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Someone transcribed a Fauda video[1] and posted it a few places online, and folks why are we all boosting this? It just sounds like the edgelord wing of Anonymous wants become Hamas. This is complete dogshit drivel we shouldn't be supporting.

This group pops out of nowhere and starts asking for money and suddenly all of us who generally don't know fuck all about OTG things in that region blast it everywhere.

This kinda shit happens every time there is some hot new uprising somewhere in the world. Some fucking weirdos capture the white/western audience's attention by being slightly more media savvy than everyone else, and then they start asking for money and declaring themselves the voice of that region.

I'm possibly also talking out of my ass because I don't *know* that they're full of shit, but they are extremely fucking fishy, and I can't find *anyone* who can say that they know anything about them prior to their seeming sudden appearance in our collective knowledge just a few weeks ago.

I don't really care if I'm wrong about their OTG activity, because their statements just sound like prescriptivist bullshit. But then again, BRRN is in to them and they love doing some platformist top-down anarchist shit too. Birds of a feather.

Anyway, I wrote a too-fucking-long zine about this kind of behavior titled Affinity Fraud. Can we please try to be a little more discerning when encountering possible allies? If there is something to be gained, some people will lie and misrepresent themselves to seize those benefits.

[1]: Here's the full statement I'm referencing. https://anarchistnews.org/content/statement-fauda-anarchist-group-palestine