Juno News - May 22, 2026


Banned speaker urges Muslims to weaponize AI for Palestinian activism


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

140.44

Word count

390

Sentence count

21


Summary

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British commentator Sammy Hamdi spoke at the Muslim Association of Canada s 2026 convention after being denied entry into the country by the U.S. Hamdi urged the audience not to underestimate the power of coordinated online activism like the kind that he was promoting in the session.

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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.