im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary
palestinians deserve the right to be able to travel freely in our homeland. to even visit our homeland. for us to have citizenship and rights to our own country. to grow our plants. practice our religions. live without fear that our children can be kidnapped by israeli forces on their violent whims. to not have our life savings poured into building a home for our families that are torn down without real warning by israeli bulldozers. to no longer be refugees. like this is real life. this is real.
we don’t want to be reduced to a never ending slogan. we want to put down our need for resistance. to rest & to live.
yeah this is increasingly clear with the recent rise in the vicious and evil attacks on these fundraisers and on the Palestinians spending all their time and energy coordinating, maintaining, and verifying fundraisers.
they have the audacity to say “at least donate to an organization” because they want the aesthetics of supporting Palestine but in reality they completely disregard that these are real human beings living through the unimaginable but your ask box or dashboard getting “clogged” with fundraiser asks is the end of the fucking world for you. you who are so entitled to your blood money.
fuck all of these racists.
And what the fuck are YOU doing to verify fundraisers?? Or do you just want to ignore them all? 🤔
THERE IS A GENOCIDE AND ALL YOU FREAKS CARE TO DO IS SHIT ON THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY TRYING TO ESCAPE
the thing is i'm old enough to remember people expressing doubt about literally every single fundraiser i've ever shared, regardless of whether or not those people are sending asks, mostly because they're from palestine or sudan lol. baraa's fundraiser (in my pinned) was accused of using ai to fake photos of her niece that she had available for years on her instagram, just because they're really high-quality photos (she's an artist! she loves taking and staging great photos!)
like there's some people here who are just genuinely confused or suspicious about these (and that's fair, as there have been scams before), but there's always zionists who are lowkey mad about it too, even though presumably they want palestinians evacuating gaza. but it's very transparent how they just don't enjoy seeing any support or sympathy for palestinians at all, and particularly unqualified support, because like within a couple sentences they go from "how do you know this fundraiser is real?" to "how do you know you're not donating to terrorists? btw the UNRWA has links to—" like...
reading today's news coming from palestine and isreali prisons, and then logging in here to see bitches ganging up to prevent the little help we can do for gazans. and i'm thinking, maybe we're failing to impose shame on some people. zionists and their allies are not fearing for their lives enough to me
"Oh its okay to have differents opnions, you dont have to lik----" THIS DOESNT APPLY TO HIM!!! U dont like him I dont like u, I dont trust you, dont come near me, you and I have unresolved beef for all eternity GOT IT???
how you even can not like him look at his silly face look at him no look at him again why how hes literally perfect
Anonymous asked:
this website - the "everyone here is notoriously already broke" website - has been funneling thousands of dollars to various gaza gofundmes. and then the "required" amount per person got raised, and then gofundme and the finance sites wouldn't release the money, and then the crossing got destroyed and no one can get through. and even when something reaches its goal, I've never actually seen a "success story" about someone getting out or getting their family of rafah because of it
serious question, has any of this mattered? did anyone actually get out because of a fundraiser? have we been doing anything at all other than laundering money for corrupt border guards? is this a better use of donations than, say, the esims? or donating to aid orgs? or any other way of trying to help?
"and i know the gofundmes here can be overwhelming"
here's the thing. fuck being overwhelming, fuck getting exhausted seeing the fundraisers every day, none of that matters. my only question is, have people actually been benefiting from it? not in a "I think someone is impersonating people and scamming us" way (I trust the verification work people have been doing), but in a "is this actually going somewhere" way. if every single "$5000 x number of people" fundraiser got filled up to the maximum, would it make a single bit of difference?
bloglikeanegyptian answered:
most of the families that made it to egypt before the border was destroyed by israel did so through funds raised by gofundme, including ahmed @90-ghost on tumblr, at least four people i know personally, and maybe hundreds more i know through acquaintances or i’ve seen on twitter. if you donated to these campaigns you would know this because they usually post updates saying “good news! we were able to get x out of gaza, but now we’re trying to get the rest of our family out, so we’ve upped our goal to x.”
most of the campaigns remain open because they will try to get the most vulnerable members of a family out first, after which they will try to get the rest out.
since the border was destroyed right now people are being displaced internally, which means instead of the money going to corrupt border guards it is used to buy tents, buy medical supplies, buy food, or rent some of the few units still standing in different areas within gaza. basic foodstuffs in gaza now can cost up to 200USD. and it is only getting worse and more extreme.
the only entries and exit are through israeli crossings now that egypt has no control over. egypt could be bribed. israel can’t. they have a small list of injured children they occasionally evacuate through israel-controlled crossings and airbases, but just so you understand how this is also part of the genocide and how israelis use any excuse to allow more people from gaza to die, netanyahu froze one crossing as a ‘retaliation’ for the bombing of (syrian, arab) children in majdal shams that no one has actually taken responsibility for.
other crossings were out of use for weeks because israel allowed settlers to block the aid trucks going into gaza, until the rafah border was destroyed and these blockades were no longer necessary.
they also consistently close the single humanitarian corridor, kerem shalom crossing. yesterday it was open to deliver 80 bodies of unidentified dead palestinians to be buried in a mass grave, today the “humanitarian route” is closed until further notice.
if the border was still open, you would have more feel-good stories and you would be confident your money was going to evacuate people (also known as ethnic cleansing. i hope you understand that this best-case scenario you’re referring to, this hope you want to cling to, is forced displacement of people who have lost their homes and who may never be able to return.)
but israel destroyed the border. people are still raising money to register their families for once it does open, but there is no guarantee of when that will happen, and most of the money ends up used so they can survive their current displacements within gaza.
there’s a lack of feel-good stories because it’s a genocide. that’s all. this has been nothing but ten months of torture and slow death and closing every avenue for survival to gazans. now you know what that means.
anyway you should donate to e-sims for gaza because those are also running out
“Serious question has any of this mattered” what a joke. Literally do 2 seconds of research to find out whether these GoFundMes have helped anyone.
And. Even if there wasn’t all this coverage of fundraising already working and helping people, it’s still worth it to TRY. What a concept, I know.
Another fundraiser I'd like to bring more attention to is that of Munna and her family.
Munna has 3 children, Rima, who is a teenager, Salah, an 11 year old, and Lina, who is only 5 years old. Their family has been forced to evacuate and they've been living in a small tent for the last 9 months of this ongoing genocide. They've faced countless dangers, from the threat of Israeli artillery to the famine and shortage of clean water.
Below you can see a video of young Lina, speaking about her family's situation
This family is saving up the funds currently to evacuate to Egypt, where they will be safe and the children will be able to continue their education and receive proper nutrition and healthcare.
This fundraiser is extremely low on funds, having not even reached £1000 of their end goal of £30,000. Every donation will go towards helping this family and every share spreads young Lina's message further.