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Toronto protest speaker says Zionists ‘rape, kill and eat children’

Video footage of the speech was shared on social media by the X/Twitter account Leviathan, identifying it as taking place at a pro-Palestine protest that took place yesterday.

Toronto protest speaker makes antisemitic claims, invoking conspiracy theories about Jews raping, killing, and eating children. Video footage of the speech, delivered by university instructor Abbas Hamze, was shared on social media and highlighted by the X account Leviathan. Hamze, who is a Master Sessional & Master of Data Analytics Instructor at various universities, also called for the kidnapping of Israeli hostages and claimed that Hamas and Hezbollah have the right to take and assist hostages, respectively.

The Toronto Police Service provided Hamze with an armed escort as he protested in Jewish neighborhoods, schools, and synagogues, and he is believed to have immigrated to Canada from France in August 2022.

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