Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁

Some professional news: My Massey fellowship is done (best experience ever). I'm back at the Star, but am hanging up my columnist boots after almost 9 years to now be an investigative reporter. Want to take different approach to topics of importance and in the public interest. 🧵

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“rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster” I think the word he’s looking for is starvation. + Is the problem that Israel has failed to prevent starvation or is it that Israel is actively enacting it?

The @GazaFFlotilla Handala is nearing Egypt’s northern coast, which means it’s getting very close to Gaza. With the impunity granted to the Israeli occupation, nothing protects Handala and the crew aboard except for media coverage and the eyes of the world.

“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.” - Joint statement on Gaza from the wire services that Canadian media almost wholly relies on. ap.org/the-definitive…

Let’s say it more clearly: Israel’s policy of starving Palestinians in Gaza is an act of genocide.

"We call on the Israeli government to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid..." That was nearly 3 days ago @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP. Still, starvation deepens. Do I understand "immediately" differently? When will you act? #Gaza theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

I am back in Canada, and back in the primary care clinic catching up on patient care. My heart remains in Gaza and with the Handala freedom flotilla which is only about three days away now from reaching the shores of Gaza. rabble.ca/human-rights/r…

If we can criticize Canada’s PM, we can criticize Israel’s — especially for war crimes, genocide, and starving children. But the pro-Israel lobby works overtime to silence that criticism — framing it as antisemitic or a “Muslim vs. Jewish” issue. It’s not. Gaza is not a…

There’s a kind of horror & pain that words can’t carry—like the mother who left home today to find food for her hungry children, only to return & find the home struck & all her children killed. All of them. (1/4🧵⬇️)

I am grateful that my heart is still capable of breaking.

Those who spoke up in 2020 and now carrying on as if there isn’t actual starvation and various degrading forms of brutality being enacted while our government remains steadfast in support of the state enacting it - are they good pretenders or are people dead inside?

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

From The Times of Israel article “‘I’m afraid to go home’: Canadian IDF soldiers fear fallout from war crimes probe”: “When Nati Hubberman was given back his phone in March after weeks of reserve duty on Israel’s northern front, he was inundated with messages from friends about…

The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.

A couple months ago, we revealed that The Maple had been the target of a campaign to take us offline. Today, I can tell you the campaign has escalated, with critics wanting me in prison.  In February, I published Find IDF Soldiers — a database of Canadians who have joined the…

When a YouTube commenter comes out of nowhere and absolutely nails it

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For the Star’s Song of the Summer package, I wrote about Kneecap and the reinvigoration of protest music. thestar.com/entertainment/…

👇🏽prepare for your worldview to be transformed. learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cours… taught by @DesmondCole @lelasavic @ShreeParadkar @UofTSCS