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Fariha Khan
Fariha Khan [Fariha Sultana Khan] is a doctor who expressed support for Hamas terrorism. Khan also showed support for the pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Toronto (UofT) and other Canadian universities in May 2024. Khan is a UofT alumna.
On May 2, 2024, Khan posted on Instagram a photo from the UofT encampment and wrote: “...this image is one I want to keep close…I have a long history at this place, and never in a million years did I imagine this would be the scene infront [sic] of my university and my college…‘The People’s Circle for Palestine’...Stay safe young people, we really do need you 🙏🏽🤲🏽.”
The People’s Circle for Palestine is another name for the UofT encampment.
On May 16, 2024, Khan posted on Instagram a video featuring pro-Hamas encampments at various Canadian universities and wrote: “#courageoncampus.”
The voiceover in the video Khan posted said [00:00:38]: “These encampments are…demanding that our institutions stop being complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people.”
UofT is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Fariha Khan’s Support for 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 June 21, 2024, Khan posted on Instagram photos of anti-Israel graffiti and wrote: “Saw the sights 🔻.”
The inverted red triangle is a symbol showing support for Hamas and Palestinian terrorism. It was first used by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks to signify an Israeli target.
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.
One of the featured graffiti in the same June 2024 post read [slide 4]: “From the River to the Sea.”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
Fariha Khan is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in Canada.
As of August 2024, Khan’s LinkedIn profile said she was a physician at the College of Family Physicians of Canada and a medical doctor with the Medical Council of Canada.
As of the same date, Khan was listed with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) as a doctor with a specialty in family medicine. Her CPSO number is 81269.
Also as of August 2024, Khan’s LinkedIn said she received a doctor of medicine degree from McMaster University (McMaster) in 2004. McMaster is located in Hamilton, Ontario.
As of the same date, Khan’s LinkedIn also said she completed a residency at UofT’s Department of Family and Community Medicine in 2007, and graduated from UofT with a bachelor’s degree in human biology and psychology in 2001.
