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Stacey MacNevin
Stacey MacNevin has shown support for Hamas terrorism and spread hatred of Israel online. She also promoted the pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Toronto (UofT) in June and July 2024. MacNevin is a UofT alumna.
On July 11, 2024, MacNevin was listed as a collaborator on an Instagram post celebrating the UofT encampment. The post said: “We are far from done. 
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so love this.”
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 April 7, 2024, MacNevin posted [slide 1] to Instagram a photo of herself at an anti-Israel event next to a woman making an inverted triangle hand sign.
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.
On April 6, 2024, MacNevin commented on an Instagram post, in which she was tagged as a collaborator, saying: “the meanings of flags, the symbolism, the mark of resilence [sic] and resistance 
Palestine has our hearts.”
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 December 16, 2023, MacNevin posted to Instagram a video with a graphic superimposed over it that had an inverted red triangle. The video also accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza during its war against Hamas.
Stacey MacNevin’s Support for Hamas Terrorism and Hatred of Israel
On June 28, 2024, MacNevin was listed as a collaborator in an Instagram post about the encampment. The post said: “...The encampment, which has faced attacks from both the administration and opponents over the past 57+ days, remains a symbol of resilience and commitment to seeking U of T divestment…#FromTheRiverToTheSea…”
“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.
The photos in the same June 28, 2024 post featured [slide 3] a sign that read [slide 5]: “WE SHALL RETURN.”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
On July 16, 2024, MacNevin posted on Instagram a TikTok video from an anti-Israel rally. The post said: “...Take our encampment, arrest our most vocal and vulnerable, demonize, and spread libel about us. We will not stop until Palestine is free. #FromTheRiverToTheSea #PalestineWillBeFree…#boycottdivestsanction.”
MacNevin commented on the same post: “We will not stop!!! ❤️🙌Palestine will be free.”
UofT is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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.
Stacey MacNevin is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of August 2024, MacNevin’s LinkedIn profile said she was the principal and founder of Esperanto Gallery & Studios Inc., as well as the principal at Stacey MacNevin Communications. Her LinkedIn bio also said she was an “Experimental Visual Artist, Expressionist.”
Also as of August 2024, MacNevin’s LinkedIn said she graduated from York University (York) with a bachelor’s degree in “Psychology/ Law & Society.” She also received a professional certificate in strategic communications from UofT in 2008.
As of the same date, MacNevin’s LinkedIn said she was located in Markham, Ontario.
