A Terrorist Group in Canada, Raising Funds for Islamist Jihad

A Palestinian girl stands near a poster of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, one of the main terrorist groups present in the West Bank operating under the ruling Fatah party, who was killed by Israeli troops in August 2022. The poster bears the Samidoun logo. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images) 

 

"Whereas the RCMP announced they had arrested two suspects in Toronto as they were allegedly about to commit a terrorist attack for ISIS."

"Whereas Trudeau’s government gave citizenship to an alleged terrorist with blood on his hands who allegedly dismembered a body for an ISIS film."

"Whereas Trudeau waited far too long to ban pro-terror groups like the IRGC, who are responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents, including 85 people who called Canada home, and Samidoun, who are affiliated with and support listed terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)."

"Whereas Houthi terrorists are still currently allowed to operate, organize, and fundraise in Canada."

"And whereas Justin Trudeau is not serious about Canada’s national security and disregards the safety of our citizens and it is now impossible for Canadians to have any faith in the Liberals’ ability to protect our country."

"Therefore, we the undersigned support Pierre Poilievre and common sense Conservatives in their commitment to secure our borders, ban pro-terror groups, and keep dangerous terrorists out of our country."

Parliamentary Opposition Conservative Party of Canada

 

 

The group Samidoun was added to Canada's list of terrorist groups in October of 2024 under the Criminal Code of Canada. This move by the-then Liberal government of Justin Trudeau was finally forced on the government when Canadian flags were being burned at a Samidoun Vancouver rally honouring the Hamas terrorist group following the Palestinian terrorist invasion of southern Israel that produced an orgy of sadistic savagery, raping, mutilating and slaughtering Jewish children, women and men.

 

Investigators and Jewish groups pointed out to the Liberal government Samidoun's ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, one of Samidoun's founding members being a leading figure in the PFLP which was already outlawed and on Canada's terror list. Samidoun leading a demonstration chanting "Death to Canada" while burning a Canadian flag did not endear the group to Canadians other than those who found merit in lionizing Palestinian terrorism.  

 

What is inexplicable is that some eight months have passed since Samidoun was placed on the terrorist list, but the group, based in Vancouver and linked to other groups which have roiled the streets of Canada's cities in ongoing violent displays of anti-Israel, pro-Hamas support, taking over major intersections in mass prayer sessions symbolic of Islamist conquest, have continued their hateful messages of Intifada, 'From the River to the Sea', and 'Final Solution', without restraint by any government agency or regional police forces.

 

A photo shows a flag of the organization 'Samidoun' during a "in solidarity with Gaza" demonstration in Duisburg, western Germany, on October 9, 2023. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images

 

And nor has the group's registration as a non-profit, able to continue raising charitable funds for Islamist terror groups like the PLFP and Hamas been interrupted. Continuing to operate openly in Canada despite its affiliations and activities, Samidoun makes a mockery of Canadian law. Its key figures such as co-founders Charlotte Kates and her husband Khaled Barakat go about their business of leading protests in honour of October 7 and the courageous terrorists who murdered 1,200 Jews, as 'revolutionaries' against the 'occupation' of Palestine by Israel whom they label criminal genocidaires.

 

Despite publicly declaring "I am here to express the views of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine", no legal action has been taken against Khaled Barakat who has been instrumental in establishing terrorist cells in the West Bank and areas of the West. Proudly and publicly lauding Hamas as "heroic and brave", his wife Kates attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut last year. The visited Iran where she was bestowed with a 'humanitarian' medal in recognition of her work on behalf of the Islamic Republic.

 

During the October 7 slaughter of Israelis in southern Israel, some Canadians were victims of the Hamas incursion. Family members of October 7 victims in Canada filed a lawsuit against terrorists, one that includes Samidoun, Kates and Barakat. Samidoun is labelled a sham charity in the U.S., outlawed in Germany and the Netherlands, yet the government of Canada, while performatively placing it on a terror list, allows it continued charitable status, to fundraise in support of Hamas, in Canada.

 

Charlotte Kates, a co-founder of Vancouver-based Samidoun, which has been declared a terrorist entity by the Canadian government, poses for a photo at the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon in February 2025. Photo by @charlottekates/X

 

In Its Own Words: Hamas is a Palestinian Islamic Liberation and Resistance Movement Whose Goal is to Liberate Palestine and Confront the Zionist Project

"It's an honour to have contributed to this critically important application ... against the criminalization of Palestinian resistance in Britain, the imperial power responsible for Zionist colonialism in Palestine." 

