On November 24, 2019 SAIA York, “Students Against Israeli Apartheid At York University” in Toronto, retweeted a tweet by a Tweeter use by the name “oumami_qouds” that contains a short video and a caption:
Caption [originally in Arabic]:
Raising the flag of Palestine in front of the American Embassy in Awkar [Beirut]. From Palestine, all love to you, the freemen and honorable men of Lebanon ♥ ️
Chants in video [originally in Arabic]:
O Palestine, we are with you till death
O Palestine, we are with you till death
With a rock and a knife
With a rock and a knife
Raise the flag of Palestine
Raise the flag of Palestine
With a stone and a knife raise the flag of Palestine
With a stone and a knife raise the flag of Palestine
Palestine is free, free
Palestine is free, free
Zionist, get out [of Palestine]
SAIA York Liked tweets by ranasukkarieh (retweeted oumami_qouds tweet) and Kassem Tarshahani that feature the video.
oumami_qouds profile picture on Twitter features Yahya Ayyash, a chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the West Bank battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military/terrorist armed wing of Hamas. Ayyash built the bombs used in a number of Hamas suicide attacks: the Mehola Junction bombing, the Afula Bus massacre, the Hadera central station massacre, the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre,[10] the Egged bus 36 bombing, the Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing, and the Jerusalem bus 26 bombing. As part of a strategic alliance between Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ayyash built the bombs used by Islamic Jihad at the Beit Lid attack that claimed the lives of 22 Israelis. Ayyash was assassinated by Israel on 5 January 1996. According to Hamas website: “He [Yahya Ayyash] became active in the ranks of Ezz Eddeen Al Qassam Brigades in the beginning of 1992, where he specialized in making explosives from raw materials available in the Palestinian territories. He is credited with introducing the technique of Martyrdom Operations.”
oumami_qouds tweets express support of Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. All three are designated by Canada as terrorist organizations.
