She’s my Charizard. This is a blog dedicated to her and things surrounding her source (and mine), which is Strangled Red.
I love my Miki very much, and I want to share that love with the world. So, if you also love Miki, consider giving this blog a follow so you can see her any time you want.
I will also be occasionally reblogging and/or posting things related to our source. Because of this, I will be separating the Miki-posting from the rest with Tags. Miki posts will be tagged with #miki post, and not-Miki posts will be tagged with #not miki post. Very simple.
Now this is an effective boycott. It is targeting (ha) a specific company with a clearly stated goal. The amount of time is long enough to be noticed, and could be extended if needed. Anything that can be purchased at Target can also be obtained elsewhere, so it is actually possible to boycott this specific company for a very long time. Target is caving to fascism and rolling back their diversity and inclusion policies. The goal is for them to reverse that decision. This is an achievable goal.
Boycotting everything all at once, for one day or for as long as you can, because everything is terrible and we’re mad about it…does nothing. It’s vague, disorganized, and frankly impossible. We have to buy things sometimes. You can’t just target the economy as a whole. You have to be specific.
If you want to start a boycott, use this one as an example. Choose one target. Provide one (simple, clear, easy to explain) reason why that company deserves to be boycotted. Explain what you want them to do differently. Make sure that it is something that can actually be done. Then tell people about it.
you know what I can’t stop thinking about?how the world lets some labels matter and others get ignored. holocaust survivors, everyone knows that brand right? iconic emotional powerful makes you stop and go damn but here’s the kicker palestinians? we’re survivors too. nakba survivors. oh you thought the nakba was just some event from 1948? no no no hayati, it’s still happening right now every single day so this is the term people need to start using when talking about palestinians: NAKBA SURVIVORS. not refugees, not some sad footnote in history and can we please stop even calling what happening in Gaza “ethnic cleansing”? like what are we doing here, rebranding atrocities to sound like a spring cleaning checklist? no it’s ethnic extermination. say it with me ex-ter-mi-na-tion. and yet somehow palestinians keep surviving. my family in gaza? 26 are still there, after losing too many. they wake up every day to a world that wants them gone and somehow they’re still trying to survive. but survival isn’t magic. it doesn’t just happen because they’re tough or brave or insert your inspirational buzzword of choice here. it happens because people like you give a damn and yes this is me asking you to really keep giving a damn. have you donated yet? incredible, thank you, love you forever. haven’t donated? this is your sign. thinking “but i already donated”? Please do it again. survival isn’t a one-time event. click the link and be part of the reason they’re still alive tomorrow.
if you can’t donate via GoFundMe or PayPal you can use Ko-fi instead. Please note that 110 sek is approximately 10 usd and 220 sek is around 20 usd.
Donate on GoFundMe: Link
Donate on Paypal: Link
Donate on Ko-fi
Vetted and shared by @90-ghost: Link.
Verified and shared by @el-shab-hussein: Link
Listed as number 282 in "The Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser Spreadsheet" compiled by @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi : Link
Listed on the Butterfly Effect Project, number 957: Link
Additionally, Al Jazeera News has documented apart of my family's case: Link
I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.
IN SHORT
Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.
When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using
his dyslexia;
his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; and
a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a ‘valid’ claim,
as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.
When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there.
THE TAKEAWAYS
1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain;
2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and
3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again.
THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)
Sunday night, December 22nd 2024, I noticed an influx in visitors to my fic You & Me & Holiday Wine. When I searched the title online, hoping to find out where they came from, a new listing popped up (third one down, no less):
This listing is still up today, by the way, though now when you follow the link to word-stream, it just brings you to the main site. (Also, to be clear, this was not the cause for the influx of traffic to my fic; word-stream did not link back to the original work anywhere.)
I followed the link to word-stream, where to my horror Y&M&HW was listed in its entirety—though, beyond the first half of the first chapter, behind a paywall—along with a link promising to take me—through an app downloadable on the Apple Store—to an AI-narrated audiobook version. When I searched word-stream itself for my ao3 handle I found both of my multi-chapter fics were listed this way:
Because the tags on my fics (which included genres* and characters, but never the original IPs**) weren’t working, I put ‘Kara Danvers’ into the search bar and discovered that many more supercorp fics (Supergirl TV fandom, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor pairing) were listed.
I went looking online for any mention of word-stream and AI plagiarism (the covers—as well as the ridiculously inflated number of reviews and ratings—made it immediately obvious that AI fuckery was involved), but found almost nothing: only one single Reddit post had been made, and it received (at that time) only a handful of upvotes and no advice.
