The Jerusalem Municipality is demolishing the home of Hisham’s family + 119 others in the Bustan area of Silwan to build a park. Here is recent reporting from last week, and here’s an older article by NPR about this specific situation
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[Text ID: My name is Hisham (I am choosing not to publicize my full name out of fear of retaliation from Israel), and along with my wife and our beautiful newborn daughter, I live in a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem called Silwan. I started this fundraiser as an urgent plea for help, as my family is currently preparing for the worst: the demolition of our home by Israel.
Last year, my family received a home demolition order from the Israeli authorities which dictates the following: if we do not demolish our home by March 15, 2024, the Jerusalem Municipality will demolish it for us, in which case we will have to pay a fine of 82,000 shekels (roughly $22,000). If we fail to pay the fine, I will be jailed.
My elderly parents and all of my siblings also received home demolition orders, as did more than 120 other families in Silwan, some of whom have already had their homes demolished. Unfortunately, forced displacement has been a constant, decades-long battle for us here in Silwan, and this latest wave of demolitions is just one part of the broader Israeli policy to dispossess Palestinians of our homes and land.
My wife and I have poured everything we have into the legal battle over the demolition order, which to our despair, has lead nowhere. I have had to pick up a second job to support us through this prolonged nightmare, and even still, we find ourselves in a position where we will not be able to pay the fine, let alone have anything left to help us move. At this point, we have exhausted all of our options, and we are appealing to you as a last resort.
We ask that you help us reach our fundraising goal of $30,000, which will go directly towards the demolition fine and our search for a new living arrangement.
The imminent destruction of our home and the uncertainty that comes with it has devastated us, especially as this is happening at a time when we are witnessing an extreme escalation of Israel’s violence and aggression throughout all of Palestine. We are terrified for our safety and our future, and we pray that you can help us.
God bless you all, be safe everywhere. Thank you very much, Hisham. /End ID]
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You are ACTIVELY taking away the voices of poc and speaking over them when you do this. When you tack on your own personal anecdotes or try to to give a definition of what a person or color is saying you are in the simplest of ways insulting their intelligence
I don't often ask for this, but this out of urgency.
This post is on behalf of Nader @abdalsalam1990, as I have a large following which could help it get traction.
Nader is 17 years old and his family is in Gaza facing dire circumstances. Food is scarce, prices are high, and there are shortages in water. They, like countless others suffering during this war, have already had to relocate many times, and their home is destroyed. They do not have enough money to safely relocate right now, or a stable source of income, as places of work have been destroyed.
Nader had just lost their uncle to the vile Israeli occupiers, and they're desperately asking for donations. Any amount of money can help Nader and his family escape this destruction.
I have donated myself and I know a lot of my followers can afford to donate at least something. It's not a hard donation process, so I hope you take a moment of your day to show some support.
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My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."
He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."
He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"
I did.
"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."
It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.
So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.
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