Introduction
Two organizations operating across Europe and North America serve as the Western-facing infrastructure of a designated terrorist organization – the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The first, Samidoun (Arabic for “resilience”), has been banned by Germany (November 2023), designated as a terrorist entity by the United States and Canada (October 2024), is the subject of a draft Belgian ban-bill and was the subject of an October 2024 Dutch parliamentary motion calling for designation that the Dutch executive has not yet acted on.[1] [2]
In March 2026, the Canadian government, where the organization was previously based, formally dissolved Samidoun as a federally registered nonprofit corporation.[3]
The second organization, Masar Badil (Arabic for “the Alternative Path”) was founded in 2021 and operates as Samidoun’s ideological and operational extension, sharing leadership, staff, funding sources, and rhetoric, while remaining undesignated almost everywhere.
Samidoun and Masar Badil are essentially one network with two names. Both glorify terrorism, endorse the October 7 massacre, host designated Hamas, PIJ, and Houthi figures, and openly call for the destruction of Israel and the “defeat” of the United States, Canada, and the European Union.
Samidoun
Samidoun, formally the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, was founded in 2011 during a hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Publicly it presents itself as a human-rights organization advocating for prisoners’ welfare. But when the U.S. Treasury Department designated Samidoun in October 2024, it described it as a “sham charity” that fundraises on behalf of the PFLP – a group long designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, EU, and UK.[4] [5]
Samidoun has active branches in Spain, Germany (banned), France (affiliated group CPV dissolved), Belgium, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, the US, and Canada – the latter having recently formally dissolved Samidoun as a corporate entity. Samidoun also reportedly operates in Lebanon and the West Bank.[6]
Goals and Ideology
Samidoun’s objective is the elimination of Israel “from the river to the sea” through “armed resistance” so it explicitly rejects all peace processes, the two-state framework, and any negotiated settlement.[7] Its ideology blends Palestinian nationalism with Marxism-Leninism inherited from the PFLP, and treats the EU, US, and Canada as colonial and imperial accomplices of Israel that must be defeated as well.[8] [9] [10]
At a Brussels rally in 2022, Samidoun’s European coordinator, Mohammad Khatib, summed up the group’s objective as he called for the Palestinian diaspora to be armed with “Kalashnikovs, bullets and rockets,”[11] and said that “Defeating Israel means defeating the U.S. Defeating Israel means defeating Canada.”[12]
In October 2024, on the first anniversary of October 7, a Samidoun rally in Vancouver featured chants of “death to Canada, death to the United States and death to Israel,” and participants burned a Canadian flag. When asked about the chant, Samidoun confirmed it reflected the group’s goal of “destroying the colonialist, capitalist state of Canada” and said it stood by “death to Canada” as “the call to action that it is.”[13]
Connection to the PFLP
The U.S. Treasury identified Samidoun as a PFLP front used to fundraise and conduct propaganda abroad.[14] Israel’s Ministry of Defense had already designated Samidoun as a terrorist organization in February 2021 on identical grounds. Following sustained pressure, a series of major financial and tech platforms cut services: Mastercard, Visa, American Express,[15] PayPal,[16] Donorbox, Plaid, and Discover[17] all terminated payment processing, while YouTube and Instagram permanently removed key Samidoun accounts for content violations.[18]
Masar Badil
Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, was founded on November 1, 2021, through simultaneous conferences in Madrid, Beirut, and São Paulo.[19] Samidoun openly took credit for organizing the launch in its 2021 year-in-review, stating that “Samidoun organizers played a leading role in organizing the conference and now, building the movement and ongoing follow-up work.”[20] In Madrid, the founding event was celebrated with a street demonstration attended by Samidoun and its affiliates: Collectif Palestine Vaincra (CPV) from France, Samidoun Spain, Al-Karama, and the Revolutionary Youths of Zurich. At the Beirut launch, representatives from Hezbollah-affiliated media outlets Al-Manar and Al-Mayadeen, and from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)-affiliated Filastin Al-Yawm (Palestine Today), were in attendance. PIJ secretary general Sheikh Nafeth Azzam even sent a recorded video message to the conference.
The conference set out an ideological framework that fully rejects Israel’s existence, the two-state solution, and all peace and normalization agreements. Masar Badil instructs its followers to return to Clause 9 of the Palestinian National Charter: “Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. This is the overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase.”[21]
The movement calls for a “unified national front” of Palestinian terror groups regardless of ideology – explicitly naming the PFLP, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Hezbollah, all designated as terrorist entities by the EU and U.S.[22] It also seeks to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, which it characterizes as a “puppet authority” created by Israel and the West.[23]
Beyond its rejection of Israel, Masar Badil openly extends its hostility to the EU. At a rally in front of the European Parliament in October 2022, Mohammad Khatib, speaking simultaneously on behalf of Masar Badil, Samidoun, and the PFLP declared:
“We stand here in front of this colonial institution that committed genocide after genocide… Defeating Israel means defeating this colonial institution… So, we will say no to this, not only in Palestine but here in Europe.”[24]
The on-screen graphic accompanying the speech in Samidoun’s video read: “Defeating Israel means defeating Canada.”
Following the October 29, 2022, Brussels demonstration, Masar Badil issued a formal declaration calling on the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas, the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, and “the armed Palestinian resistance forces” to adopt a unified national strategy for liberation and return.[25]
Masar Badil’s executive committee is staffed almost entirely with Samidoun country coordinators – Khaled Barakat (Beirut), Mohammed Khatib (Brussels), Jaldia Abubakra (Madrid), Zaid Abdulnasser (formerly Samidoun Germany), Musaab Abu Atta (Berlin), and Bissan Barghouti (formerly Samidoun Seattle, now leading the U.S. proxy Nidal Seattle).[26] In operational terms, the distinction between the two organizations is simply a formality.
