is now trying to adjust to a life in Egypt, still has most of his friends and family in Gaza, and is struggling just to cover his own living expenses in the city he's now a displaced refugee in.

The fact that you, from the safety of your home (Ahmed's has been turned to rubble by Israeli bombs), felt so comfortable dragging him and other Palestinians through the mud like this is despicable.

And you can read yourself from @/Killy, the person who initiated Ahmed's fundraiser when he was still in Gaza, the horrible effect this harassment campaign you've started has had on him:

Do you have any fucking conscience at all?

You never responded to any of this, and I know for a fact that you at least saw my reply, because shortly after, you made a new post doubling down where you tried to imply Ahmed had faked his entire blogging history:

And again, my reply, which you also didn't respond to:

You've done real, material harm to the Palestinians you're dragging through this. And I think you're very well aware of that, you just don't care and you never will.

Here's the donation links again:

Ahmed (90-ghost) and Mahmoud

And lastly, if you want to accuse me of contributing to spreading scams, that's fine. My conscience is clear. I'd rather take the risk of accidentally promoting a scam (and I've seen no evidence that I have so far done so) than keep silent and deny help to people desperately trying to survive a genocide.

EDIT: and now you're reblogging posts from @/prismatic-bell, a racist, Zionist blogger who once publicly threatened to dox a Native American by detailing, step by step, how easy it would be because of how small the First Nation group they belonged to was.

Really giving the game away, aren't we?