"[Aiding and assisting on request an application to de-list Hamas in the U.K. as a] proscribed/banned [terror group]."

Charlotte Kates, leader, Samidoun

 

"The British government’s decision to proscribe Hamas is an unjust one that is symptomatic of its unwavering support for Zionism, apartheid, occupation, and ethnic cleansing in Palestine for over a century."

"Hamas does not and never has posed a threat to Britain, despite the latter’s ongoing complicity in the genocide of our people."

"Hamas is] a Palestinian Islamic liberation and resistance movement whose goal is to liberate Palestine and confront the Zionist project."

Legal Petition to the United Kingdom by Hamas 

"The legal profession is being damaged by ideologues exploiting their status to platform extremism." 

"This isn’t about free speech. It’s about a man [Riverway Law attorney Fahad Ansari], who repeatedly crosses the line into open support for terrorism — all while the authorities look away."

British Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick  

"They pose an ongoing threat to our security and to the peace and stability of the Middle East and have weapons and training facilities that put lives at risk and threaten our interests."

"They show no respect for human rights, life, and dignity and have oppressed people living in Gaza for too long."

"Those campaigning to end the proscription of Hamas fail to understand the seriousness of the threats this terrorist organization poses."

"[Hamas is an] evil Iranian-backed terrorist organization, which kidnaps, tortures, and murders people, including British nationals."

Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel

Demonstrators hold Israeli and British flags outside the Law Courts, during a march against antisemitism, after an increase in the UK, during a temporary truce between the Palestinian Islamist terrorists Hamas and Israel, in London, Britain, Nov. 26, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Susannah Ireland

 

The United Kingdom classified the 'military wing' of Hamas as a terror organization in 2001; a definition expanded two decades later to encompass the entire organization, including the political arm. Hamas encourages the West to think of it as a legitimate group fighting oppression, with distinct arms: a Health Authority, a political wing, a military wing and an executive body. In reality Hamas itself scoffs derisively at the very thought that there are such executive divisions; they consider the entire group as single-mindedly focused and engaged in its singular purpose: the destruction of the State of Israel.

 

A legal group by the name of Riverway Law which is supporting Hamas in its application to the U.K. government for the terrorist designation to be rescinded, contacted Charlotte Kates, herself head of a Vancouver-based outfit that advertises itself as a support for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, and which advocates as well for the legalization of Hamas and other terrorist groups as 'freedom fighters' and is part of a group proscribed in Canada as a terrorist entity.

 

One of Samidoun's leaders, Kates's husband, has direct links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as a leading figure within it, another terrorist group that is proscribed as such in Canada. Riverway Law contacted Kates with a request for an "expert report" representing Samidoun that she and her husband co-founded, and Kates we happy to comply, as an ardent supporter of Hamas in Canada. Notorious for leading public chants of "Long Live October 7!"

It is such an honor to be here in Beirut today, one among a sea of over a million people in collective tribute, mourning, love and commitment to the road of resistance and liberation exemplified by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hisham Safieddine. Kates on X

 

According to Kates, the savage atrocities in Israel were "heroic and brave". So committed is she that she attended Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's public funeral that took place in Lebanon in February, memorializing him as a "great anti-imperialist leader of our day, the great Arab and international revolutionary, the beloved speaker of truth and warrior of justice". 

 

A Hamas political leader, Mousa Abu Marzouk, who lives in Qatar, rejected charges of  antisemitism: "Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. Our struggle is not against Jewish people because of their religion but against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem of antisemitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage", he wrote in a witness statement to the Riverway application.

 

"[Hamas's terror listing runs]contrary to the European Court of Human Rights [and is] disproportionate" , wrote the Riverway Law application addressed to U.K. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as they were "instructed by Hamas" to do. "The reality is that [Hamas] poses no threat to the U.K. people and have been explicit about this" -- handily bypassing the 15 British nationals who were slaughtered in the October 7 southern Israel attack in 2023.

"A whole host of legal and mental gymnastics were provided by the head of the law firm to explain why their actions are legitimate and how this is somehow a valid pathway to ending the bloodshed in Gaza and responding to the daily scenes of murdered Palestinian children."

"None of these individuals, including those at the law firm, bothered to understand that Hamas is the very root of the destruction of Gaza and the collapse of the Palestinian national project, having served the interests of the far right and the anti-Palestinian forces within Israeli politics and society."