Funding and Digital Footprint
Masar Badil is not registered as a legal entity anywhere and publishes no financial records. It previously raised money through PayPal until its service was terminated in December 2024, and routinely directed donations through Samidoun’s U.S. fiscal sponsor, the Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ).[27] In June 2024, YouTube deleted Masar Badil’s channel shortly after closing Samidoun’s. Facebook also closed Masar Badil’s account.[28]
The Tariq el-Tahrir Youth Network — A New Front (Founded October 2024)
At Masar Badil’s annual conference in Madrid (October 3–7, 2024), the movement launched a new entity: the Tariq el-Tahrir Youth and Student Network, formally introduced on the 77th anniversary of the Nakba in May 2025 as Masar Badil’s youth wing.[29] Tariq el-Tahrir functions as a deliberate workaround in jurisdictions where Samidoun has been banned. In the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Israel, where Samidoun is a designated terror entity, Tariq el-Tahrir connects students to the network without using the Samidoun name; in Brazil, Greece, Italy, Belgium, and Spain, where Samidoun still operates openly, it amplifies Samidoun’s existing efforts.[30]
In July 2025, Tariq el-Tahrir participated in a joint delegation with Masar Badil and U.S.-based Nidal North America to the Iranian UN Mission, and conveyed “greetings and congratulations” to the Iranian regime for “victories in the face of aggression” (referring to the 12 Day War with Israel). It also announced a new Masar Badil campaign demanding the removal of all U.S. military bases from the Middle East – including Israel itself, described as “the largest U.S. military base.”[31]
Shared Infrastructure and Operations
Samidoun and Masar Badil have been described by the German federal government as “closely intertwined in terms of personnel and strategy.”[32] In an October 2025 Tariq el-Tahrir video shared by affiliate Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return University of Washington (SUPER UW), Samidoun international coordinator Charlotte Kates stated on camera that Samidoun and Masar Badil are part of the same “political project.”[33]
The two groups share:
- Leadership: Khaled Barakat, Mohammed Khatib, Charlotte Kates, Jaldia Abubakra, Zaid Abdulnasser, Bissan Barghouti.
- Events: Most major European demonstrations, conferences, and webinars in Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, and Greece have been co-organized.[34]
- Propaganda style: Glorification of terror attacks framed as resistance; Marxist anti-colonial language; calls for the destruction of Israel and the defeat of “Western imperialism.”
- Anti-West rhetoric: Both reject peace processes, international legal frameworks, and the legitimacy of Western liberal institutions, and specifically target Palestinian diaspora youth and Western university students for radicalization.
Endorsement of the October 7 Massacre
After Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel – in which roughly 1,200 people were murdered and over 250 people were taken hostage – Masar Badil and Samidoun openly celebrated and endorsed the attacks:[35]
- October 7: Samidoun chair Khaled Barakat published an op-ed describing the attack as “a brave and heroic operation” and “the day of the launch of the new Palestinian revolution.”[36]
- October 8: Samidoun and Masar Badil co-organized a Vancouver protest “to stand with Palestine, the Palestinian resistance, Gaza under attack and resisting, and liberation, from the river to the sea.”[37]
- November 2023: The two groups co-hosted a Zoom event featuring Husam Badran, a senior Hamas official who formerly led the group’s military wing in the northern West Bank. Zoom canceled the event for terms-of-service violations, but the event was still uploaded to YouTube. During the webinar, members of Masar Badil and Samidoun repeatedly referred to Badran as a “comrade” and “brother.”[38]
- April 2024: Samidoun international coordinator Charlotte Kates was arrested in Vancouver after calling October 7 “a heroic and brave act” and leading chants of “Long live October 7” at a public rally.[39]
- August 2024: Kates traveled to Iran, where she received the regime’s “Islamic Human Rights and Human Dignity Award” and dedicated it to “the brave, heroic October 7 operation and the legitimacy of the resistance.”[40] [41]
- October 2024: Following the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, Masar Badil published a eulogy calling him a “great national leader” and “heroic brother,” praising the “glorious battle of Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October 2023.”[42]
- October 1–7, 2024: Masar Badil staged its annual conference in Madrid — “The Line of Resistance and Liberation” — to deliberately coincide with the first anniversary of October 7. The invitation prominently featured Hamas’s red triangle[43], the symbol it uses to mark its targets in propaganda videos. The conference culminated in a roughly 500-person rally outside the U.S. embassy, led by Kates, who praised Hamas terrorists for “defending” the Palestinian resistance “with every gun; with every bullet; with every missile.”[44] At the same conference, Masar Badil formally launched the Tariq el-Tahrir Youth and Student Network.
