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Daniel Mate
Daniel Mate [Daniel Maté] has celebrated murder, expressed support for Hamas terrorism, called for Israel's destruction, spread antisemitism and promoted hatred of Israelis and Israel.
Mate is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of February 2026, Mate's personal website said he was a composer, lyricist and playwright for musical theater. His website said he "was born and raised in Vancouver, BC [British Columbia], Canada."
As of the same date, Mate's X handle was @DanielBMate and he was listed as the co-host of the anti-Israel Bad Hasbara podcast. His X said he was located in Brooklyn, New York.
On September 11, 2025, a day after Charlie Kirk was murdered, Mate posted on X: "...if you’re gonna do it do it right."
Charlie Kirk was a conservative activist and entrepreneur who was fatally shot at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. One of the messages written on the bullet casing used to assassinate Kirk read: "Hey, fascist. Catch!"
On October 31, 2023, during Israel's war against Hamas, Mate posted on X: "...What Hamas did, by any definition, included atrocities. That doesn't mean them breaking out of prison and striking back at Israel in itself was a crime. It had both heroism and horror in it."
Referring to Gaza as an “open-air prison” is a way to delegitimize the UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed in 2011 to prevent Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Following Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the Israeli military discovered that Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On November 2, 2023, Mate posted on X: "...if Hamas served up a proportional response to the death, dispossession, destruction, deprivation, dehumanization and degradation Israel's meted out over even the last 20 years, there wouldn't be a Tel Aviv to hold a memorial in."
On November 19, 2023, Mate posted on X: "Long live the resistance*. Long live the Intifada**. F**kers.***..."
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 antisemitic violence.
The term “intifada” translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection” and carries the connotation of terrorist violence, including suicide bombings, hijackings, shootings and stabbings.
On May 8, 2026, Mate was featured in a video compilation on Canary Mission's X page that documented an April 2026 episode of his Bad Hasbara podcast.
In the original video [00:32:09] and the compilation, Mate said [00:00:56]: "I do think we should clean out the synagogues, not of Jews, but of certain kinds of behavior, certain things that are tolerated, certain flags, certain prayers."
On November 12, 2025, Mate shared a video on X of a parade blimp that said: "ANTISEMITISM WILL NEVER WIN."
Mate wrote in his post: "Hindenberg but make it sh** genocide colored balloons." The Hindenberg was a blimp that crashed and burned in 1937, either killing or injuring everyone on board.
On September 9, 2025, Mate posted on X: "...The holocaust that killed my great-grandparents was *thoroughly* weaponized to try to win my allegiance to the Zionist project and make me think genociding Palestinians is fine..."
Anti-Israel activists compare Israel to Nazi Germany to insinuate that the plight of Palestinians has eclipsed Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.
On September 16, 2025, Mate posted on X about former Hamas hostage Noa Argamani: "Unbef**kinglievable. No nationality has ever been as concertedly obtuse as these lunatics."
Hamas took 251 people hostage, mostly civilians, from Israel during its October 7, 2023 terror attacks. Ultimately 168 hostages returned to Israel alive, in three different agreements between 2023 and 2025, and through rescue operations by the IDF. During captivity, many hostages were starved, tortured, sexually assaulted, psychologically abused and held isolated in cages and underground tunnels.
Hostages were given tranquilizers and some were overfed shortly before their release, so they would appear in better condition than they had been during captivity. Hamas forced hostages to record propaganda videos during captivity, and during hostages' releases held public ceremonies and forced hostages to smile and wave at their captors.
The hostages' ages spanned from 85 year old Holocaust survivor Shlomo Mantzur, who was killed on October 7, to a 9 month old baby, Kfir Bibas, who was killed in captivity along with his 4 year old brother Ariel, and their mother, Shiri. 75 hostages were killed on October 7 or in captivity.
On December 8, 2025, Mate posted on X, equating Israeli politicians who wanted the death penalty for terrorists to members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
As of February 2026, Mate's username on X was "Daniel Maté 
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The watermelon has been appropriated by anti-Israel activists as a symbol of Palestinian "resistance" to "Israeli occupation," as it shares the Pan-Arab colors. It has been depicted in art, used on flags at protests and posted online. It gained popularity following the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, 2023.
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.
Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.
For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
