Juno News - Banned speaker urges Muslims to weaponize AI for Palestinian activism

00:00:00.000 British commentator Sammy Hamdi spoke via Zoom at the Muslim Association of Canada's

00:00:06.280 2026 convention after being denied entry into the country.

00:00:11.000 Now, in his session, Hamdi demonstrated a website called wordsforjustice.org, which

00:00:16.860 is an AI tool designed to auto-generate user responses to posts about the Israel-Gaza conflict.

00:00:23.660 The platform is trained on pro-Palestine, anti-Israel activist content and automatically

00:00:29.320 posts social media replies or tweets or even emails to politicians. In his session, Sami told

00:00:37.080 the audience that, quote, freedom of speech always benefits Palestine and the Muslims, and the law

00:00:42.840 always benefits Palestine and the Muslims. He encouraged attendees to use Canada's freedom

00:00:48.560 of speech laws to contact politicians and amplify the pro-Palestinian cause with tons of messages

00:00:55.940 online, basically flooding them with messages from this generated website. And he also highlighted

00:01:01.300 a campaign from the New York Times article by Nicholas Kristof that reported allegations of

00:01:06.100 violence against Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli detention, including claims that dogs

00:01:12.360 were trained to assault those in detention. Now, these specific allegations have been strongly

00:01:18.860 disputed even by Palestine supporters and Hamdi brought up his own 2025 detention by U.S. Immigration

00:01:27.380 and Customs Enforcement or ICE saying grassroots pressure like the one he was encouraging from

00:01:33.540 supporters helped secure his release after 18 days in the U.S. Now Hamdi had celebrated the October

00:01:39.480 7th Hamas attacks on Israel the previous year and following his detention the U.S. Department for

00:01:46.180 Homeland Security said, quote, the U.S. has no obligation to host foreigners like Sammy Hamdi

00:01:52.340 who support terrorism and actively undermine the safety of Americans, and we won't. Now on his part,

00:01:59.340 Sammy applauded the shifting opinions in the United States, gleefully that right-wing commentators

00:02:05.460 Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Marjorie Taylor Greene have become some of the biggest

00:02:12.140 advocates for Palestine. Hamdi urged the audience not to underestimate the power of coordinated

00:02:18.640 online activism like the kind that he was promoting in the session, doing things like

00:02:23.620 emails and public pressure campaigns. Now, he appeared via Zoom because he'd already been

00:02:28.520 denied entry to Canada, but he still gave a special greeting to Canadian immigration CBSA

00:02:34.520 saying, quote, God bless Canada and save you from Americans trying to make you the 51st state.

00:02:40.480 Now you can watch the full session. I have posted a video now available on Juno News.

Juno News - May 22, 2026