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food dono commissions for palestine 🫒💚🍉

buy an e-sim or donate to a gaza relief fundraiser, dm me proof, and i'll draw one for you 🇵🇸

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hey! there's zero esims left for the connecting gaza campaign as of today. i remember you promoting them earlier. could you give them a much needed boost?

oh dang! unfamiliar with that particular campaign, as I always donate via crips for e-sims because it's super easy to do, but regardless let's go people!

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zionists posting "oh its sooo interesting that u guys only want to dismantle 'colonizer states' when theyre jewish. what about YOUR colonizer states..." as if thats a gotcha. good news! i don't think the united states should exist either dumbass

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the nerve to complain about asks on tumblr when these people are having bombs dropped on their heads omg

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It’s like people aren’t even trying to beat the seeing Palestine as a trend allegations anymore. Fundraiser posts go ignored, and then on the off chance they gain traction the amount donated is somehow lower than the hundreds of reblogs (and that assumes that every single person donated only one dollar, which isn’t viable). I truly don’t understand this behavior. You say you care so much and you rb aesthetic Palestine pictures, but when it comes to actually acting you are choosing to do nothing. How does that not leave you w cognitive dissonance at the very least. Genuinely how do you even sleep at night

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essential reading for anyone (but especially the american voter) who wants to understand what's going on with the elusive ceasefire in gaza

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30 August 2024

Over the past several months I spoke with dozens of queer Palestinians who had encounters with Israeli intelligence. Many had received threatening messages via Grindr, Instagram, or Facebook from an anonymous individual who had their identifying information, forcingthem to turn into informants. That, in turn, has sown suspicion across the West Bank and frayed trust.

“Israel's objective in the occupied Palestinian territory is control, domination, and subjugation,” said Jalal Abukhater, who works at 7amleh, a Palestinian digital security organization. Its larger goal, he said, “to instill fear in Palestinians, preventing them from acting or socializing naturally.”

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Over the decades, numerous investigations have exposed how Israeli intelligence targets LGBTQ+ people. In 2013, Vice published an investigation detailing how the Palestinian Authority’s preventative security forces, under the direction of the IDF, had isolated gay Palestinians from their communities, kept files on them, and exploited them for intelligence. In 2015, news reports revealed that a surveillance technology company run by a former Unit 8200 official had helped provide Uganda with malware allegedly used against LGBTQ+ activists.

“Israelis think we're targeting bad people—we're targeting terrorists—people who are violent, and that's also true,” the former Unit 8200 official said. “But if you want a second circle and third circle and a fourth circle, then anybody's a target. And if you can blackmail cooperation, then you want to try to assemble as much filth as possible.”

For queer Palestinians blackmailed by Israel, the impossible question before them is whether to risk being outed for their sexuality or for collaboration.

In July 2023, a man who calls himself Mohammed was driving from the West Bank to Jerusalem with a Palestinian man he had met on Grindr. While Mohammed has a Jerusalem ID that allows him to travel freely between the Occupied Territories and Israel, he must still pass through checkpoints upon entry and exit. When he arrived at the Al Jeeb checkpoint with his partner, he was stopped by an Israeli soldier who asked him to open his phone for a security check. Mohammed complied, telling the soldier, “You can check my car. You can check me. There's nothing,” he said. The soldier then turned to Mohammed and pointed to the Grindr icon. “No, you have this application here,” he said. “It's not good.”

For five hours, Mohammed and his partner were held in custody. An Israeli official scrolled through his chats and intimate pictures on Grindr and asked him about encounters with other Palestinians, Mohammed said. He asked Mohammed to work as a collaborator, offering him payments in shekels and promising not to arrest him. When Mohammed refused, Israeli soldiers beat him for two hours.

Mohammed’s account is consistent with what Abukhater described as common practice among Israeli soldiers: forcing Palestinians at checkpoints or on the street to unlock their phones to have their private messages and photos scrutinized. “Based on this information, they can detain, interrogate, or arrest Palestinians under the pretext of ‘consumption of terrorist material,’” a reference to articles about events in Gaza, he said.

After Mohammed and his partner were released, Mohammed was returned to his family’s home in Ramallah. His mother asked him what had happened. He’d gotten in a fight, he said, lying with good reason: He likely feared the very real repercussions from his community that those accused of collaboration – known in Arabic as “isqat,” or “the fall” -- have faced.

