#Support the people of Palestine but PLEASE just…

[fallahifag]

just cleared out over 1700 asks from my inbox and i just want to say thank you to anyone who has ever sent me a nice or supportive message that i could not respond to. i have read them all and appreciate them more than anything. from here on forward, i'd like to focus this blog more on sharing resources to help palestinians- which is why i have not been answering any asks that are not related to donation campaigns.

alongside the sweet messages, i have been getting a ton of hate messages that promote weird accounts that were created to exclusively harass me and other palestinians on tumblr, accusing us of things that are extremely untrue and even questioning our backgrounds. despite not letting this hate personally impact me, i understand that it may have taken a great toll on my other palestinian friends who have been working tirelessly for the palestinian cause. i luckily did not have access to my phone when most of the conspiring against us took place, meaning i did not see the worst of it - but it still bothers me that this is the type of attention we are getting when the only attention we want is attention to help those suffering in palestine.

we have said this a million times and in a million different ways. we are real people. our families are being impacted. our friends are being killed. our lives are being changed. all we want is justice. you don't deserve a pat on the back for simply reblogging one of our posts, or asking us personal questions irrelated to the subject we are desperately trying to bring focus on. you need to be doing more. you COULD be doing more. donate, share, interact with gazans and palestinians in non-parasocial ways.

it is not hard. if you can't decide on a specific campaign to place your donation, click this link for a spotlight fundraiser you can support. regularly check palestinian sources and blogs on here for more updates on fundraisers you can support. can't donate? sharing and interacting with these posts goes a long way. we need attention. attention will bring forth action. do not undermine your privilege and power. you can always be doing more.

lastly, i would like to remind you all that i am planning to start my hunger strike in a couple of days. this hunger strike is meant to encourage more and more people to donate to help save my friend hani's family. if you have an extra dollar, please consider donating to hani's campaign. and if you cannot donate, share his fundraiser.

throughout my hunger strike (and moving forward), my blog will mostly focus on bringing attention to fundraisers that you can support, as well as news and updates from gaza and the west bank. it has been over 225 days of relentless genocide in gaza and torture in the west bank. we are coming up on a full year. none of us should be able to rest in these conditions. no more playing games. take us seriously and do more.

#thanks bye #palestine

[tirsynni]

I'm already seeing it: everyone complaining that Trump is going to win. Why? Because people are frustrated with Biden. So their response is... what? To passively let Trump win? Are you kidding me right now?

If Trump wins, I don't want anyone blaming Biden. Not a single person. Everyone has already made their position clear and have also made it very clear that they understand the consequences of those actions. Just instead of accepting blame, they're blaming Biden. For their own choices. For their own actions.

No. You need to be an adult to vote. Now prove you're an adult and that you can take responsibility for your own actions.

No matter how pissed you are at Biden, you need to recognize that non-Trumpers outnumber the Trumpers and it doesn't mean shit if non-Trumpers don't vote. Guess what. Trumpers are going to vote. They're going to go to the polls and they're going to vote. If they vote and you don't, guess how it's going to go, even if non-Trumpers outnumber Trumpers. Doesn't mean shit if your vote doesn't reflect that.

What do you think is going to happen with Palestine if Trump wins? If you're pissed about Biden's actions and inactions regarding Israel and Palestine, how are you going to feel about Trump? Because I promise, if you choose not to vote for Biden, you are voting for Trump, and he will be worse.

There is no third party option which is going to win against Trump. Your symbolic non-vote is a vote for Trump. If you don't vote for Biden, you are fucking voting for Trump, so I hope you're ready for that.

"But Biden --" I don't give a fuck. Be an adult. Accept that sometimes in life, you have to accept the lesser evil. There is no room for you to go "Well, I have to do what feels right." NO. That is self-serving, self-indulgent, selfish bullshit. You are helping no one but your own feelings. You will pat yourself on your back with one hand and stab your neighbor in their back with the other.

If you are really concerned about Palestine, vote for Biden, because I promise, he's still better than Trump. Vote in all elections, because they all matter and Trumpers are voting in all of them. Make phone calls. Raise hell. Sign petitions. Do whatever else you can. I fucking promise you, though, that for any of that to count, you need Biden in the office, not Trump.

