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Calvin Edward
Calvin Edward [Calvin Balthazar-Amadeus Edward] is a PhD student who wore a terrorist headband while participating in an anti-Israel protest during Israel's war against the Hamas terror group.
Israel launched the war after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks. Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands and kidnapped hundreds more that day.
Calvin Edward participated in the anti-Israel encampment at City University of New York (CUNY) in April 2024, which demanded "full institutional divestment from the apartheid Israeli regime," and whose "foremost" aim was "in connecting international struggles against colonial repression..."
As of March 2025, Calvin Edward was listed as a college assistant in anthropology on the CUNY Graduate Center website.
As of April 2025, Calvin Edward was listed on the CUNY Queens College website as a "Graduate Teaching Fellow" in cultural anthropology in the Department of Anthropology.
In March 2025, Edward's since-deleted LinkedIn profile said he was pursuing a PhD in cultural anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, slated to graduate in September 2027.
On March 12, 2025, Calvin Edward wore [00:00:14] the headband of a U.S.-designated terror organization while participating in a protest in support of anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil.
Khalil was arrested on March 8, 2025 and faced potential deportation by the U.S. government for his leadership role in the pro-terror student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD).
For more information on Mahmoud Khalil's pro-terror activism, see Canary Mission's campaign titled: “Lawsuit Names Prominent U.S. Hamas Supporters.”
The protest in support of Khalil in which Calvin Edward participated took place at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York, New York, and was organized by the anti-Israel group Shut It Down for Palestine.
During the protest, Calvin Edward chanted [00:00:14]: "Free Mahmoud Khalil now! Free Mahmoud Khalil now!" while wearing a headband of the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The PFLP is dedicated to the violent destruction of Israel. It is designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States. The EU, Canada, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Australia and Israel also list it as a terror group due to its history of carrying out assassinations, suicide bombings, hijackings and multiple murders.
On October 18, 2023, eleven days after Hamas terrorists murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, Calvin Edward participated [02:09:50] in an anti-Israel protest organized by pro-terror group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) in New York, New York.
During the protest, Calvin Edward held a sign that read: "RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED WHEN PEOPLE ARE OCCUPIED!"
Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for nationalistic terror and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
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.
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