A rally on May 13, 2017 in solidarity with Palestinian terrorists staging a hunger strike in Israeli prisons was endorsed by the York Federation of Students (YFS) and the University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union (UTMSU), B’nai Brith Canada has learned.
Hammam Farah, one of the organizers of the rally, described its purpose as "supporting the demands of our heroic prisoners." Chief among those prisoners is Marwan al-Barghouti, who was convicted of five counts of murder in 2004, along with dozens of other murderers linked to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, all of which are deemed terrorist groups by the Government of Canada.
