{"id":45269,"date":"2024-10-25T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=45269"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T22:20:08","slug":"samidouns-terror-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/samidouns-terror-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Samidoun\u2019s terror links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gerald Steinberg, founder of the pro-Israel research institute\u00a0NGO Monitor, recently spoke with Ellin Bessner, host of The CJN Daily podcast, about Samidoun being listed as a terrorist organization. (screenshot thecjn.ca<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s federal government has now\u00a0formally listed Samidoun as a terrorist entity, effective Oct. 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cViolent extremism, acts of terrorism or terrorist financing have no place in Canadian society or abroad. The listing of Samidoun as a terrorist entity under the\u00a0Criminal Code\u00a0sends 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\u2019s national security and all people in\u00a0<\/span>Canada,\u201d read the Oct. 15 statement from Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc.<\/p>\n

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Dominic LeBlanc, Canada\u2019s minister of public safety, democratic institutions and intergovernmental affairs. (photo from pm.gc.ca)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The decision was formally announced as\u00a0a joint action with the US Department of the Treasury, which called Samidoun \u201ca sham charity\u201d in a statement from its Office of Foreign Assets Control.<\/p>\n

Jewish leaders had long been arguing that the Vancouver-based nonprofit organization has direct ties to known militant terrorist entities, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which pioneered airplane hijackings, suicide bombings and assassinations of Israelis, and were directly involved in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n

The week prior to the government\u2019s announcement, Pierre Poilievre, leader of the federal Conservatives, demanded Ottawa declare Samidoun a terrorist organization \u2013 as several other countries have already done. Doing so would block Samidoun\u2019s ability to fundraise and would make it a crime for anyone to help it.<\/p>\n

The PFLP is outlawed in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel and many other countries, and some countries, including Germany and Israel, have banned Samidoun, too. The Netherlands has voted to consider doing the same.<\/p>\n

Samidoun\u2019s status in Canada fell under scrutiny after the group organized protests to coincide with the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel. Some supporters in Vancouver tried to set fire to a Canadian flag, calling, \u201cDeath to Canada, death to the United States and death to Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, authorities in British Columbia were forced to lift bail conditions that had prevented\u00a0<\/span>Samidoun\u2019s Vancouver-based international coordinator, Charlotte Kates, from participating in any protests for a period of six months. Vancouver police arrested Kates after she gave an antisemitic speech in April that praised the Oct. 7 massacre, but charges had not yet been laid before the bail deadline expired on Oct. 8. Kates is married to Khaled Barakat, suspected of being a high-ranking member of the PFLP, who also was granted Canadian citizenship.<\/p>\n

Gerald Steinberg founded the pro-Israel research institute\u00a0NGO Monitor, and is a professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University. A former columnist for the Canadian Jewish News<\/i>, he spoke to\u00a0me earlier this month to explain more about Samidoun\u2019s terrorist ties, including how they\u00a0operate on Canadian campuses.<\/p>\n

Gerald Steinberg<\/b>: I stumbled into the world of NGOs, nongovernmental organizations, about 20 years ago, when Canada was one of the main funders of something called the UN Conference on the Elimination of Racism around the world \u2013 that\u2019s the infamous Durban Conference. A lot of antisemitism there. They didn\u2019t care about racism. It was about labeling Israel as an apartheid, genocide state.<\/p>\n

That was in September 2001, 23 years ago. I began to see nongovernmental organizations as important players and nobody was looking at that. Why are they allowed to be? What is the reason that they have gained so much political influence? And I began to do research. We look at the impact, the capabilities, the funding \u2026 [of NGOs that advocate against Israel]. We do look at some other cases, for comparative purposes.<\/p>\n

Samidoun was not high up on our radar. Samidoun was something that gradually we began to understand the importance of. It\u2019s officially called the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. They\u2019re a branch, as they make quite clear, and unusually clear, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is a banned terror organization in the United States, in a number of European countries, in the UK and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

