#Samidoun

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“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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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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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.

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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.

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

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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)!)

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Activistas radicales entrenaron a grupos estudiantiles de EE. UU. en 'resistencia', según informe.

El artículo detalla cómo grupos estudiantiles en EE. UU. han recibido entrenamiento de activistas veteranos, incluidos ex miembros de los Black Panthers, en métodos de protesta y manejo de disputas. Se menciona el éxito actual del movimiento estudiantil anti-Israelí, a pesar de la naturaleza descentralizada que dificulta la organización entre grupos. Algunas secciones de Estudiantes por la Justicia en Palestina (SJP) han sido suspendidas por universidades, y se destaca la relación de la organización Samidoun con el Frente Popular para la Liberación de Palestina (PFLP), considerado terrorista en Israel. Durante una sesión titulada “Resistance 101”, se instruyó a los estudiantes en tácticas organizativas y se les dijo que no hay nada malo en ser miembro o líder de Hamas. Un profesor de UCLA compartió que organizó “equipos de autodefensa” entrenados en “desescalada no violenta” para las acampadas estudiantiles.

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(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.

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I want to add that if you're not sure if/when there are protests in your area, Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network has a continually updating list of upcoming protests worldwide.

Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?

This is a great question. There are a few things you can do—just off the top of my head:

BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) https://bdsmovement.net/

Direct Action https://www.palestineaction.org/

Urge your University/School/Organization to put out a statement denouncing Israel

Organize a Protest/Participate in a local one

You might already be doing this but while calling your reps, tell them that as a voter, you're unwilling to support them in the upcoming election unless they urge the White House to take a stand against Israel and stop funding them

Share art/writing/films around Palestinian culture

If you're part of a union, ask them what they're doing to urge their industry leaders to take a stand against Israel + pressure the White House OR urge them to start a strike/walkout/etc if they're not doing anything already

Talk with your friends IRL about Palestine, whether in an activist capacity or watching a movie or literally anything

Reach out to a mosque to see if you can help them with anything

See if your city/state council has put out a statement in support of Gazans. If not, try to push them to do so.

Donate to Palestine Legal or Direct Action if you have some money to spare

KEEP TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know some of these don't feel like they have as big of an impact on helping Palestinians, but we do need to make an effort not to forget their humanity in the face of continued erasure and the media's sensationalist rhetoric.

Talking on social media and posting—while not seeming like a lot—does SO much. I know in USAmerica, it's like yelling into a void, but political analysts are saying that most of the "Global South" has completely lost any amount of goodwill it may have had the past few years. Hopefully, countries will start to put sanctions and embargoes en masse on the US and Israel soon.

Our goals here are BOTH short-term and long-term. We hope for the life and liberation of the Palestinian people, so anything that you can think of might help at some point in the future is encouraged to at least try.

If anyone else has any more ideas, feel free to reblog and add on. Thank you for asking, and here is to a liberated Palestine where Palestinians can live and thrive without fear.

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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.

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by Wallace White

A top Democrat fundraising platform hosts donations for an activist group linked to a Palestinian terrorist-tied non-profit, the Washington Examiner reported on Thursday.

ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising platform, hosts a portal for donors to give money to the Colorado Freedom Fund (CFF), a bail reform non-profit that is fiscally sponsored and managed by the Alliance For Global Justice (AFGJ), the Examiner reported. The Examiner revealed the AFGJ was aiding fundraising efforts for French non-profit Collectif Palestine Vaincra (CPV), a partner of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

In response, Zachor Legal Institute pressed the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in January 2023 to investigate the AFGJ’s seeming support for terrorist organizations, the Examiner reported. Zachor attorney Marc Greendorfer said to the Examiner the AFGJ’s lack of due diligence was “surprising.”

“Alliance for Global Justice has a track record of funding terror,” Greendorfer told the Examiner. He noted that AFGJ has a duty to donors to “do a better job of vetting those who use its platforms, especially when the user has a long, documented history of supporting terror.” 

AFGJ has a history of fiscally sponsoring pro-Palestinian organizations, with credit card company Discover shutting down donations to the AFGJ in 2021 over ties to Samidoun, a non-profit with links to the PFLP, according to NGO Monitor.

Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters are gathering outside of the White House in Washington, D.C., USA, on June 8, 2024, to express distaste over how President Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas war. (Photo by AASHISH KIPHAYET/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

The CFF is a left-leaning criminal justice advocacy organization that posts bail for incarcerated people before trial and immigrant detention, according to Influence Watch. AFGJ gave the CFF $1.44 million in 2021 for “racial justice”, according to their 2021 tax filings.

“AFGJ fiscally sponsors and repeatedly defends Samidoun, a terror front that acts on behalf of Hamas and other terror organizations,”Greendorfer told the Examiner. “As a fiscal sponsor, AFGJ benefits from any funds it raises for its terror clients.”

ActBlue did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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OTTAWA – Following many years of relentless advocacy by B’nai Brith Canada, the Government of Canada on Monday listed Samidoun, a not-for-profit corporation based in this country, as a terrorist entity.

Canada’s decision to list Samidoun as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code was made in concert with the United States’ Department of the Treasury, which designated Samidoun as a “specially designated global terrorist” (SDGT) group on Monday.

“B’nai Brith has been campaigning for Canada to take this step for years,” said David Granovsky, B’nai Brith Canada’s Director of Government Relations. “By finally doing the right thing, Minister Dominic LeBlanc [Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs] has taken a bold step to uphold Canadian values and national security.”

Samidoun, also known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, has close links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which has been listed as a terrorist group for decades. Charlotte Kates, Samidoun’s international coordinator, was recently arrested for openly expressing support for the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel at a rally in Vancouver, where she and her husband Khaled Barakat, a self-admitted senior member of the PFLP, live.

“This is a decisive blow against the forces of hate and extremism,” said Richard Robertson, B’nai Brith Canada’s Director of Research and Advocacy. “The links between Samidoun and the PFLP, a listed terror entity, have long been undeniable. Samidoun’s ability to operate in Canada enabled it to use our country as a platform from which to incite hatred and support terror.

“The listing of Samidoun sends a clear message that there is no place in Canadian society for those who foment hate and promote terrorism. Canadian authorities will now be able to hold those who have used Samidoun as a vehicle through which to support the actions of terrorists duly accountable.”

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