Jas (@jasminders_) header
Jas (@jasminders_) profile picture

Writer and storyteller with Panjabi roots - regroup, resist, rebuild anew. He/Him 🏴

Joined November 2013
Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)Photo by Jas (@jasminders_)
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…
25
45
3
172
27,828
Jas retweeted
I don’t think people talk about this nearly enough. Israel knew exactly what it was doing when it destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure including its sewage systems. Do people know how many deadly pathogens can spread through sewage-contaminated water? Hepatitis A, Shigella, Rotavirus, Polio, Cholera, and the list goes on. Israel has designed it so that every time it rains in Gaza, sewage floods the streets, contaminates more people so that they don’t have to bomb Gaza at the same rate anymore. They can solely rely on disease killing Palestinians at the same rate post 10/07. Think about it, israel destroyed the hospitals, clean water, and sanitation systems… they’ve literally eliminated any way Palestinians can seek treatment.
We are watching another phase of the Holocaust in Gaza. Tens of thousands of tents flooded in a matter of hours. Children buried alive when the ground collapsed beneath them. Families who survived the bombs now have nowhere to sleep, surrounded by sewage, exposed to disease and the freezing cold. Israel has destroyed the infrastructure necessary for human survival and continues to obstruct the materials needed to rebuild it. This is what extermination looks like beyond the bombs. Through displacement, exposure, disease and the systematic destruction of the conditions necessary to sustain life. I don’t even know what else there is to say anymore. We have watched every conceivable horror unfold before our eyes and still allowed it to continue. We have failed Gaza. We have failed humanity.
9
579
12
1,017
14,502
We are watching another phase of the Holocaust in Gaza. Tens of thousands of tents flooded in a matter of hours. Children buried alive when the ground collapsed beneath them. Families who survived the bombs now have nowhere to sleep, surrounded by sewage, exposed to disease and the freezing cold. Israel has destroyed the infrastructure necessary for human survival and continues to obstruct the materials needed to rebuild it. This is what extermination looks like beyond the bombs. Through displacement, exposure, disease and the systematic destruction of the conditions necessary to sustain life. I don’t even know what else there is to say anymore. We have watched every conceivable horror unfold before our eyes and still allowed it to continue. We have failed Gaza. We have failed humanity.
47
1,045
20
2,258
43,098
A "cynical campaign to convince the world that Canada is a cesspool of violent anti-Semitism." A 2010 National Post article wherein @jonkay critiqued @bnaibrithcanada's data about antisemitism.
5
23
1
113
5,363
The only thing that should precede and proceed everything this man ever says is that he intentionally chose, every single day, to butcher Palestinian children and eradicate their entire families.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: The Israelis didn't intend to harm Palestinians. The target was Hamas.
12
221
2
672
6,659
Jas retweeted
ربنا أعطى شعوب العرب فرصة ٣ سنوات ينقذوا أهل غزّة، وفي كل شتاء تغرق الخيم والناس لا تجد مأوي لها، هذا يحدث كل شتاء وكل العالم بينام متدفي وفوق رأسه سقف إلا أهل غزّة، مع ذلك شعوب العرب ما زالت لا تفعل شيء لأنقاذهم، هذه خطيئة كبير جداً، وكل الناس للأسف ستدفع ثمن هذا التخاذل لأنه جريمة وهو أكثر شيء يحمي المؤامرة على فلسطين كلها، لولا تخاذل هذه الشعوب لتحررت فلسطين في بضعة أيام.
59
490
7
2,481
52,609
Same. National Post journalists survive due to government funding. The Maple, 100% reader funded, thrives due to our ability to be competitive in the free market, and all of that kind of stuff Postmedia loves to spout! Become a member today: readthemaple.com/membership-…
Fun fact: I currently get less $$$ in government funding (zero) than a National Post editor!!!
1
72
4
264
5,094
American helicopter maker Bell Textron is currently registered to lobby the Canadian government for new military contracts. Bell's parent company, Textron Inc, is a supplier for the Israeli Air Force, and for U.S.-Mexico border policing. investigate.afsc.org/company…
46
1
75
858
The Israeli government runs torture dungeons on par or worse than the dictatorships that the U.S. sanctions or attacks using human rights accusations. If Israel will be treated like any other country as some politicians have now indicated then that should be kept in mind.
Here is how 16-year-old Palestinian American Mohammed Ibrahim described watching Walid Ahmad die in front of him:
12
245
3
753
19,696
Jas retweeted
conditions in gaza are beyond catastrophic with tribal elders calling for it to be declared a disaster zone so that intl aid of all kinds is deployed en masse ... the persistent failure by the intl humanitarian industrial complex to reach & meet the overwhelming needs is a shame
21
431
5
996
13,432
Global TV journalist Zahraa Al-Akhrass lost her job after she shared a post showing a family mourning their dead infant. She was on mat leave. Three years later, Zahraa's grievance is going to arbitration, and she has been iced out of the industry. sandyandnora.com/former-glob…
14
187
4
648
17,024
Children freezing to death in Gaza…
BREAKING | A child’s veins froze from the bitter cold in Gaza, marking the first reported child death from extreme cold this winter.
291
2,889
29
10,250
92,840
The UK arrested an Irish children's book author for terrorism (peacefully opposing genocide).
Irish children’s book author arrested as part of UK ‘terror’ crackdown on Palestine Action A total of 28 Irish people have been arrested at Palestine Action protests, the largest cohort of non-British-national terror suspects arrested in the UK irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
53
145
2,198
there is a video of a palestinian jew pleading with an israeli soldier about them sharing the same faith & not to treat him poorly. he pretended to agree then shot him in the head once the cameras stopped rolling.
Replying to @BenLorber8
The Jewish people is a patchwork of many different ethnicities. Greenblatt's wife is an Iranian Jew for example (with equally bad politics). We accept converts. So to call it racist in the Jewish context is dumb on many levels
11
428
2
2,266
24,616
The audacity to say this as we see 80% of Gazans living in flooded tents because Israel refuses to let them rebuild the homes it destroyed.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: The Israelis didn't intend to harm Palestinians. The target was Hamas.
16
337
1
1,348
12,906
We’ve seen this before
My Administration has been in touch with local officials in Philadelphia ahead of the planned protest on Sunday that’s designed to intimidate and drive Jewish businesses out of our communities. Hate and antisemitism have no place in our Commonwealth. And I’m grateful to state and local law enforcement who will work to make sure our neighborhoods remain safe this weekend. cnn.com/2026/11/05/us/philad…
42
3,136
41
13,455
228,384
The boycott against apartheid South Africa was also called antisemitic because it required boycotting Jewish and Israeli businesses who were heavily invested in the apartheid regime. It's almost like there's a pattern!
15
1,848
8
7,309
56,505
Nasser Medical Complex: The bodies of two children have arrived following a landslide that struck tents housing displaced people south of the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
4
53
2
134
3,794
Initial reports indicate that a sand dune has collapsed onto two families sheltering in a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, leaving several people trapped beneath the sand. The incident occurred following heavy rainfall across the central Gaza Strip this evening. Civil Defense teams have been alerted and are being contacted to launch a rescue operation.
28
835
30
1,426
51,328
It was completely obvious from the outset that proscription of Palestine Action was dangerous and authoritarian overreach by Parliament. These people are either idiots or lying about their reasons for "regret".
Labour MPs regret voting for Palestine Action ban that led to 4,000 arrests in a year Backbenchers say the right to protest has been harmed since they were ‘pressured’ into proscribing the organisation as a terror group observer.co.uk/news/politics…
12
89
2
625
5,733