Again, I don't give a flying fuck if you hate Biden. I sincerely don't. The US presidential election will be two party. Should it be? No. Doesn't matter. That's reality. The US presidential election will be two party: Biden vs Trump. We need to be adults, and we need to recognize what we're dealing with. I will say it again and again and again: any vote which isn't Biden will be a vote for Trump. Don't think to yourself, "I don't want to show the Democrats they have my support with all of this bullshit, so I'm going to not vote/vote third party/symbolically write something in." Be truthful with yourself. Be realistic. If you are pissed at Biden and decide that you aren't going to vote for him, say clearly to yourself, "I'm voting for Trump and all that entails."

If you really think that way, please let me know so I can block your selfish ass. Make sure to tell your neighbors that you're cool with fucking them over, because you need to do what feels right, and that means letting Trump back into office. If you want to brag about your integrity, then at least have the integrity to at least be that truthful with everyone.

#politics #us politics #I am so tired of this crap

[youngerfrankenstein]

“Zionist” really does just mean either “Jew I don’t like” or “the Jews but I don’t want to make the dog whistle too loud” here huh?

Anyway these last few months have been a good reminder that Tumblr is not a reliable news source, and that there are always bad actors. And just as many people willing to be chill about bad actors so long as it looks like they’re doing anything.

Not sure which is worse really. The bad actors or the genuinely well-meaning people.

#I basically just ignore anything political on this site #Which. It’s Tumblr. Probably a good idea anyways #Negative #Personal #I guess #Delete later maybe #I think the worst pert is that what’s going on in Palestine is truly horrific #But every time I see a post about it my brain goes #“So real news. exaggeration. trying to guilt people for brownie points or call to antisemitism?” #Because holy shit #And that’s not even going into “trying to influence the US election” or “actual terrorism apologia” #It makes it harder to care about the actual problem because it’s clear a lot of people are just using it for their own ends #Support the people of Palestine but PLEASE just…

[thatrandombystander]

Are you fucking kidding me. With all this pinkwashing propaganda the Israeli state puts out about how they will protect and cherish LGBT+ rights unlike those evil homophobic Palestinians which is why you should let us genocide them

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ISN'T EVEN LEGAL IN ISRAEL??????

#COMPLETELY MORALLY BANKRUPT #YOUR PINKWASHING PROPAGANDA HAS NOTHING TO STAND ON #this is just fucking insulting. #y'know. on top of the genocide and crimes against humanity being enacted onto the Palestinian peoples at a horrific and unconscionable rate #zionists in my activity feed will be blocked on sight. #and so will antisemites. there is a difference between a political state and the people it claims to represent #i condemn the israeli state and the individuals which support it. #but this does not extend to all israelis (and/or all jewish peoples whom israel claims to represent) #as there are many good people all across the world who are represented by institutions #that are at odds with their individual views and ideologies #no shitfuckery in my notes please. #current events #palestine #ramblings of a bystander

[greenlaut]

Hello everyone, I am a house maid in Gaza Palestine. I am here requesting financial support for Layla, a daughter of my employer Mrs Hussein who died three days ago after being shot on the chest by the Israeli army. Her Daughter Layla is diabetic and she urgently needs insulin. Kindly help me purchase insulin for her. Donation link is available on the pinned post

HOW TO TELL IF A DONATION IS FAKE (3 steps)

read carefully. i know you want to help but blindly supporting people without filtering out will ended up de-platforming actual palestinians who need help.

1. look at this writing from pinned post. no one writes like this—it's very much AI generated. not only this person is fake and stealing donations from ghazans, they are also very lazy.

2. Check their blog. it's suspiciously sterile whilst only reblogging every single news article that contains US liberal buzzwords that doesn't connect to eachother; trans news, feminism, etc. what normal person makes a page specifically for donation filled with news articles unrelated to that?

3. and also none of the reblogs have tags. not for filing or anything alike. there's no opinion we can get from them about the actual topic. and say this is a personal account; what miserable folk would only reblog conflict news, if they're not only doing it just to get the news' audiences attention?

these kinds of bots already don't have feelings, so don't bother bullying them off. i encourage you to put your energy into just spreading the word about being careful and raise awareness about palestine instead.

as a note, DO NOT CLICK DONATION LINKS THAT YOU CANT SEE THE WEBSITE FROM it could be a phishing website. it could have trackers. we don't know. be wary—there are shit people.

lastly, here are some safe WEBSITES YOU SHOULD HEAD IN TO DONATE TO PALESTINIANS (if you're able to)

Palestine Children's Relief Fund

Doctors Without Borders

eSims for Gaza (by mirna elhelbawi — this is the one afaik that actually works for Ghazans)

I hope this helps and be safe out there. From the river to the sea.

fin.

#palestine #palestine resources #palestinian aid #palestine donations #palestine donation #aid for palestine #palestine aid #free palestine #from the river to the sea #i made this just as i woke up #there are resources to gofundme links of personal palestinians if you navigate my 'palestine' tag #the websites linked here are just the major ones that's been supporting palestine #please please dont blindly allow people like this to have platform. there are many palestinians who cant reach donation goals.

[paulodybaeeela]

Yet another example of how celebrities have ZERO critical thinking skills.

#every time I see this it just makes me angrier because to say this is tone deaf is beyond exception #our of the millions of costumes in this world these are the ones she goes with? #also friendly reminder Kim kardashian along with most of her family is pro israel #so this is definitely something that people should not be going oh that’s so cute! #it is not cute at all it’s disgusting and inhumane #children are dying like this in real life not to be used as a costume #Neymar has zero brain cells so him liking it doesn’t surprise me one bit #but please remember what type of celebrities you support #especially their stance in a GENOCIDE #anyways free palestine #palestine

[podoro-vines]

Do you feel safer now that I’m gone?

my heart goes to all Palestinian people affected in the massacre 🇵🇸

#UNFOLLOW/BLOCK ME IF YOU SUPPORT GENOCIDE #free palestine #free gaza #ceasefire #stop genocide #this is so fucking devastating i just cant believe how many people became this psychopathic #how heavily brainwashed are they to think this is right #to people who support genocide please regain your humanity

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

girl help the content about palestine on tiktok is turning from actual journalism content and educational resources and organized ways to help to "boycott everything or you're a bad person and if you don't use a game filter that generates 0.00001 cent you're personally the problem"

#of course theres still a lot of good stuff on there regarding activism but. *please* #the all-or-nothing disorganized activism comes from a good place but can also end up being discouraging/confusing for other people #theres a difference between 'follow this concise list of companies with proof of supporting israel as best you can' #and 'boycott everything on black friday/cyber monday because its the same time as the ceasefire ignore the sales and #don't buy anything from these big companies just make this a thrifty/homemade holiday season' #even though bds has amazon listed as a NON BOYCOTT company #and some people 1.) dont have a good selection of thrift/secondhand stores as alternatives #and 2.) cannot on short notice switch to making gifts for everyone #(like me! i switched away from homemade gifts *because its too much to do in the holiday season*) #(and switching up what im doing to all thrift/homemade would *cause me to burn myself out*) #mine #tiktok #free palestine #boycott

[autisticidolfan]

People online have called me shit like "Chickens for KFC" because I'm queer and support Palestine like bitch, I'm sorry but I do not view solidarity as transactional and I am against genocide even when it happens to a group of people that might include some people that hate me

#free palestine #Palestine #Also ukraine is also extremetly homophobic and transphobic yet nobody told me 'They would hang you if they met you' when i showed support #Straight up homonationalism #Also PLEASE DO NOT USE SUPPORTING PALESTINE AS AN EXCUSE TO BE AN ANTISEMITE #Sorry for making this about being queer but i'm just really fucking mad at people trying to 'gotcha' me

[carriesthewind]

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#look #I understand that you want to support Palestine #and that the flag of Israel is the flag of a state #but please consider that when you make an image that is effectively just a giant 'X' over a star of david #you either are not conveying the message you want to convey #or you *are* conveying the message you want to convey #in which case you are being antisemitic and should go fuck yourself #literally there are so many other ways to convey support for Palestine and anger at the actions of the Israeli goverment #can people please put the slightest bit of thought into what they are doing and saying

[candied-cae]

Support For Palestine - No $$$ Needed!