Palestinian American researcher Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Canada, Fundraising Haven for Palestinian Terrorism

"It is such an honour to be here in Beirut today, one among a sea of over a million people in collective tribute, mourning, love and commitment to the road of resistance and liberation exemplified by Sayyed Hassan Nasralla and Sayyed Hisham Safieddine."

Charlotte Kates, Canadian citizen, co-founder, Samidoun Terrorist group, Vancouver-based

 

"Today, I attended the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut."

"During the ceremony, Israeli warplanes flew low over the stadium on two occasions, provoking a defiant response from tens of thousands of mourners."

Dimitri Lascaris, lawyer 'activist journalist', Canadian citizen 

"Barakat [Khaled Barakat, Samidoun co-founder] has previously publicly acknowledged Samidoun's affiliation with the PFLP [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group outlawed in Canada], despite direction from PFLP leadership to maintain the confidential nature of the relationship."

U.S. Treasury Department statement

Charlotte Kates posted this photo on her X account with the following caption: "It is such an honor to be here in Beirut today, one among a sea of over a million people in collective tribute, mourning, love and commitment to the road of resistance and liberation exemplified by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hisham Safieddine." Photo by Charlotte Kates /X

Charlotte Kates, who styles herself an 'international coordinator' for Samidoun, circulated photographs of herself at the Beirut 'funeral' of Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, while holding a Samidoun flag. Apart from her presence at the event, two other Canadians were in attendance to mourn the assassination by Israeli airstrikes of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, leaders of the Islamist terror group. Representatives of Islamist terrorist groups gathered in their tens of thousands to pay homage to the two acclaimed terrorist leaders, beloved of the Islamic Republic of Iran theocratic leadership and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

 

Lebanon's largest sports arena was used as a venue for this public funeral, where mass chants of 'death to Israel, 'death to America' rang out. The current head of Hezbollah, Naim Qassam, gave a keynote address to the crowd -- remotely, in fear he would become the third in succession to be assassinated by the military of the country that remains the sole target of Islam's terrorist contingent. 

It is telling just how deeply Islamist terrorism has infiltrated Canada at all levels of society, from its growing Muslim population, ascending to become stealth-acting members of government at every level. Dimitri Lascaris, one of the three Canadians attending this notorious event was a candidate for the leadership of the far left Green Party of Canada in 2020; a former chair of the board of directors for Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. Yet another innocuous-sounding title for yet another group whose purpose is to slander Israel, to mount divestment campaigns in BDS and to persuade others that Palestinians are entitled to the Judean ancestral land that present-day Israel sits upon.

 

The Israel Air Force flyby Lascaris referred to in a video he shot of the warplanes buzzing the funeral was confirmed by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz to include the very types of aircraft used to assassinate both Nasrallah and Safieddine in separate incidents; intended to send a 'message' to the faithful in Hezbollah. "You will specialize in funerals, and we will [specialize] in victories", he had stated. 

Born in the United States, Kates claims Canadian citizenship, living in Vancouver since 2009, founding Samidoun with her husband Khaled Barakat, a high-ranking member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, recognized as a terrorist group in Canada since 2003. Samidoun was also declared a terror entity following Samidoun organizers seen burning a Canadian flag on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, leading chants of "death to Canada", during one of their pro-Hamas demonstrations following the events of October 7, 2023 when Hamas operatives by the thousands that included PFLP members, stormed across the border from Gaza into Israel to perpetrate a savage bloodbath killing 1,200 and taking 120 Israeli children, elderly, women and men along with foreign farm workers into Gaza as hostages.

 

To say that the current Liberal-led Justin Trudeau government is soft on Palestinian terrorism is a bit of an understatement. Despite the fact that these terrorist groups are classed as such in Canada, no level of government has acted to outlaw them and arrest those supporting them in Canada. Their ongoing representations on behalf of Palestinian terrorism, openly supporting the sadistic savagery of October 7, the mutilation and rapes of Israeli girls and women, the torching of Israeli homes with entire families inside, the wholesale slaughter of a high percentage of Israelis living in border kibbutzim (communal farming villages), with no official intervention, much less action on the part of Canadian police forces.

 

The United States assigning terror status to Samidoun, stated that the group headquartered in Canada functions as an "international fundraiser" for the PFLP. While in Lebanon, Barakat writes openly about co-ordinating 'resistance' activities with Hezbollah. "This country Lebanon, will fight, and will emerge stronger and unified, trampling the criminal Zionists and imperialists", he stated while praising the Al-Aqsa Flood, so named by Hamas as a titular nomenclature for the massive bloodletting October 7 campaign of 2023. 