- November 2024: Following the antisemitic violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, Masar Badil released a statement calling on “Arabs and Muslims to confront the so-called ‘fans of Israeli teams’ all over Europe.”[45]
- June 6–8, 2025: At Samidoun’s third annual “Resistance Festival” in Brussels, participants staged a public reenactment of the October 7 massacre: pro-Palestinian activists dressed as Hamas terrorists, in masks, keffiyehs, and military fatigues, held prop guns and pointed them at other actors lying motionless on the ground in pools of fake blood. The performance was accompanied by a “from the river to the sea” voiceover and chants of “intifada.” Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken called for a formal investigation after some performers were seen wearing apparent Belgian military uniforms. The Saint-Gilles mayor opened a police inquiry, later admitting “Several scenes can be interpreted as incitement to violence and glorification of terrorism.”[46] [47]
- October 7, 2025 — Second anniversary of the October 7 massacre: Samidoun published a major statement, “October 7, Al-Aqsa Flood: Today’s Palestinian Revolution Resisting Two Years of Genocide,” with paraglider imagery from the attacks, openly framing October 7 as “the day that changed the world” and “a great revolutionary occasion.” The statement explicitly named Elias Rodriguez, Casey Goonan, Tarek Bazrouk, Jakhi McCray, Anan Yaeesh, and Musaab Abu Atta as “prisoners of the Palestinian cause” to be liberated. Charlotte Kates gave an on-camera interview to NBC News investigative correspondent Tom Winter ahead of the anniversary on Samidoun’s plans.[48]
- October 7, 2025 — Seattle: Coordinated protests by Nidal Seattle, SUPER UW, Bilyad Seattle, and Seattle Against War displayed portraits of Hassan Nasrallah (Hezbollah), Walid Daqqa (PFLP), Yahya Ayyash and Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas), and Jamila al-Shanti (Hamas).[49]
- October 26, 2025: SUPER UW and Tariq el-Tahrir hosted a “teach-in” titled “The Right to Resist: Al-Aqsa Flood and Armed Resistance,” explicitly framing the October 7 attack as a “victory.”[50]
- In October 2025, Masar Badil issued an English-language statement formally saluting Palestinian Islamic Jihad on its 38th anniversary, addressing PIJ Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhaleh as “the brother and mujahid” and extending greetings to PIJ’s military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades.[51]
Endorsements of Violence and Terror
Samidoun and Masar Badil continuously endorse violence against Israelis, Jews, and Western targets.
Glorification of Terrorism, Terrorists, and Attacks
- At the inaugural Masar Badil event in October 2021, the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre in Israel was celebrated in song, with slogans calling for “terror attacks and kidnapping of soldiers.”[52]
- In November 2022, Masar Badil held a webinar (coordinated by Khaled Barakat) celebrating the “revolutionary thought” of PIJ founder Fathi Shaqaqi.[53]
- Multiple senior Hamas and PIJ figures have been honored in Masar Badil/Samidoun materials, including:
- Ahmad Bahar (Hamas) in an October 2022 video.[54]
- Khaled Al-Batsh (PIJ) in October 2022 materials.[55]
- PIJ Secretary General Sheikh Nafeth Azzam via video message to the 2021 founding conference.[56]
- Khairy Alqam (killed seven civilians in Jerusalem in January 2023), praised as a “heroic Palestinian martyr.”[57]
- Hamas commander Musab Shtayyeh commended at a February 2023 Berlin rally.[58]
- Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif featured on a banner in Berlin, August 2022.[59]
- An October 2022 Masar Badil rally in Brussels featured posters honoring early PFLP terrorists George Habash, El Houssine Benyahia, and Shadia Abu Ghazaleh alongside a banner depicting rockets being fired; participants wore headbands of the Palestinian terror group, the Lions’ Den. An accompanying Masar Badil video featured the song “3amaliyet” (“terror attacks”) by Jaafar Toufar, which “explicitly calls to perpetrate car-ramming attacks and other terror attacks using bullets and ambushes.”[60]
- In February 2023, a Masar Badil representative called the Huwwara murders, in which two Israeli teens were killed, a “heroic resistance operation.”[61]
- At an April 2023 Masar Badil/Samidoun rally in Berlin, chants of “Death to the Jews” and “Death to Israel” were heard; the Lions’ Den anthem “Go, Lions” played; protestors called for “revenge in Tel Aviv,” and posters honoring PFLP terrorist Walid Daqqa and PIJ terrorist Khader Adnan were displayed.[62]
- In September 2024, Masar Badil eulogized Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (killed September 2024) as “an exceptional, historic leader,” with a public commitment to continue his “jihadist path.” [63] [64]
- In October 2024, Masar Badil eulogized Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as a “great national leader” and “heroic brother.”[65]
- At a Samidoun rally in Vancouver in October 2024 on the first anniversary of October 7, protestors chanted, “death to Canada, death to the United States, and death to Israel” and burned a Canadian flag.[66]
- In February 2025, Khaled Barakat and Charlotte Kates traveled to Beirut for the funeral of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, where Barakat appeared on Iran’s Press TV calling Nasrallah “an exceptional historical leader” who “represents the project of liberation… the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.”[67]
- In May 2025, Khaled Barakat called Elias Rodriguez, who murdered two Israeli embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., a “feda’i” (“freedom fighter”) and described the murders as a “heroic operation,” a “natural and legitimate response,” and a “pivotal moment,” in an article on Masar Badil’s website. Barakat wrote that “the battle is not confined to Gaza or the West Bank” and called on activists to “build on this moment.” Charlotte Kates said: “Genocide has to have consequences.”[68] [69]
- In July 2025, as Iran fired ballistic missiles at Israeli cities during the 12 Day War, a Samidoun Gothenburg member declared at a Swedish demonstration: “I feel hope as the rockets fall over Tel Aviv… Death to Israel! Death to the USA! Glory to the martyrs! Long live the resistance!”[70]
Support for the Iranian Regime