I decided to make a tumblr post to bring the supercorp fandom up to speed about the theft. I draw as well as write for fandom and I’ve only ever had to deal with art theft—which has a clear set of steps to take depending on where said art was reposted—and I was at a loss regarding where to start in this situation.
After my post went up I remembered Project Copy Knight, which is worth commending for the work they’ve done to get fic stolen from AO3 taken down from monetized AI 'audiobook’ YouTube accounts. I reached out to @echoekhi, asking if they’d heard of this site and whether they could advise me on how to get our works taken down.
While waiting for a reply I looked into Copy Knight’s methods and decided to contact OTW’s legal department:
And then I went to bed.
By morning, tumblr friends @makicarn and @fazedlight as well as a very helpful tumblr anon had seen my post and done some very productive sleuthing:
@echoekhi had also gotten back to me, advising me, as expected, to contact the OTW. So I decided to sit tight until I got a response from them.
That response came only an hour or so later:
Which was 100% understandable, but still disappointing—I doubted a handful of individual takedown requests would accomplish much, and I wasn’t eager to share my given name and personal information with Cliff Weitzman himself, which is unavoidable if you want to file a DMCA.
I decided to take it to Reddit, hoping it would gain traction in the wider fanfic community, considering so many fandoms were affected. My Reddit posts (with the updates at the bottom as they were emerging) can be found here and here.
A helpful Reddit user posted a guide on how users could go about filing a DMCA against word-stream here (to wobbly-at-best results)
A different helpful Reddit user signed up to access insight into word-streams pricing. Comment is here.
Smells unbelievably scammy, right? In addition to those audacious prices—though in all fairness any amount of money would be audacious considering every work listed is accessible elsewhere for free—my dyscalculia is screaming silently at the sight of that completely unnecessary amount of intentionally obscured numbers.
Speaking of which! As soon as the post on r/AO3—and, as a result, my original tumblr post—began taking off properly, sometime around 1 pm, jumpscare! A notification that a tumblr account named @cliffweitzman had commented on my post, and I got a bit mad about the gist of his message :
Fortunately he caught plenty of flack in the comments from other users (truly you should check out the comment section, it is extremely gratifying and people are making tremendously good points), in response to which, of course, he first tried to both reiterate and renegotiate his point in a second, longer comment (which I didn’t screenshot in time so I’m sorry for the crappy notification email formatting):
which he then proceeded to also post to Reddit (this is another Reddit user’s screenshot, I didn’t see it at all, the notifications were moving too fast for me to follow by then)
... where he got a roughly equal amount of righteously furious replies. (Check downthread, they're still there, all the way at the bottom.)
After which Cliff went ahead & deleted his messages altogether.
It’s not entirely clear whether his account was suspended by Reddit soon after or whether he deleted it himself, but considering his tumblr account is still intact, I assume it’s the former. He made a handful of sock puppet accounts to play around with for a while, both on Reddit and Tumblr, only one of which I have a screenshot of, but since they all say roughly the same thing, you’re not missing much:
And then word-stream started throwing a DNS error.
That lasted for a good number of hours, which was unfortunately right around the time that a lot of authors first heard about the situation and started asking me individually how to find out whether their work was stolen too. I do not have that information and I am unclear on the perimeters Weitzman set for his AI scraper, so this is all conjecture: it LOOKS like the fics that were lifted had three things in common:
They were completed works;
They had over several thousand kudos on AO3; and
They were written by authors who had actively posted or updated work over the past year.
If anyone knows more about these perimeters or has info that counters my observation, please let me know!
I finally thought to check/alert evil Twitter during this time, and found out that the news was doing the rounds there already. I made a quick thread summarizing everything that had happened just in case. You can find it here.
I went to Bluesky too, where fandom was doing all the heavy lifting for me already, so I just reskeeted, as you do, and carried on.
Sometime in the very early evening, word-stream went back up—but the fan fiction category was nowhere to be seen. Tentative joy and celebration!***
That’s when several users—the ones who had signed up for accounts to gain intel and had accessed their own fics that way—reported that their work could still be accessed through their history. Relevant Reddit post here.
Sooo—
We’re obviously not done. The fanwork that was stolen by Weitzman may be inaccessible through his website right now, but they aren’t actually gone. And the fact that Weitzman wasn’t willing to get rid of them altogether means he still has plans for them.
