#Samidoun

[athena5898]

“Today, in a joint action with Canada, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, or “Samidoun,” a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization.”

This targeting of the Samidoun Palestinian Political Prisoners Network is a huge escalation in the zionist counterinsurgency and weaponization of terrorist designations against liberation movements. Now is the moment all anti-zionist organizations should be standing by Samidoun in their righteous cause.

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[allthegeopolitics]

The US and Canada have called The Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network a “sham charity” and declared that anyone doing business with or donating to the group could face criminal charges.  The US Treasury Department announced the joint move on Tuesday, with the US sanctioning the group and Canada designating it a terrorist entity. The US called it a "front" for the banned Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Samidoun is based in Vancouver, Canada, and has chapters in several cities in Europe, as well as the United Kingdom.

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[a-very-tired-jew]

Oh look, Samidoun was finally labeled as the front for the PFLP that is has been this entire time. They’ve been around for years and it has been an open secret that they, and other groups, were fronts for PFLP, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations.

While this is a good thing that it’s finally happening, I have to ask. Why now? This has been known for years. Samidoun has been organizing events for over a decade. These include fundraisers, protests, and educational events. They’re one of the major groups that has been “educating” these “activists” for years. And by their own admission, and according to multiple governments, they’re the ones behind many of the student protests on college campuses.

That means these college students have been “educated” by a terrorist front group. There’s a reason why so many of these college encampments, protests, and groups have been parroting terrorist talking points and justifying them under the guise of progressive language. They were literally taught to do so by a NGO that was pretending to be anything other than what it actually is; a terrorist front.

Again, I have to repeat that this very tactic was documented in the 1993 Palestine Committee Meeting in Philadelphia that had members of Hamas and affiliates discuss using progressive rhetoric and academia to manipulate and misinform Westerners to their cause. This meeting was wiretapped and documented by the FBI, and made public during the Holy Land Foundation trials in the mid 00’s.

Not only that, but the meeting also contains details about how they would create fake charities to raise money for their respective group. They would tell naive Westerners that it was for innocent civilians, rights, and other things that appealed to them, all the while they would be funneling money into their own pockets.

Hopefully this will see a shift in the landscape of this entire thing as domestic and international agencies finally get around to labeling terrorist fronts for what they are.

[thestudentempanada]

June 1, 2025 Updated List of Signatories to the Free Elias Rodriguez (man who confessed to murdering two outside the Capital Jewish Museum):

I would like to draw special attention to the fact that a BDS chapter has now endorsed this message, alongside Samidoun, which is a Canadian based group that Canada and the US recognize as a terrorist organization (https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/lstd-ntts/crrnt-lstd-ntts-en.aspx).

Cultural Workers Against Empire

Individual Signatures: 48

Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network

Bronx Anti War

Resistance News Network

Unity of Fields

JDPOD

Nidal Seattle

Third World Solidarity Front (TWSF)

Resistance Archives

Free Radical

Chorley4Palestine

Collectivize!

People’s Defense Charlotte

Crown Heights Bites Back

Teatro de la Psychomachia

Montgomery County for Palestine

Mateo Feliciano, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

Kamau Franklin

DSA Liberation Caucus

Civilian Freedom Movement worldwide (CFM)

Costurero Anarquista Popular Nueva York

Community Liberation Programs (Bay Area)

Palestine News Network (PNN)

Brevard Vanguard

Gegar Amerika (GEGAR)

巴勒斯坦团结行动网络 Palestine Solidarity Action Network

The United Liberation Front for Palestine

Masar Badil: The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement

Institute of Barbarian Books

Al-Ahrar Palestinian Prisoner Support

Take Back the Bronx

Students and Youth L.I.T.

Calla Walsh

Charlotte Kates

Efia Nwangaza, Esq.

BDS Providence

Canada Palestine Association

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Supernova Revue Communiste (France)

Secours Rouge Marseille (France)

Nación Andaluza

Anti-Imperialist Movement (Glasgow)

Art Workers for Palestine Scotland

Also a special shout out to the international groups that felt the need to add their names to a petition. Especially the Nación Andaluza- kudos for endorsing a terrorist group that literally also would like to conquer you again and subject you to Sharia law. Very leftist, very liberatory.

From the orignal Hamas Charter, article 11 -

This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement.

[federal-reserve-bonds-dog]

Samidoun celebrated the Elias Rodriguez murders

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By Eli Lake and Danielle Shapiro

Since the October 7 massacre, a small “charity” based in Canada has been ubiquitous on elite college campuses, celebrating the bloodbath at public rallies and seminars. The group is called Samidoun, and it claims to be an NGO advocating on behalf of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

On Tuesday, the U.S. and Canadian governments put an end to that charade. 

Samidoun is not a charity at all. Rather, it’s a group “that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization,” according to a press release issued Tuesday by the Treasury Department. The government describes it as a “sham.”

