🍉 Mission Statement 🍉Welcome to Watermelon Guide, a community-generated resource for Palestinian-owned businesses and businesses actively supporting Palestine across the United States.We understand how valuable our dollars are - and how impactful they are. From online shopping to the coffee shop down the street, we dream of Watermelon Guide as a shopping resource in every part of your life. While we watch our tax dollars going towards the atrocities happening in Palestine, at least we can put our dollars towards sustaining Palestinian families and supporting the Palestinian resistance.🍉 How We Verify 🍉All of the businesses in our guide are verified as Palestinian owned or supporting Palestine by the guide’s founders. We ensure the information submitted is accurate and up-to-date.
We are a small team, please allow at least 48 hours for your submission to be verified and added to the guide.
🍉 Meet the Founders 🍉
Emily (she/her) is a 26 year-old, Chinese-American gaming content creator and community manager. She is passionate about amplifying the voices of marginalized identities and communities. Emily can be found on other platforms as whatemily.
Em (all pronouns) is a 39 year-old Palestinian-American content creator, artist, & unserious gamer. They are passionate about building online communities for queer, neurodivergent & disabled folks. Em can be found on all platforms as imperfectlyEm.
🍉 How do we verify businesses?
All of the businesses in our guide are verified as Palestinian owned or supporting Palestine by the guide’s founders. We ensure the information submitted by users is accurate and up-to-date. This may include anything from looking at the businesses’ social media or contacting the business.🍉 I just submitted a business on the form, how long will it take to see my submission
Please allow at least 48 hours for us to verify submissions. We are a small team and have other work outside of building this guide. You can email us with any further questions about your submission.🍉 I just filled out the form with details about a business, but got some details wrong, how can I change them?
At this time, we do not have a way to edit submissions. Feel free to resubmit and let us know that the previous submission was incorrect.
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