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Canada called ‘white supremacist, colonialist’ at Toronto Quds Day rally

Iranian-Canadian participants at Toronto Quds Day rally: “I don’t consider myself Canadian. Canada is a racist colonialist project like Israel; Israel will be destroyed within 25 years.”

Iranian-born student Nasim Agari speaks to an interviewer during the Annual Walk for Al-Quds in Toronto, Canada on May 31, 2019. Agari said she does not consider herself to be Canadian because Canada is a “white-supremacist, colonialist, racist project,” much like Israel. (MEMRI)
Iranian-born student Nasim Agari speaks to an interviewer during the Annual Walk for Al-Quds in Toronto, Canada on May 31, 2019. Agari said she does not consider herself to be Canadian because Canada is a “white-supremacist, colonialist, racist project,” much like Israel. (MEMRI)

During the Annual Walk for Al-Quds in Toronto, Canada on May 31, Nasim Agari, who was born in Tehran, told an interviewer that she does not consider herself to be Canadian because Canada is a “white-supremacist, colonialist, racist project,” much like Israel.

Agari describes herself as a poet and an artist, and is currently studying human rights and equity studies at York University.

Hussein Mujtahdi, a student at the Islamic Seminary in Qom, Iran, said that more countries will join in solidarity with the Palestinians and that Israel will “certainly” be destroyed within 25 years because “injustice and all oppressors are doomed.”

The interviews were uploaded to YouTube.

The rally was also attended by Canadian Imam Zafar Bangash, who delivered brief remarks and who regularly attends similar events.

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