Firstly, I highly recommend This Site, That Will Donate With One Click! (Seriously, no signing up, no inputing information, no costs, just press the button, I used it myself and you can revisit it every 24 hrs! So try to bookmark it or keep the tab open!)

And secondly, I recommend contacting your representatives in government and advocating for the millions of innocents currently facing danger in the Gaza Strip.

Joseph Biden, in a recent address, acknowledged that the "overwhelming majority of Palestinians had nothing to do with Hamas". I believe this time, right now, is our chance to try and break through our decades long, wrongfully given, support of the Ethnic Cleansing of the Gaza Strip. So I urge you, anyone with even just the time to spare, to try. Plead. Demand. At the worst, you tried and lost a little bit of time. At the best... maybe some people don't die.

So, I wrote a twt thread with instructions/advice for American Residents to reach out to their local representatives as simply, easily, and quickly as possible, and I wanted to share that same info here. I promise I only wants a few minutes of your time.

You can use this White House Contact Page to send one message to Biden and another to Harris. Just fill in your info and you can either write your own message, or feel free to copy and paste mine (it'll be at the bottom of this post)! The focus is first demanding that the US withdraws its support of the Israeli State.

Next, you can use this Common Cause page and instantly get all the information to reach out to your local representatives, it even tells you which committees they sit on! Just put in your address and it'll use that to find which jurisdictions you're in and provide links to all their contact pages. Again, fill in your info, some of mine also required a Topic, so I selected either "Foreign Relations/Affairs" or "Civil Rights and Humanities" and put in my message.

I clicked through all of mine, sent in my messages, used the exact same ones for all of them, only adding an additional note for my most direct representative as I grew up in the same town and wanted to express that to hopefully assist in drawing on his humanity, and it only took me about 30 minutes to get through.

Personally, I wanted to scream and rage and throw my whole beating angry heart at them and their gross, racist bigotry that allowed them to not only neglect the issue of the Israeli Occupation, but fund it. The US has been aiding Israel in their ceaselessly cruel genocide against the Palestinian people, and I'm sure it lights a white-hot fury in many of us. But, I wrote this plea with as much restraint and grace as I could bring myself to allow, if only for the sake of them possibly listening instead of tuning it out.

My statement -

Subject : We Cannot Support a Genocidal Ethnic Cleansing

To the Office of  _________ - 

I am pleading with the governing powers in place to help the people of Palestine. The government in Israel has said not only with their actions, by committing multitudes of War Crimes and breaking the Geneva Convention repeatedly, but even in their own words that they intend to entirely decimate and wipe out the citizens of Gaza. They have already killed and injured thousands in only these last few days - to say nothing of the past 7 decades they have spent doing the very same - and this devastation is a human rights violation like something we have never seen to this degree being supported and under-reported. Especially by the American Government, which has always held its citizens to the belief that they are a good and just organization that stands for humanity wherever it can. 

We have already lost so many innocents in Palestine, but there are still so many that can be spared and saved if our government can withdraw its support of the Israeli Occupation. If they can inform their citizens of the truth that has been happening for so, so very long.

The U.S. has been wrong in its history of supporting and ignoring the cruelty that has been taking place for so long. But only by righting ourselves, by admitting and accepting that the financial aid we've sent has, at this point, become a sunken investment without the extermination of the Palestinian people. It hurts to lose so much money, it hurts to admit we've been on the wrong side of history, but the only way to stop the damage from growing exponentially worse, is to address it honestly now. 

This is not about Judaism. This is not about Jewish people by ethnicity or religious affiliation. This is not about Nazism or Antisemitism.

This is about the colonizing power of the IDF that has been ignored and allowed for almost a century.

Please. Try to save some of them before it's too late.

This comes from a concerned citizen who is feeling extremely devastated by the state of things currently. 

As a human being, who I hope cares for the lives of fellow human beings, we cannot allow this to happen. Least of all with our seal of approval. 

