Mahmoud Khalil, an activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement, called for the designated terror group Hamas to repeat the Oct. 7 terror attacks, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds hostage.
The rally was billed as a celebration of a cease-fire being declared between Hamas and Israel earlier that day.
Video circulating online shared of Khalil at a ceasefire celebration protest in Montreal shows the man leading chants in Arabic honouring the eliminated terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar and calling for Hamas to “repeat the strike,” a reference to the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack, which started the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.
“We have heard the sound of sirens. Rest in Peace, O Sinwar,” Khalil said in a video reposted by X user “Leviathan.”
“O resistance repeat the strike,” he said. “Kidnap the soldiers and free the prisoners.”
Montreal police did not comment before the deadline provided.
Khalil has been in the news before for his anti-Israel remarks at protests throughout Canada. He was featured in a National Post article for pledging his allegiance to Mohammad Deif, known as one of the Oct. 7 attack’s Hamas masterminds.
A year after the Oct. 7 attack, Khalil led a large group of protesters in cheering on Hamas’ attacks against Israelis and declaring himself as part of their “resistance.”
Khalil graduated from Concordia University with a mechanical engineering course in 2022 but has become a staple in Montreal’s anti-Israel scene since then.
He used to post regularly on his now-deleted Instagram page
X user “Leviathan” has also identified Khalil as an individual who called for Hamas and Islamic Jihad to be removed from the terrorist watch list and for plugging his phone into a speaker system in Toronto to play a speech from Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaidu.
Hamas’ guiding charter has the “vanquishing” of their “enemy,” the Jews, written into the terrorist organization’s constitution.
Also, Wednesday at the rally billed as a celebration of a ceasefire declared between Hamas and Israel earlier that day, protesters were recorded calling all the Jews in Israel “settlers” who had to go home.
A video captured by Rebel News reporter Alexandra Lavoie shows protesters at the rally calling for the eradication of Israel via chants of “from the river to the sea,” a reference to the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Montreal Mayor Valérie Planteid did not respond to True North’s requests to comment.