Also present for the funeral last Sunday for Nasrallah, Barakat made an on-camera appearance for the English-language propaganda outlet of the Islamic Republic of Iran: "Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was an exceptional historical leader and we are very lucky that we lived in his time", he stated, lauding the Hezbollah leader whose butchery against Israel gained him fame in the Islamist world of terrorism. Barakat also boasts Canadian citizenship.

 

Despite having been designated by Canada as a terrorist group, Samidoun's website and social media channels continue to function openly with no intervention by any government agency. They continue their solicitation of donations, while continuing to support the BDS movement, and although under suspicion of terrorism activity and subject to court-ordered conditions barring Kates from attending public protests she was still able to travel to Iran where she accepted an Islamic Human Rights Award in recognition of her "anti-Zionist activities". 

Khaled Barakat — the husband of Samidoun leader Charlotte Kates — is seen at a 2015 protest in Brussels in a photo posted on the Samidoun website. Israel’s internal security service alleges that Barakat is a senior figure in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a listed terrorist organization in Canada and elsewhere. Photo by samidoun.net

"I can't ask for more." Non-Extradition, Hassan Diab

"After 43 years of judicial wandering, justice is finally served for this deadly antisemitic attack."

"Everything must now be done to enforce the international arrest warrant."

"CRIF calls on Canada to cooperate with French justice."

Yonathan Arfi, president, Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF)

 

"The course puts central emphasis on miscarriages of justice in the context of Canadian extradition law, with close examination of a high-profile extradition case that highlights the pertinent issues."

"[The] 'high-profile extradition case' focuses on Hassan Diab's own [trials and tribulations as an innocent man unjustly accused of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who was responsible for a deadly explosion in 1980 in Paris, at the Rue Copernic synagogue]."

Carleton University course outline in social justice

A French court has found Ottawa academic Hassan Diab guilty in absentia on terrorism charges related to a 1980 synagogue bombing. The question now is will Canada extradite him to face a life sentence? CBC

 

A year ago Palestinian-Canadian Hassan Diab was found by a French court to be guilty of charges that he committed a criminal offence in his involvement with the bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue. Groups as disparate -- yet linked by their concerns for 'human rights' -- as the Quakers, Amnesty International, Carleton University itself and scores of other groups have called on the federal government not to respond to France's extradition request following Dr. Diab's conviction.

This would be a second extradition; the first one returning him to France had him incarcerated for several years awaiting a trial that was postponed during the search to continue gathering plausible evidence against the man's involvement in a crime that killed four people and injured many others; a deadly attack against French Jews, marking a new era of violence committed by Palestinian or Islamist terrorists in France.

Before his arrest in Canada in 2008, when he was placed under strict bail conditions until he was returned to France in 2018, Diab had taught courses on human rights as a sessional lecturer at Carleton University. From that time in 2006 forward, to the present he is now once again teaching at Carleton University; a third-year course on social justice in action. The action related to social justice is entirely his own experience, emphasizing how an 'innocent man' can be caught up in a web of false intrigues.

Addressed to Carleton University president Jerry Tomberlin, an open letter by B'nai Brith was sent demanding Diab's dismissal. His continued employment at the university, the letter pointed out, "raises significant questions regarding Carleton's dedication to the safety and well-being of its students and staff." The university is well aware of Diab's conviction, and it has voiced their championship of his innocence.

Arriving in Canada in 1993, Diab claims to have been a victim of erroneous identity, that he had no involvement whatever in the bombing; a claim his colleagues at the department of sociology and anthropology at Carleton fully endorse in solidarity with the man they know only as one of their own. In the immediate aftermath of the French conviction last April, Carleton's department of sociology and anthropology sent a communique demanding that Diab's extradition be blocked by the federal Liberal government.

A rally was organized by the department the year before Diab's conviction, for the purpose of claiming that French justice authorities were involved in a sham case against their colleague: "Hassan Diab was not involved at all in that bombing that took place in 1980", an event listing claimed, with the authority of the convinced. It took until the 1990s before Diab became a suspect.

Major areas of circumstantial evidence propelled him into the role of primary suspect; his passport revealed that he entered and exited Europe immediately prior to and following the bombing. Testimony from friends in the hands of French authorities claimed that Diab had connections with the terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. A fiction figure by the name of "Alexander Panadriyu who purportedly planted the bomb, matched descriptions of Diab himself.