In April 2026, Masar Badil issued a “Tehran Resolution” with allied progressive parties and movements, pledging to stand with the Islamic Republic against “imperial war.”[71] The movement publicly condemned Argentina’s expulsion of Iranian Chargé d’Affaires Mohsen Soltani Tehrani as persona non grata.[72] At its Sao Paulo conference in April 2026, Masar Badil underscored its support for Iran and called to “continue to escalate the global popular campaign against the U.S. military and security presence in the Arab world, West Asia, and Global South.”[73]
Hosting Designated Terrorists
In recent years, Masar Badil hosted a livestream series, Palestine Media Events – English. Confirmed guests included:
- Husam Badran — A senior Hamas official, former leader of Hamas’s military wing in the northern West Bank, hosted at a November 2023 webinar co-organized by Samidoun and Masar Badil. While the event was canceled by Zoom, it was uploaded to Masar Badil’s YouTube channel.[74]
- Basem Naim — A Hamas leader and U.S.-designated terrorist, hosted as “honorable speaker” at a Masar Badil webinar in February 2024.[75] [76]
- Osama Hamdan — A former senior Hamas representative in Lebanon and Tehran. Hamdan was featured in a May 2024 webinar hosted by Masar Badil and Kates.[77]
- Sami Abu Zuhri — A Hamas spokesman, appeared in a September 2024 webinar.[78]
- Ghazi Hamad — A senior official of the Hamas Political Bureau, who told Masar Badil: “Protests in [the] West are ‘much appreciated,’ ‘Very Effective.’ We will never recognize Israel.”[79]
- Ali Abu Shaheen — A senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad member, appeared in a June 2024 webinar.[80]
- Dr. Ahmed al-Shami — A Houthi spokesperson, appeared in a Masar Badil webinar in February 2024.[81]
- Nasruddin Amer — A Houthi spokesperson, appeared in a Masar Badil webinar in July 2024 and called October 7 “a great victory.”[82]
In February 2026, the Assembly of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Heraklion, Crete (the event Mohammed Khatib was traveling to when he was arrested at the airport) instead featured a live phone-in by Abdel-Nasser Issa, a senior Hamas terrorist who had been released from an Israeli prison in the February 2025 hostage exchanges.[83]
In March 2026, at Masar Badil’s fifth annual conference in Sao Paolo, “solidarity messages” were delivered from representatives of designated foreign terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and Hamas.[84] [85]
The “Free Elias Rodriguez” Campaign (May 2025)
In the days following the Capital Jewish Museum shooting in which two Israeli embassy staffers were murdered, the Tariq el-Tahrir Youth and Student Network organized an open letter calling to free the perpetrator, Elias Rodriguez. The letter titled “Free Rodriguez: Build the International Popular Cradle of Resistance,” called Rodriguez’s killings “fully justified,” “eminently defensible,” and “morally righteous,” and declared that the murders “are only the beginning of this battle.”
The letter was co-signed by 21 organizations and 46 individuals; signatories included a member of Samidoun’s Seattle network (Bissan Barghouti, also a Masar Badil executive committee member) and the Maoist wing of the Democratic Socialists of America. The Tariq el-Tahrir letter explicitly compared Rodriguez to Luigi Mangione, the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, asserting that both murders “helped to balance the scales of justice.”[86]
Proxies, Partners, and Funding
As a result of sanctions and bans, in recent years, new, smaller proxy and successor organizations have sprung up where Samidoun has been banned or is operationally constrained.
- Tariq el-Tahrir Youth and Student Network (see above) is the network’s flagship proxy for U.S. and Canadian campus organizing.
Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return University of Washington (SUPER UW)
A campus group at the University of Washington with close ties to Tariq el Tahrir / Masar Badil. Members of the group allegedly caused $1 million in campus damage[87] in protests in spring 2025 when campus buildings were “occupied.” Multiple SUPER UW members have been suspended by the University of Washington, but no federal action has been taken to date. The Secure Community Network (SCN) characterized the spring 2025 building occupation as “a deliberate, destructive, and illegal operation influenced… by a designated terrorist entity.”[88]
Nidal Seattle / Nidal North America
Nidal Seattle, founded May 2025, is led by Bissan Barghouti, a member of Masar Badil’s executive committee. It has hosted events glorifying terror such as a June 2025 Fedayin film screening, the July 12, 2025 “Night of Rage for Palestine” coinciding with the anniversary of PFLP icon Ghassan Kanafani’s assassination, and the coordinated Seattle October 7, 2025, anniversary protest.[89]
Bilyad Seattle
Bilyad Seattle was identified in an October 2025 ADL report as one of the Samidoun-linked Seattle groups alongside Nidal Seattle and SUPER UW.[90]
In addition, Samidoun maintains national branches in Greece, Hungary, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Britain, and various U.S. cities.
Continued AFGJ fiscal sponsorship despite U.S. terror designation
Samidoun’s U.S. fiscal sponsor, the Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), violates U.S. law by continuing to channel donations despite the designation by the U.S. Treasury; ADL confirmed the structure remained operational as of mid-2025.
Key Figures
Khaled Barakat (Canada / Lebanon)
Barakat is the leader of Samidoun, the co-founder and coordinator of Masar Badil, and a senior PFLP leader.[92] In October 2024, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Barakat (along with Samidoun) for fundraising for the PFLP.
Barakat was permanently barred from the U.S. in 2003, expelled from Germany in 2020 with a four-year re-entry ban, and denied entry to the Netherlands in 2022.[93] [94]
Despite his designation, Barakat – a Canadian citizen – has not been criminally charged in Canada and has not been deported. As of April 2026, both B’nai Brith Canada and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) continue petitioning the federal government to act. A civil lawsuit by Canadian family members of October 7 victims has been filed against several defendants including Samidoun, Kates, and Barakat, but no public ruling or motion update has surfaced through April 2026.[95]
According to recent Masar Badil statements, as of 2026, Barakat appears to be operating primarily from Beirut, Lebanon.