-[Your Name and any Salutations]

#Please Repost #If there are any other questions do not hesitate to ask for help! #I will offer whatever I can to assist in making sure we can get as many voices to ring #From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free #Free Palestine #All my heart goes out to the people of Palestine #To the people currently in Gaza and to their friends and family who cannot help them right now #And though many of us don't have the spare money to donate to their aid #and many of us might not be in areas to attend protests #and many of us know it's difficult to get the people in power to listen to helping the most people if it doesn't bring in money #And the US has already put in so much of an investment. It's going to take a lot of voices to get them to accept that loss. #But we have to try #I believe we just have to #Palestine #Palestinians #Pro-Palestine #Palestinian Support #Politics #American Politics

[anophelei]

The people unashamedly trying to take advantage of the thousands of innocent Palestinian people murdered in Israeli war crimes, twisting the knife in the back of Palestine for an opportunity to remind you that you still have to vote for Joe Biden, undoubtedly counting among the people with the most blood on their hands, have already made it clear they do not care about anyone but themselves, and have gone out of their way to prove it.

Somehow they've managed to sink even lower, and are genuinely, in all earnesty, justifying their continued support for Biden in the wake of him pledging his unconditional support of genocide, with the exact same fucking line they used almost 3 fucking years ago to pressure people into voting him into power in the first place. It was already obvious they had no intention of "Pushing Biden to the Left", that they didn't give a single shit about any of the people they were so ardently claiming to be protecting from Trump, and that they would go to the ends of the earth to justify anything and everything he could possibly do.

And now that he's chomping at the bit about aiding and abetting Israel in raining down hell and phosphorous and napalm on innocent people, now that thousands of people have lost their loved ones to such irreverent cruelty, they've decided it's time for an important reminder; Genocide doesn't change anything, and not only do you have to get out and vote for someone complicit in every single atrocity, every single casualty, you have to do it for the same pathetic excuse we made last time, "because we can push Biden to the "left"", even though there hasn't been a single shred of progress, or even any attempt to do so in the three years since we said this last time. You could say that participation in actual, ongoing genocide, is a catastrophic failure in that metric; that we might as well have been pulling this whole fucking time; and right this very moment is the most unbelievably selfish, entitled, petulant and self interested, and abhorrent, manipulative, cruel, spiteful, bitter and fucking disgusting time anyone could have possibly chosen to say this, when people are entirely cut off from their loved ones with no way to know if they are okay, it's important to remember that you're the bad person here due to your belief that supporting genocide in any capacity is an unforgivable crime. The real crime is NOT voting in support of genocide, when the other option is Literal Fascists !!

I'm not even fucking joking, this entire thing started because this piece of shit thought a Palestinian calling people out for supporting Biden was akin to "thinking the entirety of one side is bad", which due to a complex reasoning and nuanced understanding of "this conflict", he was able to realise that was far too simplistic, and now enlightened, knew that attacking enemy toddlers was wrong. So too did he share his nuanced and complex understanding with OP, since they were understanding things too simplistically. "American politics is not that simple either"

Just like killing babies is wrong even if they're on the enemy team, American politics is not as simple as you thinking I am disgusting and selfish for supporting genocide. #nuance

#genocide #Gaza #Palestine #joe biden #free palestine #biden thinks people will cool down come electon. biden supporters think people are stupid enough that they're just going to forget what #“we can push him to the left AFTER the election is over” looked like #it looks like genocide. it sounds like bombs you can hear from 80km away. it smells like pulverised concrete and blood. #it tastes like it smells made worse by parched throats and thirst. #i cannot even begin to imagine what it must feel like. #if you for some reason read the whole mess and are sus about the “biden may not be a fascist” etc it's half just saying that and half for #ambiguity being useful rhetorically. of course they were too oblivious to anything I'd said that they didn't even realise i hadnt said it #idk what i would categorise biden as though. the müller comparison is apt to some extent at least. #also please let me know if any of the phrasing is inappropriate ? I don't really know to what capacity “martyred” n “martyrs” are used #and idk how to use them appropriately therefore didn't use them. the same goes for anything else and i apologise for my ignorance of #Palestinian culture and language and ... in general. it's #unfortunate but I only know the occupation - the Resistance - and their histories - as things I know well. I will do my best to fix that #but for now if I may ask for your help with letting me know. Feel like a yt person for having to ask lol. #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

[lucyvsky]

love hate relationship. with sociology. this quarter. on one hadn sociology. the subject. very cool very interesting. enjoying. on the other hand. my teacher is on some bullshit sometimes