 

Firemen standing by the wreckage of a car and motorcycle after a bomb attack at a Paris synagogue on October 3, 1980 that killed four people. (AFP/Getty Images)

 

Other contentious evidence came down to French handwriting analysts finding similarities between Diab's writing style with the fictional Panadriyu on a hotel registration card. On Diab's first extradition in 2014 following a lengthy extradition process when a judge examining the extradition request and allied circumstantial evidence when the handwriting similarity was called into question, failure to proceed to trial after years in prison cast doubt on the extradition and the process of French justice by Canadian authorities.

Released from three years of prison without trial on the ruling of insufficient evidence to proceed, Diab returned to Canada. Finally, in 2021 a decision by the French Supreme Court ordered a re-opening of the case, but Canada was reluctant to extradite him once more; an external review of the case ordered by the federal government left the impression that Canada had erred in acceding to the French request for extradition, given the preceding circumstances.

That report concluded that there was "discomfort" in repeating the extradition process when the original process concluded with his dismissal without charges following three years of detention in a French prison. "He was legally extradited having been afforded all appropriate procedural protections. The fact that he was not convicted in France does not render the extradition process flawed", the report concluded.

 

The fact does remain: this is a man who steadfastly contends his innocence, charging mistaken identity was at the core of his ordeal. Yet, unmistakably, he was found guilty of involvement in a terrorist act by a French court of justice. On the basis of circumstantial evidence considered reliable enough to implicate him in the death of four people by terrorist action. By association and the conviction he is labelled a terrorist with past connection to the terror group PLFP. 

 

As such, honouring him as a man of authority on human rights and miscarriages of justice with an academic platform to pursue his personal goal of clearing his name as an innocent beleaguered by an

inefficient French system of justice that sought to placate the rage of French Jews over the actions of violent Islamists and Palestinian terrorists terrorizing and murdering Jews, in a case that has for so long defied solving and closure he is able to manipulate public opinion as a victim of injustice.

"[It's] still devastating to know they [French justice] pursued that biased road which led to the unfortunate decision."

"It was not easy on me or on supporters and [my] family in general."

"[Calling on Trudeau to honour his sentiments that what happened to Diab should not have happened and should never happen again]. That's the simplest and easiest and shortest thing."

"I can't ask for more."

Hassan Diab

Hassan Diab in Ottawa on Friday April 21, 2023. A French court found Diab guilty on Friday in relation to a 1980 bombing of a Paris Synagogue. (Michel Aspirot/CBC)

"All Out For Gaza"

"[Jews were] lying [about the attacks]."

"Is it possible that if they are lying about these events and creating a false genocide, it is likely they may have lied about certain details of a previous big genocide [Holocaust] that may have occurred?"

Toronto4Palestine

 

"In the last several days, we have witnessed the active decolonization of Palestinian land led by the Palestinian resistance."

"May the memory of our martyrs continue to guide us on the steadfast path to liberation."

Palestinian Youth Movement 

"The most prolific organizer [of 'pro-Palestinian' solidarity marches in the wake of the October 7 attack on southern Israel] has been the Palestinian Youth Movement, a group active in both the United States and Canada. It was the PYM that marshalled the first wave of celebratory "All Out for Gaza" marches that appeared in all of Canada's major cities in the immediate hours after the October 7 massacres."

"And in the dozens of events held since, the protests have included everything from displays of the swastika to children leading open calls for "intifada" as the "only solution."

Tristin Hopper,  journalist, National Post

A rally in Montreal on Nov. 12, 2023. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

It is well enough known that the terrorist Palestinian group Hamas which governs Gaza orchestrated a savagely sadistic day of slaughter in southern Israel on October 7, when its operatives flooded into Israel at the Gaza border to begin a massacre of Israeli civilians, mass rape of girls and women, killing of infants and children in a sadistic orgy of psychopathic hatred. Then it was revealed unsurprisingly, that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was also involved.

And finally came the realization of ordinary Palestinian civilians opportuning themselves by following the terrorists into the breaches of the separating walls at the border to commit their own atrocities on Jewish families in the border towns, villages and kibbutzim. While Israel has been induced to commit to a temporary ceasefire in the hopes of having at the very least women and child hostages returned to Israel, the plight of a ten-month-old baby, his 4-year-old sibling and their mother gripped the nation.

The three  were to have been returned to Israel in an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Hamas informed Israel they were unable to locate the three. They followed that up with saying they were in the hands of another terror group. And finally, that they were dead. That other group was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, notorious decades ago for its plane hijacking and murders of Jews. The family, it appeared, died at their hands. Their father, taken hostage separately, was forced to watch a video of his family's death.

