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Dalia Alusta
Dalia Alusta’s Participation in a Pro-Terror March that Led to the Pro-Hamas Encampment at the University of Toronto (UofT)
Dalia Alusta participated in a pro-terror march that led to the pro-Hamas encampment at UofT in 2024. She expressed support for Hamas terrorism in October 2023 and has also spread hatred of Israel online.
Alusta was featured [slide 7] in a photo at the May 11, 2024 march titled: “76 YEARS OF NAKBA / RESISTANCE UNTIL RETURN,” which joined the UofT encampment. The march was organized by PYM Toronto and Toronto4Palestine.
Among anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for terrorism and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
On May 11, 2024, PYM and Toronto4Palestine held a march in Toronto, titled: “76 YEARS OF NAKBA / RESISTANCE UNTIL RETURN.” The protesters marched to the U of T encampment.
Protesters chanted: “From the river to the sea, from the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever” and: “Long live the intifada!”, as well as [00:06:20]: “There is only one solution! Intifada revolution!”
A speaker at the protest said [00:11:54]: “...The past 76 years have proven without a doubt that the only path towards ending the dispossession, the destruction and the death that Zionism represents is the path of armed resistance...” and continued [00:13:21]: “...the collapse of the Zionist entity will not come from one decisive blow but it will come through a million small cuts that are inflicted over the course of decades and from every direction…”
One protester with a pro-Hamas logo on his sleeve led others in chanting: “There is only one solution, it’s the student revolution, it’s the student intifada. We are the intifada, globalize the intifada….we are the resistance!”
UofT is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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 October 23, 2023, about two weeks after the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks on Israeli civilians, Alusta posted on X: “How did life brought us to the point where occupation supporters are shaming the oppression resisters?! This us the distortion that Israeli are spreading all over the world.”
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On December 7, 2023, Alusta posted a graphic on X that compared Israel to ISIS.
As of August 2024, Alusta’s LinkedIn profile said she had been working as a self-employed sociologist since August 2018, and as a self-employed “Aramiac History and Civilization Reasercher [sic] and Vloger” since January 2000.
As of the same date, Alusta’s LinkedIn said she had been working as an “HRD [Human Resources Development] Manager” at Etisalat since February 2011, and at Etisalat Afghanistan since January 2007.
Also as of August 2024, Alusta’s Facebook About page said she was a “Behavioral Therapist at THE NATIONAL GUILD OF HYPNOTISTS” since August 2021.
As of the same date, Alusta’s LinkedIn said she graduated from the University of Jordan with a master’s degree in sociology and human developmentin 2011.
Also as of August 2024, Alusta’s LinkedIn said she was located in Canada.
