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 Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, went viral.

In the chilling video, a terrorist drove away with Argamani on the back of his motorbike as she pleaded, “Don’t kill me!”

After 246 days in captivity, Argamani was one of four Israelis freed in a daring daylight mission on June 8, 2024 that saw Israeli troops and police raid a Hamas compound in a hail of gunfire to rescue the hostages.

Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40, who were also at the Nova Festival when Hamas attacked and took them hostage, were also freed with her.

Argamani has since become one of the most vocal advocates for a hostage exchange deal between Israel and Hamas, seeking to free Or and the remaining captives.

Speaking to a room full of G7 embassy representatives in Tokyo last year, Argamani described her survival in Gaza as a “miracle.”

“Every night I was falling asleep and thinking, this may be the last night of my life,” Argamani said.

“And in this moment that I’m still sitting with you, it’s a miracle that I’m here. It’s a miracle because I survived October 7, and I survived this bombing, and I survived also the rescue,” she noted, referring to Israel’s counteroffensive in the Gaza Strip and the risky rescue mission.

During her address, she also pressed the world leaders to secure the release of the remaining hostages, including her boyfriend, Or.

Or’s last known sign of life was in mid-March, according to the Jerusalem Post.