For anyone who has followed the history of Palestinian terrorism, PFLP is a name you’re no doubt familiar with. It was founded in 1967 as a Marxist revolutionary group, and was supported during the Cold War by China and the Soviet Union. In 1976, the PFLP teamed up with West Germany’s Baader-Meinhof group to hijack a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Entebbe, Uganda, separating Jewish and non-Jewish passenger hostages. Eventually, Israeli commandos freed the hostages. The episode was turned into the movie 7 Days in Entebbe.

For most of the 1990s and 2000s, PFLP was largely an afterthought for both Israelis and Palestinians (though it did murder an Israeli tourism minister in 2001). That began to change in 2019, when the PFLP killed a 17-year-old girl in the West Bank with a roadside bomb that also injured her father and brother. Since then, the government of Israel has pressed its allies to designate Samidoun as a terrorist front for the PFLP. The designations from Canada and the U.S. on Tuesday are the culmination of that effort. 

One place where that designation will have an effect is elite campuses, where Samidoun has long established itself as a partner—and funder—for anti-Israel student initiatives. Just in the past year, Samidoun has co-sponsored a divestment rally at Princeton, taught an “Abolish Imperialism” lecture at Harvard Law School and, most infamously, led a “Palestinian Resistance 101” teach-in at Columbia University that resulted in the suspension of multiple student organizers who used the event to “promote the use of terror or violence.” 

As far back as 2017, Princeton’s Palestine club shared links from Samidoun’s media page and encouraged students to work with the group on initiatives to free a Palestinian activist who had assaulted an Israeli soldier. In 2022, Princeton’s Palestine club again partnered with Samidoun to lead a “Palestinian Prisoner Letter-Writing Session” on campus. This long and close relationship between Princeton students and faculty and Samidoun has been replicated at top universities across the country.

Matthew Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former FBI analyst and deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury Department, told The Free Press that the U.S. and Canadian governments have debated over the last year about designating Samidoun a terrorist group. Their reservation was due to the fact that Western governments do not sanction organizations based just on violent and hateful speech. “They have been saying horrible and nasty things,” Levitt said. “We don’t designate people for saying nasty things.” 

What turned the tide, according to Levitt, was that Israel had accumulated mounds of evidence that Samidoun was, in effect, a fundraising arm for the PFLP. Some of this information has been available for some time. For example, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy released a report in 2019 that detailed Samidoun’s role in raising money for the PFLP. That report claims that PFLP operatives transferred money from Lebanon to a man named Khaled Barakat when he was living in Europe. On Tuesday, Barakat was also designated as a foreign terrorist financier. His wife, Charlotte Kates, is Samidoun’s “international coordinator.” 

In 2022, the Netherlands barred Kates and Barakat from entering the country where they had planned to land and then drive to a pro-Palestine march in Belgium. More recently, Germany designated Samidoun as a terrorist organization in November 2023. 

Even though PFLP has not captured the headlines of better-known groups like Hamas or Hezbollah, it remains deadly. Although it was not involved in the original planning for October 7, the terrorist group joined the massacre once it was underway. NGO Monitor has published PFLP statements and Telegram posts that show its participation in the 2023 attack, joining after the first wave of Hamas operatives.

[eretzyisrael]

Doutaghi refers to herself as a "scholar" and the NYT accepts that without question. She denies having anything to do with any terror group and the NYT accepts that without question.  It describes her as championing pro-Palestinian causes and implies that any accusation that she harbors terrorist sympathies is a scurrilous, AI-generated lie.

What the "newspaper of record" doesn't do is the least amount of fact checking.

It took me seconds to Google Doutaghi to find out that she not only spoke at Samidoun sponsored activities, but Samidoun says that she is a member of the organization  - which is, by itself, enough for Yale to want to distance itself from her.

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC designated Samidoun as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity acting for the PFLP (an FTO) in October 2024, (under the Biden administration). Any affiliation with Samidoun could expose Yale itself to sanctions under Executive Order 13224.  This includes blocking assets or prohibiting transactions with SDGTs. By suspending Doutaghi and barring her from campus, Yale minimizes the risk of being seen as facilitating her alleged activities. For its own protection,  Yale must prohibit her from using its name or resources and conduct an internal review to ensure no ties to Samidoun, minimizing its legal and reputational risks.

It might even be worse than that. It took only another few minutes to find X posts where Doutaghi not only praises "armed resistance" in context of Hamas - meaning, terrorism - but dismisses any non-violent alternative for Palestinians.

[aqlstar]

Win

Samidoun cannot operate financially within the US, Canada, or Germany 👍

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[ayin-me-yesh]

If you want to take part in a local rally for Palestine, but aren't sure when or where your closest one is, Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network has a calendar of upcoming international events!

(And yes, tāngata Aotearoa, that includes in Tāmaki Makaurau this Saturday (tomorrow, 14/10)!)

[athena5898]

(PrR) Today, fascist Canadian forces violently raided the home of Samidoun International Coordinator Charlotte Kates (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63934), entering without a search warrant or charges in the middle of the day.

