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Nabil Jalbout
Nabil Jalbout expressed support for terrorists while leading an anti-Israel protest at a pro-Hamas encampment at UofT in May 2024. He has also spread hatred of Israel.
On May 4, 2024, Jalbout led a “Workers United for Palestine” contingent at a Worker’s Day March, which ended at the encampment.
At the encampment, Jalbout led protesters in chanting [00:01:18]: “Resistance!”, and [00:00:01]: “We won’t rest till UofT divests!”, as well as [00:00:18]: “From the river to the sea, even here at UofT.”
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 anti-Semitic violence.
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!” is a chant used [00:02:52] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel.
On May 7, 2024, Jalbout led a march in Toronto, titled: “Hands Off Rafah,” which ended at the encampment. At the march, Jalbout said [00:01:25]: “...especially today, we have to be extra angry, we have to be pissed off, we have to chant like there’s rage inside of us that we have to let out…” He then led the protesters in chanting [00:02:35]: “Long live the intifada!”
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 10, 2024, Jalbout said [00:00:11] in a speech at the encampment: “This flame ignites, it continues to ignite, and this flame will not stop igniting until one day inshallah [please god] all of Falasteen [Palestine] is liberated…Just two weeks ago the University of Columbia, they decided to start this beautiful revolution, they decided to start the student intifada, something that so many of us would never have thought of, so many of us were cowards to even think of…”
On May 11, 2024, Jalbout led a “Nakba Day” protest march to the encampment, where he said [00:00:01] in a speech: “You guys are the future, you guys have the community support, you guys have the support of everybody around the world…and we will continue to fight for this encampment every single day until this institution divests and discloses…”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
UofT is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nabil Jalbout’s Support for Terrorists as a Leader of 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 May 21, 2024, Instagram Stories that Jalbout posted were shared by an X user, as well as one that he also posted on TikTok. The first story appeared to show Jalbout as a child dressed in military attire and holding a rifle replica. Jalbout captioned the story: “It’s been F**K Israel since I was a child btw.”
The second story showed Jalbout and two other children in military attire and holding rifle replicas over their heads. Jalbout captioned it: “Stand tall with the resistance…and don’t you ever put your head down when you face Zionism.”
Another one of the stories showed a photo of Jalbout at a rally, that he captioned: “24 years of life and still praying on the downfall of zionism.”
On May 18, 2024, Jalbout was featured in a video posted on Instagram, in which he said [00:00:14]: “...we’ve been under occupation for 76 years now, but we don’t refer to it just as an occupation, we refer to it as 76 years of resistance…76 years where we have continued to fight and we will continue to fight until our land is liberated, until our people are liberated, until our right of return is granted for every single Palestinian around the entire world…”
The modern State of Israel was founded 76 years earlier, in 1948.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
On April 6, 2024, Jalbout gave a speech at the annual Al Quds Day rally held in Toronto.
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.
In his speech, Jalbout claimed [00:02:33] that the Al-Aqsa mosque had been “subject to raids and access restrictions by the Israeli forces over the years…during the holy month of Ramadan, when the only thing that us Muslims want to do is praise - is praise Allah [god]...they come into our mosques, they abuse us, they throw tear gas at us, they hit us with batons and other weapons, and all we’re trying to do is celebrate our holy month. Shame!...”
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.
Jalbout also said [00:07:14]: “We honor all our martyrs that gave their life for our land and we stand, we stand with the resistance that makes us proud in the unwavered [sic] resilience and commitments to defend our land our people…”
Nabil Jalbout is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In 2024, Jalbout was an organizer with Toronto4Palestine since 2017. Toronto4Palestine was formerly called the Greater Toronto Area Palestine Movement (GTA Palestine Movement).
In April 2024, Jalbout’s since-deleted LinkedIn profile said he worked as a risk analyst at RSM in Toronto, Ontario.
As of the same date, Jalbout’s LinkedIn said he graduated from McMaster University (McMaster) with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 2022. McMaster is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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