This was my final edit on my Reddit post before turning off notifications, and it's pretty much where my head will be at for at least the foreseeable future:
Please feel free to add info in the comments, make your own posts, take whatever action you want to take to protect your work. I only beg you—seriously, I’m on my knees here—to not give up like I saw a handful of people express the urge to do. Keep sharing your creative work and remain vigilant and stay active to make sure we can continue to do so freely. Visit your favorite fics, and the ones you’ve kept in your ‘marked for later’ lists but never made time to read, and leave kudos, leave comments, support your fandom creatives, celebrate podficcers and support AO3. We created this place and it’s our responsibility to keep it alive and thriving for as long as we possibly can.
Also FUCK generative AI. It has NO place in fandom spaces.
THE 'SMALL' PRINT (some of it in all caps):
*Weitzman knew what he was doing and can NOT claim ignorance. One, it’s pretty basic kindergarten stuff that you don’t steal some other kid’s art project and present it as your own only to act surprised when they protest and then tell the victim that they should have told you sooner that they didn’t want their project stolen. And two, he was very careful never to list the IPs these fanworks were based on, so it’s clear he was at least familiar enough with the legalities to not get himself in hot water with corporate lawyers. Fucking over fans, though, he figured he could get away with that.
**A note about the AI that Weitzman used to steal our work: it’s even greasier than it looks at first glance. It’s not just the method he used to lift works off AO3 and then regurgitate onto his own website and app. Looking beyond the untold horrors of his AI-generated cover ‘art’, in many cases these covers attempt to depict something from the fics in question that can’t be gleaned from their summaries alone. In addition, my fics (and I assume the others, as well) were listed with generated genres; tags that did not appear anywhere in or on my fic on AO3 and were sometimes scarily accurate and sometimes way off the mark. I remember You & Me & Holiday Wine had ‘found family’ (100% correct, but not tagged by me as such) and I believe The Shape of Soup was listed as, among others, ‘enemies to friends to lovers’ and ‘love triangle’ (both wildly inaccurate). Even worse, not all the fic listed (as authors on Reddit pointed out) came with their original summaries at all. Often the entire summary was AI-generated. All of these things make it very clear that it was an all-encompassing scrape—not only were our fics stolen, they were also fed word-for-word into the AI Weitzman used and then analyzed to suit Weitzman’s needs. This means our work was literally fed to this AI to basically do with whatever its other users want, including (one assumes) text generation.
***Fan fiction appears to have been made (largely) inaccessible on word-stream at this time, but I’m hearing from several authors that their original, independently published work, which is listed at places like Kindle Unlimited, DOES still appear in word-stream’s search engine. This obviously hurts writers, especially independent ones, who depend on these works for income and, as a rule, don’t have a huge budget or a legal team with oceans of time to fight these battles for them. If you consider yourself an author in the broader sense, beyond merely existing online as a fandom author, beyond concerns that your own work is immediately at risk, DO NOT STOP MAKING NOISE ABOUT THIS.
Again, please, please PLEASE reblog this post instead of the one I sent originally. All the information is here, and it's driving me nuts to see the old ones are still passed around, sending people on wild goose chases.
@totaleclipse573 @the-sky-queen @infinitegunshot @rae-unbeloved @talisetekt @edgyhedgie @funkyfandomlover @nori-the-axolotl @burningasters and literally everyone else who hadn’t been tagged yet
^Just in case this starts spreading to other fandoms, which is definitely a possibility with how these things tend to spread as well as if they go after blogs that don’t even post content
I’ll be turning Media asks off and if needed i’ll turn my asks completely off, but for now it will be media asks only that will be off until new years, or the 26th if it stops by then.
@xaytheloser you're the only moot I have that's into mouthwashing so be safe
I'm also gonna tag some sonic people just in case @head---ache @yourpalsalamander @bymiar @galacticghoste @a-random-boo I'm so so so sorry if you all don't like being tagged but this is super important, these things spread like wildfire to other communities
I'm gonna rb this in the mouthwashing community I'm in too
I will be turning off media asks until January, both on this blog and my team chaotix daily blog.
Everyone please reblog this rn and share the message! This goes out to everyone!!
@weirdozjunkary @thesafireartist @st4rrzyy @sonlc @lazydayslivin @shadows-coffeebeans @somemismatchedsocks @oddogoblino and everyone else who gets this
I don’t know how many boys follow me, but I gotta bet there’s some. I just wanna tell y’all to be careful.
Abusive girls exist and what they’re doing is seen as like “badass tough don’t take no shit” but your girl should not hit you. Ever.
She should not demand for you to hand over your phone to look through.
