Lina Lashin
Overview
Lina Lashin has expressed [slide 12] support for a terrorist, spread hatred of Israel and co-founded an anti-Israel activist group. Lashin is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Lashin reportedly co-founded The Palestine Forum (TPF), an anti-Israel student group at the University of Toronto (U of T), which has been active since June 2021. Lashin was the president of TPF in February 2022, in her final year at U of T. Lashin was still affiliated with the group in March 2023.
As of June 2023, Lashin’s LinkedIn profile said she graduated from the U of T Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy with a bachelor’s degree in peace studies and conflict resolution in April 2022.
As of the same date, Lashin was listed online as a research assistant for the “Hearing Palestine” project at U of T, which states its mission is to “Provide an intellectual hub for the study of Palestine.”
Also as of June 2023, Lashin’s LinkedIn said she has been a policy fellow intern at the Urban Alliance on Race Relations since January 2023. She was also a researcher of legal research at U of T’s Institute of Islamic Studies since May 2022.
As of June 2023, Lashin's Twitter bio indicated that she was located in Toronto, Ontario.
As of the same date, Lashin used the handle “@lashinli” on Twitter and had the username “Lina.”
Terror Support (PFLP)
On March 20, 2022, Lashin participated [slide 12] in a TPF “small reading circle” that discussed a book written by Ghassan Kanafani.Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
On the same day, Lashin commented on the Instagram post about the Kanafani reading event: “I’m ALREADY CRYING.”
Hatred of Israel
On March 15, 2023, Lashin commented, “omg yes!!! one of my favourite events” on an Instagram flyer promoting a TPF roundtable discussion titled: “Palestinian Women Activists and the Intifada.” The flyer said the discussion would be on “the essential role of Palestinian women within the Palestinian uprising.”The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.
On May 14, 2021, during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) against terrorists in Gaza, Lashin signed a letter titled: “An open letter to Canadian newsrooms on covering Israel-Palestine.” The letter accused Israel of “forced expulsions and indiscriminate airstrikes,” a reference to the Sheikh Jarrah property dispute in Jerusalem and the Israeli response to terrorist rocket attacks.
During OGW, Israel employed targeted strikes on terrorist installations in Gaza, warning civilians in advance. Hamas is known to have placed military assets and an extensive attack tunnel network deliberately underneath and within civilian structures, such as schools, sinceat least 2014.
In May 2021, during OGW, Lashin also signed an online petition on change.org created by activist Dajana Pezo titled: “Canada, stop funding genocide in Palestine.” The petition called on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to “cease all financial aid to the Israeli government, immediately.”
The petition accused Israel of “genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, illegal occupations and the use of internationally banned chemical warfare.” The petition also claimed: “Israel continues to bomb houses, schools, hospitals and places of worship. No, not just mosques, but churches too.”
On February 10, 2019, an article authored by Lashin was published in U of T’s student newspaper in which she accused Israel of “mass murders, and bombings” and the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians.
On January 4, 2018, Lashin tweeted about Ahed Tamimi, saying: “these soldiers have made hell for her family…I'd spit in his face and resist in all ways I could too #FreeAhedTamimi.”
Anti-Israel Activism
On February 3, 2022, as TPF President, Lashin was the moderator for a TPF panel discussion titled: “The Erasure of Palestine In Academics.” The event was hosted by U of T’s Association of Palestinian Students (ASP).On July 9, 2021, Lashin spoke at a protest against U of T after it rescinded a hiring offer for Valentina Azarova, reportedly due to a donor and former fundraising advisor, Judge David Spiro’s concern about Azarova’s anti-Israel activism.
Former Supreme Court justice Thomas Cromwell ruled that the offer was rescinded due to “immigration issues,” however, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) rejected Cromwell’s ruling and imposed a censure against U of T. The university eventually reissued the offer to Azarova, who declined, and CAUT lifted the censure.
Azarova published a series of anti-Israel publications, including one where she argued [p. 13] that attacks against Israel by the terror group Hamas could constitute “legitimate resistance.” She has also consulted for Addameer and worked at Al-Haq for several years. Both organizations have been affiliated with the PFLP.
In Lashin’s speech, she said [00:04:20]: “U of T has a responsibility to provide us with education that is guided by humanitarianism, by justice-seeking…so when we are denied access to a scholar like Azarova, we are being robbed.”
BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true.
One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”
Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”
In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.
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 the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
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 on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/lina.lashin.79Twitter:https://twitter.com/lashinli
Twitter 2:https://twitter.com/LinaLashin
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lina.lashin/
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LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/linalashin/
Poshmark:https://poshmark.com/closet/linalashin2000
- Status:
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- Toronto
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- BDS
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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