MintPress News is being financially censored. Indiegogo has cancelled our fundraising campaign and is refusing to release over $51,000 that you donated to keep MintPress alive.
They claim our project "did not meet their guidelines." However, they only told us this nearly three months after the campaign ended — after I had been repeatedly trying to access our payout since October.
MintPress News has used Indiegogo for nearly a decade because we thought it was an independent crowdfunding platform - at least that's what they've promoted themselves to be.
Indiegogo says donations will be refunded, but the damage is already done. And this isn't an isolated incident; MintPress has also been banned from GoFundMe and PayPal. Not for misinformation, but for journalism that challenges powerful war and security interests.
Based on leaked emails, we believe these bans may be connected to pressure by pro-Zionist actors and British intelligence related to our reporting. This raises serious questions about government influence over financial platforms.
It is also highly possible that Indiegogo has stopped our funding drive because of pressure from senior management. The company's CEO and co-founder is Slava Rubin, a Conservative Zionist who has traveled to Israel many times. "I'm a big fan. I'm Jewish. I think Israel is a beautiful place," he said in 2015. In the wake of October 7 and Israel's attack on Gaza, Rubin came out publicly in support of Israel in its fight against "terrorism."
And while MintPress' funding campaign has been denied, Indiegogo has allowed highly controversial pro-Israel funding drives to continue. In 2014, it allowed the Temple Institute, a Jerusalem-based Kahanist organization, to raise over $100,000 to complete "architectural plans for the actual construction" of a "Third Temple" on the site of the al-Aqsa Mosque - a far-right plan to bulldoze the third-holiest site in Islam.
We've seen this before; when WikiLeaks exposed U.S. war crimes, it was not shut down in court. Instead, it was financially censored, cut off from Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and banks.
This, it seems, has become the blueprint for how dissenting journalism is silenced today. This is what modern censorship looks like; financial chokeholds, designed to quietly starve independent journalism that holds power accountable.
And that's exactly what MintPress does for 14 years. MintPress holds the military and intelligence elite accountable — the networks that profit from endless war, surveillance, and repression.
We were among the first outlets to expose how Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell helped create backdoor access into Silicon Valley that helped bring us A.I. kill lists used in Gaza, linking intelligence agencies, big tech, elite power networks and Israel's genocide years before it became mainstream.
In the last year alone, we have exposed Israeli military intelligence veterans from Unit 8200 embedded within big tech and media institutions, showing how surveillance, war, and censorship are deeply interconnected.
I'm a Palestinian-American journalist who survived Israeli occupation, and I founded MintPress 14 years ago to expose the architects of war and the systems that sustain them. We work with some of the most respected and important independent journalists in the world — including Lowkey, Alan MacLeod, Greg Stoker, Robert Inlakesh, David Miller, and many others.
MintPress will not back down.
But I need to be honest: we are still at risk of shutting down if we don't meet our fundraising goals. We are 100% reader-supported, and that support is under attack. If you believe in press freedom, please support us directly through our website. Help expose this financial censorship.
Stand with us today. We need your support now more than ever.