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Lina Duque
Lina Duque showed support for the pro-Hamas encampment at UofT in May 2024. She has also spread hatred of Israel on social media.
On May 2, 2024, UofT instructor Lina Duque posted on Instagram a photo from the UofT encampment and wrote: “What a beautiful sight. Toronto showed up for #UofT students ✊🏼…”
On May 11, 2024, Duque posted on Instagram a video from the UofT encampment and wrote: “...This generation ‘should not be crushed for the fact that they have greater morality than the people who claim to be leaders.’ / #uoft.”
UofT is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lina Duque’s 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.
Duque reposted a July 3, 2024 post on X that said: “Large-scale land-theft is a one-way crime in this so-called ‘conflict.’ / When Palestinians resist, the US arms the occupiers to protect their land theft in the name of self-defense. / But when Palestinians don’t resist… the US still arms the occupiers & facilitates their crimes.”
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.
Lina Duque is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of August 2024, Duque was listed on the UofT website as an instructor in the School of Continuing Studies.
Also as of August 2024, Duque’s LinkedIn profile said she had been a guest lecturer at UofT’s Rotman School of Management since February 2023.
As of the same date, Duque’s LinkedIn said she was the founder and social media strategist at Lina Duque Consulting and the founder of UNTOLD.
Duque’s LinkedIn also said she graduated from Ivey Business School at Western University (Western) with a master’s degree in business administration in 2012. Western is located in London, Ontario, Canada.
As of August 2024, Duque’s LinkedIn said she was located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
