GAZA CITY- Is crowdfunding site GoFundMe complicit in allowing illegals to enter the United States? If so, it would appear to violate the platform’s terms of service. More on that in a bit.
GoFundMe is famous for its lack of support for right-leaning causes. For example, the site famously denied a fundraiser for Kenosha, Wisconsin hero Kyle Rittenhouse, who was used as a political pawn by a leftist prosecutor for acting in self-defense where he was forced to use deadly physical force. It wasn’t until he was acquitted of all charges that the site allowed fundraising for Rittenhouse to resume.
According to The Daily Signal, several crowdfunding campaigns, such as the Canadian Freedom Convoy, which had reached $10 million in donations before the plug was pulled, were scuttled in 2022 because of their political leanings. In fact, GoFundMe initially was going to keep the $10 million unless “asked to do so.” After public outcry, the platform refunded the donations.
In November 2020, a campaign in California to erect a billboard opposed the use of puberty blockers for kids. GoFundMe canceled the campaign for no reason, only explaining that it went “against their rules.”
Last year, GoFundMe scuttled a campaign by a Vancouver, British Columbia, rape crisis center that had raised $7,000. The “issue” was that the rape crisis center in the city was solely for biological women, which ran afoul of GoFundMe’s progressive ideology.
Law Enforcement Today came across a campaign started by a woman named Basmah Ahmed Shaladan from the Gaza Strip, home of the Hamas terrorists that invaded Israel and slaughtered over 1,000 Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023.
Shaladan writes in her funding plea that she is “living a war of genocide for more than 5 months,” repeating the pro-Palestinian mantra that has come out of Gaza since their leaders invaded Israel. She complains she has “lost everything, our house–health–jobs–education–dreams and future.”
The Gaza Health Ministry has pushed the narrative that “30,000 Gaza civilians have been killed” by Israel, a majority of them women and children. This is, of course, a lie, but it is a lie that has been repeated chapter and verse by the Biden administration, Democrats in Congress, and, as expected, their propaganda arm, the mainstream media.
That number is “highly suspect,” according to Professor Abraham Wyner, professor of statistics and data science at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, National Review reports.
Wyner said the allegation that the casualties in Gaza are “overwhelmingly women and children” doesn’t jive with how naturally occurring numbers work. In doing so, Wyner analyzed the numbers and noticed an anomaly–the daily deaths increased “with almost metronomic[al] linearity.”
Wyner noted that in such a conflict, the day-to-day numbers would experience a great deal of variation, not virtually the same number every day. For example, he said the average daily casualty count is 270 per day, plus or minus about 15%. There should be days with twice the average and others with half or less.
Wyner also noted, “the daily number of women casualties should be highly correlated with the number of non-women and non-children (i.e. men) reported. Again, this is expected because of the nature of battle. The ebbs and flows of the bombings and attacks by Israel should cause the daily count to move together. But that is not what the data show. Not only is ther not a positive correlation, there is a strong negative correlation, which makes no sense at all and establishes the third piece of evidence that the numbers are not real.”
In other words, he reasons that the Gaza Health Ministry is releasing bogus numbers and Biden, Schumer, the Democrats, and the mainstream media are swallowing it hook, line, and sinker. In other words, the claims of “genocide” by Hamas and its sympathizers are made up.
Based on the above, Sheladan is trying to raise €10,000 to leave Gaza and probably resettle (illegally) in the United States. GoFundMe is helping her to do so. Sheladan claims she needs “funds to escape this nightmare and cross borders costing $5,000-$7,000.”
“This fundraiser is the last resort for me to help us flee the war and be reunited with them.”
GoFundMe’s terms of service Section A says the following:
- not to use the Services to raise funds or establish or contribute to any Fundraiser with the implicit or explicit purpose of promoting or involving:
- the violation of any law, regulation, industry requirement, or third-party guidelines or agreements by which you are bound…
[...]
4. the funding of a ransom, human trafficking, or exploitation…
Looking at GoFundMe’s terms of service, the use of the site to raise funds to illegally enter the United States would appear to directly violate that section. Moreover, Section 4, which addresses human trafficking, might also be in question since some of those who have illegally entered the United States have engaged in human trafficking.
Is that what Shaladan is doing? Who knows? But clearly, GoFundMe is taking sides. Refusing to support people and organizations seeking freedom and liberty is out. Seeking Palestinians seeking to flee what they have created is in.
That’s about all you need to know.
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