rahaeli is a monster.
rahaeli is a former dreamwidth moderator and has carried that label with her for fucking decades at this point. because she was a mod on a niche blogging website during the heyday of niche blogging websites, she therefore has the expertise to weigh in on whether palestinians begging to survive a genocide are scammers or not.
this is not an impartial work. i believe rahaeli is a fucking reprehensible, loathsome person attacking people trying to stay alive during a genocide.
in 'the palestine laboratory,' anthony lowenstein details multiple cases of palestinians being struck from social media sites like youtube and facebook at random with no context given. since the 2000s, palestinians in particular have been hit with punitive and overly zealous moderation that seems to target them in particular. palestinians usually dont have a big presence on social media because talking about zionism or the occupation gets them permabanned pretty quickly. apartheid is a constant, waking condition that seeps into every aspect of your life. its impossible for the average palestinian to ignore that even if the content they make has nothing to do with politics. simply being palestinian is enough to get you banned off the internet.
and yet, rahaeli, someone who has worked on fucking dreamwidth 20 years ago, has crunched the numbers and decided that every palestinian on bluesky is actually a malaysian scammer. this hallucination would not be such a big deal if it werent the impetus for nonstop harassment against palestinians and their supporters. hardest hit were molly shah, someone who routinely speaks to hundreds of palestinians in order to verify their fundraisers, and a man named saeed. for a few days, saeed became the main character of bluesky because some knuckledragging white supremacists thought his photo was AI. why? i dont know dude, im not a fucking loser.
again, i am not going to be impartial and i am not a journalist. i am angry. i am angry that people who try to help palestinians like molly shah and alex winter are regarded as helping scammers. i am angry that losers like rahaeli are obsessed with this legalistic take down of vulnerable people. i am angry that israel exists. i am angry that people cannot spare even a moment of compassion for those being subjected to a genocide. i am angry that most of those people pay taxes that fund said genocide. i am angry that when the palestinians needed us the most, we turned our backs on them or called them liars. i am angry. i dont understand how anyone else could feel any other way right now.
as to why i put so much blame on rahaeli, her name comes up most often during these racist witch hunts. she wrote a few threads on moderation, after all, so we must defer to her. we must agree that bluesky should allow jesse singal on their platform despite how he repeatedly violates their TOS, because rules. the rules are the most important thing. eichmann would be proud.
and yes i do think this is equivalent to the nuremberg defense except its even stupider because none of these people are getting paid. theyre attacking innocent people for free, for fun, using the limited time they have on this planet, because theyre terrified some fucking american might be scammed out of five dollars.
when you donate to individual strangers, you do so with the knowledge that this money is no longer yours. you donate money youre able to spare. you donate because honestly, it makes you feel good to do so. in most cultures, charity is a great quality to have! if you are scammed, thats not because youre an idiot. i think we can agree that being scammed while helping others is still nothing to be ashamed of. i understand wanting your funds to go to the right place and thats why i especially dont understand the attacks on verifiers like molly shah.
the reason why they dont trust shah is because they dont trust ANY palestinian. they fundamentally believe all palestinians are liars. they are zionists and genocidal lunatics who are too fucking cowardly to say what they really think and instead come up with this vicious and hateful lie about how palestinians are hurting innocent white americans. oh no, think of the poor, poor american, whose taxes go towards a global police state! poor american! who ever will think of the poor american!
this is disorganized and unhinged because frankly i have lost my patience. i have lost all faith in humanity. the way that allegedly left wing people have been behaving towards palestinians on bluesky has decimated my faith in humanity. when people need our help the most we come up with justifications to demonize and destroy them. this demonization is FUNDAMENTAL to genocide. without the inherent distrust of an entire people, we cannot go on to the final solution to eliminate them. the witch hunt against palestinians on bluesky is fundamentally genocidal. it would make hitler proud to see so many people 'just asking questions' and 'trying to protect their own people.'
rahaeli, you are a fucking reprehensible person running propaganda for israel. you are actively creating consent for the massacre of the palestinian people. i do not seek to change your mind. after all, you cant reason with evil. there is no logical argument that will break through your fucking skull and make you see the humanity of those you are destroying. to subject people suffering a genocide to this ridiculous scrutiny all in favor of saving some fucking americans five dollars is unimaginably cruel and i hope you never, ever wash the guilt off.