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It's disturbing how a successful attack in the eyes of a Zionist depends on how many civilians have been murdered, or how many residential buildings have been destroyed.

True psychopaths.

The final stage of every OC's creation is having to go through websites like this to name it:

tragedy enjoyers when a character perpetuates the cycle of violence they themselves were a victim of

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@killy thanks for adding this. like the vetting process may not be perfect but i wish people would at least be aware of these things before accusing people of being scams. and as i said, if you really cant tell just dont donate

It’s definitely not foolproof, but here are some things I know that users who vet campaigns, and campaign facilitators, are going through:

-talking to the recipient in Palestinian Arabic (I no longer vet campaigns personally because I don’t read/write Arabic well, though I have people around me who do). Voice calls and texts can be done via WhatsApp or Signal, meaning that country codes are also visible to the people doing the vetting. For the campaign pinned to my blog, for example, there was a voice call conducted in Palestinian dialect because Nour didn’t speak a lot of English and I can’t read/write a lot of Palestinian Arabic

-ID document checking: Nabulsi and el-shab-Hussein have mentioned this directly. When I ran the fundraiser for Ahmed @/90-ghost, he has to send GFM’s compliance team pictures of his ID and that of his entire family accompanying him. They froze the funds until they had this and other information. It was a whole thing I posted about for a while.

-financial details: for Ahmed’s GFM, I had to explain to their compliance staff, in detail, how I planned to get the money from me to him. Anything that wasn’t clear in the campaign itself was clarified to GFM’s compliance team. To do the transfer, I had to get Ahmed’s Bank of Palestine account details, his address, etc. And GFM doesn’t allow you to transfer directly from the GFM to a Palestinian bank. That’s why Palestinians need to find facilitators in other countries; those who don’t have family or friends living in eligible countries have to trust strangers. For Leena’s GFM (Leena is someone whose GFM Ahmed and I have posted), she made it in a state of panic and decided to act first, think through the details later, and set her location in the EU. I had to find someone in the EU to help.

So, no, vetting by Palestinian bloggers isn’t foolproof, but for someone to fool someone like el-shab-hussein, nabulsi, sar-soor, or 90-ghost AND the GFM compliance team, they’d have to be able to speak convincing Palestinian Arabic, present Palestinian ID documents, and convince GFM’s team that there’s a viable plan in place, both for the financial transfer and the travel. It’s really not an easy scam to pull off. Not impossible, sure. But there’s a lot more going into this than certain people on here would think.

I also want to add a few things which is that @/sar-sour doesn't vet fundraisers, and I also don't work with Ahmed @/90-ghost for vetting. I just worked with @/nabulsi for vetting.

It was also always nerve-racking to see that as soon as one of us reblogs something that people take it to mean it is verified, we never stated that was the case. If it's on our list it means we've vetted it, if it was posted by us it was vetted. I had to stop reblogging things unless I was 100% certain me or nabulsi had verified it because then people would take it as an endorsement from me which was never the case.

Killy is right in the above, we used to not just ask for photos of their IDs but also photo proof of their current presence in Ghazzah, and we tried to keep tabs on them regularly, medical papers and stuff, even birth certificates if we weren't sure. It felt wrong and imposing to do all this and yet I felt we had no choice because there were many scammers and many actual people and no one was able to distinguish them at first glance.

We have stopped doing this verification over tumblr due to security concerns, as we don't think our communications are actually secure and people can intercept the information and share it with IOF. This is why my vetting is paused and has now been outsourced to a contact in Ghazzah who we have previously verified and who sends me even more proof than I could ever comfortably ask for, including so much as recordings of his conversations with the individuals I'm posting for.

So to the anon, I did take hours of my day - everyday - to verify each fundraiser I put up on my blog, and then so did nabulsi when she joined me. Believe me or don't, I actually did put in that extreme effort and it slowly sapped my lifeforce until my heart started clogging from stress-induced blood clots.

To be clear, I don't want anyone to be vetting fundraisers over tumblr, but especially not foreigners who are not Palestinian. Do not try to vet fundraisers on your own. I always worried about people harassing Palestinians for their IDs and banking info and specific location family and medical history etc... which is why I have never revealed my exact process but after this whole thing I don't think I have the choice. If one of us made a mistake with 1 of the fundraisers - whose listing we've changed to reflect our current knowledge - that does not mean we are just posting things willy nilly without checking. This is an unbelievable amount of work to do that has cost me irreparable damage to my health because I did so much of it for such a long-sustained period. I wouldn't wish this experience I've had on anyone. Numerous of my friends have tapped out of tumblr because they couldn't handle a fraction of the demand for help that I've been getting, because they wanted to help me and were overwhelmed so quickly. I feel bad because it feels like they got driven off of tumblr for me. I don't know. This whole thing is so disappointing and frustrating and none of the people accusing me have so much as rethought any of their accusations.

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