Canada: Iran masterminded pro-Hamas protest at McGill University

A cyber security company “came to the conclusion that Iran was behind the campus protests at McGill university in Montreal.”

The embarrassing discovery about McGill should lead campus administration to conduct a thorough investigation. It should also undertake a broader, careful evaluation of the groups that are being permitted to operate on its campus. Other Canadian and American campuses should also be investigating any possible ties that pro-Hamas encampments have with enemy foreign entities.

Campuses in the West should not be permitting groups with ties to terrorist states to grow and flourish on their properties, and work to destroy the West from within.

Kudos to Neil Oberman, the Canadian lawyer who filed an injunction against the McGill encampment, and uncovered “foreign interference” from Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran poses an extreme threat to the West, and its tentacles are all across North America. Hizballah has an  external operations group, Unit 910, which was shown to be more active in Canada than in the United States. Unit 910 is also known as Islamic Jihad, or the Black Ops of Hizballah.

Since October 7, Iran has zeroed in on campuses. At the end of May, Iran’s Supreme Leader hailed pro-Hamas U.S. college students, applauding their “standing on the right side of history”:

Dear university students in the United States of America, you are standing on the right side of history.

— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) May 29, 2024

“Iran masterminded anti-Israel protest in Canadian university,” by Negar Mojtahedi, Iran International, August 2, 2024:

Iran was behind the anti-Israel protests on at least one Canadian university in an attempt to undermine Western support for Israel and fuel divisiveness on Canadian soil, sources combating digital disinformation told Iran International.

Cyber security company XPOZ, through the use of a large-scale analysis of factual evidence and data that’s collected on social networks, came to the conclusion that Iran was behind the campus protests at McGill university in Montreal.

Analysts working for the American cyber company, which monitors social media, use AI technology to unmask the networks and campaigns behind “inauthentic” users interacting on a large scale.

They dug deeper into inauthentic accounts, which could be defined as either bots or fake users managed by a foreign power, operating in a highly coordinated matter on social platforms. They said the coordination aspect is key because that’s how social media algorithms work to push a certain narrative. The analysts also used technology to investigate the content such users post.

What they found was that there was a high-percentage of inauthentic accounts primarily written in Farsi, coming from Iranians inside Iran linked to the regime and IRGC, fueling the campus protests at McGill. Analysts told Iran International they are confident…

Neil Oberman, a Canadian lawyer who recently represented students who filed an injunction against the McGill encampment, said the XPOZ data suggesting Iran’s role in the protests proves “foreign interference.”…

For Oberman, this is not an issue of antisemitism or the Jewish and Iranian communities but rather about Canada and the safety of all Canadians.