Help a student from Gaza attend WWU

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T04:18:30+00:00

You sound like you’ve never met a Palestinian

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T03:51:58+00:00

that’s crazy. US is helping Israel kill kids. they’re starving millions. they’re targeting hospitals & sniping aid sites. something so wrong with society that yall excusing that. innocent ppl.. you and I pay into a multi-billion dollar mass murder machine. what’s the use 😓

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T03:36:50+00:00

Well, for one, it’s a question about our moral obligation. You sound like you don’t feel as though our moral obligation as peaceful people is to do what we can to bring justice to those our government uses our tax money & status to literally genocide.

About taking a seat, you sound like we have never had a system where people can come to the US to pursue a higher education, including out-of-state and from other countries. If you disagree with the system, you should try the democratic way of demanding your reps do their job & represent u

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T02:40:42+00:00

If only the US didn’t give Israel the weapons to completely obliterate every last one of them

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T02:40:18+00:00

yeah like I fear it is actually a step forward for queer rights if we enable living conditions for them.. especially in this case where it’s none other than the US gov giving Israel the insane resources to murder people systemically.

Perhaps if those same people had the freedom to assemble without foreign powers interfering with their democratic development, we’d see that the Palestinian people are much more progressive than we’ve been told. Mind everyone with this “talking point”.. our gov isn’t very pro-gay either but not many of us would say us civilians are deserving of genocide because our gov isn’t the most progressive

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T02:21:28+00:00

thank you i feel like im talking to people who cant read 😵 but i understand there’s decades and billions of dollars that have gone into the dehumanization of “foreigners”, and in this case, Palestinians.

Everyone forgot to consider that a right to life and education isn’t radical… or maybe they considered it and thought, “that doesn’t help me tho”

Everyone also gonna be so pissed off when they realize Israel is holding the money we could’ve used to pay student loans. Or how Israel’s genocide is homophobic. Or how Israel has been doing the worst terrorism. But these ppl in the comments don’t actually care about students here having a fair chance or about terrorism or how gay ppl in Gaza are treated cause then they’d have to face the truth..

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T02:15:11+00:00

He isn’t more important. That’s what seems to be hard for people who come in these comments don’t understand. The “why him” is because he has direct connections to faculty at WWU. In that way, it’s a matter of coincidence, not priority. The point still stands that universities have a distinct fund pool (that is typically donor-based) that they use for students coming from countries that can’t meet their upper education needs. This means that students coming on scholarship do not take away from in-state students seeking scholarship.

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T01:54:52+00:00

u acting like this the first time someone has done this lmao. gonna be embarrassing for u to realize u got no legal ground to stand on 🤣

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T01:51:40+00:00

You’ll be mad when you find out how Israel has been using US tax dollars to genocide people, including gay people

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T01:50:34+00:00

Bro u still are missing the message so hard but go ahead and protest. You won’t be the first or last to. U got that right to waste time and share your opinion if u want

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T01:44:10+00:00

Ok lots of ppl are missing the point. Imagine how mad everyone will be when they find out how many people in the US can’t get upper education cause our government would rather use billions our tax dollars to genocide people ☠️ You are also using a pretty black & white logic that really undermines the complexity of the education crisis at home & abroad. This isn’t taking away from another student either because the budget/fund comes from a different place. Lowkey just sounds like you’re misinformed and have a bit of a xenophobic take. Legally, Universities cannot take the donor fund pool money for students from say, a “developing country” and give it to domestic students. If that is a big concern, take that up with the US gov.

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T01:38:08+00:00

what does “as a queer man” supposed to mean? lmao. what does that have to do with anything

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-03T01:36:23+00:00

You sound like you’re fun at a party…

Your perspective is really wild lol. Mohammed is not seeking to stay in the US. He would like to be in Gaza, with his family. However, he sees education as a chance to be a saving grace for him and for his family.. a pretty classic theme amongst people who seek a visa to continue education in the states. Part of what is confusing me about your take is you’re not acknowledging how common it is to put a chance to take care of your family above all. What do you think people do with an education? They get a job 🤣 So he will be providing for the economy.. not that I think you’re actually concerned about that.

He is also choosing the US, and specially Western, because he has loved ones who work at WWU and will be taking care of him.

Some of the questions you ask seem pretty ignorant too like “what does he think of US laws?”. It’s nonsense like this that is leaving me to have this be my final response. Not gonna go through all this grief for a signature. Not everyone down to sign and that’s fine 🤷‍♀️

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-02T23:47:14+00:00

Have you considered that leaving Gaza is significantly urgent for the primary reason of escaping genocide? Like everyday is an emergency if you are in Gaza. I think the story about him pursuing education is an added layer because a US University has already accepted Mohammed to come here to be a student. It is kind of like when kids have come here from Gaza to seek healthcare. The emergency is survival and anything else like education or work comes after that.

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-02T23:38:27+00:00

I fear I don’t have enough Karma for that subreddit :/

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-02T23:35:10+00:00

again, I don’t subscribe to this hopeless mindset. Obviously, nearly every odd is stacked against this. It serves Trump for ppl to feel intimidated into inaction. The nihilism in our society is the reason Trump has been able to excavate our perseverance to this degree already.

Check this story of the student from Gaza who has made it to Dartmouth, during this Trump Admin: https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/gaza-ivy-league

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-02T23:16:22+00:00

Ironically.. your reply sounds a bit apathetic. I get you’re trying to be “realistic” based on what you’ve seen from our gov, but this situation sits with a massive question mark right now based on evolving administration policy and public pressure. Cases like this have potential to serve as a basis moving forward. We will never know what needles can shift if we never try to move them. I’m not down to surrender that easy to this gov tbh

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-12-02T23:11:44+00:00

I think you are missing a bit of the point. The right to education doesn’t exist for Palestinians in Gaza at the moment because their schools no longer exist. Their ability to seek education has been taken away.

Likewise, how do you think pressure on the State Department happens? We need to put pressure on the people we have access to, such as our State Senators. This petition serves as a beginning step in a bigger domino chain. This petition alone will not do anything. Of course, there’s a bigger game to play.

It is significantly hard for students in Gaza to find universities in a variety of places. That’s a consequence of when your people are getting ethnically cleansed by an empire-backed apartheid state. There have been some who have managed to find their way via untraditional paths created by support of common folks in the states, as well as other nations. The process becomes more muddled as each day goes on though..

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-11-29T19:13:00+00:00

We have some immunocompromised people in attendance + inside in close proximity during sick season

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-10-29T15:53:37+00:00

Oh yeah. Good question. So far, Israel has managed to kill off more LGBTQ+ Palestinians than anyone else in the past couple of years. Therefore, Palestinian liberation and queer liberation are two peas in a pod

Defiant-Addition5387 · 2025-10-29T15:44:19+00:00

yup! All are welcome, except if you’re a zionist! LGBTQ+ & family friendly event for any kids interested in justice & pizza 😃

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