Anti-Israel protesters outside Concordia University in Montreal, on Monday, October 7, 2024, the one year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.Photo by John Mahoney/Postmedia

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by · National Post

On Saturday, a self-proclaimed journalist named Samira Mohyeddin posted on X that “tens of thousands” of people were marching in Toronto to mark the one-year anniversary of “Israel’s relentless bombardment and genocide” in Gaza. The new journalism fellow at the University of Toronto’s Women and Gender Studies Institute, and former producer of CBC’s The Current, made no mention of what had prompted the “relentless bombardment.”