In February 2025, Barakat attended Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in Beirut with his wife Charlotte Kates. Speaking on Iran’s Press TV from the funeral, he called Nasrallah “an exceptional historical leader” who “represents the project of liberation… the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.”[96]
In May 2025, he published an article on Masar Badil’s website praising D.C. Museum shooter Elias Rodriguez as a “feda’i” who carried out a “heroic operation” (see above).
In September 2025, following Yemeni airstrikes against Israeli cities, Barakat endorsed the attacks, saying the imagery of “the Yemeni plane violating Palestinian airspace and exploding in the heart of the domestic tourism center in southern Palestine… will remain an honorable image.”[97]
Charlotte Kates (Canada)
Kates, Khaled Barakat’s wife, is Samidoun’s co-founder and international coordinator. She is a U.S. citizen, a Rutgers Law graduate, and former Communist Party USA member.[98]
In April 2024, Kates was arrested in Vancouver for praising October 7 and leading “Long live Oct. 7” chants. The Vancouver Police Department recommended hate crime charges (willful promotion and public incitement of hatred).[99] As of April 2026, a decision regarding the charges has not been announced.[100]
Kates traveled to Iran in August 2024 to receive an award alongside Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Nakaleh. She attended Nasrallah’s funeral in Beirut in February 2025. She publicly supported the Elias Rodriguez attack in May 2025 and in October 2025 told a SUPER UW audience that critics of Rodriguez were focused on the wrong target — they should instead “escalate the struggle to stand with the Palestinian resistance.”[101]
Mohammed Khatib (Belgium)
Khatib is Samidoun’s European coordinator, a Masar Badil executive committee member, and a PFLP member. His public rhetoric – “throw stones and shoot bullets, bring your Kalashnikovs, bring your rockets” – and “defeating Israel means defeating Canada” is one of the most explicit incitements of violence on record from the network’s senior leadership.
In June 2024, Switzerland imposed a 10-year entry ban on Khatib, and in October 2024 [102]the Netherlands formally banned him from entering the country. [103] In April 2025, Khatib was arrested in Belgium after being formally designated by the Belgian Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) as a “serious” security threat.”[104]
In August 2025, Belgium revoked Khatib’s refugee status following an 18-month review by the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons.[105]
In December 2025, the Greek government issued a “national security” entry ban on Khatib effective until 2033. On February 7, 2026, Greek authorities arrested him at Heraklion Airport, Crete, where he had arrived to speak at the “Assembly of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.” He was subsequently released and ordered to “self-deport” to Belgium. The Greek territorial entry ban remains in force.[106]
Tom Martin (France)
Martin is the founder and main leader of Collectif Palestine Vaincra (CPV), the French Samidoun affiliate and a member of the Masar Badil coalition.[107] In 2022, the French Interior Ministry issued a decree dissolving the CPV, but the decree was suspended a few months later. In February 2025, France’s Conseil d’État validated CPV’s dissolution. Martin has not been criminally charged in France as of April 2026.
Zaid Abdulnasser (Germany)
Abdulnasser is a Syrian-born Palestinian and the co-founder of Masar Badil and former coordinator of Samidoun Germany. Masar Badil lists him as an executive committee member. While his residency status in Germany has been formally threatened over his pro-terror engagement,[108] Abdulnasser continues to publicly endorse Hamas and PIJ in Masar Badil’s name.
Musaab Abu Atta (Germany)
Abu Atta is a Syrian-born Palestinian and a leader of both Samidoun and Masar Badil in Germany. He was banned from organizing political events in Berlin in 2023.[109] He has appeared in promotional photos wearing a t-shirt with a picture of PFLP official Ghassan Kanafani and the Samidoun logo. Abu Atta was also interviewed on Filastin Al-Yawm — an outlet seized by U.S. authorities for its PIJ affiliation.
Rima Najjar (Jordan)
Najjar is a retired professor of English literature at Al-Quds University, a member of Masar Badil, and a long-term promoter of Samidoun. She continues to write and post in support of the network on Medium, Mondoweiss, and Electronic Intifada.[110]
Jaldia Abubakra (Spain)
Abubakra is a Masar Badil co-founder and executive committee member; coordinator of Samidoun in Madrid; and leader of the Movement of Palestinian Women Al-Karama.[111] In February 2023, she praised the murder of two Israeli teens in Huwwara as a “heroic resistance operation.” She has been under criminal investigation in Spain following a complaint by VOX for “glorifying terrorism” — a parallel complaint against fellow activist Miriam Ojeda was dismissed. Abubakra’s case continues as of early 2026.[112]
In February 2025, Abubakra appeared on Fengshows, a Chinese media outlet affiliated with Phoenix TV (which has reported ties to the Chinese Communist Party).[113]
In June 2025, she led a Masar Badil delegation to the Iranian Embassy in Madrid, meeting Ambassador Reza Zabib to “express deep solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran” amid the Iran-Israel war.[114]
In August 2025, Samidoun publicly announced that Abubakra would join the Gaza-bound, Hamas-affiliated Global Sumud Flotilla, which set sail from Spain on August 31, 2025, and was intercepted by the Israeli Navy on October 1–2.[115] [116]
Bissan Barghouti (Seattle, USA)
Barghouti is coordinator of the now-dissolved Samidoun Seattle, the leader of its U.S.-domestic successor Nidal Seattle, a member of the Masar Badil executive committee, and a former official with the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.[117]
In July 2025, Barghouti led the joint Masar Badil/Tariq el-Tahrir/Nidal North America delegation that met with the Iranian UN mission and announced the Masar Badil campaign to remove all U.S. military bases from the Middle East – including Israel. She has been a featured speaker at SUPER UW events and was a signatory to the “Free Elias Rodriguez” open letter.[118]
In March 2026, Barghouti spoke at Masar Badil’s São Paulo conference wearing a Hezbollah T-shirt defending the “Axis of Resistance – Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen” and pledging the Palestinian diaspora would “continue to fight until victory.”[119]
Qays Hamad (Greece)
Barghouti is coordinator of the now-dissolved Samidoun Seattle, the leader of its U.S.-domestic successor Nidal Seattle, a member of the Masar Badil executive committee, and a former official with the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.[117]
In July 2025, Barghouti led the joint Masar Badil/Tariq el-Tahrir/Nidal North America delegation that met with the Iranian UN mission and announced the Masar Badil campaign to remove all U.S. military bases from the Middle East – including Israel. She has been a featured speaker at SUPER UW events and was a signatory to the “Free Elias Rodriguez” open letter.[118]
In March 2026, Barghouti spoke at Masar Badil’s São Paulo conference wearing a Hezbollah T-shirt defending the “Axis of Resistance – Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen” and pledging the Palestinian diaspora would “continue to fight until victory.”[119]
Hamad is Samidoun’s coordinator in Greece.[120] Greek branches of Samidoun have co-organized joint events with Masar Badil and have hosted PFLP-affiliated speakers, including at the Greek “Resistance Festival” attended by PFLP secretary general Ahmad Sa’adat.[121]
Mustapha Awad (Belgium)
Awad is a Belgian-Lebanese Samidoun coordinator. In 2018, he was convicted by Israel of belonging to the PFLP, of illegally transferring PFLP funds from Syria to Khaled Barakat, and of receiving reconnaissance training from Hezbollah in Lebanon. He served under a year in prison.[123] Awad lives in Belgium and is identified as a key figure in Samidoun’s Belgium branch.