In April 2023, Lions’ Den, an armed resistance group in the city of Nablus, publicly executed a young man named Zuhair al-Ghaleeth after allegations surfaced that he’d been an informant for Israel. In a forced confession published on Telegram by Lions’ Den, al-Ghaleeth said he had been intimate with another man on Grindr who he later learned worked for Israeli intelligence. The intelligence officer had blackmailed him with a sex tape, forcing him to share information on the whereabouts of Lions’ Den fighters. Drop Site could not independently verify al-Ghaleeth’s claims. Al-Ghaleeth’s killing sparked a debate across the West Bank, one Palestinian told me: How could he fear his family and community’s reaction to the truth of his sexuality more than the consequences of collaborating with the Israelis?

After October 7, such discussions ceased. Events in Gaza have left little room for reflection about how and why queer Palestinians can be blackmailed into collaboration with the Israelis. “You just want to create an atmosphere of terror, of snitches to weaken trust and confidence,” the former official said. “You want everybody to suspect everybody all the time. It serves the regime and destroys the society under control.”

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aid is stopped altogether from entering northern gaza all the way back in february (that's 7 months ago, for anyone who's not keeping track), and it gets some lackluster headlines about israel "temporarily preventing supplies" (they have yet to allow any aid trucks through to this day). the ipc declares that north gaza is officially in the famine/catastrophe category not long after, and that also barely gets any western media attention. now the un has announced it has halted aid altogether, because of israel's sporadic evacuation orders and carpet bombing - and literally crickets. no major outlet is talking about it. this is giving the illusion that things have calmed down, when in reality they're the most dangerous they've ever been. people are starving and dying every day

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Urgent! Multiple pregnant women need help evacuating Gaza ASAP!

[Image description: a screenshot of a tumblr submission post by @nevinalser. The text reads as follows. Hi, I'm Nevin from Gaza. Please help me and my family escape to safety. Your donation will save my life and my parents' lives. If everyone donated even 30 euros, of basic necessities, it would help save our lives. Thank you in advance. End description]

Nevin El-Ser's family is currently getting funds to evacuate Gaza. Her situation is particularly urgent because there is more than one pregnant woman in her family, and birth conditions during the on-going genocide are extremely dangerous. Her fundraiser is number 314 on this vetted fundraisers list and it is in critical condition: she has only raised €600 out of the €50,000 goal. It is extremely urgent that we help her raise funds. Please donate if possible and boost this post so it can reach more people.

Taglist:

@papenathys @heliopixels @nimbooz @hiveswap @fiqrr

@irhabiya @feluka @anneemay @tumkaafiho @fleshdyk3

@paandaan @itsfookingloosah @himejoshikaeya

@colombinna @br-eddrolls @0luna123 @block-swing-perry

@divineclouds @error-core-animations @juneybug @apocalyptic-dancehall @kingofthebookcase

@briarhips @dirhwangdaseul @mahoushojoe @rhubarbspring @three-croissants

@specialmouse @thehollyraven @the-olive-gardens

@transmutationisms @timetravellingkitty

@schoolhater @pcktknife

@wellwaterhysteria

@deepspaceboytoy @post-brahminism @khanger @kibumkim

@7bitter @tortiefrancis @buttercuparry

@toiletpotato @fromjannah @omegaversereloaded @vague-humanoid @evillesbianvillain

@aristotels @komsomolka @xinakwans

@ot3 @amygdalae @lonniemachin @dykesbat

@watermotif @stuckinapril @mavigator @lacecap @yugiohz

@socalgal @chilewithcarnage @ghelgheli @vakarians-babe @ot3 @naetaesarya

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It's with a heavy but hopeful heart that I watch Palestinian families fundraiser on here, slowly accumulating the precious little money to go around that they need to survive. However, not everyone is so lucky. A lot of Palestinians that have not had that kind of luck, that did not get early verification, that did not get massive platforms behind them from large bloggers, have approached me in my inbox, asking me kindly to do what I can for them. It kills me that I have so little to give myself, but I've seen this platform collectively raise enough to change someone's life. I've made a list of Palestinian fundraisers that are extremely low on funds, in the hope that drawing attention to people who have not been lucky at all can help turn that luck around. I know most of us can't possibly give enough to get all of these families safe in one go. But please, reblog this list. Pick one or two fundraisers, give what you can, and then keep track of it. Slowly, collectively, we can make a difference in these people's lives. Share and donate as much as you can. https://docs.google.com/document/d/178EGDFKkHlh3y4TMVX82kqgITHsqtoMdNccI2f_94Os/edit?usp=sharing

