Writer and storyteller with Panjabi roots - regroup, resist, rebuild anew. He/Him 🏴
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Had the opportunity to help contribute and write this piece with Maham Javaid –interviewing witnesses describe the cold-blooded murder of Shaheed Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and piecing together what happened that horrible evening.
The details are chilling. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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This is the direct consequence of pinning the protests onto immigrants, btw
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More than two years after the International Court of Justice found Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory unlawful, Canada continues to engage in military cooperation with Israel. This includes hosting an Israeli military attaché under the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership.
In August 2023, a Col. Liron Biton took command of the IOF's Binyamin Brigade in the West Bank. The brigade covers the region of Mateh Binyamin, where over 40 Israeli settlements and outposts are located – sites that Canada has acknowledged are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and has described as "a serious obstacle to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace."
Is this the same Col. Liron Biton who has been accredited by Global Affairs Canada? @CanadaFP
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To whom it may concern: A third famine is looming in Gaza—a matter of extreme gravity that cannot be met with silence.
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Only 5,000 kids were surveyed, only 92 were Jewish, only 70 of 92 responded, and 29 said they had faced antisemitism at school. Only 2% said antisemitism was a big problem at their school and we're reclassifying it as a more serious form of racism based on that? Is this a joke?
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Ah yes, the most censored demographic in Hollywood: Jews.
Sacha Baron Cohen on suspicion that the calls for a boycott of his new film, 'Ali G: Who Iz I?,' are tied to his past support of Israel:
"Well, I haven’t said anything about Israel. I think people are being portrayed as things that they are not on social media and it’s problematic. We are in a world where people can’t distinguish between facts and lies, and that’s something that I’ve spent a lot of the last few years trying to fix. For example, I co-founded a group called Stop Hate for Profit with the NAACP and Color of Change and the ADL and certain other civil rights groups to stop the misinformation and incitement of racism on social media. So, I’m not surprised that prominent Jews are being targeted. I knew that this was going to happen. The level of organization is surprising, but this is a trend of Jews being portrayed in certain ways and trying to be silenced." bit.ly/4BpPgkz
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A week ago, Israel announced it would not allow more food into Gaza. Gaza is surrounded on all sides by Israeli forces and cannot import food any other way. And yet the potential forced starvation of a devastated population has barely registered anywhere.
شبح المجاعة يعود إلى غزّة.. المشهد اليوم، مأخوذ من مشاهد المجاعة الصعبة قبل أكثر من عام.
طوابير طويلة على نقاط التوزيع وإغلاق عشرات المخابز بسبب نفاد الطحين، وغلاءه لدى التجار، وبيعه بأسعار فلكية ببعض النقاط.
جولة واحدة في السوق على أقسام الخضار واللحوم والبيض كفيلة بوصف المشهد.. شح كبير واختفاء كل الأصناف، وما يوجد فقط، شوكلاتة وكولا وبسكويت.
الغذاء العالمي أعلن أيضًا تقليص مساعداته، منها توزيع الطحين والتكيات اليومية، والتي تسل حاجة أكثر من ثلثي السكان.
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🔴Summary of Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory on October 21, 2026:
🟠 Airstrikes:
Al-Hamra – outskirts of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah
Wadi al-Salouqi – Shaqra
Between Hadatha and Ayta al-Jabal
🟠 Artillery shelling:
Wadi al-Hujair
Wadi al-Salouqi
Kfartibnit
Al-Mansouri
Beit Yahoun
Outskirts of Baraachit
Zawtar al-Sharqiyah
Wadi Zibqin
Al-Mansouri
Al-Khiyam
🟠 Demolitions:
Kafr Tibnit
Arnoun
Marwahin
Bayt Yahoun
Zawtar al-Sharqiyah
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An IDF sniper just shot at me and my colleague Ali while we were working in Zowtar Al Gharabieh. We were clearly marked press and standing with a member of the Lebanese army.
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Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense: It could take up to 8 years to recover all the bodies buried beneath the rubble.
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British journalists never reported on their government's direct participation in the Gaza genocide
They were obeying a 'D-Notice' censorship order sent out by the UK military
Every media editor received this on 28 October 2023. You were never meant to see it. Here it is👇
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Horrific.
Israel has shut down the borders which carries an impending danger on millions of people stranded in the occupied territory.
And it’s not making enough noise around the world.
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Criticism of Israel in classrooms to be punished as a terrorist hatecrime. Literally
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What they’re actually saying is that support for genocide is an essential part of Jewish identity but it’s funnier to imagine them saying that banks are Jewish
NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin on this morning’s vandalism of a Capital One branch on the Upper East Side, where windows were smashed and graffiti reading “DROP ELBIT” and “PAL ACTION” was left on the entrance:
“What the NYPD is doing now is they're investigating it as a hate crime. They're gonna do a fast investigation; we appreciate their work on this, and the community is deeply concerned and upset about it.”
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People are easier to govern when their suffering is framed as a personal failure rather than a systemic problem.
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I trust the voters of Vancouver over a paper owned by an American hedge fund thanks.
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And the dominoes continue to fall
BREAKING: Egypt officially deploys troops to Saudi Arabia to fight Yemen's Houthis, with the National Defense Council approving it, and parliament holding an emergency session this afternoon, per MP Bakry.
It makes Egypt the largest Arab state to commit troops against the Houthis.
Egypt now enters a war against the force controlling Bab el-Mandeb, putting the Suez canal in play.
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I tell myself every day: Don’t die. Don’t get tired.
Check on the children. Look for water. Check if there are any holes in the tent so the water doesn’t leak in. Then stand up — don’t die.
Don’t you dare die from some silly illness. Resist. Save your tears for a more painful day. Don’t you dare say, “I’m tired.”
Look for food. Don’t be afraid of the bombing. Gather your things and flee. Set up a tent. Flee again — don’t get tired.
Write, and then write, and then write. Write your own death with your own hands — don’t let anyone write about you.
Live, and don’t die.
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Zionist-RSS coalition is not new btw
#WATCH | Israel | Israeli researcher based in Jerusalem, featured as a contributor in the book 'Hundred Years Young: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh', Yeshaya Rosenman says, "...I have friends in the RSS whom I met at events organised by the Israeli diplomatic team in India. They introduced me to other friends, and they realised that we shared an ideological alliance. We agreed on many different issues concerning world affairs. For me, it was an opportunity to be introduced to the real India and the grassroots of Indian society..."
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When combined with Europe and the US failing to pressure Israel into allowing food, medicine & building materials into Gaza (something they have the leverage to do very easily) this can only be read as an effort to starve people in Gaza again.
🚨 BREAKING: Half a million Palestinians in Gaza will lose monthly food assistance as funding shortages force major World Food Programme cuts ahead of winter, ABC News Australia reports.
➤ WFP is reducing its monthly reach from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million. Families receiving two food parcels will now get one, and flour bags will shrink.
➤ Daily hot meals have fallen from 250,000 to 150,000. Some families in hard-to-reach areas will receive meals every other day instead of daily. Cash assistance for 75,000 families is being cut by 40%.
➤ WFP’s Carl Skau said traditional donors, including the U.S. and Europe, have reduced funding. “It’s not because the needs are down … it’s only due to the lack of funding,” Skau told ABC.
➤ Around 1.4 million people face crisis-level hunger or worse, including 200,000 in emergency conditions. WFP says it urgently needs $450 million for six months of operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.