She should not yell at you and humiliate you either alone or in front of people.
She shouldn’t make you distance yourself from your friends or family.
She shouldn’t scratch you or twist your arms.
She should not call you names.
She shouldn’t tell you ‘she’ll kill herself if you break up’
These are just a few examples of abuse and it’s just seen as okay when girls do it and god knows I’ve fallen victim to it a few times, but you shouldn’t have to.
Never worry about not being in a relationship. If they’re worth it, they won’t hurt you.
I wish someone had told me that these things are actually abuse. I would have been able to escape my ex so much sooner. Reblogging to help other people in similar situations
this is your thanksgiving reminder that the chinook tribe is still fighting for federal recognition, which means they are unable to access programs and resources. please take some time today to sign their petition and donate if you’re able to. and if you live in washington or oregon please write to your elected officials.
and another reminder that the quileute tribe (the very real tribe that was featured in twilight and received no compensation) is still located in a tsunami zone and is trying to move to higher ground. please consider donating.
ive been getting a whole bunch of asks from people from Gaza in need of donations, so I've compiled them all here. All I ask for is a few dollars to even one of the campaigns; progress is not made mainly through large donations, rather small ones by many. Here are the links:
✅ Verified campaign – please check the end of the story 🔍📌
🚨 Urgent Appeal 🚨
I am Anas Basil, a recent high school graduate with dreams of pursuing a degree in e-business management and building a career. However, due to my family's financial hardships, I enrolled at Khan Younis Training College (KYTC), affiliated with UNRWA. Sadly, the war has turned the college, once a beacon of hope and education, into a shelter for displaced families, stripping it of its educational purpose.
I completed high school with a 93% average, filled with excitement about continuing my education and securing a job to support my family. But like so many others, the war has shattered those dreams.
My Brother’s Dream: My younger brother, Ahmed, is 14 years old and in the third grade of preparatory school. We’ve always called him "Doctor of the Future" because of his intelligence and his natural talent in mathematics. Unfortunately, this is the second year he has been deprived of schooling due to the conflict.
Our Life in Displacement: The war forced our family to flee to Rafah, where we lived in a tent for several months. Each day, my brother and I would wake up to fetch water, gather wood, and light a fire to prepare food. Survival became our daily task, but we never gave up hope. The conflict affected us deeply, but it did not extinguish our dreams of education and a better future.
🚀 How Your Donation will Help us:
We are seeking €29,000 to help Ahmed and me leave Gaza, continue our education in Egypt. More importantly, it will allow us to support our family, who have been deeply affected by the harsh conditions and skyrocketing costs of living due to the ongoing war in Gaza.
We've outlined how your donations will make this possible. You can find all the details in the campaign link below.
👉 Donation link: 🔗https://gofund.me/ace8d602
Your contribution will not only help us escape the war-torn reality we live in but also give us the opportunity to rebuild our futures.
Every donation, no matter the amount, brings us one step closer to our goal.
With deepest gratitude,
Anas & Ahmed
✅ Our Campaign ✅
🔍Vetted by @gazavetters, official (list at #83)
🔍Vetted by @90-ghost here
🔍Vetted by association in this post
Our Story: I am Anas Basil, a recent high school graduate with dreams of p… Sarah Meaney needs your support for Help Anas & Ahmed rebuild th
Help me and my brother Anas in G@za escape from danger so we can continue our education 📚🌟. We need your support to achieve our dreams and help our family in G@za during these difficult and challenging times 🕊️❤️
it's been one year of horrifying genocide, on top of over seven decades of occupation and violence. please donate to palestinian families to help them survive. if you don't know where to look, or are anxious about making a choice about who to help, head to gazafunds.com. please do what you can to help.
As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.
It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.
Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.
I'm also gonna stop listing the reasons why I recognize something is a scam. It's becoming more and more clear there is 1 person behind this STRING of scams and they're leaving less trails behind but it still reeks of them and their MO.
DO NOT TRUST ANY GOFUNDME OR REQUEST FOR CROWDFUNDING THAT PALESTINIAN BLOGGERS HAVEN'T VERIFIED.
At this point I'm fine receiving a bunch of inbox messages asking me to vet x y z so y'all can avoid this shit. But please have some critical thinking!
Whether you wanna read the whole thing or not idc.
REBLOG IT.
