"By 2011, she [Charlotte Kates] helped to found Samidoun, which boasts chapters around the world and has the stated purpose of seeking “to achieve justice for Palestinian prisoners,” in Israeli detention through demonstrations and other public events. Earlier this year she travelled to Iran to accept a human rights award, where it also has a chapter."

"Many of the prisoners she advocates to be freed have links to “terrorism, assassinations and countless attacks against Israel,” according to Public Safety Canada."

"By listing a group as a terrorist entity, it becomes a crime to provide them with material support. Leading up to its listing, Kates’ organization had long sparked concern from political leaders and companies. One point, she told supporters they could only take paper cheques, in light of the restrictions placed on them."

Stephanie Taylor, National Post 

Almost a year-and-a-half after Samidoun was listed as a designated terrorist group in Canada, no move has yet been made by any government authority to disband their Canadian operations. For that period as well Samidoun retained charitable status with Revenue Canada, continuing to raise funds in Canada to be sent abroad to Hamas and to the PFLP where Samidoun's founder Charlotte Kate's husband, Palestinian Khaled Barakat is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Both husband and wife, incidentally, have Canadian citizenship. 

 

Anti-Israel protesters at a Samidoun-organized rally burn a Canadian flag outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on October 7, 2024. Photo by Jarryd Jaeger/X

 

"[It is completely unacceptable [that Samidoun remained a federally registered not-for-profit]."

"I have therefore directed government officials to urgently look at any and all options to formally dissolve Samidoun as well as any and all listed terrorist entities in Canada."

Melanie Joly, Industry Minister, September 2025  

Oops, big splash, but never carried through. Samidoun remains headquartered in Vancouver. Finally, Corporations Canada pulled Samidoun registration on March 27, stating that Samidoun, accused not only of advocating for violent terrorism, but of helping to fundraise for active Gazan terror groups, took action -- actually no, they did not. A statement on that very same day by the U.S. Department of the Treasury elaborated more fully, accusing Samidoun of exploiting the charitable sector to bankroll extremist violence. A "sham fundraiser whose efforts have supported terrorism".

 

Samidoun, advocating for Palestinian prisoners...Photo: Fatin al-Tamimi

 

Samidoun remained an active listing on Corporations Canada's official database, including a business number and names and addresses of three Samidoun directors. The listing eventually had a note appended to warn observers Corporations Canada was in the process of reviewing details of a terrorist organization, that any contact with the group might risk criminal prosecution. "It is a criminal offence for anyone in Canada ... to directly or indirectly provide property knowing that it will be used by or benefit a terrorist group", they alerted.

 

The registration remained active and only after a technical violation of the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act was resolved would their registration be wiped out. That violation seems to have been that Samidoun ceased submitting annual filings, following its terror designation; an oversight that was ultimately responsible for its being "dissolved for non-compliance". Really.

 

Since Samidoun's official federal terrorist designation none of its organizers have faced any charges. Co-founder Charlotte Kates remains free to enter and exit the country as she wishes. Despite the terror designation the Samidoun website and social media accounts remain active. On the website a statement appears that Samidoun intends to ignore the error designation, where Canada is referred to as a "settler-colonial state built on genocide". 

 

A screenshot of the Samidoun-led anti-Israel protest outside the Vancouver Art Gallery where Charlotte Kates was arrested, April 26, 2024. Photo by freepalestinetricitiesbc/Instagram

  

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

Risen Tide of Antisemitism in Canada

"[Samidoun, also known as Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network], claims to be campaigning for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails."

"Many Palestinian prisoners for which Samidoun advocates for release have ties to terrorism, assassinations and countless attacks against Israel."

"Samidoun's ideology revolves exclusively around the worldview that Israel and Zionism are the greatest danger to the Middle East and the world."