A large number of heavily armed police forces arrived in an armored vehicle to her home, launching tear gas and flash bangs, breaking a window during their violent entry. Neighbors testified to the good nature of Kates, agreeing that the police went too far in their use of force. Kates was reportedly released after a brief detention.

This comes just weeks after Canada and the US baselessly designated Samdioun as a "terrorist organization," an allegation not rooted in facts and without any charges. The Network was also banned (https://t.me/PalestineResist/65633) on Telegram as part of a growing campaign of repression.

Kates has been a persistent target of imperialist harrasment in defense of the zionist entity. In April, Charlotte was arrested for a speech (https://t.me/PalestineResist/40756) she gave calling for resistance groups to be removed from the sham "terrorist lists," abducted while riding the bus and banned from attending protests.

The Canadian state has made the decision to align itself with the zionist entity, intensifying repression in increasingly violent ways in response to growing and historic pro-Palestinian mobilization globally, which is in response to the call of the resistance and their steadfastness. We are seeing this globally, from Germany to the Netherlands to the US, Jordan, and Egypt.

This repression aims to stifle solidarity with the Palestinian and Arab resistance, which continues to achieve victories on the ground in their war of attrition. As the resistance wins, repression increases.

While the real terrorists continue to funnel money and weapons (https://t.me/PalestineResist/65448) to the zionist entity, the resistance and its cradle are criminalized for exercising their inalienable right (https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/the-palestinians-inalienable-right-to-resist). What they fear is our unity, steadfastness, and liberation.

We reaffirm our full and unwavering solidarity with Samidoun and any comrades facing repression. The attack on Charlotte Kates is an attack on all of us. We are all Samidoun.

[a-very-tired-jew]

Canada recently had a protest led by a PFLP subsidiary

So Canada recently had an anti-Israel protest led by Samidoun the other day. Samidoun is considered a subsidiary of the PFLP and was even founded by members from it. The group regularly endorses terrorism and uses the "freedom fighter / resistance fighter" argument to defend their actions. Some quotes from the protest by Charlotte Kates, the wife of PFLP member and Samidoun co-founder and coordinator Khaled Barakat: "We stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic brave action on October 7." "Hamas is not a terrorist organization, [Palestinian} Islamic Jihad is not a terrorist organization, PFLP is not a terrorist organization, Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization. These are resistance fighters. These are our heroes." Remember, the PFLP has a long sordid history of hijackings and bombings. Samidoun being a subsidiary of them and saying all these groups are their heroes and supporting their actions... well that's very telling.

[thestudentempanada]

June 4, 2025: The Tahriq el Tahrir Youth and Student Network collaborating on a post with an Instagram account that claims to belong to Samidoun:

This post also begs the question of why exactly a proscribed terrorist organization gets to have a meta account.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The Committee request that the Department of Homeland Security list all of the people who violated the law and are being deported because of their association with terror groups. After some stonewalling, the DHS answered the question: Zero.

Keep in mind that in October, the US declared Samidoun - which has been instrumental in many antisemitic protests - to be a terrorist organization, a fundraising front for the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine. 

Yet even before the designation, there were other reasons to investigate foreign student protesters. Not only does the law say that aliens associated with terrorism are inadmissible to the US, but also "Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible." 

Most of the major protests have been organized by communist groups like ANSWER (it is linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation which describes itself as communist), and Samidoun is also linked to many communist groups itself.

In short, if the DHS wanted to protect Jews on campus, it has plenty of ammunition to not only get rid of foreign participants and supporters of antisemitic protests but also to send a message of intolerance for intolerance.

[eretzyisrael]

by Robert Schmad

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), chairman of the congressional committee that oversees the IRS, is demanding the agency strip a progressive nonprofit organization of its tax-exempt status after the Treasury Department determined in October that one of its subsidiaries is a terrorist front group.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, uses Samidoun, which is housed within the Alliance for Global Justice through a fiscal sponsorship agreement, as a vehicle to fundraise in North America and Europe, according to the Treasury Department. Smith, as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, sent a letter to the IRS on Wednesday morning arguing that this kind of proximity to foreign terrorists should disqualify the AFGJ from receiving tax-exemption benefits in the United States.

“This case is not complicated, which makes the failure to revoke the Alliance’s tax-exempt status both concerning and confusing,” the letter reads. ”As you know, if a nonprofit organization conducts substantial activities that do not further its exempt purposes, such activity may result in the loss of the organization’s tax exempt status. Additionally, the IRS has found that conducting illegal activity is inconsistent with tax exemption. … Given Samidoun’s designation by the Treasury as a terrorist organization, coupled with the fact that the Alliance fiscally sponsors and provides support for Samidoun, the IRS must revoke the Alliance’s tax-exempt status immediately.”

The PFLP has ordered suicide bombings, hijacked planes, and shot rockets at civilians, according to the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.