Joshua Sealy-Harrington
Overview
Joshua Sealy-Harrington celebrated the Hamas terrorism of October 7, 2023, denied Hamas war crimes and called for Israel’s destruction.On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,200 Israeli Jews, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Sealy-Harrington is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of May 2024, Sealy-Harrington was listed on the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) website as an assistant professor at TMU’s Lincoln Alexander School of Law (LASL). His TMU page said: “Areas of Expertise: Critical race theory, feminist legal theory, queer legal theory, critical disability theory, criminal punishment, constitutional law, law and social movements.”
Also as of May 2024, Sealy-Harrington’s LinkedIn profile said he had been a board member at the Community Justice Collective (CJC) since June 2023. He had also been a counsel at Juristes Power Law since May 2022.
As of the same date, Sealy-Harrington’s LinkedIn said he graduated from Columbia University (Columbia) Law School (Columbia Law) with a Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) in 2019. He also graduated from Columbia Law with a master’s degree in 2019 and graduated from the University of Calgary (UCalgary) with a JD in 2013.
As of the same date, Sealy-Harrington’s LinkedIn said he was located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Celebrating the Hamas Terrorism of October 7, 2023
Sealy-Harrington retweeted an October 7, 2023 tweet that said: “Academia loves to decolonize everything besides occupied land. Its silence on Palestine is enough to know how decolonization has become a metaphor signifying everything besides material change and collective resistance.”Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” can be a euphemism for nationalistic terror. It is often used to excuse or even glorify anti-Israel and anti- Semitic violence.
Sealy-Harrington retweeted an October 7, 2023 tweet that said: “All scholars who’ve even once used the term ‘decolonisation’ for the advancement of their careers, please note that now is the time to show solidarity with Palestine. Stand with Palestine. End all occupations
.”In November 2023, Sealy-Harrington signed [no. 245] an anti-Israel statement titled: “Open Letter to the Legal Community on Pro-Palestine Speech.” The letter expressed solidarity with law students facing backlash after they expressed support for Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre.
The letter Sealy-Harrington signed said: “We reject the notion that it is antisemitic, hateful, or illegitimate to contextualize the October 7th, 2023 attack. Similarly, we reject the notion that it is antisemitic, hateful, or illegitimate to express support for Palestinians in the face of ongoing Israeli apartheid and genocide.”
On November 6, 2023, the Toronto Star newspaper quoted Sealy-Harrington as saying: “It is important for institutions to support students who are speaking out, who have the courage that so many of these institutions do not have…We have to reverse the narrative that support for Palestinian resistance is inherently antisemitic.”
On November 29, 2023, Sealy-Harrington said [00:10:39] in the “Progress Report”podcast: “You’re seeing Hamas responding not with diplomatic calls, but they’re meeting the violence of the Israeli state with their own violence…In the context even of international law…there is a right to resist.”
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
Denying Hamas Terrorist War Crimes
On January 25, 2024, Sealy-Harrington tweeted: “Breathtaking essay from @Pacinthe on media, Palestine, the limits of language, and throwing whatever sand we can in the ‘gears of genocide.’”Sealy-Harrington’s tweet linked to an article that said: “...we need to be careful, as journalists, when we repeat in print and on screen unfounded things like beheaded babies or Hamas hiding under tunnels in hospitals…” The article also accused Israel of “genocide.”
Denial of the Hamas war crimes of October 7, 2023, among anti-Israel activists has been likened to Holocaust denial among neo-Nazis.
Hamas terrorists murdered at least 40 Israeli Jewish babies during its October 7, 2023, terror attacks. Some of the babies were beheaded and some were murdered in front of their parents.
Hamas has used hospitals and other civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip to hide and disguise their military command centers, weapons storage and launch sites for missile and rocket attacks against Israel. According to international law, under such circumstances those sites are no longer deemed “civilian objects,” losing their right of protection against attack.
Calling for Israel’s Destruction during a Hamas War
“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.
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/jsealyharringtonTwitter:https://twitter.com/JoshuaSealy
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/joshuasealy/ [Private]
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-sealy-harrington-1633ab3b
University Website:https://www.torontomu.ca/law/faculty-and-research/faculty/faculty-law/joshua-sealy-harrington/
Academia.edu:https://independent.academia.edu/JoshuaSealyHarrington
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@jshyyc
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