Public Safety Canada

"The Vancouver Police Major Crime Section, with assistance from the Vancouver Police Department Emergency Response Team, executed a search warrant yesterday at a residence in the 1800 block of East 1st Avenue, as part of an ongoing hate crime investigation under Section 319 of the Criminal Code."

"One person was initially taken into custody and has now been released pending completion of the investigation."

VPD media spokesperson Tania Visintin

Social media posts from pro-Palestinian activists supporting Kates and Samidoun expressed outrage and questioned the “excessive” police presence involved in the Nov. 14 raid (top left, via Global News) to execute a search warrant in a public incitement of hatred investigation. (Via Instagram)

"At times, the community [Vancouver and wider B.C. Jewish community] feels alone… Jewish businesses have been targeted, Jewish members of the community have been targeted in schools, at university, in the workplace."

"We have seen the glorification of terrorism at the hands of members of Samidoun [including at weekly protests on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery]."

"[The community is feeling] threatened and unsafe."

"We believe that it is crucial for civil society that Charlotte Kates be charged immediately. She’s now the leader of a terror organization."

"Let the courts decide."

Nico Slobinsky, vice-president, Pacific Region, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

Since the Palestinian terrorists' attack on southern Israel led by Hamas in Gaza on October 7, 2023, Samidoun, along with other Palestinian agitprop group have been inciting to violent antisemitism in the guise of criticizing 'Zionism', and organizing ongoing weekly and sometimes daily marches, protests and groups harassing Jewish communities and Jewish-owned businesses. Crowds of Palestinian-flag-waving antisemites have gathered outside hospitals, old-age retirement homes, synagogues, Jewish schools and community centres to shout invectives and threats against Israel veiled with 'From the River to the sea".

Clearly antisocial verging on psychopathic activities like blocking streets and  highways with marchers shouting 'Intifada!' and 'Final Solution' have inspired no reaction by authorities at any level, anywhere across the country. Jews are left to fend for themselves against the risen tide of antisemitism, viral in its endless permutations of isolation and hate-messaging. The federal government, much less provincial or municipal authorities have been satisfied to sit back and 'not notice' that a cultural/ethnic/religious minority in Canada's equal society with its guarantees of security for all, have been besieged for over a year.

And then when it became obvious that Jews were the appetizer, and once that went down well, the main course would commence, when Palestinian, pro-Hamas groups and organizers turned on Canada itself as a purportedly racist, colonialist, imperialist country perched on land not their own, taken by force from its original denizens, and shouts of derogatory derision damning Canada along with the attempted burning of a Canadian flag by Samidoun supporters moved the government to finally outlaw Samidoun as a terrorist group, closely aligned with the already-designated Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. 

Despite Samidoun being listed as a terrorist organization in Canada last month, its co-founder and director Charlotte Kates has been proceeding with the group, continuing to organize marches that demonize Israel, calling for its destruction, and threatening Canadian Jews' security, with no moves by either the Federal government or law and order to step in and put a halt to those activities. Listing Samidoun as a terrorist entity was a first step, but it seemed that following through to stop its activities was a step too far.

Now, finally, the Vancouver home of Charlotte Kates, out of which the management of the Samidoun group and its many branches abroad is located, was raided by the Vancouver Police Department's Emergency Response Team. A search warrant was executed relating to a hate crime investigation. During the raid, a flash-bang grenade was used, resulting in windows of the house being broken. It was explained by a police spokesperson that the emergency response team is "often used in the execution of search warrants when we believe there could be a risk to the public or a risk to the officers".

 

Time for justice and the Canadian court system to work in tandem with the police departments of the nation, in coordination with government, serious about condemning racism and terrorism and putting a halt to its expansion within Canada. 

Samidoun: Offended It is Recognized as a Terrorist Group

"[Between the three politicians [Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre] recklessly and maliciously [accusing Samidoun as a terrorist entity owing a retraction and apology, a lawsuit has gone forward]."

"The suit will force the biggest mouths in government to actually show proof of the allegation of terrorist activity."

