A generous donor has set a challenge for the Mondoweiss community. He will contribute $20,000 if we raise $60,000 by August 1 to press forward in sharing the truth about Palestine. We can only get there with your help.
In 2012, Mondoweiss publisher Scott Roth wrote of Israel/Palestine: “An unjust system backed by one-sided force is like a foolish boy on a horse. Something childish driven by something powerful.” Please donate today to help Mondoweiss continue documenting the distorted system that oppresses Palestinians, and their ingenious and unceasing resistance.
In 2008, Mondoweiss was just two people with almost no resources and a loyal but small audience; today, we’re a stable and growing organization with partners, freelancers and a staff that achieves beyond its numbers. And our work reaches hundreds of thousands of people every month. But in a fundamental way, that first exciting investigation I worked on with Phil still represents the core of what Mondoweiss aims to do—and why we ask for your support to keep the work going and growing. Today–because of the enormous response from readers–our challenge donor has upped the ante! As of now, he will donate $20,000 if we can raise $20,000 from the rest of you by the end of Friday. Please help now.
Mondoweiss’s thirteenth birthday has got me thinking—about how a full-fledged news operation with thousands of contributors has emerged from my first experimental efforts. We’ve posted a timeline that highlights some key moments in Mondoweiss’s development over this time. In this message I talk about the single most important event in this site’s history: the decision by Adam Horowitz to join me in the work. Also: one of our most generous supporters has offered a birthday challenge! If we can raise $13,000 over the next three days, he will give us $13,000 more. Please help us meet that goal and unlock these much-needed funds!
Below are some highlights of Mondoweiss’s first thirteen years. Below each image you can find links to many of the articles we found particularly memorable. If you find meaning in the evolution of Mondoweiss as a news source–which we believe reflects the progress of Palestine’s struggle for liberation–please donate today so we can keep providing information in a timely and thoughtful way, to all who need it.
We are pleased and proud to announce that the team here at Mondoweiss will be growing this spring. From a one-man operation in 2006, we’ve grown to a core team of eight today, plus hundreds of freelance contributors each year. The two positions we are looking to fill now are 1) a U.S.-based News Reporter and 2) an Individual Giving Manager. Both openings require, above all, a passion and dedication to the mission of sharing the facts about Palestine with a global audience, in order to strengthen the struggle against systematic oppression.
You know how important accurate information from Palestine is to building global opposition to Israel’s cruel regime. Journalists on the ground put their lives at risk every day to report the information we publish for the world. With just hours left, all gifts we receive by midnight tonight will be matched 1:1, up to a total of $35,000. Please invest now in Mondoweiss news and analysis. With your help, we can enter the new year ready to deliver at an even higher level.
Why Mondoweiss? To question, to know, to not forget. We cannot say we did not know; not if we say “never again.” By sheer coincidence, the universe aligned for me to discover a very unusual graffiti image in Sunset Park, Brooklyn: “Read About Palestine.” I am inspired by this powerful message and that Mondoweiss is dedicated in its mission to give us this opportunity to “read about Palestine” every day. Read Mondoweiss, and invest in Mondoweiss.
If not for Mondoweiss and others who share our commitment to a just peace in Palestine, our new movement of “Return Solidarity” would be dancing in the dark. But Mondoweiss strikes blows that make cracks in the English-speaking world’s stone wall of silence about Israeli colonialism and apartheid. Yes, we need Mondoweiss—and for the site to continue delivering the stories and images suppressed elsewhere, you and I must invest in its capacity. Please give today.
Thank you for making Mondoweiss a tool for liberation far beyond what I thought it could be, and for embracing me and joining me to a larger community. Sometimes in the past I have been shy about asking for donations. There are so many wonderful organizations that deserve your support, and mine. But when I look at the function Mondoweiss performed this year—at the stories we shared and the brave people we paid for their work, using your contributions!—I realize that the time for shame or shyness has passed.