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chrisha • 26 • she/her • if blog

[troythecatfish]

Continue Escalating

[dubstepcarcommercial]

please don't buy keffiyah from unknown sources

for example: lots of keffiyah are being sold on amazon by chinese fast fashion companies

please buy keffiyah from palestinian sources

here is an example

here is another

if you can't for some reason, please consider the most ethical choice you possibly can, or just donating the money you would have spent on one to a gaza supporting organization instead

[mysharona1987]

[nabulsi]

Could you please verified this url

To evacuate my family from Gaza

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ej4d3-help-my-family-to-get-out-of-gaza

Hello this is a legitimate fundraiser!

Ahmad and his family need your help to evacuate Gaza. He has a wife and 4 children trying to shelter amid the rubble. And his father is severely injured with no available means of treating him.

Unfortunately this is not the first time the Al-Zaeem family has lost their home and belongings. As their home fell to Israeli airstrikes in 2021 as well. And in 2023 and now with the invasion into Rafah, they've lost their shelter again.

Their GoFundMe is only at $332 CAD out of $50,000 CAD. Please donate if you can and if you can't please share this!

Donate to Help my family to get out of Gaza, organized by Ahmed Alzaeem

Dear Friends and Supporters, I am reaching out to you with a heavy heart, hoping t… Ahmed Alzaeem needs your support for Help my family

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

[genuinelyshallow]

Israel has done what we all predicted and warned about. Simple, pure evil. They pushed Palestinians by carpet bombing everywhere till they all had to go to the least bombed place (No, Rafah was never completely safe. They were bombed there, too, to a horrific degree), and then, after cramming what nears a two million civilians with about 600 thousand children, they are asking them to leave... to where?! Nowhere. They are just saying leave. So then, when they kill them all, they can say 'Oh, we warned them'

It was all predicted, and no one did a thing

Rafah is now the most densely populated place in the world, with a population of about 1.5 million and prehaps more in 64 km2. About 25 miles squere.

25 miles squere

A marathon is 26 miles straight. You can at least run through Rafah in length once and in width twice and pass the 1.5 million Palestinians. That's how crammed it is. With no where to run

[soon-palestine]

[drsonnet]

Hind Rajab was a 5 year old girl in Gaza who was killed while she hid alone in a car, along with the paramedics who tried to rescue her. Yesterday students at Columbia seized the administration building and renamed it in her honor.

Gadzooks Bazooka Instagram: gadzooks_bazooka

Remembering #HindRajab & children in #Gaza: This is what the mother of the child, Hind Rajab . https://tmblr.co/ZTeZMyfB_GHeeu00

DrSonnet — هذا ما قالته والدة الطفلة هند رجب عندما سمعت بخبر... (tumblr.com)

[nikoco11]

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

Donate to Escaping Gaza To Pursue My Dream In Medicine, organized by Darina Bishop

If you would like to confirm the validity of this campaign, you can message… Darina Bishop needs your support for Escaping Gaza To Pursue My

[nanasketchdump]

When the rest of the world looks at the united states right now, we see a government who sends billions to support genocide but cannot help their own people starving on the streets.

We see a police force who won't go in to save children from school shootings, but deploy at a rapid rate to arrest peaceful protestors using their right to free speech to protest a genocide

America, you are a war mongering snake eating your own tail. You will protect and support war criminals in another country but let your own people starve and die

To the students bravely protesting now, we see your strength. We see what we saw when students protested the Vietnam War. We have faith you will prevail

[heartclef]

Donate to Vegetables, food, and water for Palestinian families, organized by Barbara Marques

In 2018, a group of volunteering students launched a charitable c… Barbara Marques needs your support for Vegetables, food, and water for Pa

[soon-palestine]

[self-hating-zionist]

This will make you cry.

[melchiordommik]

Concentration camp.

They built a concentration camp.

I don't think words can describe what this other than genocide.

[sapropel]

Israeli whistleblowers detail horror of shadowy detention facility for Palestinians | CNN

At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photograp

[elierlick]

34,000 deaths is clearly an appalling undercount when watchdog groups learn about mass graves like this every week.

[moonlayl]

[thereignclub-trc]

I just want to remind you that sometimes your life really doesn't begin until you are 26+... Romanticizing and obsessing over our youth is harmful. Growing up is beautiful. Discovering who you are and how you interact with the world is a gift. Maturing and learning what you truly want out of life and living in that purpose brings fulfillment and peace. Your life is not over in your early 20's because you haven't figured it out yet, it's just beginning.