"It is very dangerous if we allow a government to decide who gets to enjoy full rights and who doesn't without showing actual proof."

Toronto lawyer Stephen Ellis

 

"The Liberals cannot legislate away our right to free speech."

"If they contend we are terrorists, let them prove it in court."

Charlotte Kates, co founder, Samidoun

 

"Samidoun does not have any material or organizational ties to entities listed on the terrorist lists of the United States, Canada or the European Union."

Samidoun statement

Anti-Israel demonstrators march in Ottawa on March 9, 2024. Samidoun, a group listed in Israel as a terror organization and banned outright in Germany, is one of the main groups organizing pro-Palestinian protests in Canada. Photo by Ashley Fraser / Postmedia

 

Vancouver-based Samidoun established a global network of support branches to which they give direction in the promulgation of 'public relations' announcements and protests in support of Palestinian 'rights' and entitlements in a world where Palestinian terrorism wreaks havoc as it mounts terrorist assaults against Jews universally and within Israel in particular, exacting a penalty of murder as the price it feels Israel must pay for its insistence that it has a right to exist on its own ancestral land. 

Palestinian terrorism is geared toward penalizing Israel and Jews through a never-ending devotion to lethal assaults against their 'oppressor'. Portraying themselves as victims seeking restitution of land they claim as theirs despite that it is historically Judean land, and Jews the original inhabitants native to the land, those identifying themselves as 'Palestinians' are in fact looting from the indigenous Jewish population the heritage that was never theirs.

There is, and never has been, a shortage of militant terrorism among the Arab Palestinian population. Among the earliest and most barbaric has been the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, involved in plane and sea-going vessel hijacking, hostage-taking and murderous assaults. Samidoun is a later, public-relations manifestation of Palestinian terrorism's realization of what can be accomplished when slanderous lies are repeated frequently enough to seem believable to the history-ignorant West.

Samidoun, ostensibly created to speak for the rights of Palestinians in Israeli prisons serving sentences for violent crimes against Israelis -- to agitate for their recognition as 'freedom fighters' eligible for release by virtue of the fact that whatever crimes were committed were in defense of their right to 'struggle against' their colonialist oppressors -- is committed to portraying violent criminals as merely asserting their humanitarian right to free themselves from imperialist colonizers.

 

Protesters from the Samidoun organization gather in front of the Muelheim train station in Cologne, Germany, on April 15, 2023, to commemorate Palestinian Prisoners' Day (Ying Tang / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

 

Those like Charlotte Kates preach to a public in the West for whom antisemitism is not unknown, that there is a connection between colonizers of the past and those of the present, as despised, indigenous-injurious exploiters of original, authentic territorial populations. Not only do they promote chants of 'death to Israel', but also 'death to Canada', tarred with the same colonizing brush as Israel. Samidoun portrays itself as a human-rights group seeking justice for all disentitled people, with a special emphasis on Jews and Israel, its first and foremost agenda.

Its links with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are obvious enough, not least since the other of its co-founders, Kates's husband Khaled Barakat, is a prominent leader in the PFLP. Kates has run afoul of Canada's hate-speech prohibitions in law, with Vancouver Police leading an investigation following on her having fulsomely praised the savage Hamas attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Jewish groups in Canada have identified Samidoun for what it is, lobbying government to have it recognized as a hate group and enabler of terrorism; linked in its formation and purpose with an already-listed terror group, the PFLP.

Several weeks back, no longer able to ignore the reality of Samidoun's purpose, linkages and incitements the federal government finally relented and announced its decision to place Samidoun on the country's terror list. With the kind of impudent, defiant arrogance recognizable as a hallmark of Samidoun, it now portrays itself as ill done by, a victim of government over-reach, and should apologies not be forthcoming, a full-scale lawsuit is to be mounted.

