Freed hostage Noa Argamani slams terror sympathizers who trapped her, others at fundraising event shouting Hamas is coming

Former Hamas hostage Noa Argamani slammed “terror sympathizers” who trapped her and others inside a Jewish fundraising event at a Canadian university while shouting threats that “Hamas is coming.”Argamani, 27, was invited to speak at the Jewish National Fund (JNF) event at the University of Windsor on June 26, when about a dozen anti-Israel protesters — part of the University of Windsor’s Palestinian Solidarity Group (PSG) — swarmed the the venue in an attempt to intimidate attendees.The frightening display did not put fear into the former hostage — who was freed in June 2024 after eight months in Hamas captivity — saying she will not be stopped speaking “for those who can’t.”“Hamas came.Hamas kidnapped me.

Hamas murdered my friends.But I won; I survived.

Now, I speak for those who can’t,” Argamani wrote on X.“I’ll keep exposing Hamas’ crimes and fighting for the hostages’ release—including my partner, Avinatan,” she said of her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, who remains in Hamas captivity with 49 other hostages. “I refuse to let terror sympathizers control the narrative,” she added.In a video from the chaotic scene outside the venue, one of the anti-Israel protestors is heard shouting, “Hamas is coming,” through a megaphone as attendees attempted to flee from the hostility, according to the X account FactsMatter.Event chair Miriam Kaplan condemned the PSG’s blockade as “a disgraceful attempt to intimidate a survivor,” and called on the university to speak out against the protesters.“These students crossed the line from free speech into aggression,” Kaplan told The J.Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs also slammed the protestors for their blockade.“Blocking a hostage survivor is unconscionable.This is not a protest but intimidation of a vulnerable witness to terror,” it said.Argamani garnered international headlines when footage of her kidnapping during Hamas’ massacre of Israelis at the Nov...