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a sovereign state of which citizenship is restricted to members of a particular racial or ethnic group.

Arabs have a different kind of passport than Jewish Israelis. Anybody with a passport that says "Arab" instead of "Jewish" can legally be barred from residing in any place where the "Admissions Committee Law" applies (which is around 80% of the state).

This is even before we get into the things that are de facto only illegal if you do them while Arab, because only Arabs have ever been charged with them, such as foraging for plants that Palestinians (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) have been gathering on that land for thousands of years.

This is also before we get into segregation, Arab Israelis living in poorer areas and receiving poorer education (see again how housing discrimination based on race is completely legal), facing voter suppression, intimidation, hate crimes, destruction of property, &c.; or being de facto barred from constructing anything by discriminatory permitting practices.

mutual aid means no hierarchy between givers and receivers

a new mutual aid org, Bridge of Solidarity, has been established in the gaza strip by 17 year old poet yazan mohammed in response to the exploitative practices conducted by some charities and encouraged by the existing charity-based model of fundraising for gaza. according to BoS: "the western attention economy and pity economy plays a large role in who lives or dies in gaza." essentially, people need to make themselves marketable in order to receive lifesaving aid; people who are not marketable die. yazan himself wrote about the damage this can do to one's self image, which you can read here.

after trying for a year to respect his own privacy, my friend siraj was also pressured into posting images of his son's emaciated body in order to gain sympathy from westerners.

we cannot keep forcing people to do this anymore.

here's a declaration of their values from bridge of solidarity's most recent post:

Our organization is against the Western gaze. We refuse to humiliate people. We refuse to force people to take photos. We refuse to force people to take photos with our flyer or logo. People will receive aid freely without being forced to pose. We will respect people's privacy completely. Our principles include autonomy, dignity, sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutual aid.

this org will prioritize giving aid to people without phones or social media, who do not speak english, and who do not have outside support or living parents. these are the people who are not palatable to westerners but who deserve to live with as much dignity as everyone else

as of five days ago, BoS are working on a water truck delivery

UPDATED SUNDAY 6 JULY 2025

As discussed previously, widowed mother Bshaer has contracted a horrible infection due to drinking water contaminated by the IOF invasion. The infection is aggressive and advancing rapidly. Any day now the infection may spread to her brain, which would almost certainly be fatal.

She currently needs $700 usd to pay for her next round of medication, and the needles she needs to administer it. WITHOUT THESE ANTIBIOTICS, BSHAER WILL DIE.

Please donate anything you can, and share the family's GFM and Chuffed campaigns across all your social media accounts!!

Current: $58,178 out of $58,878 usd

Need to raise: $700 usd