Rawa Alsagheer (Brazil)
Alsagheer is Samidoun’s Brazil country coordinator. She promoted the March 2026 São Paulo conference with Barakat and Abubakra on the Alkarama-Palestina podcast, spoke at a São Paulo Samidoun demonstration in July 2024, and was profiled by Just International as “Samidoun coordinator (São Paulo)” in February 2026.[124]
Alon Lapid (U.S.)
Lapid is a prominent member of Samidoun Seattle. He was identified by a Fight Back News report in January 2024 as a Samidoun Seattle organizer and named in a July 2023 Samidoun statement as a SUPER UW member. He spoke alongside Bissan Barghouti at the August 25, 2024, Seattle rally. He is also active in Nidal Seattle.[125]
Dave Diewert (Canada)
Diewert is one of three named Samidoun directors along with Kates and Hofland. According to a September 2025 Jerusalem Post report, Diewert is “regularly spotted at protests by the newly created Basil Al-Araj Committee, which collaborates with Al-Ahrar, Tariq el-Tahrir, and Nidal Seattle.”[126]
International Designations and Pressure (as of May 2026)
|
Country |
Action |
Date |
|---|---|---|
|
Israel |
Designated Samidoun as a terrorist organization[127] |
February 2021 |
|
Germany |
Banned Samidoun (and Samidoun Germany); banned Palestine Solidarity Duisburg[128] |
November 2023; 2025 |
|
The Netherlands |
Parliament voted to designate Samidoun as terror group; entry ban on Khatib[129] |
October 2024 |
|
United States |
Designated Samidoun and Khaled Barakat (OFAC)[130] |
October 2024 |
|
Canada |
Designated Samidoun and Barakat under Criminal Code[131] |
October 2024 |
|
Canada |
Minister stated that the government is “urgently” pursuing dissolution[132] |
September 2025 |
|
Canada |
Formally dissolved Samidoun as a federally registered nonprofit[133] |
March 2026 |
|
France |
Conseil d’État definitively validated dissolution of Collectif Palestine Vaincra (CPV) on the merits[134] |
February 2025 |
|
Belgium |
Khatib designated as “serious security threat” by CUTA; arrested[135] |
April 2025 |
|
Belgium |
Refugee status of Khatib formally revoked[136] |
August 2025 |
|
Belgium |
PM De Wever cabinet approved preliminary draft law on dissolution of “radical organisations” (with Samidoun explicitly named)[137] |
July 2025 |
|
Belgium |
Draft bill in revision phase before Parliament[138] |
October 2025; still in revision phase as of May 2026 |
|
Greece |
Entry ban on Khatib issued (in force until 2033)[139] |
December 2025 |
|
Greece |
Khatib arrested at Heraklion Airport; released and ordered to self-deport[140] |
February 2026 |
|
Switzerland |
10-year entry ban on Khatib[141] |
June 2024 |
|
EU |
March 2025 European Parliament conference called for designation[142] |
Pending |
Conclusion
Masar Badil and Samidoun are one network operating under multiple names, with the PFLP terror group as its parent body. As Western governments have moved against Samidoun specifically, the same actors have continued operating under Masar Badil, Tariq el-Tahrir, Nidal North America, Nidal Seattle, and a proliferating list of regional proxies – each with overlapping leadership, identical ideology, and the same objective: that the United States, Canada, and the European Union are enemies that must be defeated.
Despite their declared goals, the network’s senior leadership remains free, publicly active, and continues to openly endorse political violence. Samidoun chair Khaled Barakat is a U.S.-designated terrorist now based in Beirut but still retains his Canadian citizenship. His American wife and Samidoun international coordinator, Charlotte Kates, has still not been criminally charged in Canada nearly two years after her arrest for praising the Hamas-led October 7 massacre.
The EU, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the remaining national jurisdictions have not formally designated Masar Badil and completed the process they started against Samidoun. Other Western governments have also not enforced those designations. Until then, this terror network will continue to replace every entity shut down with another that absorbs its activists, rhetoric, and operational role, and continue to risk the national security and stability in every country in which it operates.