The person this was about deleted the 4th or 5th scam account they made and are definitely gonna make a new one soon. I don't want anybody falling for this anymore.
list of palestinian fundraisers from people who have reached out to me- each has a name, tumblr @, amount raised/goal, gofundme link, verification, and any additional info. please donate if you can and share these families’ fundraisers. additionally, visit their blogs and gofundmes and read their stories in their own words. all of them have persevered through so much, and as many of them have said, it’s not easy to ask for help- take some time to listen to them. this post will be edited regularly with updated information and additional fundraisers. please check the original post and reblogs for updates and share the latest version.
version date: 9/16/24
30 FUNDRAISERS (1-30) BELOW THE CUT ⬇️, 18 AND 26 MORE IN ADDITIONAL REBLOGS- PLEASE SHARE FULL LIST OF 74
1. dina @dinamahammed99 $5,985/$15,000 gofundme pinned post verification
2. karam al nabih @karamrafeek £45/£7,000 gofundme pinned post post with verification new gofundme (previous had problems, stopped at €13,880)
3. mohammed salem @save-salem-family2 €5,284/€10,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
4. fidaa @fidaa-family2 $30,837/$75,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
5. bilal @shadowyavenuetaco £5,480/£50,000 gofundme main post verification nephew of @/yasermohammad, current short term goal of £5,500
6. mahmoud ayyad @mahmoudayyad €5,701/€55,000 gofundme pinned post verification
7. asmaa ayyad @asmaayyad €20,509/€45,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
8. muhammad imad abdel latif sharab @d-mohammed and @adham89s €4,628/€100,000 gofundme main post verified by 90-ghost on prior blogs that are now inactive
9. motaz @motaz225 kr58,229 SEK/kr250,000 gofundme pinned post verification
10. ahmed jehad @ahmad-syam-blog $4,557 CAD/$40,000 gofundme post with verification
11. sara hussein @sara-97a €1,342/€50,000 gofundme post with verification
12. asmaa @asmaamajed2 $9,809/$50,000 gofundme pinned post verification (90-ghost reblog)
13. mohammad @yasermohammad €22,493/€35,000 gofundme pinned post verification bilal @/shadowyavenuetaco’s uncle and family, frequent short term goals
14. salam @save-salam-family €23,281/€40,000 gofundme pinned post verification (90-ghost reblog)
15. marah baalousha @freepaleatine95 $10,086/$50,000 gofundme pinned post verification
16. falestine @falestine-yousef $22,284/$40,000 gofundme post with verification and her family's other gofundmes, including doaa and tahrir (below)
17. ola @olagaza $49,351/$85,000 gofundme pinned post with verification (vetted list links match)
18. ahmad @ahmad-gaza $5,601/$35,000 gofundme post with verification
19. khaled smeer @khaledgazacity $758 AUD/$60,000 gofundme main post no verification yet but gofundme is donation protected and very new and reverse image search is clear
20. amal @amalgheelan and @amalgaza99 $1,945/$5,000 gofundme pinned post verification
21. doaa @dodoomar12345 and @free-gaza2 kr208,147 SEK/kr300,000 and $6,616/$12,000 gofundme 1 gofundme 2 pinned post 1 with verification pinned post 2
22. hanaa @hanaa-yousef and @hanaa987 £17,876/£50,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
23. aseel @aseelo680 $25,987/$50,000 gofundme pinned post verification and art raffle
24. tahrir @tahreer-199 and @tahreer-1990 $9,310/$65,000 gofundme pinned post verification
25. nabila @nabila58 and @nabelamohamed $3,580/$10,000 gofundme main post verification
26. safaa asaad @safaa18mero $15,381/$75,000 gofundme pinned post verification
27. hashem @hashemsh12 and @hashemsh92 €9,860/€45,000 gofundme pinned post verification
28. ahmed @ahmeddahlancampaign €168/€35,000 gofundme main post no verification yet but likely legit
29. youssef @yousefjehad3 $8,427/$15,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
30. anas al-sharfa @anasalshrafa €8,396/€50,000 gofundme recent post no verification yet but likely legit
18 FUNDRAISERS (31-48) BELOW THE CUT ⬇️ FIRST REBLOG OF TWO- PLEASE SHARE WITH FULL LIST OF 74
31. maram nabulsi @maram-gaza €620/€70,000 gofundme pinned post verification
32. sami @zainsami €555/€35,000 gofundme pinned post no verification yet but likely legit
33. mahmoud @mahmoud-sharif $10,296/$60,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
34. mohammed ayyad @mohammedayyads-blog €2,414/€35,000 gofundme pinned post verification
35. basil anshasi @basil76 €502/€40,000 gofundme main post no verification yet but gofundme is donation protected and tumblr account looks very new
