Aasiyah Haq

As of June 2023, Haq’s LinkedIn profile said she graduated from the University of Toronto (U of T) with a Bachelor of Science in neuroscience in 2021. Her LinkedIn also said she was due to graduate from Stanford University School of Medicine (Stanford Medicine) with a graduate professional certificate in genetics and genomics in July 2023.

As of the same date, Haq’s LinkedIn said she was the “Clinical Concierge Coordinator/Support” at The DNA Company in Mississauga, Ontario, since March 2023. She had worked at the company since May 2019.

Haq is the sister [slide 10] of Toronto-based anti-Israel activist Maleeha Haq.

As of June 2023, Haq’s LinkedIn said she was located in Toronto.

As of the same date, Haq used the handle “@ahaaaq” on Instagram and “@ahaaaq_” on Twitter. She also used the handle “@aasiyah_h” on Tiktok.

Haq also spread hatred of Israel on Twitter before attending university.

Terror Support (PIJ)

On October 30, 2021, Haq participated in a Toronto4Palestine protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. She posted a video from the protest on TikTok and captioned it: “In solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian Prisoners protesting administrative detention #endadministrativedetention #freethemall.”

In October 2021, six prisoners affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)'s armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, chose to prolong their hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention by Israel. The six men were Kayed al-Fasfus, Miqdad al-Qawasmeh, Alaa Aaraj, Hisham Abu Hawwash, Shadi Abu-Akr and Ayyad Hureimi.  

On October 24, 2021, Haq posted a video on TikTok of activists, including herself, participating in a hunger strike in solidarity with the prisoners. She captioned the video: “We stand in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers as we announce our 24 hr hunger strike #freepalestine #palestinelibre #Toronto.”

On October 12, 2021, Haq posted a video on TikTok she had filmed from a protest and banner drop held in solidarity with the prisoners, organized by Toronto4Palestine. One banner promoted [00:00:05] BDS and another banner read [00:00:26]: “HONK YOUR HORNS FOR PALESTINE.”

Anti-Israel Activism (BDS)

On April 30, 2022, Haq participated in an Al Quds Day protest in Toronto, reportedly “to denounce the attacks on #AlAqsaMosque by the ‘#israeli’ occupation forces.”

The Iranian government initiated International Quds Day in 1979, as an annual protest against Israel’s existence. The protest has historically been a platform for anti-Semitism.

An official banner displayed at the protest depicted [00:02:14] the Dome of the Rock inside a Star of David shaped from barbed wire. The Dome of the Rock is part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.

The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.

At the protest, one activist held [00:04:02] a sign which implied that Israel “collaborated” with ISIS and that “humanity [is] devastated.” Multiple signs called for [00:09:23] a boycott [slides 2, 3, 9] of Israel and accused [slides 2, 3] the United States of “funding genocide.” In addition, activists unfurled a banner that read [00:08:38]: “Stop Palestinian Genocide: End Zionist Apartheid.”

One photo showed [slide 2] a protester holding [slide 2] a sign that said: “A state built on the ashes of the Holocaust is now committing a holocaust against Palestinians in Gaza.” 


On July 4, 2021, Haq participated in a BDS protest in Mississauga organized by Global Rise 4 Palestine. She posted a video from the protest on TikTok and wrote: “Blocked the trucks at Walmart’s distribution center in Mississauga. We made a statement #globalrise4palestine #palestine #protest #toronto.” 

Protesters blocked trucks and entrances at a Walmart distribution center because of Walmart’s alleged support for Israel. Protesters held signs that said [slide 7]: “AL-AQSA NOT YOURS TO TAKE” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.

Pre-University Hatred of Israel

On July 12, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas, Haq tweeted a flier promoting an Al Quds Day protest in Toronto. The flier called for solidarity with “victims of global zionism, racism and imperialism” and called to “FREE THE GREAT AL-AQSA MOSQUE.”

Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

On July 13, 2014, Haq tweeted photos from an anti-Israel protest and wrote: “From the river to the sea, / Palestine will be free.”

On July 25, 2014, Haq tweeted: “Zionism & Nazism is the same.”

Also on July 25, 2014, Haq tweeted: “THEN THEY [Zionists] START WITH ALL THIS HAMAS BS [bulls**t] LIKE HOW TF [the f**k] ARE THEY GONNA DEFEND THEMSELVES? THE ROCKETS ARE HOMEMADE AND ALMOST HARAMLESS.”

On August 2, 2014, Haq tweeted: “...Israel isn't killing terrorists their killing innocent people.”

BDS

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true. 

One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”  

Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”

In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”

The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.

BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.

The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.

Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.

BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.