Somar Abuaziza considers Yahya Sinwar — the slain October 7 mastermind — to be a hero. She has dozens of social media posts expressing open support for the jihad terror of Hamas. Hamas, meanwhile, does not disguise its intent to murder Jews and obliterate Israel. The consequences for Somar Abuaziza should be much greater than merely being asked to resign, particularly in a country in which hate and incitement are criminal offenses. She has also “applauded the Yemen-based Houthi rebel group, a designated terror entity in Canada, firing missiles at Israel.”
Canada’s largest Jewish lobby, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), took issue with the York Federation of students last year:
The targeting of innocent civilians, or as @YorkUniversity Federation of Students calls it “resistance,” is *NEVER* justified!
How are Jewish students expected to feel safe when student leaders justify violence against our people?
We expect YFS to be disbanded & all those… pic.twitter.com/5ASmx79Noi
— CIJA (@CIJAinfo) October 13, 2023
Abuaziza’s defense when asked to resign as president of the York Federation of Students was to scream “racism,” claim that there was a campaign of intimidation against her, and assert that it was her right to fight for “the liberation of her people against Zionism.” That “liberation” really means the obliteration of Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Abuaziza’s excuse about fighting “Zionism and violent colonialism” is outrageous. The biggest colonizers of the entire Middle East are the Islamic warriors who conquered the region by means of violent jihad. Zionism in simple terms is support for the right of the Jewish people to have their own homeland and state: Israel. Jews are the indigenous people of Israel, and archeological evidence proves it.
The Jewish campus group Hillel Ontario stated of Abuaziza’s actions:
When 86% of surveyed Jewish students say they are concerned about antisemitism on their campus, this is one of the more horrific reasons why.
We demand better for our community.Please join me in standing alongside Jewish and Israeli students at York by calling on Abuaziza to resign immediately. Because of her repeated disdain for the Jews and Israelis, she clearly is not fit to serve the York student body.
“York University student president urged to resign over ‘deeply concerning’ support for Hamas,” by Ari David Blaff, National Post, February 26, 2025:
“Lived a hero and died a hero,” York University student Somar Abuaziza wrote on Instagram following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last October.
Last Tuesday, Abuaziza became president of the York Federation of Students (YFS), representing nearly 50,000 undergraduates and boasting an almost $2 million annual budget, raising concerns from students and others who question the leadership of a student leader with views they see as toxic.
Abuaziza has made dozens of social media posts appearing to support Hamas, its leadership and the October 7 attacks, which led to the deaths of over 1,000 Israelis and the abduction of hundreds of civilians. Her Instagram account was turned private following National Post requests for comment by email, direct message and phone.
Her profile bio remains unchanged, though, featuring an inverted red triangle — which the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says is a symbol used by Hamas to denote enemies — beside her name.…
Taffy says
Well with a name like Somar Abuaziza, I would expect no less!!! Muzzies of a feather flick together! It’s in their religion. That’s why any sane person, village, town, city, state or country should avoid Muslims like the plague. The plague brings disease to all. Similarly, the rabid Muslims bring Islam, a different kind of disease, to rot western societies from within like a cancer.
OLD GUY says
As the saying goes, AMEN to that.
gravenimage says
How did he ever wind up student president?
Tony says
Islam is a totalitarian, supremacist cancer against Israelis, Christians, and all Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran. Allah teaches and promotes terrorism, hatred, and violence by Muslims against Jews and Christians because infidelity is a CRIME AGAINST ALLAH(Quran 9:29; 98:6-7; and more). Allah in Quran 5:51 says, “O you who have believed[Muslims], do not take the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) as friends. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” See also Quran 2:63-65; 4:144; 5:59-60, 82; 7:166.
Nathaniel Winterson says
Of course York University will say nothing and do nothing. Either because they are poltroons, or because their administrators are in fact overgrown teenagers who think exactly the way their terrorist loving student federation president does. “Calls for” responsible action in such settings seldom mean much today. And as for Jews, well, they’re pretty much on their own. Amid cries of injured innocence and denials that any of this is anti-Jewish the university will simply ignore them.
James Lincoln says
In reality, this is a high-stakes “test case” for Canada.
gravenimage says
Canada: York University student president urged to resign over ‘deeply concerning’ support for Hamas
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I hope he has–I can find no follow-up to this story.