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#1: $1,961 raised of $30k goal (last updated 04 March 2025)
#2: €14,860 raised raised of €25K goal (last updated 04 March 2025)
#3: €10,670 raised of €25,000 goal (last updated 02 February 2025)
These have all been verified by users across social media who have dedicated time and effort to authenticating Palestinian fundraising efforts.
Proof of my donations:
My part of a trade with @pineflowerart <3 . I have always had a soft spot for Cole yet in terms of who to draw, he's always slipped my mind x'D
You guys have been wonderful receiving my last Emmrich/Cole/Manfred drawing 💜🙏
I'm delighted by the tags! I had a couple of new fun ideas reading them so... Thank you for fueling my creativity!
Here's the most recent one, this one suggested by someone on Bsky 🦋
the person who was organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Amal Ghilan and her family has stopped responding to her and is trying to steal that money (more info here on Bluesky)
please request a refund from GoFundMe and donate to her new fundraiser on Chuffed instead
Award-winning Palestinian-American journalist and human rights defender Ali Abunimah, executive director of the media platform "Electronic Intifada", was violently and forcibly taken by unidentified individuals in civilian clothing while walking on the streets of Zurich on Saturday 25th January 2025. He is now held in administrative detention by the Zurich cantonal police who intend to deport him out of the country on Monday. He was on his way to give a lecture on the history of Palestine, after another event he was going to deliver the following day was cancelled due to external pressure, following a defamatory article in a local newspaper baselessly accusing him of radical islamism and antisemitism. The cantonal police supposedly obtained a prohibition for him to enter the territory once he was already in the country, a decision which was not subjected to any legal review. Ali Abunimah was brutally abducted in violation of due process. Ali Abunimah has not been convicted of any crime by Swiss authorities who have acted on baseless, defamatory accusations to repress free speech and prevent Ali from participating in the events. This is not only an attempt to silence Ali Abunimah as an individual, but the manifestation of a wider campaign of repressing and intimidating those who dare speak up for for Palestinian human rights and against their genocide, fitting into a pattern of racism and islamophobia. A campaign by special interest groups and powerful institutions to silence the truth and deny the oppression of the Palestinian people, attacking free speech and waging a war on journalism. We denounce these repressive tendencies and human rights violations and demand from the Swiss authorities:
Make sure to verify your email after signing the petition and to share it widely: it will be sent to relevant authorities by the end of next week. For further action, send an email demanding Ali's release to the Department of Security of the canton of Zurich: ds@ds.zh.ch and read more info about the case on www.swissactionforhumanrights.org/news
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. Disabled people around the world are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza. See full crowdfund description at Disability Visibility.
