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July 21st, 2021 
Awake Goy 
I live in the Gaza Strip, one of the least free places on earth. And I’m writing to ask you to make a donation to Mondoweiss today, because Mondoweiss is one of the very few outlets where I do experience freedom: the freedom to write whatever I believe.
I am the son of refugees from the ethnically cleansed village of Zarnouga, born in the Nusairat refugee camp. I lived in Johannesburg, where I completed my doctorate and worked for 6 years. But I returned for a simple reason: to be a part of our struggle for freedom, equality and justice.
I have been a part of the BDS movement since its inception, and I have also been advocating, in Op-Eds, interviews, articles and books, for secular democracy in historic Palestine. I’ve learned that in this freedom struggle, we are fighting for something basic: to be treated as humans whose truth deserves to be heard.
Today, Mondoweiss needs your help to do just that.
Thru August 1st, Roger Waters and another anonymous donor have pledged to match up to $50,000.
Mondoweiss is fundamentally powered by its readers – people like you and me. Will you step up now, during this critical summer match, and become a Mondoweiss donor today? Every dollar you give will be doubled but only until August 1st.
Because you read Mondoweiss, I know you know how hard that is for us Palestinians. The massacres we’ve lived through, the fear we confront everyday not knowing when the next might begin. We are up against the power of Israeli (and US) hasbara that paints all Palestinians as villains or, at best, victims.
I know you also know about the beauty of our resistance through the Great March of Return, and the growth of BDS campaigns around the world — to mention only two forms of our popular resistance.
And so we live in a genuine paradox, especially in Gaza: we are the center of so much conversation and attention, but also almost never heard from ourselves.
Mondoweiss helps us get beyond that.
Will you help Mondoweiss continue to amplify not just my voice, but the entire Palestinian Freedom movement with a donation today?
The importance of Mondoweiss’s coverage, and being a platform for our voice has made all the difference for us. And, at the risk of being sentimental, it touches our hearts in Gaza.
They’ve made reporting possible so people know what’s going on, and supported our anti-colonial pillars of resistance, specifically BDS, despite accusations of antisemitism.
They are an example of journalism that never shies away from making the right moral choice, that never talks down to its readers. They are doing the work, with a fraction of the resources, that mainstream media refuses to do.
We have been banging the walls of the Gaza tank, to borrow a metaphor from Ghassan Kanafani, so that the deaf world would heed our call. That is what Mondoweiss has precisely done by being a platform for our voice. Together we, and those who have stood on the right side of history, including the Mondoweiss team, can “fly after the last sky!” Edward Said would have not hesitated to contribute, and donate, to Mondoweiss.
Thank you again for your commitment to this freedom struggle. Becoming a donor at the $25 or $10 level – or any amount that you can – during this match is the only way we can keep making progress.
Haidar Eid
Haidar Eid is Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Postmodern Literature at Gaza’s al-Aqsa University.
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