Endnotes
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “Dutch Parliament Votes to Designate PFLP Front Samidoun as a Terrorist Group,” October 11, 2024, https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/10/11/dutch-parliament-votes-to-designate-pflp-front-samidoun-as-a-terrorist-group/; Jerusalem Post, “Netherlands to Add Samidoun to List of Terrorist Groups,” https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-824116. ↑
- Belga News Agency, “Government Approves Preliminary Draft Law on Radical Organisations,” July 25, 2025, https://www.belganewsagency.eu/government-approves-preliminary-draft-law-on-radical-organisations; Jerusalem Post, “Belgium Unveils Bill to Ban Extremist Organizations,” https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-862401. ↑
- Government of Canada, “Federal Corporation: Samidoun,” March 27, 2026, https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=12793741; Jerusalem Post, “Canadian Gov’t Dissolves Samidoun a Year and a Half After Proscribing It as a Terror Organization,” March 31, 2026, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-891793. ↑
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, “United States and Canada Target Key International Fundraiser for Foreign Terrorist Organization PFLP,” October 15, 2024, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2646. ↑
- NBC News, “Pro-Hamas Group That Helped Organize College Protests Is a ‘Sham Charity,’ Treasury Says,” October 15, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-hamas-group-helped-organize-college-protests-sham-charity-treasury-sa-rcna175529. ↑
- Samidoun, “About Samidoun,” https://samidoun.net/about-samidoun/. ↑
- ACDemocracy, “Samidoun: ‘Long Live October 7! – the Heroic Al-Aqsa Flood,'” June 8, 2024, https://acdemocracy.org/samidoun-long-live-october-7-the-heroic-al-aqsa-flood/. ↑
- Newsweek, “How Iran’s Tentacles Are Reaching Into Europe,” March 28, 2023, https://www.newsweek.com/how-irans-tentacles-are-reaching-europe-opinion-1790692. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Israel Designates PFLP International Branch as a Terrorist Organization,” February 28, 2021, https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/samidoun-declared-terrorist-organization-due-to-dflp-ties-660464. ↑
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “6 Things to Know About Samidoun – the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network,” September 13, 2024, https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/09/13/6-things-to-know-about-samidoun-the-palestinian-prisoner-solidarity-network/. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Iran proxy Samidoun should be designated as a terror organization by the EU – opinion,” April 19, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-739656 ↑
- Samidoun, “Videos: Mohammed Khatib speaks at the March for Return and Liberation and March Highlights,” November 3, 2022,https://samidoun.net/2022/11/videos-mohammed-khatib-speaks-at-the-march-for-return-and-liberation-and-march-highlights/ ↑
- CityNews Halifax, “Vancouver Police Probe Oct. 7 Rally Where ‘Death to Canada’ Cry Heard,” October 8, 2024, https://halifax.citynews.ca/2024/10/08/leaders-condemn-hateful-rhetoric-at-b-c-pro-palestinian-protest-on-oct-7/. ↑
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, press release JY2646, October 15, 2024, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2646. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Mastercard, Visa, AmEx All Pull Option to Fund Terror Group-Linked NGO,” https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/mastercard-visa-amex-all-pull-option-to-fund-terror-group-linked-ngo-613277. ↑
- JNS, “PayPal Among Online Payment Platforms That Shut Down Services to BDS Group With Terror Links,” May 15, 2019, https://www.jns.org/news/paypal-among-online-payment-platforms-that-shut-down-services-to-bds-group-with-terror-links. ↑
- Free Beacon (Adam Kredo and Matthew Foldi), “Discover Card Cuts Ties With Palestinian Terror-Linked Organization,” September 16, 2021, https://freebeacon.com/national-security/discover-card-cuts-ties-with-palestinian-terror-linked-organization/. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “PFLP-Affiliated NGO Samidoun Accounts Removed from Instagram,” July 11, 2024, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-809982; MEMRI, “YouTube Shuts Down YouTube Channels of PFLP-Affiliated Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network,” June 28, 2024, https://www.memri.org/cjlab/youtube-shuts-down-youtube-channels-pflp-affiliated-samidoun-palestinian-prisoner-solidarity; Israel Hayom, “PayPal Shuts Down Services to BDS Group With Terror Links” May 16, 2019, https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/05/16/paypal-shuts-down-services-to-bds-group-with-terror-links/. ↑
- Samidoun, “The Alternative Revolutionary Path Conference is Convened in Madrid, Beirut and São Paulo,” October 31, 2021, https://samidoun.net/2021/11/palestinian-alternative-revolutionary-path-movement-launches-with-conferences-in-madrid-beirut-and-sao-paulo/. ↑
- Samidoun, “2021 Samidoun Year in Review,” December 28, 2021, https://samidoun.net/2021/12/samidoun-spains-2021-year-in-review-a-year-of-lively-intense-political-activity/; Honestly Concerned, “Masar Badil – A Clone for Samidoun and a Front of PFLP,” February 2025, https://honestlyconcerned.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Masar-Badil-Report-2025.pdf. ↑
- Masar Badil, “Palestinian National Charter” (Article 9: “Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. This is the overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase.”), https://masarbadil.org/en/palestinian-national-charter/. ↑
- Honestly Concerned, “Masar Badil – A Clone for Samidoun and a Front of PFLP,” February 2025, https://honestlyconcerned.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Masar-Badil-Report-2025.pdf. ↑
