A York University PhD student and lecturer at York University and formerly at the University of Toronto Mississauga recorded herself shouting “F&$# you” to Canadian veterans during a Remembrance Day procession on Monday.
In a video shared online to her Instagram account, which has since been made private, Aaliya Khan is heard cursing at the procession of fallen Canadian troops. She said, “Oops, this is Nov. 11,” and another person in the vehicle was heard saying, “I know F&$& them.”
As documented by X user “Leviathan,” Khan’s additional posts include calling Canada an “occupation of Turtle Island” and for an end to the Canadian government.
“It’s Remembrance Day, so I urge you to think about the Canadian military’s historical and ongoing complicity in the genocide and occupation of Turtle Island as well as the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq,” Khan said on her now-deleted account on X. “All empires will fall, including this one inshallah #landback.”
Before Khan deleted her X account, True North’s Harrison Faulkner documented a response from Khan where she doubled down on her hate for Canada’s armed and police forces.
“This is so funny, bro. Who’s keeping tabs on me?” Khan said in the post. “F&$% the military and F$&# the police for real.”
Khan also shared posts saying “New York for Hezbollah,” a listed terrorist entity, and quoted the terror group’s recently eliminated leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Nasrallah famously called for Jews to be hunted and killed worldwide.
Khan also posted an image of a Toyota pickup truck that had been customized with a machine gun turret on the back with the caption “for regime changes.”
According to “Stop Antisemitism,” Khan also recently posted “Death to the police” on her now-deleted Instagram page, support for Hamas and Houthis in fighting Israel “by any means necessary.”
Khan’s posts also used symbols associated with the terrorist group Hamas and expressed her love and gratitude for the listed terrorist entity multiple times.
Notably, the Israeli Defense Forces released a graphic video on Sunday, allegedly captured from Hamas, showing the terror group that rules Gaza torturing its own citizens.
Rich Robertson, the director of Research and Advocacy at B’nai Brith Canada, a Jewish rights group, said Khan’s “vitriolic comments” are just one of several instances of anti-Israel activists desecrating the solemnity and sanctity of Remembrance Day in Canada this year.
“The continued desecration of Remembrance Day in Canada by those who wish to conflate the remembering of Canada’s war dead with geopolitical events is unbecoming of anyone within our society,” he said. “The sanctity of Remembrance Day and the memorializing of the sacrifices of Canadian veterans should never fall victim to those who wish to advance their perverse ideologies.”
A spokesperson for UTM told True North that Khan’s comments were “shocking” and “news” to the university. She affirmed that Khan was not currently teaching at the university, though “due to employee confidentiality,” she could not say if she would work there in the future.
Robertson raised concerns about people such as Khan, who propagate pro-terrorist views online, being in positions of teaching authority in Canada.
“It’s immensely concerning that somebody who continues to glorify and justify the actions of terrorists and who harbours such a caustic opinion of Canadian veterans that they would swear at them on Remembrance Dayhas a position of authority within an institute of higher learning in our country,” he said.
He said it should concern all parents and students that Khan was allowed to teach at the school.
“It would be impossible to feel comfortable as a Jewish student, knowing that somebody who has called for the destruction of Israel and has glorified the actions of the terrorists currently inflicting harm upon Israel is their lecturer,” Robertson said.
When asked if Khan would be fired, a spokesperson for York University told True North that it was made aware of Khan’s social media posts.
“The views expressed are not reflective of the views of the university, the administration, or many thousands of York University students, faculty and staff,” the spokesperson said.
He said the school community has established procedures for reporting employees or students but that the matters are treated with confidentiality, and as a result, the university would not comment further.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated to include comment from York University.
