Maleeha Haq

Overview

Maleeha Haq has expressed support for terrorists, promoted incitement and spread hatred of Israel. Haq is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of June 2023, Haq ran an Instagram page called Amplified Captures, which featured photos from anti-Israel protests.

As of June 2023, Haq’s LinkedIn profile said she was president of The Palestine Forum (TPF), a pro-BDS anti-Israel student group at the University of Toronto (U of T). Haq has been affiliated with the group since at least March 2022.

As of the same date, Haq’s LinkedIn also said she was studying for a bachelor’s degree in political science and Islamic studies at U of T, due to graduate in 2024.

Also as of June 2023, Haq’s LinkedIn said she had been a “Programming/ Research Assistant” for the Hearing Palestine Initiative at U of T since May 2023. Haq’s LinkedIn also said she had been a social media manager for Amnesty International U of T St. George since June 2021.

As of the same date, Haq’s LinkedIn said she had been an “Active member and leader” of Amnesty International Canada since July 2018, and served as president of her high school’s Amnesty International council.

Haq is the sister [slide 10] of anti-Israel activist Aasiyah Haq.

As of June 2023, Haq’s LinkedIn said she was located in the greater Toronto area.

Terror Support (PFLP, PIJ)

On March 15, 2023, Haq commented: “Can’t wait!

” 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 August 11, 2022, Haq posted on her Amplified Captures Instagram account photos from an anti-Israel protest in Toronto during Israel’s Operation Breaking Dawn (OBD) against PIJ terrorists.

Haq wrote: “Honour our martyrs…

Glory to them…” One of the photos depicted a protester holding [slide 3] a sign that said: “APARTHEID ZIONIST CHILD KILLERS,” and featured an image of blood dripping down an Israeli flag. Haq wrote in a comment: “...#love #unity #peace #peaceinthemiddleest…#f**kisrael…”

In August 2022, the terror organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) threatened attacks on Israeli civilians. Israel preemptively launched OBD. Both PIJ’s northern and southern senior commanders in Gaza, Tayseer al-Jabari and Khaled Mansour, were killed in targeted Israeli airstrikes. PIJ responded by launching more than 1,000 rockets toward Israeli cities.

On March 20, 2022, Haq participated [slide 12] in a TPF reading circle that discussed a book written by Ghasasn Kanafani. Haq commented on a TPF Instagram post promoting the event: “Excited for this.”

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 October 24, 2021, Haq featured in an Instagram video posted by Toronto-based anti-Israel activist Aliya Hasan. The video showed activists participating in a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jail. Hasan wrote: “#Canadian pro-#Palestine activists…@maleehahaaq, amplifiedcaptures…announce their 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with the #Palestinian prisoners facing administrative detention…”

Haq commented on the post: “#FreeThemAll May they taste Freedom

.”

In October 2021, six prisoners affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)'s armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, chose to prolong their hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention by Israel. The six men were Kayed al-Fasfus, Miqdad al-Qawasmeh, Alaa Aaraj, Hisham Abu Hawwash, Shadi Abu-Akr and Ayyad Hureimi.

On October 11, 2021, Haq posted photos on her Amplified Captures Instagram account that she took from a banner drop over a bridge in solidarity with the hunger-striking PIJ terrorists. Haq wrote: “Solidarity with Palestinian Hunger Strikers Banner Drop…

Stronger Together…” Haq commented on a Toronto4Palestine Instagram post about the event: “Incredible actions by a dedicated team

.”

Promoting Incitement

On April 24, 2022, Haq posted a video [slide 25] on Instagram Stories Highlights of protesters chanting in Arabic: “with our soul, with our blood, we will redeem you, Aqsa!”

The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.

On April 18, 2022, Haq posted on her Amplified Captures Instagram account photos from an anti-Israel protest in Toronto that she captioned: “Emergency rally #AlAqsaUnderAttack…

Stand Up Fight Back…”

On July 5, 2021, Haq posted photos on her Amplified Captures Instagram account from an anti-Israel protest in Mississauga, Ontario, that she captioned: “BDS Rally…

Read the Strength…” One photo showed a protester holding a sign that said [slide 7]: “AL-AQSA NOT YOURS TO TAKE!”

Hatred of Israel

On April 16, 2023, Haq posted on her Amplified Captures Instagram account photos she had taken from an “Al Quds Day” rally in Toronto. Two of the photos featured [slides 2, 4] a poster depicting the Dome of the Rock inside a Star of David shaped from barbed wire.

The Iranian government initiated International Quds Day in 1979, as an annual protest against Israel’s existence. The protest has historically been a platform for anti-Semitism.

Haq captioned another set of photos she posted on Instagram: “Al Quds Day…Revolution

…”

On May 1, 2022, Haq posted on her Amplified Captures Instagram account photos from a Toronto rally for Al Quds Day 2022. Haq captioned the post: “Al Quds Day…

Stand up Fight Back…” The photos included a sign from the protest that said [slide 5]: “A STATE BUILT ON THE ASHES OF THE HOLOCAUST, IS NOW COMMITTING A HOLOCAUST AGAINST PALESTINIANS IN GAZA…”

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.

On January 30, 2022, Haq posted on her Amplified Captures Instagram account photos from a Toronto anti-Israel protest. Included was a photo of a sign that said [slide 3]: “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!!” and featured a picture of a keffiyeh pattern across a map of Israel. Haq captioned the post: “Hands off Palestine…

The people United…”

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle 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.

On June 28, 2021, Haq featured in a video posted on Instagram from an anti-Israel protest in Scarborough, Ontario, where she chanted: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!”

On May 16, 2021, during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) against Hamas, Haq posted a TikTok video of herself wearing a keffiyeh over her face and holding a camera, with a caption across the video that said: “Palestine, Toronto is here for you.” The video included photos from various anti-Israel protests, including images of signs that said [00:00:07]: “Free Palestine End Apartheid” and [00:00:09] “Stop the genocide Palestine will be free.”

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

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.