So, what is this organization doing? Organizing these kinds of rallies and mob actions that label Israel as a genocidal state and call for the destruction of Israel, as we\u2019ve seen around the world. And, as I began to look further and further into them, the Canadian connection became more dominant.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t always like that. Samiduon operated out of Germany for a number of years. Khaled Barakat, who was the head of Samidoun, lived in Germany. Partly or significantly because of the work that NGO Monitor did\u00a0vis-a-vis\u00a0the German government \u2013 we said, \u201cLook, they\u2019re a terrorist front. Israel has officially labeled them a terrorist front and the evidence is clear, they\u2019re connected to the PFLP\u201d \u2013 the Germans then expelled Khaled Barakat and made Samidoun unable to function in Germany. They are banned. They can\u2019t raise money. They can\u2019t hold rallies. They can\u2019t do anything in Germany.<\/p>\n

There are other countries in Europe that are, at some level, looking at this, and have restricted their capabilities. Belgium is one of them. In Canada, they\u2019re operated out of Vancouver, where\u00a0Charlotte Kates lives. Basically, they went from Germany to Vancouver. Both Kates and Khaled Barakat, the two people who run Samidoun, are Canadian citizens. We don\u2019t know anything really about how they became citizens or what they said in their application. Did they claim refugee status? At least, did he claim refugee status as a Palestinian who left Israel and is labeled as a terrorist agent by Israel?<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s become the base of operations. And the question is, how did that happen? And what are Canadians doing about that? And then we began to look more and more at this network.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to understand that Samidoun is a worldwide network. They have branches that run\u00a0<\/span>anti-Israel public events, vicious anti-Israel public events, and recruit people and raise money in Brazil and other countries in South America, throughout Europe. They have operations in the United States \u2013 the United States has not banned them. Spain is a prominent place where they operate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We mapped\u00a0for the first time Samidoun\u2019s international operations. And then the question comes up: who funds them?\u00a0It has come up, particularly since Oct. 7, in the US Congress. And, just as there is a process in Canada, there is also a process in the United States, although less acute, because they are based out of Vancouver and not in the US.<\/p>\n

Ellin Bessne<\/b>r: What evidence has your NGO monitor seen of what they\u2019ve actually been doing here?<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: The evidence is clear to everybody. You see the rallies that they are organizing. You see their posters. You see their events. I see a lot of them in Vancouver and I\u2019ve talked to a number of people in Vancouver, and the Jewish community feels the threat there. They\u2019ve had some very violent demonstrations in the last year\u2026. I call them mob violence.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re quite visible and they\u2019ve also had visibility in Toronto, I think in Montreal as well. They are on campuses where there are encampments, [and you see] Samidoun flags, Samidoun posters, and there is a Samidoun presence. That\u2019s throughout North America, both in the United States and in Canada. They\u2019re very visible.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: What are the benefits to them of operating in Canada?<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: Well, they have citizenship. I\u2019m not sure that Khaled Barakat would have gotten any kind of resident status in the United States. I think the rules for entry are tighter in the US if there is a possible terror connection. I think maybe that\u2019s understated, but I\u2019ll let you deal with that. Being in Canada as citizens gives them protection, gives them a place to operate from.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: Obviously that\u2019s important for an organization like this. How much money do they get? And where does it come from?<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>:\u00a0We have no idea. Either question. Because of the PFLP connection, because they run a lot of events, because this is what they live off of \u2013 there are other people as well, but Barakat and Charlotte Kates are the two most visible ones, this is their life \u2013 so, therefore, they must be drawing salaries. They must be able to get funding, and there\u2019s probably more. Plus, they do a lot of traveling.<\/p>\n

Maybe the Iranian government paid for\u00a0Charlotte Kates to go to Tehran to do what she just did. [In August, she received an Islamic Human Rights and Human Dignity Award from the\u00a0Islamic Republic of Iran.] It\u2019s most likely. But they could be getting money from Qatar. There\u2019s a lot of speculation.<\/p>\n

The United States\u2019s members of Congress have put Samidoun, as well as Students for Justice in Palestine and a few other groups, on a sort of watch list. And they\u2019ve asked the Internal Revenue Service, which is the equivalent of the Canada Revenue Agency, to provide information that up until now Samidoun and other organizations have been allowed to hide \u2013 their anonymous donors. But it must be a significant amount of money to be able to pay for all these activities and their salaries and everything else.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Kates, Samidoun\u2019s Vancouver-based international coordinator, appeared on Iranian television in August.\u00a0(screenshot MEMRI REPORTS)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