Finally, Hamas refused to release any more of the Israeli women, some ten in number along with several children. Speculation is that they are either dead or close to death; the terrorists gang-raped women to death, breaking the pelvic bones of some and others taken hostage for use as 'sex slaves'. None of this happened, however, according to Palestinians in Canada, organizing mass protests in the streets of Canadian cities, accusing Israel of genocide and celebrating the courage of Hamas and others.

Now it has been revealed that affiliates of the PLFP have been directly involved in many "ceasefire" and "stop the genocide" mass rallies clogging Canadian streets. Bearing in mind that Hamas, PIJ and PLFP are listed terrorist groups in Canada. The Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network headquartered in Vancouver and founded by Khaled Barakat, a leader in the PFLP's Central Committee has been actively arranging protests. 

Germany, following Israel's example, listed Samidoun as a terrorist entity amidst a nationwide crackdown on 'pro-Hamas' organizations. German Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser spoke of Samidoun as having an "antisemitic, inhuman world view, particularly repugnant". Yet in Canada the group has achieved federal non-profit status as a charity. In May they posted images of protesters in Vancouver there to affirm "the right of Palestinians to carry out popular and armed struggle to liberate Palestine from the river to the sea".

It has also been busy as a key organizer of Canadian anti-Israel rallies following the very first hours after the October 7 attacks. Former B.C. Civil Liberties Association head Harsha Walia praised the "Palestinians on hang-gliders" responsible for the massacre of over 200 young people attending a musical festival close to the Gaza border, in Israel. Other groups have been organizing waves of "ceasefire" and "stop the genocide" mass rallies.

Social media channels have been rife  with such groups posting open praise for terrorism in the months leading up to October 7, followed by ecstatic celebrations as the initial details of the massacres reached the public. A frequent organizer in the Greater Toronto Area, Toronto4Palestine hailed news of the October 7 terror attacks as acts of "heroic resistance", that "has shaped a new precedent for our national liberation struggle".

And the Palestinian Youth Movement ranks as the most influentially busy of the groups in organizing events publicized as "ceasefire" or "peace" rallies, while at the very same time the group has openly supported Palestinian terrorism; their ultimate goal to see Israel violently destroyed; a carbon copy of the Hamas manifesto of its reason for existence as a death cult.

And the federal government in Ottawa, of Justin Trudeau? Well it hesitates to 'take sides', deploring the horrific atrocities committed by Palestinians against Israeli Jews, while at the same time warning Israel that its response to the constant threats, attacks and this final barbaric episode, must be measured, that the lives of Palestinians must be held as sacrosanct as those of Jews were not.

So no action to stop the constant rallies in support of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups which fly the flags of fascist terror groups outlawed in Canada (wink-wink), for fear of alienating a large voting bloc. In view of which, Canadians will perhaps eventually get around to asking themselves and then posing the question to their government:  

Why has Canada permitted the importation into the country of people as immigrants, migrants and refugees who bring with them these hateful ideologies, and why are they allowed to air them so aggressively in public?

Oh, right, I plumb forgot! A majority of Canadians has expressed -- through several nationwide polls -- their extreme concerns over the situation of citizens, presuming to be Canadian and expressing and acting on these issues in a morally indefensible way, not reflective of the general Canadian feelings that there are indeed two sides; one a nation of democratic values that upholds universal laws of justice, the other an uncivilized, barbaric rabble for whom crimes against humanity is just business as usual.

"As the morning dawns on 7 October 2023, the resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive offensive confronting the occupier by land, air and sea, the resistance fighting to advance return and the liberation of Palestine."

Samidoun Network

Terrorist Group and Don't Know Where to Peddle Your Wares? Try Canada!

"Enough is enough. Samidoun's ties to the PFLP [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] terrorist entity are self-proclaimed and explicit. The group does not even attempt to hide them."

"What is unclear is why the [Liberal] government has yet to take action to outlaw the group's activities in Canada."

Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, (CIJA) Canada 

 

"We have long alerted the government to Samidoun's incitement to hatred against Canada's Jewish community and affiliation with the PFLP."

"Emboldened by impunity and inaction, Samidoun is now hosting its first major North American demonstration, here in the capital [Ottawa] of our country."

Shimon Koffler Fogel, president, CIJA 

"This conference is not organized by Samidoun."

