(Last Edited: May 27th, 2025)

This post will compile everything I have benefited from, learned from, and found use from throughout the course of the last 365+ days of ongoing genocide of Palestinians. It is imperative that you can find where you fit in alongside everyone helping where we can. We must help save what remains of Palestine. Together, we can make a difference. Start today. Be brave. What are your talents? Use them. I believe in this struggle, we can help, and want you to know it may be hard but you’re not alone. We can do this together. You can help. We do not have to sit back and accept this atrocity happening before us. Palestinians are people, a people oppressed for far too long. Palestinians deserve freedom. They do not deserve a manmade famine, nor do they deserve to be murdered by gunfire or bombing.

What are the demands?

• Arms Embargo on Israel – Food, Not Bombs! Education, Not Bombs! Healthcare, Not Bombs!
• Permanent Ceasefire & actual repercussions for breaking the ceasefire as Israel has since March 18th
• for humanitarian aid to be allowed in to Gaza & all of Palestine – STOP THE FAMINE!
• for an END to all USA funding sent to Isreal using our tax dollars
• for an END to all illegal settlement and selling of Palestinian land
  
  … we hope for an end to this ongoing genocide of the last 75+ years! Ideally, an end to the occupation and land back while everyone gets to remain alive. We fully believe we will see a free Palestine in our lifetime. The people of Palestine deserve freedom and an end to the violence, no more death, and their lives returned to them. Those who helped enable this genocide need to be tried in court and held responsible for their commitment to causing great harm to an innocent group of civilians who are people.

Read about the current events as of May 27th, 2025 happening in Gaza: the US-Israel scheme dispenses Gaza aid as UN says 180,000 displaced in 10 days on Al Jazeera

QUICK TOOLS:

RED ALERT: GAZA IS BEING STARVED TO DEATH. CONGRESS MUST ACT NOW.

CALL CONGRESS: Let Aid In, Stop Forced Famine

Jews for Food Aid in Gaza

Tell Congress: Stop Arming Israel With My Tax Dollars

Stop Gaza Genocide Toolkit (Updated) from USCPR

Print and Send Postcards to Elected Officials, urging they support an end to the occupation, a ceasefire, and urge them to help get aid into Gaza for starving Palestinians.

Starting Out: Understanding The Struggle

The genocide of innocent people in Gaza that has ramped up due to the loss of innocents on October 7th, 2023 is not the beginning of this ongoing struggle between the colonized and the colonizers. It began long ago, in 1799. This was when Napoleon offered Palestine as a “promised land / home” to the Jewish people. This spawned the idea of Zionism, and from its inception it has been an mass effort to enact the plans to ethnically cleanse all Palestinians, expelling them from their home of Palestine. This is horrific, this is genocide, and it should be called that. We cannot explain the truth any other way. We must remain truthful about what is happening despite what our Western media will have you believe. Our politicians’ support of this should stop. Peace must be enforced. Learn below about the history…

Read all about every historical event leading up to today’s nightmare with the Interactive Timeline of History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Since 1799 via Palestine Remix.

Learn about all sorts of Palestinian history, the logic of Palestinian resistance and struggle, and the battle over the narrative, the conditions of Gaza, much more and even safe media to trust reporting on the conflict at All the Walls Will Fall: 2023 Palestine Liberation Resource List. It’s a lot of reading resources for everything related, so save this for the long-term.

Free Books from Palestinian Voices at Verso Books Available Forever

Learn All About the Symbolism of Palestine, How Can You Use it in Your Art Changing The World?

Directly Helping Palestinian Families Fighting for Survival

Palestinians remain struggling as no food has entered Gaza since October 1st. Scarcity is extreme as well are prices of goods to survive are currently extremely high. See the list of pricing below, from Yasmein in Northern Gaza;

So, when you see Palestinian fundraisers being at a high goal amount please do not feel deterred. Even $5 helps so much to Gazans stuck in a war zone. Here’s some places you can find families in direct need. Whether to get food and survive, or pay the fees to cross the border to Egypt if the crossing opens again. Gazans are in need right now. Let’s do our best to chip in, because #MutualAid is all they have, all we have is each other.

Send to any Gazans you meet online that are in need: Molly Shah’s BlueSky Round-Up of Resources for People in Gaza

Meet The Five Palestinian Families I’m Helping Fundraise For!

I have a Carrd set up to direct people towards the individual fundraisers for 5 families I have spoken to on BlueSky from Gaza. These families need our support, a few of the families in urgent need of medical care they cannot afford. For however much you donate to any of these 5 fundraisers, you will be able to redeem for anything on my art shop that is equal in value + free shipping (shipping is optional to cover.)

Funds For Gaza – LinkTree

A well sourced and routinely updated list that rotates between people who are in need most currently or urgently. Check the bottom of the LinkTree for a way to submit a request for aid for your family too if you are stuck in Gaza and need aid.