#while she is generally well intentioned. with placing emphasis on corporate influence to our consumption of products. she then goes and puts #the pressure on individual people to reduce carbon footprints. which you can and should do but i feel like she does not address the scale #at which these actions are meaningless in the face of larger corporations. while we should all aspire to be better. about our consumption #it is not the individuals fault. unless you are a billionare. in my opinionnnnnn. #also shes lowkey fatphobic. ive been trying to figure out if this is a result of phd in sociology. or consuming fatphobic documentaries. or #personal bias. regardless it is weird and off putting and it makes me uncomfortable.......... and she also . not fully blames but does blam #people for being fat. which like. please youre literally a sociologist teaching about social problems. i feel like you have other prioritie #also the afformentioned. bothsidsing it of israel's genocide. most likely a result . of how proud she is that she does not consume american #news coverage. ONLY BRITISH. i feel as though this may be worse. that she only gets news from the bbc. famously. supporters of israel. #she has not explicitly talked about palestine in class but she did mention it basically exactly the same way as that question did. earlier #this quarter. which is such a bullshit cop out for talking about genocide. #sorry for conducting a profile of beliefs of my sociology teacher shes just been on my mind. need to explode her or something

[heartbeetz]

As people who took a break from regular selfship posting for March 2nd start to come back online and pick up where they left off, I just want to leave a little reminder. Please do not ever stop caring about people in Gaza. Do things in real life, not just online. Talk to people. Help how you can. Show support. Learn and retain. Don't let Palestine or the genocide leave the public consciousness. Not now. Not ever.

#I know I don't post about it here. but that doesn't remotely mean I'm sitting idle or ignoring the things that are going on #I don't intend to talk about what I do irl. my business is my own. but just know that I support palestinians with every fiber of my being #please don't let yourself be on the wrong side of history #you have to care about people. when the genocide ends and palestine is free you still have to care

[fromtheseventhhell]

"You don't have to mention disliking Taylor when supporting her fight against AI" Yeah actually I do cause I'm pro-Palestine and she's a prominent white celebrity who had her movie shown in Israel (which the BDS movement has specifically highlighted), she's friends with a woman who turned a genocide into a self-pity party and works with a proud Zionist, and she's never once used her platform to speak up on the Palestinian genocide (or any other ongoing genocide). As much as I hope she's successful in her fight and is able to heal, her being victimized in this instance doesn't prevent her from causing harm and people should still be able to hold her accountable.

#obligatory /yes some of the hate she receives is misogyny/ but also people are just allowed to dislike her without a reason #she's a celebrity...just because swifties pretend stanning her is activism doesn't mean the rest of us have to #and this isn't even getting into the fact that she was /just/ dating a proud racist and never spoke up about it 🥴 #overall she's just a very nasty woman who weaponizes white feminism to shield her from criticism #and her stans eat that shit up and will defend her no matter what #I will never forget how some of them were actually attacking the BDS account for mentioning her movie being shown in Israel #/but if she was a man-/ please go to hell #if you can't even criticize a celebrity then your support of Palestine is preformative as hell #it's eat the rich until it comes to a celebrity you personally enjoy 🥴 #but I'm not suprised that people are more willing to hold Beyonce accountable for the same thing...sounds about white #and fuck Selena Gomez while I'm at it cause she's even worse but at least she's getting whacked

[steffyanie]

gods fuckign damnit mark, why.........

#ugh gods i fucking hate it here this is hell lmao.... #... #just literally supporting the genocide and pretending stuff is fine here in the gd usa #i want this fucking government overthrown. i want capitalism to die. i want the “representatives”amf celebrities to not exist #i want people to be people abd fucking care about others..... this is so upsettinf #mark was one of the last few........ but nope #they all turn evil turn eventually. thos is living in the shit factory that is america. #and the world as a whole. #there are NO moral rich people. money corrupts and we see it all the ficking time #ughhhvh hh hh actually upset lmaooo #i wish anyone would fucking care about gaza and Palestinians and the WAR AND GENOCIDE *WE* ARE LITERALLY FUNDING #tumblr has had multiple tags trending for weeks (months?) for gaza and Palestine..... ppl here actually fucking care at least. #power to the ppl please...... #sry im just so exhausted a d full of rage #star wars #mark hamill #star wars day #anti isreal #palestine #may the fourth be with you