So I’m moving blogs, for reasons related to my most recent Palestine post - I’ll be archiving all my important posts I made here, but my new acc is @palipunk 

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So I’m moving blogs, for reasons related to my most recent Palestine post - I’ll be archiving all my important posts I made here, but my new acc is @palipunk 

Just a little reminder for my followers who aren’t Palestinian: while this has occurred for decades, Palestinians are routinely blacklisted, doxed, expelled, fired for being Palestinian and speaking about Palestine. 

There are websites and social media accounts dedicated to cataloguing Palestinians speaking out about Palestine and their own experiences to be used against them to deny them jobs, opportunities, schools/collages etc. - not to mention, these websites and accounts lump Palestinians speaking about their oppression in with actual antisemities and neo-n@zis, I’ve seen people be added to these websites with posts as simple as “fuck isr@el”. 

I’ve seen my friends and mutuals be added to these listings for making posts about Palestine and sometimes I fear I could be next, and I would advise any Palestinian reading this post to be extremely cautious about the info you share about yourself online. The main target for these catalogues are Palestinian youth, usually those still in school or university (to get them expelled), and also often times women and queer Palestinians in the Diaspora. More recently, Palestinians on twitter, mainly young women, were doxxed en masse. 

You may not realize it, but Palestinians, no matter where we are, are unsafe and speaking out, even on the internet, has incredibly serious consequences for us. So whenever you see a post by a Palestinian about Palestine, just keep in mind we are risking our futures speaking out, and we need all the help we can get  

I haven’t seen any posts about it on tumblr but this week is Palestine Economic Week, this is your opportunity to lend financial support to Palestinian businesses in your communities and around the world. If you have some money to spend or want to support Palestinian businesses, I recommend doing it in the websites listed below: 

Some businesses to support: 

Hirbawi is the last remaining keffiyeh producer in Palestine and ships worldwide: https://www.kufiya.org/

NÖL COLLECTIVE: https://nolcollective.com/

Shoppalestine: https://www.shoppalestine.org/Default.asp

Watan Palestine: https://watanpalestine.com/

Taita Leila: https://www.taitaleila.com/ 

Jeel Design House: https://jeeldesign.com/#/

ANAT: https://anat-international.com/  

Nnbynn: https://www.nnbynn.com/

Sunbula: https://www.sunbula.org/

Please be cautious of knockoffs if you are searching for Palestinian products online. Palestinian designs, jewelry, clothing, and our keffiyeh have been routinely stolen by larger companies and organizations - including Louis Vuitton which recently put up a appropriated Keffiyeh design on their website. Make sure the websites you buy from explicitly say Palestinian and are run by Palestinians, if you cannot support financially, spread the word. 

(if you are Palestinian and run a small business or product, do not hesitate to link yourself!)