EB<\/b>:\u00a0You mentioned the trip to Iran. We should remind our audience that the Iranian government issued an award on state television to Charlotte Kates, who had to wear a hijab over her hair to appear on television\u2026. And so, she went and she was talking about how she was arrested in Canada, in Vancouver….\u00a0 <\/span>And they were glorifying the words that she had said on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Do you want to remind us of some of the things they have been quoted as saying, that your NGO Monitor has kept track of?<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: If we\u2019re looking even in the last year, the very virulent attacks against Israel, against the right of\u00a0<\/span>Israel to exist, has been a repeated theme in all [their remarks], including what we heard from Kates in Tehran, what they call the right of resistance. Particularly, they make it very specific \u2013 they use the term that Hamas used, the Al-Aqsa Flood resistance operation.<\/p>\n

And they condemned \u201cThe Zionist retaliatory strikes against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.\u201d This is from Oct. 10, 2023. Just one example of many others. They talk repeatedly about the right of the Palestinians, the brave Palestinian people and their resistance movement, stop the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, support Palestinian resistance and revolution. There are many, many variations on that theme. That is very prominent in their, I was going to say propaganda, but it\u2019s probably their hate campaigns.<\/p>\n

One other aspect that I want to raise here is the connection to the PFLP that\u2019s important. What is the PFLP? Some may remember that the PFLP was involved in airplane hijackings. They were the original airplane hijackers \u2013 the\u00a0Entebbe\u00a0hijacking of 1976.<\/p>\n

And, even before that, the hijacking of planes in 1970, and blowing them up. There are a whole series of events, including just taking machine guns and going into synagogues in Jerusalem and killing people. There are a series of terrorist events. They are a terror organization. They are also members of the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization]. They were founded probably in the 1960s, maybe earlier, as a Marxist, revolutionary, Palestinian movement, which means they\u2019re not Islamic, they\u2019re not Muslims.<\/p>\n

Most of the people who are involved in the positions of power of the PFLP are Christian, they come from Christian families. They call themselves Marxists, but they are not part of the Fatah movement, which is the main part of the PLO, they are the Marxist liberation element and they\u2019ve developed very close relationships \u2013 personal and political and ideological \u2013 with radical Christian groups across Europe and also, after that, they went out to North America. I think one of the questions is,\u00a0who are their supporters and do they have those kinds of connections? We actually have those documented in Europe, less well known in Canada.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But they\u2019ve been able to build on this. We usually associate the Palestinian terror movements with Hamas and, before that, the Fatah movement with [Yasser] Arafat, with fanatic Muslims who want to wipe Israel off the map. But this is a different organization and they were supported by the East Germans when East Germany existed, until 1990, and the West German far-left radicals who were connected to them. That\u2019s the type of people that get attracted to this framework.<\/p>\n

They are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries in the sense of blowing everybody up, not distinguishing between anybody, civilians, women, children, they kill everybody. And that\u2019s the PFLP. And this [Samidoun] is one of their front organizations, maybe the most important front organization \u2013 they do the political aspect, they may also be involved in recruiting, they may also be involved in planning. We don\u2019t know that, but that\u2019s one of the reasons Israel banned them.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>:\u00a0It\u2019s anarchy? And, the other day in Vancouver, on Oct. 7, I\u2019m sure you may have seen the video now \u2013 Vancouver police are investigating \u2013 they were desecrating and ripping up a Canadian flag. It wasn\u2019t just Israel that they were going after, and Zionists and Jews. It was also Canada. And I think that has crossed the line for people for whom going after Jews in Israel wouldn\u2019t have crossed the line.<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: That\u2019s part of being this radical, Marxist organization. The term sounds so 1950s and Stalinist, but a radical Marxist, Palestinian liberation organization, that\u2019s their name \u2013 the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The 1950s and \u201960s were filled with popular fronts for the liberation of X, Y and Z, all supported by the Communist Bloc, in this case going through East Germany. Of all the organizations that the East Germans supported, one to eliminate Israel in the post-Shoah, post-Holocaust period, tells you quite a bit about that whole history.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Kates was arrested after a Vancouver protest during which she praised the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel. Charges have not yet been laid. (screenshot facebook.com\/FriendsofSimonWiesenthalCenter)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