The leader of the official opposition in Parliament, Pierre Poilievre, had called on the Liberals to designate Samidoun as a terror entity, emphasizing that the group had "clear and direct ties" to designated terror groups abroad. Mr. Poilievre stated, before the official announcement of its designation, that prime minister Trudeau and the federal New Democratic Party "have allowed terrorist organizations to operate freely across Canada", which qualified him a place alongside Canada's public safety minister and prime minister in the pending lawsuit.

A screenshot of the Samidoun-led anti-Israel protest outside the Vancouver Art Gallery where Charlotte Kates was arrested, April 26, 2024. Photo by freepalestinetricitiesbc/Instagram

Finally Placing Samidoun on the U.S./Canada Terror List

"His [Khaled Barakat, Samidoun founder] fundraising and recruitment efforts support the PFLP's terrorist activity against Israel."

"[The United States is designating Samidoun a] sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP] terrorist organization."

"The PFLP, which was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. Department of State in October 1997 and October 2001, respectively, uses Samidoun to maintain fundraising operations in both Europe and North America."

U.S. State Department press release 

"Organizations like Samidoun masquerade as charitable actors that claim to provide humanitarian support to those in need, yet in reality divert funds for much-needed assistance to support terrorist groups."

Acting Under-Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Bradley T. Smith

Charlotte Kates, in Tehran two weeks ago, accepts the Iranian human right award  Iran International

 

The Vancouver-based anti-Israel organization has finally been listed by Canada, after much campaigning by Canadian Jewish groups, some pro-Israel-supporting Members of Parliament and editorials in a number of Canadian newspapers. What finally forced the Trudeau Liberal government to act was not the terrorist charity's organization of hundreds of rallies and protests decrying Israel's very existence while making life dangerous for Jews in Canada through its incitements of hate, but the over-reach by Samidoun revealing the scope of its program.

When the hate group encouraged and guided its followers to declare themselves fully in support of Hamas and Hezbollah, declaring fealty to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah and other non-government terrorist militias from Iraq and Syria to Lebanon and Gaza, insisting that 'imperial-colonialist' Canada must be defeated, and burning a Canadian flag to emphasize their point, prime minister Justin Trudeau no longer had any excuse to hide behind failing to recognize them for what they are.

"The listing of Samidoun as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code sends a strong message that Canada will not tolerate this type of activity, and will do everything in its power to counter the ongoing threat to Canada's national security and all people in Canada", announced Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc. It remains to be seen just how strenuously committed this government will be to 'do everything in its power' to destroy the malevolent effect this terror group has succeeded in producing in Canada, in its goal of destabilization and conquest.

Unbelievably, the group has enjoyed charitable status in Canada for years, long after it was repeatedly brought to the attention of the government that their activities created stark and dangerous divisions within Canadian society with no end in sight to their ambitious agenda of making Canada terror-central to the Palestinian networks of demonizing Israel, calling for its destruction, and hounding Jewish Canadians in public, while inciting to violence against Jewish institutions in Canada.

The US. government went a step further than Canada, in designating Barakat's wife Charlotte Kates, a director of Samidoun, a terrorist, while Khaled Barakat  himself has been identified as a ranking leadership member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. These Palestinian terrorist stalwarts last week organized a rally on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks where attendees chanted "death to Canada", to which Samidoun later announced "we at Samidoun stand by this phrase as the call to action that it is".

Masked protesters set a Canadian flag on fire at the event, while a woman led chants of "We are Hezbollah and we are Hamas"; identifying with Lebanon and Gaza. The PFLP has been listed by Canada as a terrorist organization since 2003. Groups with a terrorist designation are prohibited from receiving financial services, donations of money, or property. 

Kates, who directly following the October 7 southern Israel atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas, praised the Hamas and Islamic Jihad savages at a rally: "We stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic brave action on October 7", she crowed. The Vancouver Police Department launched a hate-speech investigation as a follow-up to that event. It has been over  year that the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs lobbied government for Samidoun to be declared a terrorist organization, launching a petition with B'nai Brith Canada to have Kates and Barakat deported.

