With the help of the funds you guys raised through the last post, Mona and some volunteers were able to cook and distribute so many chicken and rice meals that fed entire families!!!!! This is amazing!!! Please remember to donate, you are changing and helping maintain so many lives. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS. P*ypal.
G*f*ndme for the initiative.
G*f*ndme to help settle in Egypt.
Instagram to track progress.
Don't forget! None of this is possible without Mona's hard work! If you'd like to send her a kind message please respond in the replies or the tags or reblogs! She was very happy to recieve kind messages from you guys under the last post as well!
there is something horrifically grim to it, but illustrations for gaza and palestinians tend to catch more mass attention that actual photos of people. this made me feel incredibly helpless for a long while, seeing both how people would rather look at a neat drawing of red black green and white than look a human in the eyes, and how online platforms would rather push a viral drawing while suppressing those begging for help at the same time.
a way to cope with this feeling has been taking advantage of it to directly guide people to helping palestinians.
if art gets better traction, then there’s an incredible amount of good that can be done by creating art that immediately links to fundraisers. creating art of the many images of those who are asking for help.
within hours of posting my drawing, there has been jumps in the thousands for bashar from gaza’s fundraiser. it’s a small effort in the grand scheme of things. it’s not a fix it. but it’s something good. please take care of each other and do what you can. i think this could help a lot of people if a lot of people did it.
here is bashar. i’ve drawn him, spoken to him, and known him now for a few months. any shares help, any art helps. draw who you see, draw what you see. thanks all
the reason i shared my great-grandmother's story on here a few months ago is not for sympathy or anything, its to illustrate to you just how deeply, deeply anti-Palestinian the idea of zionism is.
i remember my grandmother, the one who watched her mother die in her home, she called us with a plain tone of voice, and she said "she asked to be buried in [her village] but of course the the zionists wouldn't let that happen." the thing that will not leave my head was the way my grandmother said it, the way it just seemed so natural and so obvious to her. my grandmother is *not* a quiet woman, she yells everything she ever says, whether happy or sad but this she said softly. like she was resigned to this, she expected this.
this woman was exiled once from her village, then again from Palestine, then again and again and again and eventually forced to live in poverty in a refugee camp, she knows the 'israeli' state more intimately than anyone i know, she knows what it will and won't allow in its genocidal apparatus and to her it was obvious that they would not respect her mother's body or last wishes. she knew that.
and i always go back to it when i see discussions on here or on twitter or in academia, like you guys (the moderates, the apologists) have never ever spoken to a nakba survivor or a naksa survivor. you don't know just how deeply its affected our families.
so when we ask you to completely reject zionism, when we demand it from allies, we aren't saying this to be stubborn or nonsensical, we're saying it because we know where zionism will lead us. we've been through the "we just want peace" and the "we need to just talk it out" phases already, how can you not think we've been through those phases after 75 years. we've had our meet and greets and our appeals and now we're at literally the worst stage of genocide against our people and you're still insisting on "talking it out" or some variation of it.
the truth of the matter is that we don't have patience for zionism anymore because look where it got us. look where we're at. even soft zionists, you need to stamp those people out from pretending they've got good points, or that you need to build community with them or whatever. we are literally at the worst part of Palestinian history ever, we need to stop pretending there are grey zones to this. Zionist apologists and the like are creating ambiguity that literally gets our families killed under the guise of "complication". I'm sick and tired of watching these same discussions over and over again about how "Israel is a result of antisemitism" when it very much is not. I'm sick of seeing people who know NOTHING about colonization push their own agendas and provide cover for zionists to do whatever they want. Just stop talking about things you don't understand because I promise you, you're directly contributing to the violence you claim to abhor.
List of fundraisers for direct contacts from Ghazzah & Sudan
This is a list dedicated to compiling people I have direct contact with in Ghazzah & Sudan. All of these fundraisers have been personally verified from start to finish by me. You are free to share these with anyone you know. This is part of the following masterpost series. Feel free to consult all other links in the main navigation masterpost.
The ground invasion of Rafah and El Fashir grow nearer everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.
Version date: May 12th 2024.
Fadi & Shahed: 5,885 USD out of 62.5k
Sana'a & Sujood: 15,049 £ out of 50k
Mahmoud Qassas: 12,466$ out of 200k
Ezzideen Shehab: 11,075€ out of 32.5k.
Hussam Aburamadan: 17,657€ out of 148k.
Hamdi Hijazi: 6,614$ out of 25k.
Suheir Hojok: 17,557 AUD out of 70k.
Madleen Abu Jayyab: 33,808$ out of 70k.
Hani Al-Hajjar: 2,536€ out of 50k.
Little Yusuf: 664€ out of 85k.
Nael Helles: 255$ out of 50k.
Alia's family: 516€ out of 30k.
Hala's family: 350 CAD out of 50k.
Mohammed Al Shaer: 150£ out of 50k
Mona Abu Hamda: COMPLETE. All further donations will help them in their new life in Egypt.
watching the israelis stomp on and destroy the aid for gazans makes me physically ill. how morally depraved must you be to inflict suffering on people simply for being born the way they are? how can you let what happened to your ancestors happen again to those who accepted you into their land? all you zionists make me sick. you're all utterly depraved of any humanity.
Israel has destroyed every university in Gaza but despite that, many students have continued their education thanks to Palestinian universities in the West Bank
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