EB<\/b>:\u00a0Do you have any evidence that there is Russian money, Russian support going to Samidoun people anywhere else, but also in Canada?<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: No.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: We\u2019re having our own foreign influence problems right here in Canada.<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: Yes. And it\u2019s possible, but it\u2019s much more likely to be the Muslim Brotherhood with Qatar and that part of the support group. Qatar supports Hamas. Qatar is, of course, Al Jazeera and all the other media platforms as well. But it\u2019s the Muslim Brotherhood that\u2019s so central here…. And then the PFLP is the other half of that formula. By the way, there are reports, and I\u2019ve seen the reports, there are some connections to Iran. And then, the fact that Charlotte Kates got this award in Tehran makes one, I think, more than speculate that some of their funding may also come through, maybe a lot of it, comes through Iran.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: It walks like a duck, talks like a duck, must be a duck.<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: So, here you have the strange situation, this very weird, absurd situation where you have what are essentially Christian, Marxist, radical Palestinians being allied with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Put those pieces together and explain to me how there\u2019s any kind of logic except for the hate \u2013 hate of the West and hate of Israel. And the anarchy is very much part of that process.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: I want to bring it back to Canada because, earlier this month, the opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, had a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 8 [before the government\u2019s Oct. 15 announcement] and vowed to, if he is elected as prime minister, one of his priorities will be to ban Samidoun, [have it] designated as a terrorist organization. The Canadian government\u2019s been asked to do that by B\u2019nai Brith [Canada], by many organizations, [Member of Parliament] Anthony Housefather, that\u2019s one of his big priorities as [the federal government\u2019s special advisor] on antisemitism, Vancouver\u2019s Jewish community, CIJA [Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs]. So many people have said it\u2019s beyond time. What is the difficulty in your experience for a government to actually do something like that? Because, if it was easy, they would have done it a long time ago. And I\u2019m just going to put in a caveat \u2013 it took the Liberals six years to ban the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Canada. They just did so, but it took six years.<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: I\u2019m going to give you a generic answer. Each country has some specific aspects which make the process appropriate for its own legal and political system. But, generally, you start by having a member, usually an appointed official \u2013 it could come from a government minister, it could also come from a member of Parliament or a group of members of Parliament, particularly if it\u2019s both parties. So, you have Anthony Housefather, then you have members of the Tories, including the leader, raising this issue and then getting somebody in the RCMP, the appropriate investigatory framework, to put together the evidence and to present it and reach a conclusion or a recommendation: this organization violates Canadian law in this way. Incitement to terror, support for terror, links to terror organizations, those are the questions that have to come up.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: For promotion of antisemitism is another one, Section 319 of the federal Criminal Code, right?<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: Which is different from the United States, where there is no specific ban on antisemitism in the legal process. But that gets to the other aspect.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: There\u2019s also hate symbol legislation. There\u2019s a whole flag thing. You can\u2019t be displaying Nazi flags or Confederate flags. They didn\u2019t talk about these kinds of flags, but I wonder if that\u2019s not far off. Of Hamas, which is a designated terror organization, or Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: All those questions are open questions. But there is also the issue of free speech. And that is something that is very important in the Western ideological political framework. The United States, in many ways, is slower and more reluctant to put limitations on organizations than Canada has been. I think that it\u2019s pretty close, but the issue of free speech is very holy in the United States and that keeps coming up. Where does the line stop between allowing them to speak, hold rallies, which is part of free speech, and crossing over into support for terrorism, incitement and, in the case of Canada, antisemitism and the other aspects of the legal process? There\u2019s always this balance.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the question of constituencies. I would be surprised, maybe I could be naive on this, I don\u2019t know enough about Canadian politics, but the constituency of support for Samidoun is not the same as, in terms of Canadian political support for the Liberals, is not nearly as deep and as wide as the general support for the Palestinian cause. They are a niche terror-linked organization and, politically, it should not be that difficult for a Liberal government to be able to say, \u201cThis crosses our red lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

