Submission Guidelines

Please be as detailed as possible in your submissions and proofread before submitting. This will increase the likelihood that your submission will be approved. Evidence for claims is required for all submissions.

Claims must meet certain criteria in order for the submission to be approved. Whether or not a person qualifies depends on both the person's level of influence and the degree of their offense. The lower their influence, the higher the degree of their offense must be in order for them to qualify. People fall into one of five categories, in descending order of influence: Politicians, Business Executives, Celebrities, Influencers, and Non-famous People. Any condition that would qualify a person of lower influence automatically qualifies a person of higher influence.

Venn diagram of qualifying offenses:

Politicians

A politician qualifies if they have supported the state of Israel as a Zionist project. Examples of support include

• Voting to pass resolutions asserting Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish ethnostate.
• Supporting financial aid, military aid, or sales of arms or technology to Israel.
• Refusing to call for a ceasefire of Israel while representing a country that directly supports Israel.

Business Executives

A business executive qualifies if the company they run is retaliating against pro-Palestinian workers. They also qualify if the company itself has been taking action to support the Israeli occupation. Examples of qualifying actions:

• Being an executive of a company that’s on the BDS list.
• Being an executive of a company that is blackballing pro-Palestinian applicants.
• Being an executive of a company that has fired workers for posting pro-Palestine content on internal boards.

Celebrities

Celebrities include any famous person who is not a politician or business person, and also isn't primarily famous for their social media presence. Celebrities qualify if they haven't supported a free Palestine, while also meeting one of the following conditions.

• They have supported the state of Israel, either financially, or through public relations OR
• They are currently financially supporting brands on the BDS list OR
• They have shown public support for the Israeli victims of the Oct 7th attack, but not Palestinian victims since then OR
• They have remained silent, despite having outsized influence on the general public. To qualify as having “outsized influence,” a celebrity must either have over 100 million Instagram followers, OR have a net worth of over 500 million dollars.

Celebrities DO NOT qualify if they have shown public support for both the Israeli victims of the Oct 7th attack and the Palestinian victims of the current genocide campaign, and do not meet any of the other conditions, including those listed below under the “Influencers” section.

Influencers

Influencers are people who are primarily famous for their social media activity. Influencers must meet the one of the following conditions in order to qualify:

• Spread misinformation (e.g. Hamas beheads babies), especially without historical context OR
• They have justified the Israel's genocide campaign in any way (e.g. “It's Hamas's fault that Israel is bombing indiscriminately”) OR
• Mischaracterized people who are pro-Palestine as terrorism supporters OR
• Painted support of a free Palestine as anti-semitic OR
• They have mischaracterized the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine as a conflict between two parties of equal footing OR
• They have remained silent or chosen not to take a side, despite being vocal about other social justice issues in the past, such as Black Lives Matter.

Influencers DO NOT qualify if they have remained silent and are not known to have been vocal about social justice issues in the past.

Non-famous People

Non-famous people are people who do not meet fix any other category and are not famous. It includes non-famous content creators, small business owners, and students. Non-famous people must meet one of the following conditions in order to qualify:

• They committed a hate crime OR
• They have harassed or verbally attacked pro-Palestinian activists or people they perceive to be pro-Palestine OR
• They have retaliated against their workers for supporting a free Palestine OR
• They have publicly said something racist against Arabs (e.g. “all Palestinians are terrorist supporters”), or said something Islamophobic OR
• They have mischaracterized the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine as a conflict between two parties of equal footing OR
• They have publicly encouraged Israel’s genocide campaign (e.g. “Israel should just nuke the whole place”).

Non-famous people DO NOT qualify if they support the state of Israel but do not meet any of the above criteria. For example, a post saying “I stand with Israel,” is not enough to qualify a non-famous person. They also DO NOT qualify for spreading misinformation or mischaracterizing the conflict. For example, spreading misinformation about “beheaded babies” or stating that “what’s happening in Gaza is Hamas’s fault,” does not qualify a non-famous person to be on the list.