Iran war Drahtzieher der antiisraelischen Proteste an kanadischer Universität

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202408012272

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  1. No shit. The influence of Hamas and Iran on university pro-Palestinian activism in Canada, the USA, and Australia is pretty obvious.

    Plenty of stupid, bratty, rich, over-entitled, useful idiots in our Universities with no life experience to manipulate into spreading unrest.

  2. so these protesters are officially Iran’s useful idiots.

  3. Almost why you have to expel the students that fall for nonsense like this

  6. They are fully aware of the fact people hate Jews. Buy a student lunch and he’ll carry a Pal. flag and chant.

  7. Yes online activity influences in person protests but I would not say they are the same thing

  8. I had said this before and was accused of a dog whistle.

    They demanded proof from me, which I provided in kind from 2min and a Google search to demonstrate that it is easy to find this info. They found flaws, to which I said, my point wasn’t to vet the info for them, only that it is well known, and easily found. I provided my consulting fee to them if they wanted me to do a deep analysis of the information. They refused, but wouldn’t stop yapping about how weak my sources were. (Spoiler, they were mostly reputable, but I really didn’t vet too much)

    When I turned it around and asked for iron clad proof showing their sources of funding… silence…

    We are not dealing with rational people!

  9. Russia: I call dibs on the gullible conservatives!

    Iran: I call dibs on the gullible liberals! Hey no fair, the gullible conservatives is like the whole voting base!

  10. I don’t really buy into this, as Canadian uni students are already rather quick to protest for anything and everything they deem “unjust” or other reasons. They aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed and are willing to follow any movement after a few philosophy classes on ethics, morals and justice. Noble, but also incredibly hypocritical.

    Which leads me to think that, while Iran might have played a role in making the whole thing bigger in the medias, it definitely didn’t have the means or the necessity to “mastermind” all of it.

  12. I can’t parse this…

    >Their analysis of the alleged coordinated activity at McGill reveals 60 percent of Pro-Palestine campus protestors were not authentic online. The data indicates the presence of coordinated Farsi-speaking accounts, suggesting a targeted campaign. By comparison, 75% of commentators critical of the encampment were authentic.

    Are they saying that 60% of the people at the protests were on “fake accounts” online? Fake in what way? They were at the protests…

    Or is it that 60% of the accounts who posed as campus protestors online weren’t actually campus protestors?

    Such a poorly worded paragraph…

  13. A lot of comments that are anti to this thought are upvoted immediately and read like it was written by a bot.

  15. Well yeah. Is there a more vulnerable and manipulatable group than young college undergrads? They leave home for the first time and are “out in the world” to make their own decisions. In college, I knew people who changed their political views and stances six or seven times before graduation.

    I fully believe it’s healthy to explore and change your views as you grow. It’s a part of becoming an adult. But we need to do a better job of teaching kids how to research sources. It would prevent a lot of this. Also, critical thinking is the most important skill a person can develop. Nothing else matters, if you don’t have that.

  16. doesnt matter, public support for gaza is still grass roots.

  17. “Analysts working for the American cyber company, which monitor social media, use AI technology to unmask the networks and campaigns behind “inauthentic” users interacting on a large scale.”

    I don’t disagree that Iran likely tried to influence people on SoMe, but do we know how effective such approach?

  18. Ah Canada, the hotbed of religious shitheads from around the world, and the playground for the world’s spy agencies

  19. I am always suspicious of these protests especially when they interrupt other community celebrations like pride or baseball games . They seem obvious that they are extremist acting out . Environment activists are lumped in with these groups but are no way similar just folks in smaller numbers doing things like glue them selves or blocking traffic . I hope people can see this and the differences .

  20. You don’t need to be a mastermind to fool useful these idiots.

  21. Israel has been saying this for months. This is just one out of many that will be found to be led by Iran and associated organizations

  23. No shit.

    You can tell that by how they react to people carrying the old Iranian flag, which has nothing to do with Isreal.

  24. You don’t fuckin’ say. 

    It’s scary how blatantly obvious they are getting away with being.

  25. MMW we will find major evidence of the anti-West coalition uniting to try to make the Dems lose with Palestine in the next 3 years. Iran coordinates and arms the Oct 7 attack itself, China spams the propaganda through Tiktok and Russian bots/trolls amplify it on sites like reddit. 

  26. This is why for example the FBI will investigate political movements. Constitutionally protected speech from patriotic Americans or foreign backed trolls? You don’t know until you look.

  27. They absolutely fed the protests slogans and co-opted them just like they did in the Iranian Revolution as well. Wanted to mention the fact that there were a startling amount of people organizing stuff immediately on October 8th too.

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