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I love you “unlikeable” female characters I love you rude girls I love you mean women I love you girl interpretations of the “Asshole with a Heart of Gold” trope I love you women who get labeled Cold and Unfeeling I love you girls who lash out I love you women who lie I love you female characters who make people mad just by existing

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perhaps the decent amount of notes on my post for leena's campaign is making people think that others are donating to her? or perhaps everyone has genuinely gone completely broke. i don't know. it's not really getting anywhere regardless of the reason. every day i wish i had better news for her.

i'm not sure what to say. leena is an engineer, like her mother, like my mother. she's quick witted and funny when she has the energy to be. she's been sick for a long time. she's honest with her feelings. she's thanked me for not getting bored with her several times now. it breaks my heart to think she'd expect me to. when she was attacked and separated from her family, she messaged me crying, and for a whole century long day i was terrified, completely terrified that i was the last person she ever messaged. she reminds me of my little sister so much it hurts.

i'm not willing to give up on her or her family. please help her reach her campaign goal. it's not that far. all we need is for the support to be consistent.

16,285/25,000€

8,715€ to go

verified by 90-ghost

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ok i’m done being crazy lol

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Recently there has been a fall in engagement with Palestinian content on tumblr, and for those of us who are helping Palestinians fundraise it is very obvious that this has happened directly after the very public smear campaigns, carried out by some racist users with significant followings.

It seems half the site somehow found it easier to believe in the horseshit about “belgian scam rings” and “russian botnets” in an effort to justify their apathy towards genocide victims, and the other half seems to think that everything is over and that the evil was defeated just because some racist bloggers got run off the site after giving half-hearted apologies that did nothing to mitigate the damage they had done.

THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL IN DIRE NEED OF HELP !! There are people who are still getting death threats from zionists every day and have to stay on this godforsaken website because their gofundmes haven't reached their endgoals yet...

I'm going to keep this brief:

Siraj's ( @siraj2024 ) family including his parents, and his five siblings and their families were displaced during the recent attacks by IOF on deir al balah

This means there are now 23 family members that Siraj is the sole provider for at the moment. 

10 of those members are young children.

Siraj's wife, Halima, is having a terrible flareup of eczema and his children are suffering from skin infections and badly need medical attention.

This whole family has been living in unhygienic conditions in 2 tents, packed like sardines during this heatwave, leading to spread of infections between them as well– all during a time where hygiene products have become unaffordable due to the israeli blockade, and when water has become scarce, and kids cant even receive life saving vaccinations during polio epidemic.

All this while everyday siraj risks his life trying to reach out to us from an internet point amidst violence and shelling from the IOF in what once was a “humanitarian safe zone”, even more desperately than before because–

THIS FUNDRAISER IS NOW THE ONLY LIFELINE FOR FIVE FAMILIES INSTEAD OF JUST ONE !!

Currently at $55,614/ $82,000 CAD

TIME IS RUNNING OUT!! We have to get to 60k by thursday i.e WITHIN THE NEXT THREE DAYS!! DONATE AND BOOST

Vetting link #219

If you want additional incentive to donate, pls check out:

Art raffle here (ending in 4 days!!!) - where you get to win this zine as a prize as well for as low as $5 for 1 entry, please dont miss it !!

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Macklemore cancels his show in Dubai to boycott the UAE in solidarity with the people of Sudan:

“At the end of the day I have to ask myself what is my intention as an artist? […] Although dismantling systemic oppression might not fully happen during my lifetime, our collective analysis is evolving. That is where it starts. When we realize our individual liberation IS Palestinian liberation. Is Sudanese liberation. Is Congolese liberation.”

He also writes:

“The last 10 months l've been learning what factors/motivators feed genocide and global systemic oppression. I keep getting led back to self interest over collective interest at the root. Capitalism is the glue that holds this ideology together. And if I take the money, while knowing it doesn't sit right with my spirit, how am I any different than the politicians l've been actively protesting against?”

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Can we bring back Palestine Academy as a resource, I fear a lot of people are forgetting to go back to the basics and simply learn about what is happening in Gaza and what HAS BEEN happening for the past 76 years