 

Screenshot showing the Facebook page of Samidoun Deutschland. November 03, 2023. (credit: SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES

"This process has not been tested in Canadian courts. A lot of the reason for that is because we are designating, for the most part, foreign entities. This is one of the only cases where I've seen a direct Canadian tie and a direct Canadian leader ... who will be directly affected by a terrorist listing."

"In the case of an organization like Samidoun, or really any listed terrorist entity, the question comes down to what the people are doing to support the organization."

"Just being a member of an organization is not a criminal offence in Canada. However, as soon as you cross the line into conducting any kind of support or sort of advancement activities that are fairly concrete, then  you come very close to facilitation [of a terrorist activity] and some of those activities."

Jessica Davis, counterterrorism expert, Carleton University

Terrorist Pro-Hamas Supporting Groups in Canada

"[T]he plaintiffs plead that the Samidoun Defendants have committed offences including, but not limited to, providing or collecting property for terrorist activity, providing or collecting property for the benefit of persons facilitating or carrying out terrorist activity, participating in the activity of a terrorist group, leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group, and facilitating terrorist activity."

Statement of Claim in Ontario Superior Court of Justice

 

"[Criteria enabling the federal government to list a terrorist entity is if the person or group in question has] knowingly acted on behalf of, at the direction of or in association with an entity that has knowingly carried out, attempted to carry out, participated in or facilitated a terrorist activity."

Canada's Criminal Code

"Samidoun is knowingly acting on behalf of, at the direction of or in association with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist group under the Criminal Code."

"This qualifies Samidoun for a terrorist listing."

"Why hasn't this happened?"

Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong

"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."

Charlotte Kates, international coordinator for Samidoun

"The expiration of her conditions of release will allow her to continue to initiate hate and division against the local Jewish community."

"If we value respect, inclusion, and diversity the Crown must approve and lay the charges recommended by the Vancouver Police Department."

Ezra Shanken, CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver

 

Samidoun, a clearly terrorist-supporting group that has established itself in Vancouver with branches elsewhere across Canada, has declared itself a solidarity network for Palestinian prisoners. Its founder, Khaled Barakat, married to Charlotte Kates, Samidoun leader, also happens to be identified as a senior figure in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, itself a listed terrorist organization in Canada, the U.S., Israel, the U.K. and the European Union. Yet this group that has been at the forefront of organizing countless pro-Hamas demonstrations across Canada, enjoys charitable status in Canada.

And irrespective of its representation of a proscribed terrorist group listed as such in Canada, the federal Liberal government refuses to address the issue of allowing such a group to operate in Canada, despite the social upheaval it has been part of, in demonizing Israel and harassing Jewish Canadians. There are, in fact, Muslim Members of Parliament at the ministerial level that had signed a contract with Khaled Barakat to conduct instructive human rights sessions for various government departments, until it was revealed that the man had a background linked to terrorism.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has an established record of having pioneered the carrying out of assassinations, suicide bombings, hijackings and murders. Shortly following Germany expelling Kates and Barakat, they established Samidoun in Vancouver as the headquarters of its global operation. A number of Members of Parliament have called upon the federal government to designate Samidoun for what it is, a terrorist organization. Muslim MPs will resist that, and the Trudeau Liberals will not go out of their way to alienate the large and growing Muslim-Canadian demographic, since it's a poor vote-garnering technique.

At a Samidoun-organized commemoration of the glories of the October 7, 2023 slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, the savage mass rape of Israeli girls and women, their pitiless mutilation and torture, and the abduction of 250 Israeli children, elderly, women and girls on its one-year anniversary when protesters burned the Canadian flag while chanting 'death to Canada', 'death to the United States', and "we are Hezbollah and we are Hamas", declaring 'Death to Israel'. 

Samidoun was 'mourning' the death of Hamas's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, vowing its intention to continue its "...jihadist path [and] follow [Nasrallah's] methodology". While Justin Trudeau's government has failed to advance remedial action against the rancid antisemitism that Samidoun and other pro-Hamas groups in Canada relish exhibiting in the public arena, Canada's Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre vows that when he becomes prime minister he will quickly intervene to declare Samidoun an outlawed terrorist group.

In a still of a video posted online, protesters at a pro-Palestinian rally are seen burning a Canadian flag as some chant 'death to Canada, death to the United States and death to Israel.' (Jarryd Jäger/Western Standard)

"So, if burning a Canadian flag, if calling for the death of Canadians, if fomenting hate in this country and most of all being a front for an already-listed terrorist organization is not enough to put them on the [federal government's terrorist] list, then what the hell is it going to take for them to ban them?"

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)

"The Forces of the Resistance" Hamas Death Cult

"On October 7, we saw the potential for a Palestine liberated from Zionism by the forces of the resistance."

"[Demonstration attendees should make an effort] to live up to the examples that every fighter in the brigades [Hamas, PLFP, PIJ, etc.] and every Yemeni marine [Houthis] are showing on a daily basis."

Charlotte Kates, leader, Samidoun/People's Liberation Front for Palestine

"[Officers attending these protests] have been threatened with injury or death."

"Last weekend, a woman threw horse feces at our our officers, and another woman used a flagpole to spear at others."

"[Female police officers report] being targeted at these events in ways their male colleagues are not."

"Officers were at the Eaton's Centre to respond to a protest where threats were directed to a member of the public, not to police."

"[Officers] are working each day to ensure protests do not escalate & we are grateful for their efforts."

Toronto Police Association [union]

Anti-Israel protesters outside Toronto's city hall on Saturday, April 6, 2024. Photo by X

In Canada, in Toronto, which has seen hundreds of  'pro-Palestinian', pro-Hamas rallies take place, where cries of 'Intifada', "From the river to the sea", 'Final Solution' and other pointedly hate-consuming epithets ring out, all of them a threat by their very nature, and directed against Canadian Jews, the police and government officials, federal, provincial and municipal, while decrying the violence, have done little to uphold the law against threats and violence by masked perpetrators.

Finally, when the crowds have become rowdier, more vehemently vicious and begin to target the police themselves standing by to maintain order, police begin to react. It's one thing threatening Jews directly, attacking their synagogues, hospitals, private businesses, parochial schools and social centres, but expressing foul-mouthed threats against police and insults and violence directed toward the sentries of public order and security has gone one too far, evidently.

This past weekend in Toronto saw an uprise in terrorist-supporting rhetoric. Outlawed in Germany as a recognized terrorist group, Samidoun, with its direct links to violent terrorist groups with blood on their hands, and itching to increase that blood count, was up front and centre with one of its major leaders directing members of the protest to emulate Middle East terrorist groups and do it right here, in Canada, in Toronto, the city with the largest population of Canadian Jews. No censure, no comment from Justin Trudeau, Canada's witless prime minister.

On the Saturday terror-rally a sign reading "Hamas is a Palestinian Resistance Movement" was held by a child at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square, among a small crowd of protesters present for the purpose of opposing a pro-Israel rally where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was featured and where he would express his unalloyed support of Israel and dedication as future Prime Minister to the safety and security of Jewish Canadians.

 

 

Beside the child stood a man with a microphone, who addressed the Jewish attendees of the event: "It's so wonderful to see all the little kids here ... ask your parents to give you a history lesson about how they rape and murder children", he boomed at people who would forever mourn the dread October 7 bloodbath that Palestinian terrorists imposed on southern Israel when Jewish children were raped and slaughtered by terrorists who as children were taught at UNRWA schools to hate Jews and relish killing them.

That Canada lists Hamas as a terrorist group, and is technically in conflict with the Houthis in Yemen which has been busy attacking shipping in the Red Sea, yet both are being cited as models of 'resistance' against 'Zionists' by a radicalized terror-supporter in public, at a Square in Toronto named after a once-mayor and prominent Jewish Canada, seems to raise no concerns over hate-promulgation from any level of government leadership.

There was an image of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem as a backdrop to Samidoun's chief hate-monger, surrounded by a Star of David constructed of barbed wire. This was a celebration of Al Quds Day, a 'holiday' that then-supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeni conceived in 1979 following the Iranian Revolution. A day of anti-Israel and terror-promoting demonstrations regularly taking place in Canada's cities. Fulfilling their destiny, hate groups like Toronto4Palestine happily busied themselves organizing October 7 massacres with utter impunity.

"If they're going to break the law, if they're going to assault our police horses, there will be consequences and people will be arrested."

"Agitators [within the demonstrations would not be tolerated]."

Deputy Chief Lauren Pogue, Ottawa Police Service

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre arrives to speak to over 2,000 pro-Israel supporters gathered at Nathan Philips Square to mark 6 months since the deadly Hamas attack on Oct. 7.

Muslim Occupation of Canadian Schools

"Israel was established after its neighbours rejected a United Nations plan to partition the land between Jews and Arabs. As it was founded, [Israel] joined the United Nations in 1949. The legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state is completely insusceptible to question, and the attempt to represent it as entirely a wrongful occupation of anyone else's territory is not even slightly sustainable."

"The Jews have transformed a primitive country in one lifetime into a sophisticated and prosperous democratic state where the deserts now bloom, and [as] a nuclear power."

"The Jews have been in what is now Israel for more than 5,000 years. The Phoenicians, Jews, Egyptians, Syrians, Persians, Macedonians, Seleucids Romans, Byzantines, Arabians, Turks, and British have governed there, but not the Palestinians."

"The elimination by force of Israel is impossible and all attempts to do so are doomed in advance, as well as illegal."

Conrad Black, Canadian businessman, publisher, writer, historian

"Over 700,000 Palestinians were forcefully expelled from their homes, more than 15,000 were massacred, and over 500 of their villages were destroyed."

"To uphold our commitment to social justice, decolonization and reconciliation, it is imperative that we ensure students do not leave the education system completely ignorant of the history of Palestine and Israel. We cannot have yet another generation grow up believing it's 'too complicated' or 'too sensitive'."

Pro-Palestinian 'activist' group letter, British Columbia

Action Alert #30   Demand That the Nakba Be Added to the BC Curriculum-- Muslim Alert

"[The proposal in the letter sent to the NDP British Columbia government] is a distortion of 'what happened in 1948'."

"It omits the fact that the [Arab] Palestinians launched the war in defiance of the proposal by the international community [UN partition plan]."

"That's not in there and neither is the second part of the war, which was launched by the Arab states when they invaded Israel in May 1948."

"It doesn't explain why 700,000 Jews were uprooted from the Arab states in which they had lived until 1948, under pressure by Arab societies and Arab governments, creating a Jewish refugee problem. None of this is explained or touched upon at all in that proposal they made."

Israeli historian, pre-eminent scholar, Benny Morris

 

"Students in British Columbia learn about history throughout the K-12 curriculum -- including references to international wars and global conflicts."

"At the local level, school districts and teachers us their professional judgement when choosing to incorporate current and historical conflicts into their lesson planning that align with the required learning standards of the curriculum."

British Columbia education ministry statement

Protesters hold an effigy of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a rally to call for a ceasefire, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada March 9, 2024.

(photo credit: REUTERS/Ismail Shakil)

Organizers of an open letter demanding a new curriculum in British Columbia's school system that would feature politicized content on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians include the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Network which has its headquarters in Vancouver, and which is known to have close associations with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, widely acknowledged as a terrorist group, listed on Canada's designated list of international terrorist organizations. 

