Demonstrations In New York Make Several Things Clear

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217. The pro-Hamas hate fest is even worse in Canada.

Surely *folks who live in Canada* are as aware as New Yorkers are of the pro-terrorist groups and operatives organizing the marches.

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Speech at pro-Palestinian demonstration leads to hate crime investigation
Charlotte Kates gave a speech in favour of Hamas at a rally outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on April 26. Video circulated of the event has since led to a hate crime investigation by the Vancouver Police Department and an arrest.

Charlotte Kates

Charlotte Kates [Charlotte Lynne Kates] is affiliated with a designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Kates has shown support for terror groups and supported intifada violence. She has also spread hatred of Zionism and Israel.

In October 2022, Kates was banned from entering the European Union, along with her husband Khaled Barakat, who is a leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group. The couple were deported back to Canada.

As of January 2023, Kates was listed as an “International Coordinator” co-chair at the anti-Israel NGO, Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun). According to Canadian government records, Kates is listed as the group’s “Director.”

Samidoun’s activism spreads awareness of terrorists, and at least three senior activists are members of the PFLP. In February 2021, Israel’s Ministry of Justice declared Samidoun to be a “terror organization,” accusing the NGO of operating “as an arm” of the PFLP.

https://canarymission.org/individual/Charlotte_Kates
https://www.instagram.com/canarymission/reel/C6ZD1QciWUJ/

Samidoun

Officials concerned about hidden links to terrorist groups point to a little-known international organization called Samidoun, the Arabic word for “steadfast.” On its website, the Canadian-registered nonprofit group describes itself as “an international network of organizers and activists working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom.”

But the Israeli government and several think tanks in Europe and Israel say Samidoun’s leadership is composed of current and former members of the PFLP. Germany banned Samidoun a few weeks after the Oct. 7 attacks, arguing that Samidoun members had praised and supported Hamas during street protests.

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[...] Samidoun does not hide its activities. In a Feb. 27 YouTube video in which Kates is featured along with Dr. Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, Kates described the Oct. 7 attacks as a “heroic operation.” In another February webinar on YouTube, she spoke to activists in New York and explained why her organization does not distance itself from Hamas or other groups deemed terrorists by the U.S. and Israel.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s-palestinian-protests-us-rcna143666