Ali Qaraqe
Ali Qaraqe participated in the pro-Hamas encampment at UofT in May 2024. He has also expressed support for a terrorist.
On May 5, 2024, Ali Qaraqe was featured [00:01:04] in an Instagram video participating in the encampment. He can be seen in the video wearing a keffiyeh.
As of August 2024, Qaraqe’s Instagram bio said: “...Turtle Island…”
The phrase “Turtle Island” or “occupied Turtle Island” is a name that some indigenous peoples use for North America. The call to “decolonize” Turtle Island, shouted at anti-Israel rallies and backed by major anti-Israel activist groups, is a call for the destruction of the United States of America and Canada. Similarly, the call to “decolonize” Palestine is a call for Israel’s destruction.
The encampment was in support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
UofT is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ali Qaraqe’s Participation in the Pro-Hamas Encampment at the University of Toronto (UofT)

On May 2, 2024, activists from the UofT Occupy for Palestine (Occupy UofT) group “stormed down” [00:00:24] the fencing around UofT’s Kings College Circle and set up a pro-Hamas encampment, which they called the “People’s Circle for Palestine.”
That day, Occupy UofT called on “community members to…help us defend our encampment” at an emergency rally in the evening. Protesters chanted [00:02:59] for “intifada” and celebrated “resistance” [00:02:45]. Both terms are calls for terrorism. The activists also chanted [00:01:28; 00:02:21] for Israel’s destruction multiple times.
One speaker, Nabil Jalbout, said [00:09:02]: “...we are not fighting for peace, we are fighting for liberation, because ‘peace’ is a white man's word.” Another speaker, Ahmad Jarrar Hajahmad, claimed [00:05:52]: “All these Israeli and Zionist entities fill all these politicians with money in their pockets…we already know who runs this system…”
Signs displayed at the encampment said: “LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA” and “LIBERATION FOR ALL REQUIRES RESISTANCE FROM ALL.”
On May 4, 2024, anti-Israel protesters at the encampment assaulted a Jewish man, punching him in the stomach as they forcibly took his Israeli flag. The attackers told the man [00:01:02]: “God bless the armed resistance,” and: “Go back to Europe!” They also reportedly called him “a “dirty Jew.”
Protesters “occupied” [00:00:17] the area from May to July 2024, despite UofT’s warning they were trespassing. The group said they would not leave until UofT divested from companies that “sustain Israeli apartheid, occupation and illegal settlement of Palestine” and terminated partnerships with Israeli academic institutions.
Following the October 7, 2023 massacre of nearly 1,200 Israelis, the inverted red triangle - 🔻- became a Hamas symbol. This symbol appeared on large signs at the encampment multiple times. Erin Mackey, one of the primary organizers, is openly pro-Hamas, having used the symbol in her activism. In addition, pro-Hamas marches that began in other parts of the city concluded at the encampment.
On July 3, 2024, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued an injunction at the request of UofT’s Governing Council, requiring students to clear the encampment. Occupy UofT dismantled the encampment and wrote [slides 5-6]: “We are just getting started…come fall, every incoming student will hear our message loud and clear…Whatever institution you have access to and influence over - you need to take this campaign there!” The statement concluded: “Long live the intifada.”
The encampment was one of over 140 pro-Hamas and anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 more globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024, at Columbia University. The encampments were unofficially known as the “student intifada,” borrowing a term associated with terrorist violence.
Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and shouted anti-Semitic slogans. They occupied campus grounds, in many cases illegally, caused property damage, violently took over buildings, celebrated terrorism and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Activists set up encampments to oppose Israel’s right to wage war against the Hamas terror group following October 7, 2023, when Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 people, including 32 American and 8 Canadian citizens. Hamas also kidnapped 252 people, including 11 Americans and the bodies of 2 murdered Canadians. As of May 26, 2024, 125 hostages remained in Hamas captivity.
For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On May 1, 2023, Qaraqe posted on Instagram two photos posing with Khader Adnan. Qaraqe wrote in Arabic: “وداعاً شيخنا
وداعاً حبيبنا أبا عبد الرحم (كان اللقاء الأخير في بيت لحم وجولة لعائلات الشهداء والأسرى اختتمناها في زيارة لخيمة التضامن مع الأسرى في مخيم الدهيشة - ٢٠١٤، قبل مغادرتي فلسطين.
والصورة الثانية في رمضان ٢٠١٣ بعد تمكننا من الوصول للمسجد الأقصى ”[“Farewell our sheikh / Goodbye, our beloved Abba Abdelrahman. / (The last meeting was in Bethlehem and a tour of the families of the martyrs and prisoners, we concluded with a visit to the solidarity tent with the prisoners in Al-Dahisha camp - 2014, before I left Palestine./ And the second picture in Ramadan 2013 after we were able to reach the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”]
Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.
As of August 2024, Qaraqe’s LinkedIn profile said was a news editor at GQ Multimedia and was in production management at Multimedia Box TV.
Also as of August 2024, Qaraqe’s LinkedIn said he had been a self-employed manager and content creator of his personal influencer brand since 2011.
As of the same date, Qaraqe’s LinkedIn said he graduated from Bethlehem University with a bachelor’s degree in Arabic language and literature in 2013.
As of the same date, Qaraqe’s LinkedIn said he was located in the greater Toronto area.