Here’s How to Support Palestine: Donate, Boycott, and More

The ongoing Palestine’s conflicts recently have reached another level and it is really worrying. For you who want to help even a bit more, here are some things you can do, even from the leisure of your own home (this is written during corona pandemic era):

Donate to the Trusted Charity

Palestinians really need daily necessities and medicines also a lot of money to help them get their life back after many of their belongings are destroyed. If you feel that you have some spare money to help them, no matter how much, you can donate to some trusted charity organizations below. That way you have helped to make their life easier even without leaving your home because nowadays we can easily donate online.

Here are the organizations whose donations have made real impacts in Palestine including in Gaza Strait:

1. UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency)
2. IHH (Turkish humanitarian NGO)
3. ACT (Indonesian humanitarian NGO)

Boycott Israel Products

To stop or at least minimize these ongoing clashes, you can participate by restricting the money spent on Israeli goods or services.

How to recognize Israeli products?

Well, for starter, the Israeli barcode begins with 729.

To help you more, here are some famous products linked to Israel that perhaps you may recognize in daily life, including Starbucks, McDonalds, Coca Cola, KFC, Pepsi, Cheetos, Nescafe, L’Oreal, Garnier, and Oreo:

This movement is called BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions). There are some lists regarding of this movement, one of them is on this site, but there is also another list released by the UN human rights office that is the first-ever international attempt to name businesses connected to Israel’s settlement industry. It is including some big names like Airbnb, Expedia, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor.