Several Syrian cities witnessed, on Friday, 28 November 2025, demonstrations by supporters of the interim authority “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham,” which included hate speech and insults against a number of Syrian components.
Circulating footage on social media showed demonstrators from among the authority’s supporters in the city of Manbij in northern Syria, raising a shoe-polishing box amid chants of “Boya Boya,” a derogatory term used by supporters of the interim authority against Kurds, and circulated in hate speech on digital platforms.
In the city of Homs in the center of the country, demonstrators from among the authority’s supporters chanted insults against members of the Alawite sect.
The slogans raised by the authority’s supporters sparked angry reactions in Syrian human rights circles, especially as they come in the context of near-daily killings and kidnappings targeting members of the Alawite sect in the city of Homs and its countryside, and the Syrian coastal region.
The head of the interim authority in Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, known as “Abu Muhammad al-Jolani,” had addressed a video message on the night of Thursday, 27 November, to Syrians, in which he called on them to take to the squares and public spaces on the occasion of the first anniversary of what is called the “Battle to Aeter Aggression.”