Samidoun has recognition from Germany -- the 20th century's infamous, most lethal proponent of acidic antisemitism -- as a major proponent of repulsive racist hatred toward Jews, and as such is not only deemed a terrorist group, but is proscribed from operating in Germany, in accord with its laws against Holocaust denial and antisemitism in a state dedication to rejecting its shameful past in recognition of its monumental debt to humanity. 

In Justin Trudeau's Canada, with the Liberal leader's eye fixed on a large and growing voting bloc, unwilling to hazard alienating Arab/Palestinian/Muslim votes, Samidoun with its well-known penchant for demonizing Israel and Jews is nonchalantly permitted to operate. On October 7, even while Hamas began committing its widespread atrocities in southern Israel, Samidoun's statement glorified the ongoing massacre:

"The resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive  offensive, confronting the occupier by land, air and sea", completing its jubilant sentiment over sadistic savagery with images of terrorists clad in keffiyehs.

The British Columbia education ministry responded to the letter non-committally, leaving open an opportunity for committed antisemites in its public school system to proceed with their own biased interpretation, apart from, or filling in the regular school curriculum by advising parents to contact their child's teacher or principal should they wish to discuss what is being taught in the school their children attend.

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), teacher delegates passed a historic motion about Palestine. The motion asked the BCTF to push the Ministry of Education to include the Nakba and the military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank in the BC curriculum.  Spring Magazine

These 'social activists' looking to improve on the reality of historical events they view with the jaundiced eye of cherished victimhood, sent their letter with its demands to Rachna Singh, British Columbia's minister of Education and Child Care, insisting social studies curricula in the province be overhauled to draw attention to the "Nakba" (catastrophe) that Palestinians mourn and Jews celebrate, as the formal rebirth of the State of Israel.

This refers to the time when five Arab countries responded to the declaration of statehood for Israel by amassing a collective military assault on the nascent Jewish State. Historian Gil Troy's thought was the implementation of a constructive lesson plan could alternately examine support for partition and the two-state solution from then-diplomat Lester B. Pearson, later Nobel Laureate, and Prime Minister of Canada. A lesson plan that would provoke students "to think for themselves" not reliant on "partisan lies" as a service to young students.

Samidoun was not alone in writing the letter with its appeal for justification in 'adjusting' history. There was input by other interested 'pro-Palestinian' (the preferred term to 'anti-Israel, anti-Jew) groups such as Teachers 4 Palestine BC, Palestinian Youth Movement Vancouver, and Independent Jewish Voices, a fringe group promoting Holocaust denial conspiracies which doesn't hesitate to participate in events staged by antisemites and sympathizers of terrorism aimed at Jews and Israel.

Israeli infantry making a full assault on Egyptian forces in the Negev area of Israel during the war of independence. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images

"By not acknowledging that most Palestinian Arabs rejected the compromise -- and encouraged terrorist attacks on their Palestinian Jewish neighbours -- the petition, and implicitly the curriculum doesn't explain how the war truly began."

"[The letter demanding school curricula be altered, is an example of] twistory, not history [framed to perpetuate a simplistic] misleading [narrative with no educational value]."

"And it, of course, ignores the invasion by outside Arab armies in May 1948, when the Jews, who accepted the compromise, launched Israel, as per the UN's vision."

"It overlooks the United Nations' attempt at compromise -- in its 1947 Partition Plan, which recognized the historical legitimacy of Jewish ties to the land. It also ignores the fact that Canada voted for the partition and that a great Canadian leader, Lester B. Pearson, had a leading role in drawing up the proposed compromise."

"The letter takes a complicated conflict, which could be taught sensitively and thoughtfully, with a nuance and respect for the truth, and reduces it to a one-sided opportunity to erase the history of Israel, the legitimacy of Zionism, the depth of Jewish ties to the land -- while bashing Canada along the way."

Distinguished historian Gil Troy, McGill University academic