Free Palestine
This webpage serves to collect resources related to helping Palestine.
Ways to help that require money
#- eSims for Gaza
- Palestine Children's Relief Fund
- Shop Palestine (online store where your purchases support artisans in Palestine and in refugee camps in Lebanon, proceeds go to Middle East Children’s Alliance's work supporting Palestinian children)
- Donate direct aid to Gaza (run by a longtime activist and volunteer who has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in Gaza since 2021)
- Buy from the Hirbawi factory (this is the last kufiya factory in Palestine that is still active, purchasing helps support the Palestinian economy, which has not been in a great state for a while)
- Donate to Islamic Relief Canada's Palestine Emergency Appeal
- Donate to Palestine Action to help bring down Israel's weapons trade
- Donate to the Gofundme for medical expenses for Hisham, a Palestinian-Irish-American who was shot in an anti-Palestinian hate crime in Burlington, Vermont
- Donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians
- Donate to Gisha, an Israeli organization that protects Palestinians' rights to the freedom of movement
Ways to help that don't require money
#- Click to help Palestine daily (this site seems to use funds from ad revenue to raise money for various causes)
- Attend an upcoming protest for Palestine (remember to mask up, COVID isn't over - check that it will be safe for protestors to wear masks first, though)
- Sign a petition to urge governments to invoke the genocide convention to stop the war on Gaza
- Sign a petition from Amnesty calling for a ceasefire
- Check this list of ways to demand a ceasefire in Gaza
- Check out Independent Jewish Voices Canada and their campaigns to help Palestine
- Join Palestine Action to help bring down Israel's weapons trade
- Sign the petition for Canada to take urgent action for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza
- Download these posters to print out and put up in your area and/or share on socials to build awareness
- Join the BDS boycott
- Check out resources and ways to help from Justice For All
Ways to learn more about the situation in Palestine and Palestinian culture
#Make sure you're not spreading antisemitism
#War crimes are bad, no matter who they're being committed by. And antisemitism is always wrong.
Antisemitism is also one of the oldest (if not the oldest, since it's well over 2000 years old) forms of bigotry, so most of us have internalized some antisemitic beliefs, probably ones we don't even realize are antisemitic. This post is a good, short explanation of how we can avoid antisemitism when criticizing Israel.