"Throughout my years here, and I've been here for almost a decade, any kind of Palestinian-themed event here meets some sort of resistance, from either B'nai Brith or other organizations, so we've come to hear all kinds of complaints."

"We work with all kinds of progressive movements here in the city."

Jason St-Laurent, SAW curator

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is honoured to join with the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, in calling all activists, organizers and supporters of Palestine in North America to join us in Ottawa on Algonquin Anishinaabe Land, April 28-30, 2023, for the Liberation Conference. Samidoun Website

The tip-off is the 'progressive' designation and affiliation. The PFLP is a recognized terrorist organization, infamous for its plane highjackings and other high-profile stunts to draw attention to the existence of a 'Palestinian' extremist group whose purpose is the destruction of the State of Israel. As a terrorist entity Canada, among other democratic nations of the world have placed the group on a terrorist list forbidden entry to those countries.

 

Jewish groups, in view of the NGO group calling itself Samidoun, heavily affiliated with the PFLP which purportedly defends the human rights of Palestinians in Israeli prisons (where conditions are such that prisoners may pursue academic upgrades among other 'progressive'-welfare conditions of their imprisonment for major terrorism events) and for whom propaganda slandering Israel and Jews is a major activity -- call on the government to investigate it under Section 83.05(1)(b) of the Criminal Code for acting on behalf of and/or associating with a listed terrorist entity, the PFLP.

The SAW Centre is an avant-garde Ottawa arts centre, preparing to play host to an international conference organized by a shadowy terror-affiliated network whose purpose is defaming Israel preparatory to its destruction. It has wide appeal among 'progressives' and those for whom antisemitism is a natural reaction to the presence of Jews. Yet Public Safety Canada is disinterested in acting in any capacity, whether it be an investigation of the presence of these outlawed terror groups or their purpose harmful to the Canadian-Jewish community in inciting against Jews and Israel.

According to the SAW Centre, the Jewish Federation of Ottawa is busy spreading a "fallacy" about the central role that Samidoun has taken in the conference organization. The Ontario Public Interest Research Group at Carleton University booked the SAW venue, Samidoun simply an endorser of the conference among about 30 "antiwar" and "anti-imperialist" groups organizing and attending the conference whose focus is the victimhood of Palestinians.

 

From its inception in 1973, the artist-run centre SAW has supported politically and socially engaged art, focusing on the performance and media arts.  SAW Website

 

The website for the conference is festooned with Samidoun flags; its European coordinator announced the plans for the event months earlier, the first such conference in North America of "the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement". A fairly new group of Palestinian militants, Masar Badil, who reject Palestinian Authority legitimacy, oppose peace talks with Israel and call for a resumption of the intifada of 1987. After the intifadeh that saw the deaths of both Israelis and Palestinians, 822 Palestinians were executed by their leaders, who charged them with collaborating with Israel.

The co-founder of the group is Khaled Barakat, key in the rejectionist militant movement, who has been resident in Canada off and on for several decades; a ubiquitous figure at Samidoun events globally. According to Israeli intelligence, Barakat is a high-ranking PFLP member, and Samidoun the PFLP's overseas fund-raising and recruitment proxy. Fund raising is vital to Samidoun and they've run into constraints since Visa and MasterCard cut the group off.

Three days before Samidoun was registered as a charitable group with Corporations Canada as a non-profit corporation, Israeli authorities listed Samidoun as a terrorist entity, given its PFLP connections. The event taking place at the SAW Centre this weekend describes itself as focusing on "building the liberation struggle in North America", linking with Indigenous and Black "liberation movements". 

Sessions at the conference include: Anti-Imperialism and the International People's tribunal on U.S. Imperialism; Palestinian Prisoners and the Resistance; Organizing for Return to Palestine; Building the Boycott Movement; and Anti-Zionism: An Anti-Colonial Struggle.

Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine stand guard during an Al-Quds Day parade in Beirut on April 14. Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters

Canada, Harbouring Terrorists

"Representatives of the organization are active in many countries in Europe and North America, led by Khaled Barakat, who is part of the leadership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) abroad."

"Barakat is involved with establishing militant cells and motivating terrorist activity in Judea & Samaria and abroad."

National Bureau for Counter-Terror Financing report, Israel

"It's highly alarming that modern terror organizations, in their tactics of concealment and disguise, have methodically adopted pseudonyms from the world of human rights and civil society organizations to hide behind."

Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Ronen Hoffman

"The links between the PFLP, a listed terrorist entity in Canada and Samidoun are clear. We are deeply troubled that the funder and leader of Samidoun, Khaled Barakat, and his wife Charlotte Kates are able to lead Samidoun from Canada with apparent impunity."

"This should be shocking to all Canadians."

Shimon Fogel, president, CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Canada

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! interviewed Khaled Barakat, and Charlotte Kates, co-ordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian prisoners’ solidarity network.

Many of questionable character have found themselves a comfortable niche in Canada, far from the turmoil of the geographic locations abroad that represent the focus of their activities, generally actions engaged in that result in turmoil, threat and murder of those whose ideologies or sectarian choices or, in the case of Israel and the Palestinian diaspora, an antipathy to the very location of a historical homeland restored to the rightful inheritors, to the murderous rage of usurpers claiming the land as their own.

Again, in the case of Palestinians, there is a propensity to migrate abroad and from their new perches plan and execute atrocities to take place that target the Jewish state or Jews in general as symbols of the self-imposed 'victimhood' of Arabs who saw fit to 'inherit' the identity-nomenclature of the original inhabitants; Jewish Palestinians denoting a Roman-era designation for Judea and Judeans. Where not only have those Arabs taken possession of the name of Palestinian but they are claimants to all symbolic and real religious sites aligned with Judaism.

Young Palestinians in Canada on study visas are enabled to become landed immigrants and eventually citizens, while others immigrate with full families to make a place for themselves within Canadian society. Yet rather than accepting the prevailing Canadian culture and values they bring with them venomous hatred of Israel and of Jews, fulminating against both as usurpers in their very land of ancestral inheritance.

Palestinian Khaled Barakat, now 51, has lived in Canada posing as a Palestinian rights activist and freelance writer for the last 20 years. He and his defenders claim he is a victim of Israeli intimidation and persecution simply because he is a voice for Palestinians in exile from 'their' land. In fact he is an active and senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist group, listed as such in North America, the European Union, Japan and Australia.

In Palestinian news websites the man is described as a "leader of the PFLP", and sometimes as a member of the PFLP's governing central committee. According to Israeli intelligence, PFLP documents identifying him as a key operative in their organization have been intercepted, completely validating identifying him as a covert terrorist living freely in Canada. His true identity is fully known by Canadian intelligence agencies, law-enforcement authorities and senior federal politicians.

Many of Samidoun’s activists are also members and leaders of pro-BDS organizations in the United States.

• Khaled Barakat, coordinator of Samidoun, is also a member of the Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition, an organization that supports BDS.



  Khaled Barakat (shown in a photo that appears on the Samidoun website). Photo by Aage Christensen/samidoun.net

• Charlotte Kates, co-manager of Samidoun, is a member of the “Organizing Collective” of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) and was previously an activist with New Jersey Solidarity Activists for the Liberation of Palestine (NJS), an organization that called for the destruction of Israel.

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He has appeared for years at rallies and meetings across Canada and travelled widely in Europe. In 2019 he was detained in Berlin and deported for what German authorities spoke of as violent, antisemitic rhetoric. The PFLP's major financial and political backers are the regime in Damascus, Khomeini's Iran and Hezbollah, in Lebanon. Barakat himself is involved with an organization called the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network that Israeli intelligence identify as a PFLP "proxy" functioning as the group's overseas recruitment, fundraising and propaganda arm.

Samidoun  was designated last year as a terrorist organization in Israel, with Barakat identified as central to its operations. Shortly afterward, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network was formally registered by the federal Corporations Canada agency under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. Alarmed, under information-sharing terms of the 2014 Canada-Israel strategic partnership agreement (signed under the previous Harper Conservative government)m\, Israel proposed a briefing spurred by the PFLP having "inexplicably been allowed to set up shop in this country".

A meeting between Israeli and Canadian officials, including representatives from Canada's CSIS (security intelligence establishment), the RCMP and the Canadian Border Service Agency was arranged. Nothing of any substance came of the meeting. Samidoun's registry was not revoked and nor was the organization dissolved in Canada. B'nai Brith's chief executive wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pointing out that the government's inattention was "inexcusable".

"This hate rally [Al Quds march taking place in Canada on April 30] is particularly troubling given that later this week, Jewish communities around the world will pause to mark Yom HaShoah [the Holocaust anniversary]."

"We are equally alarmed by the apparent involvement [in the Al-Quds parage] of terror-tied organizations, like Samidoun."

Gail Adelson-Marcovitz, CIJA national board chair