Man who received ‘anti-racism’ grant from Trudeau Liberals founds pro-Hamas media group

Laith Marouf, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen who is currently in Lebanon, is listed as one of the founders of Free Palestine TV, which began spewing out content following Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hamas' October 7 massacre of civilians in the Jewish state.

In a statement on the group's website, Marouf said that FPTV "will be able to fill a large gap in the media battle with the enemy, at a time when it is difficult for our expatriate communities to defend our resistance without being subjected to persecution or harm that amounts to imprisonment or even death."

He claimed there was a "ban" in the west on media "supporting the resistance forces in the English language."

According to their website, FPTV is operated by a team of volunteers in communities across the world, namely in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, whose shared goal is to "incite free peoples to move and fight Zionism and imperialism wherever they exist, through effective demonstrations and protest movements that go so far as to close military factories, block roads and ports, and sit-ins to paralyze global support for the Zionist entity."

FPTV has broadcast live content from the front lines of Israel's war against Hamas, which they refer to as a "resistance group," as well as speeches delivered by the leaders of such groups, all translated into English.

On their website, they refer to the October 7 massacre as the "Al-Aqsa Flood," Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups' code name for the operation.

Despite having a long and documented history of antisemitic behavior, Marouf was brought on as a senior consultant at the Community Media Advocacy Centre. In 2021, the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau awarded CMAC a $133,822 grant to help develop an "anti-racism action program."

When it was discovered in 2022 that Marouf had called Jews "loud mouthed bags of human feces," among other things, Minister of Housing, Diversity, and Inclusion Ahmed Hussen announced that the CMAC would have its federal funding cut and its project suspended.

Since then, Marouf has continued his outspoken hatred for Jews, Israel, and even Canada itself.

In response to a November 10 post by law professor Michael Geist in which he called out Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez for his handling of the situation, Marouf called Geist a "little Jewish White Supremacist turd."

"We will crush your Jewsader Colony and the Imperialist hordes on our shores," he added. "After, we will be hunting down all Zionists and bring them to stand trial in liberated Palestine."