Mohammad Zubairi is a pediatrician who has expressed support for terrorists and promoted an anti-Israel campus encampment. Zubairi is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Zubairi wrote his social media posts during Israel’s war against Hamas, which Israel launched after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks when Hamas murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands and kidnapped hundreds.
The encampment that Zubairi showed support for was at the University of Toronto (UofT). For more information on the UofT encampment, check out Canary Mission's campaign titled: "University of Toronto’s Encampment."
As of July 2025, Zubairi was listed on the McMaster University (McMaster) website as an associate professor of pediatrics at the university. He was also listed as a developmental pediatrician working at Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre. McMaster is in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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On October 6, 2024, Zubairi wrote on X: "Oct 7 2024...marks a year when (mostly white) men & women in positions of leadership chose to remain silent on or actively support Israeli aggression against Palestinians. You know you could've done better."
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Also on October 6, 2024, Zubairi wrote on X: "The events of Oct 7th forced me to learn & unlearn what it means to live in a global system dominated by the wrong ideals and practices..."
Zubairi's post included a photo of books, including one by terrorist Ghassan Kanafani.
On December 27, 2023, Zubairi wrote on X: "History is clear that just as powerful states/empires rise (for the right/wrong reasons) they also will inevitably fall. While this may seem improbable now as the US & others support Israel against #Gaza & the #Palestinians, pick up any history textbook and know good will come."
Zubairi reposted a May 20, 2024 post on X that said, referring to UofT's encampment: "We stand in solidarity with the students. Disclose, Divest, Cut ties..."
Zubairi reposted a May 2, 2024 post on X that said, referring to the UofT encampment: "University of Toronto, revolution illuminated! The Peoples Circle for Palestine. The campus has never looked this beautiful."
The encampment was one of about 200 anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024, at Columbia University. Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and used anti-Semitic language in their activism. They also promoted BDS and protested Israel’s war against Hamas, launched after Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
