The Psychopathic Antisemitism Serpents in Canada

"Back then, you simply did not see people running through the streets saying, I'm an al-Qaeda supporter, I love bin Laden."

"When I look at what's going on now, that's the important thing, in my mind [open expressions of support for terrorist groups]."

"It's very different now. With the Toronto 18 [homegrown terror group], we had a small group of people, some of whom had known each other for a while, and they built their little group and they did it in secret."

"They didn't have these massive demonstrations where like-minded people can easily identify one another."

Former RCMP counterterrorism investigator John Mecher

 

"We are very concerned."

Samidoun is known to be directly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is already a listed terrorist organization [in Canada and elsewhere]."

"They have been inciting and glorifying terrorist attacks and massacres since October 7. They were already hanging signs from bridges in Vancouver."

"This is a serious source of concern."

Israeli Ambassador to Canada Ido Moed

 

"These are resistance fighters. These are our heroes."

"These are those who are sacrificing so that we can live and speak and struggle and fight."

"These are the people whose blood is being shed to defend humanity and to defend the world."

"We stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic and brave action on October 7."

"Long live October 7!"

Charlotte Kates, international co-ordinator for the Samidoun Prisoners Solidarity Network

Charlotte Kates spoke at a demonstration on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery last Friday. Her comments have led to a hate crime investigation by the Vancouver Police Department. (B'nai Brith Canada)

Samidoun is one of the major groups responsible for dozens of 'pro-Palestine' rallies and demonstrations that have appeared in Canada since the October 7 Hamas atrocities perpetrated on civilians in southern Israel. It was those savage acts of terror that included mass rapes, torching family homes with parents and children inside, mutilation of female victims, mass murders and hostage-taking of children, women and the elderly that led to Israel launching its military against Hamas to destroy its infrastructure and eliminate its terrorist operatives. 

Openly and with a sense of profound entitlement "Long live October 7" was the slogan chanted at the Vancouver Art Gallery last Friday and in Ottawa at yet another April 21 rally on Parliament Hill. Where Kates gushed about the "beautiful, brave and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people". She has no hesitation in addressing her concerns directly to Parliament. Little wonder -- at one time her husband was on contract with Heritage Canada to teach public servants how to deal with racism.

"It is long past time to delist Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organizations [Hamas and Hezbollah] from Canada's so-called list of terrorist entities."

"Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Islamic Jihad is not a terrorist organization. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is not a terrorist organization."

Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization."

Charlotte Kates, Samidoun

Banned in Germany for its links to terrorism and its blatant antisemitism along with its illegal activities, Samidoun, based now in Vancouver while terror-listed in Israel, has been intimately associated with the PFLP, once notorious for its suicide bombings and airline hijacking exploits. An internal dispute among 'pro-Palestine' activists at Rutgers University in New Jersey, saw this woman arrive in Canada some dozen years ago.

 

She is also the coordinator of the U.S. National Lawyers' Guild's International Committee whose member-lawyers expend enormous time and energy acting pro bono for 'pro-Palestine' protests and encampments at universities across the United States. Her husband, Khaled Barakat, born in Dahiyat al-Barid, a village near Jerusalem in 1971 was deported from the U.S. after an expired residency permit leading him to Vancouver as a student activist at the University of British Columbia in 2004.

 

Barakat has been identified by the Israeli Shin Bet security service as a senior figure in the PFLP, the primary leader of Samidoun, the PFLP's overseas recruitment propaganda proxy. His tendency to violent, antisemitic rhetoric led to his being deported from Europe; both  husband and wife are now barred from reentering Europe. Shockingly, Samidoun has been given federally registered not-for-profit status in Canada.

 

Former RCMP counterterrorism investigator John Mecher is of the opinion that Ottawa should be taking Samidoun seriously, that it may be only a matter of time before Hamas and its Canadian supporters spawn a new generation of homegrown extremists. The current phenomenon of 'pro-Palestine' activism represents, he feels, a far greater risk of recruitment to violent extremism and terrorism than was present in the radical activist situation that prevailed in the wake of 9/11.

 

Charlotte Kates (top left) and Khaled Barakat (top right) spoke at an online forum organized by Columbia university students which later led to a series of suspensions by the university. (@thestustustudio/X)