Operation Olive Branch – Spreadsheet & LinkTree

Another routinely updated excel made mega spreadsheet with links to help families raising funds to survive and escape Gaza and the war zone. There is also tons of resources for artists who want to join in supporting Palestinians and their fight for liberation, posters to print out and spread, and virtual action tools. You can submit a request for aid for your family here too if you are in Gaza and in need.

The #GazaGFM Tag on Bluesky (bsky.app)

As censorship continues to be on the rise against Palestinians who are simply trying to survive and make it out of the war zone, Bluesky maintains itself as an avenue many Gazan people can speak out and find support through the #GazaGFM hashtag and the community of #MutualAid helpers on Bluesky. I am proud to be an early adopter of the website seeing as it is a crucial lifeline for so many people in the aftermath of the post-Twitter era. Check out the tag and see where you can directly help people today.

Large Organizations Helping Palestinians

While not as direct as helping a Gazan family’s GoFundMe, these organizations are doing superb work and could use a donation towards their efforts.

• Medical Aid for Palestinians
• Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund
• Medicens Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
• Anera provides refugee aid for Palestine and Lebanon
• Distribute Aid, helping get delivered humanitarian aid of various types to communities in need, often working together with Anera.

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General groups to support who are helping Palestinians, whether monetarily or through art and activism.

Cartoonists for Palestine

A group of cartoonists coming together to humanize the Palestinian experience in the eyes of others. Showing the lives of Palestinians and their struggle throughout the comics submitted by artists individually. You can submit a comic there too. They are putting together a book with all proceeds going to Palestinian organizations and families.

Cartoonist’s Co-op e-SIMs for Gaza Initiative

I am a volunteer artist, one of many incredibly talented and skilled creatives a part of the Cartoonist Co-op, that is willing to make you art in exchange for purchasing an e-SIM card for a Palestinian family or individual. See details at the link on how to take part. Pick “Ovaettr AKA Orion Fern” if you want me to be your artist.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

The BDS – Boycott, Divest, Sanction – movement is incredibly important as a large facet of fascist capitalism is the direction of funds being sent to Israel. This is done through advertising and consumer products being purchased that help facilitate and monetarily support this ongoing genocide. We must push for these companies to divest from funding Israel and to do so it is suggested to boycott all products and businesses with ties to Israel. Read more about boycotts and how they help the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation at the website for PACBI and all BDS initiatives. You might feel powerless, but together we can make an impact here at home through BDS methods.

Artists Against Apartheid Free Resources

Artists from around the world have provided a lot of free poster artwork for free use. Print them, share them, use them for events and for sharing in this struggle and showing your support of those most harmed by the ongoing genocide. Envision hope with us through the art included in these resource links.

Poster Collections | Palestine Art for Protests | Posters Made By Ovaettr

Ways You Can Make A Difference…

Starting the conversation can be tough but it is necessary. See some resources below for people who want to take action but don’t know how to safely.

For Artists and Musicians Who Want to Speak Out About Palestine But Aren’t Sure How

Want to show your support by wearing a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh? Find one at the last remaining keffiyeh factory in Palestine, Hirbawi USA.

Find A Protest Near You for Gaza via USCPR.

Print out and spread news on how you can help by completing the customizable What You Can Do To Help Palestine / Gaza Mini Zine created by The Black Zine Archive for free use. You can make a difference!

Locate your local Palestinian Youth Movement branch or other Anti-War groups, like the Dallas Anti-War Committee. There is most likely someone or lots of people organizing near you.

Read the entire speech that the Uncommitted Movement was promised to be able to read at the DNC but was stopped from speaking last minute. Remind ourselves why we are here and why we do this work in solidarity with Palestinians struggling to survive a genocide.

Art & Music For The Moment

Art is restorative and provides us a sense of purpose and helps us manifest our realities that we seek to create. In hopes of a brighter future for all peoples, especially Palestinians who have struggled so much, I want to introduce some healing work I have come across that has helped center myself. It brings me back to why we are doing this work and what the struggle really entails. Art and music feed me and informs me of what the struggle needs from us to be able to come through these times together. I want to make it to the other side of all of this together, with you, with everyone. Let us help Palestinians survive.
Because one day in the future, everyone will have been against this.

“You got my back, I got your back, we got your back…we got SOLIDARITY!”

Ms. Rachel is a wonderful source of inspiration, and hope. She is leading the way to doing the right thing. Listening to Palestinian children, giving them space to just…be kids…away from the horrors of war, the horrors of racism, the horrors of Zionism. My heart breaks and I cry every time I watch this. I watch it to bring me hope. For the gentle souls like Rachel, if she can bring her voice to speak truth to power I can too.

You can donate to Ms. Rachel’s fundraiser for Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund on the campaign page.

Hope Is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care with Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba

“To practice active hope, we do not need to believe that everything will work out in the end.
We need only decide who we are choosing to be and how we are choosing to function.“

Keep going. Let’s keep going together.