36. @burningnightgiver $12,512 CAD/$50,000 gofundme post with verification
37. ezz el-din salem @ezzaldeens-blog €2,408/€20,000 gofundme main post verification
38. omar al-habil @saveomarfamily $1,146/$35,000 gofundme recent post no verification yet but likely legit more support for legitimacy linktree with paypal
39. eslam @eslamfamily1 and @eslamfamily $8,309/$50,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
40. ahmed khalil @ahmed0khalil €2,543/€50,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
41. rewaa @rewaa99 $992/$50,000 gofundme main post no verification yet but likely legit
42. lina @lina-gaza €41,617/€60,000 gofundme pinned post verification
43. asala al-mashni @asala-almashni €2,456/€30,000 gofundme main post no verification yet but gofundme is donation protected tumblr looks new and reverse image search is clear
44. mahmoud jihad @mahmodsy $3,654/$25,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
45. ahmed al-habil @ahmedkhabil £7,102/£81,000 gofundme pinned post wife's post (same fundraiser) with verification
46. abood al-qudra @aboodalqedra €475/€25,000 gofundme pinned post no verification yet but reverse image search clean account now deactivated but gofundme still up
47. youssef @saveyouseffamily €18,541/€20,000 gofundme pinned post with verification in comments
48. mohammed ayyad @mohammednasers-blog €5,108/€38,000 gofundme recent post no verification yet but reverse image search clean, current short term goal of €6,000
49. ismail hassan @iskahlout kr0 SEK/kr480,000 gofundme main post, no verification yet but recent and likely legit
50. firas @firasmuhaisenn $9,319 CAD/$82,000 gofundme post with verification
51. muhmmad, zaen, and yahya shehab @hyamshehab222 €10,395/€25,000 gofundme reblog of pinned post with verification
52. amal @amalashuor €38,770/€50,000 gofundme pinned post with links to posts with verification
53. amal @familygazaamal $974/$30,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
54. aya @aiamaher €1,498/€55,000 gofundme main post, not yet vetted but reverse image search clean and donations protected
55. ibrahim and musa hijazi @ibrahimmo €720/€100,000 gofundme main post, not yet verified but donation protected and reverse image search clean
56. saker helles @sakerhelles €18/€30,000 gofundme pinned post, no verification yet but likely legit and very new
57. aya hamdan and ali miqdad @ayameq0 and @alimeq92 €1,297/€70,000 gofundme main post no verification yet but donations protected and reverse image search clean
58. nisreen suhail @nisreensuhail €8,814/€50,000 gofundme pinned post with verification and additional links
59. mohammad @mohamadwajih and @wajihmadi €220/€50,000 gofundme post with verification
60. dima @dima96yousef €15,916/€25,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
61. mahmoud hassan @mahmoud201191 and @shery-89 €495/€50,000 gofundme post with verification
62. hani @hanyhomed €313/€70,000 gofundme main post no verification yet but donations protected and reverse image search clean
63. ayoush @ayoosh-gaza $5,641/$35,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
64. sama @samaayyad15 €20,509/€45,000 gofundme pinned post @/asmaayyad's sister, same gofundme, verification above at #7
65. mona @help-mona €9,144/€185,300 gofundme pinned post with verification
66. mohammed, was deactivated but i believe was at @/mohammadrh $76/$25,000 gofundme vetted by association, friends of @/yousefjehad who is verified by multiple accounts
67. leen @children-gaza €8,513/€15,000 gofundme pinned post with verification
68. faten @faten-lolo12 $16,555/$50,000 gofundme main post with verification
69. etaf @familyetaf1234567 €2,088/€50,000 gofundme pinned post verification unclear but donation protected and reverse image search clear
70. muhammad @zakariafamily €245/€20,000 gofundme post with verification
71. fadi @mayadayyad81 $39,595/$50,000 gofundme reblog of pinned post with verification
72. majed al-gharabawi @majedgh2 $5,151/$70,000 gofundme main post with verification
73. abood al-qudra @aboodalqedra-3 €475/€25,000 gofundme reblog of pinned post with verification his accounts have been deleted numerous times so he needs extra help. initial goal of €1,000
74. ahmed @ahmed-gaza12 £9,852/£20,000 gofundme post with verification
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
Keeping a running list of all GoFundMes I've been sent or contacted about moving forward. Please consider donating to the families on this list or sharing it.
Updated September 4th 2024
Vetted campaigns (90-ghost el-shab-hussein or nabulsi) :
