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Eli Jany
Eli Jany expressed support for Hamas terrorism during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists, launched after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks. He also participated in a campaign targeting a pro-Israel Jewish philanthropist and spread hatred of Israel.
Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more that day. For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Eli Jany is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of August 2024, Eli Jany was a member of the anti-Israel group Independent Jewish Voices (IJV).
As of March 2025, Eli Jany was listed as a PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto (UofT) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
As of the same date, Eli Jany was listed as a UofT graduate with a master’s degree in social work in 2019 and a second master's in Yiddish studies in 2020.
As of October 19, 2023, Jany was listed [no. 3606] as a signatory on a pro-Hamas statement titled: "Artists & Academics in Canada: Statement of Solidarity with Palestine."
The statement said: "We understand that the events of this week did not occur in a vacuum…The whole world understood in the case of Ukraine that resistance to military occupation is justified...The militant reaction from Palestinians in Gaza on October 7, 2023, is a result of decades of cruel and oppressive treatment."
Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.
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.
On December 25, 2024, Jany was featured [00:00:32] in a video posted on Instagram, promoting [00:00:20] a boycott of the bookstore chain Indigo and accusing [00:01:06] its founder Heather Reisman of "funding genocide."
In the video, Jany said [00:02:02]: "How can the same company send puzzles and crayons to some children and bombs and mercenaries to others?"
In November 2023, during Israel's war against Hamas terrorists, 11 anti-Israel activists were arrested after vandalizing a branch of the Indigo bookstore in Toronto, Ontario, defacing the building with red paint and plastering posters accusing the chain's Jewish founder and pro-Israel philanthropist, Heather Reisman, of "funding genocide."
Police charged the suspects with "hate-motivated mischief" and "criminal harassment," reporting that they “engaged in threatening conduct that caused a person to reasonably fear for their personal safety.”
As of March 2024, Jany was a signatory on an anti-Israel statement titled: "OPEN LETTER TO THE ISRAELI AND U.S. GOVERNMENTS AND OTHERS WEAPONIZING THE ISSUE OF RAPE."
The statement claimed: "Israel’s current campaign to discredit feminists – especially feminists of color, Arab feminists and Jewish anti-zionist feminists – and others critical of its lethal offensive against Palestinians is...a cynical attempt to incite public fury and deflect attention from the genocide it is perpetrating."
The letter also listed articles minimizing the extent of Hamas' sexual violence and statements by anti-Israel feminist groups accusing Israel of "genocide."
On October 7, 2023, Hamas raped women next to the bodies of dead friends. Some were raped and then shot in the head. Others, including young girls, were raped and murdered or mutilated in other ways. Men were also raped.
Israeli officials opened an unprecedented investigation into the widespread sexual assault. Forensic analysis of corpses showed evidence of torture and rape. Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off legs and raping the corpses of murdered victims.
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.
Denial of the Hamas war crimes of October 7, 2023, among anti-Israel activists has been likened to Holocaust denial among neo-Nazis.
Jany was a signatory on an October 29, 2023 statement titled: "Jewish Studies' Scholars Say Jewish Studies MUST Demand a Ceasefire." The statement called for "the end of all U.S. funding to Israel immediately...to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by the Israeli government with full material support from the U.S. and many European countries."
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.
