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Kuldeep Meel
Kuldeep Meel [Kuldeep S. Meel] participated in and showed support for the pro-Hamas encampment at UofT in May and June 2024. Meel has also equated Israel with Nazi Germany and spread hatred of Israel.
On May 28, 2024, UofT associate professor Kuldeep Meel posted on X: “I don't have to imagine what @occupyuoft are -- I have gone there almost every day…”
On June 20, 2024, Keel posted on X: “Living faculty life @UofT lawyers way. Breakfast at PCP [People’s Circle for Palestine]. @occupyuoft.” The post included a picture of Keel eating at the encampment.
The People’s Circle for Palestine is another name for the UofT encampment.
Meel participated [slides 1 and 5] in an anti-Israel ceremony organized by the UofT encampment on June 3, 2024, graduation day at UofT. Protesters held the event to “honour all of those who could not graduate because of the genocide their university is funding.” He stood in the back center in a photo [slide 5] from the event.
The ceremony was organized by UofT Occupy for Palestine, which according to their Instagram is a body of “Students calling for divestment from entities sustaining the attacks on Gaza + the occupation, apartheid, and illegal settlements of Palestine.”
Kuldeep Meel had also shown support for the encampment by signing on to a pro-BDS statement put out by UofT community members in May 2024 [row 28, fourth photo]. The May 20, 2024 statement was part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The statement backed all the encampment’s demands, including divesting from the alleged “apartheid policies of the state of Israel and its ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
To show support, Meel submitted a “support selfie,” which featured him holding a sign that said: “UofT: Disclose / Divest / Cut Ties.”
UofT is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Kuldeep Meel’s Participation in and Support for 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 October 18, 2023, in the wake of the Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians executed on October 7, 2023, Meel posted on X: “At this point, there is no difference between the tweets from Israel's PM/ IDF [Israel Defense Forces]/cheerleaders and speeches from Nazis. I never imagined I would see such public proclamations of superiority by birth in the 21st century.”
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 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 December 7, 2023, Meel reposted on X a post by anti-Israel agitator Cornell West that accused Israeli forces of committing “genocidal attacks against Palestinians.”
On July 2, 2024, Meel posted on X in response to a post that said: “Toronto’s Jewish community largely support Israel’s holocaust in Gaza. Many also claim victimhood while being amongst the best-off ethnic/religious communities in Canada’s largest city.”
Meel wrote: “Sadly this is true…”
Anti-Israel activists compare Israel to Nazi Germany to insinuate that the plight of Palestinians has eclipsed Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.
Kuldeep Meel is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of August 2024, Meel’s UofT faculty page said he was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at UofT.
As of the same date, Meel’s LinkedIn profile said he received a PhD in artificial intelligence and formal methods from Rice University (Rice) in 2017. Rice is located in Houston, Texas.
As of August 2024, Meel’s X account said he was located in Toronto.
