Lina Assi is a research assistant at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She studied Political Science and Labour Studies and served as the President of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McMaster (SPHR) at McMaster University.
On September 19, 2017 Lina tweeted (tweet no longer accessible online):
Palestinian weapons & weapons of Iranian revolutionaries are united in a common struggle on the path towards the destruction of imperialism
“The Palestinian rifle and the rifle of the Iranian revolutionary” (originally in Arabic)