You have the investigatory aspect of it, which is always done in Israel, too. I think there are at least three different levels of prosecutors and officials responsible for the process in Israel to designate an organization like Samidoun as a terror-linked organization. They all have to sign off on it and there have to be evidentiary processes. They don\u2019t have to be made public, but there have to be people that can say, \u201cWe looked at the evidence, our job is to do that, and we are convinced.\u201d There must be something similar in Canada. It takes somebody to start that process, to say we\u2019re going to do this, we\u2019re going to do it seriously, and we\u2019re not going to take six years to do it, because, then, it\u2019s meaningless.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: Lastly, what role, if any, did the PFLP play on Oct. 7 or is it playing now? Are they mostly in the West Bank and not in Gaza, or are they also in Gaza?<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: The PFLP is strong, not in numbers, but in adherence, which means the terror agenda, both in Gaza and the West Bank. There were PFLP participants on Oct. 7. We have the details. We have names. We have the aspects. Some of them were killed. There was at least one case of an Israeli hostage that was held by people in the PFLP.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: Do you know the name?<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: There was at least one case\u00a0[the Bibas family]\u00a0where it was acknowledged. There was at least one case where Israeli forces went in and found evidence that it was a PFLP [person] that was holding [a hostage] \u2026 and there were probably more. So, they are very much part of that broader terrorist process. We usually attribute it to Hamas, but there were others that joined on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: And, in the West Bank, is there a constituency?<\/p>\n

GS<\/strong>: They\u2019re not a dominant organization. Again, they are a far-left non-Muslim, Christian [organization]. They do not come from the Muslim wing of the Palestinian liberation movement, but they are part of the PLO, so the terror links are also very much cemented in that framework. And I\u2019ll just add that, when the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993 and a lot of people celebrated the beginning of peace, they [PFLP] condemned [former PLO leader Yasser] Arafat for having any kind of recognition of the Zionist entity. They did it loudly and clearly, and they sought to gain, and they probably did gain, recruits and support among Palestinians for having that position. So, they\u2019re more radical than the Fatah movement. They are the opposition in the PLO to any kind of agreement or rapprochement or recognition of Israel.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: Is there anything that NGO Monitor has been doing recently to send briefs or information or papers to the Canadian government to share your information and call for changes?<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: We share our information. We update our file on Samidoun whenever there\u2019s something new \u2026 usually every two weeks worldwide, but specifically in Canada, including Charlotte Kates\u2019s trip to Tehran. We put it all together in one package and we send it to a very broad list \u2013 to journalists, including the Canadian Jewish News<\/i>, and also to members of Parliament, both sides \u2026 [for] anybody in Canada that\u2019s interested, we make that information available\u2026. Usually, [people will] have bits and pieces of it on their own, but, to see the bigger picture, all the things we just talked about, that\u2019s part of our role.<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: We should do another interview on all the other groups that are operating on campus.<\/p>\n

GS<\/b>: And the Toronto [District] School Board. There\u2019s a whole bunch of NGOs doing [things]. They\u2019re there. They\u2019re pushing from behind, or not so from behind.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to give you one more sentence.\u00a0It goes back to the basic question that Samidoun was expelled from Germany, Khaled Barakat was expelled from Germany \u2013 his visa was not renewed. Why is it that, in Canada, this process seems to be, not just taking so long, but it seems like the Canadian officialdom didn\u2019t say, \u201cWell, wait a minute, if the Germans are banning them, then maybe there\u2019s something that we need to look at in more detail. Not just Israel, but the Germans as well, and other countries in Europe are also putting limitations on and opening investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n

EB<\/b>: It wouldn\u2019t be the first time in recent weeks that the Canadian immigration department came under fire for allowing terrorists in who claim asylum\u2026.\u00a0It\u2019s very disturbing and disconcerting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ellin Bessner<\/b>, host of <\/i>The CJN Daily<\/a> podcast of the <\/i>Canadian Jewish News<\/a>, is a journalist, author and speaker. This article was originally published on thecjn.ca<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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(Editor<\/strong>\u2019s<\/strong> Note: For local response, see the story \u201cSamidoun on terrorist list<\/a>,\u201d by Lauren Kramer.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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