- Ibid. ↑
- Speech text documented in: Samidoun, “Videos: Mohammed Khatib speaks at the March for Return and Liberation and March Highlights,” November 3, 2022, https://samidoun.net/2022/11/videos-mohammed-khatib-speaks-at-the-march-for-return-and-liberation-and-march-highlights/. ↑
- Masar Badil, “Brussels Declaration of the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement,” November 1, 2022, https://masarbadil.org/en/2022/11/3109/. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Same Network, New Names: Terror Front Samidoun Secretly Operates in US, Canada via Proxies Post-Ban,” September 4, 2025, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-866373. ↑
- ADL, “Masar Badil: What You Need to Know,” May 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/masar-badil-what-you-need-know; NGO Monitor, “PFLP-Linked Masar Badil Raises Funds via PayPal,” https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/pflp-linked-masar-badil-raises-funds-via-paypal/. ↑
- Masar Badil, “YouTube Deletes the Masar Badil Channel,” June 6, 2024. Original page not directly retrievable; documented in: Honestly Concerned, “Masar Badil – A Clone for Samidoun and a Front of PFLP,” February 2025, https://honestlyconcerned.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Masar-Badil-Report-2025.pdf. ↑
- Masar Badil, “Statement on the Ongoing Nakba, 1948–2025,” May 14, 2025 (announcing Tariq el-Tahrir’s launch), https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/05/5758/. ↑
- City Journal, “Terror Supporters Are Influencing Students at the University of Washington,” January 23, 2026, https://www.city-journal.org/article/university-of-washington-tariq-el-tahrir-terror-hamas. ↑
- Tariq el-Tahrir / Masar Badil, “The Iranian Mission to the United Nations Receives a Delegation of Organizations Supporting Palestine and the Resistance,” July 10–11, 2025, https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/07/6204/; MEMRI, “Bissan Barghouti, Executive Committee Member of Masar Badil – Affiliate of Terror-Designated PFLP and Samidoun – Meets in New York with Iranian Mission to the UN,” July 16, 2025, https://www.memri.org/reports/bissan-barghouti-executive-committee-member-masar-badil-%E2%80%93-affiliate-terror-designated-pflp. ↑
- German Bundestag, formal response to parliamentary inquiry, Drucksache 20/13530, November 8, 2024, https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/135/2013530.pdf. ↑
- Geller Report, “Washington Student Group Holds Lecture on October 7 Massacre ‘Victory,'” October 26, 2025, https://gellerreport.com/2025/10/washington-student-group-holds-lecture-on-october-7-massacre-victory.html/; Tariq el-Tahrir video shared by SUPER UW. ↑
- Joint events documented across Madrid, Brussels, Berlin, Cologne, Athens, Paris, Toulouse, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Heraklion. Primary documentation by democ.de, “Terrorist Propaganda for the West: The Anti-Israeli Organization Masar Badil Promotes Armed Struggle,” https://democ.de/en/masar-badil-terrorist-propaganda-for-the-west/, and NGO Monitor, “The Global Samidoun Network: Mapping Branches in Europe and Beyond,” https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/global-samidoun-network/. ↑
- Center for Strategic and International Studies, “Hamas’s October 7 Attack: Visualizing the Data,” https://www.csis.org/analysis/hamass-october-7-attack-visualizing-data; Congressional Research Service, “Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief: Overview, U.S. Policy, and Options for Congress,” https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47828. ↑
- Khaled Barakat, op-ed in Workers World, “Oct. 7: ‘The Launch of the New Palestinian Revolution,’ ” December 8, 2023, https://www.workers.org/2023/12/75532/ ↑
- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, “Samidoun – Vancouver, Masar Badil celebrate the “heroic” Hamas attack on Israel,” November 27, 2023, https://canadadocs.org/samidoun-vancouver-masar-badil-celebrate-the-heroic-hamas-attack-on-israel/ ↑
- Jewish Onliner, “Webinar Hosted by Alleged PFLP Proxy Reportedly Canceled by Zoom,” March 16, 2025, https://jewishonliner.org/p/webinar-hosted-by-masar-badil-an, ↑
- Vancouver Sun, “No Charges Laid Against Director of Vancouver-Based Terror Organization,” October 16, 2024, https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/no-charges-laid-director-charlotte-kates-vancouver-based-terror-organization-samidoun; CBC News, “Comments at Pro-Palestinian Demonstration Lead to Hate Crime Investigation,” May 2, 2024, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hate-investigation-demonstration-comments-1.7190914; THEJ.CA, “Questions Persist as No Charge Decision Reached in Charlotte Kates Case Nearly Two Years Later” (citing CBC News, “Vancouver MLA Announces Private Prosecution Against Alleged Hate Speech,” April 25, 2026), https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-mla-private-prosecution-hate-speech-1.7614064. ↑
- MEMRI, “Canadian Samidoun Activist Charlotte Kates Accepts Human Rights Award in Iran Alongside Designated Terrorist Khaled Mashal,” https://www.memri.org/reports/canadian-samidoun-activist-charlotte-kates-accepts-human-rights-award-iran-alongside; Western Standard, “Notorious Vancouver-Based Anti-Israel Activist Given ‘Human Rights’ Award in Iran,” https://www.westernstandard.news/news/notorious-vancouver-based-anti-israel-activist-given-human-rights-award-in-iran/57051. ↑
- Global News (Simon Little), “Vancouver Activist Facing Hate Speech Probe Praises Oct. 7 Attack on Iranian TV,” August 16, 2024, https://globalnews.ca/news/10702476/charlotte-kates-iran-tv/. ↑
- Masar Badil, “Our Pledge to the Leader Yahya Sinwar, to Resist Zionism and Colonialism Until the Defeat of the Zionist Entity and the Liberation of Palestine,” October 20, 2024, https://masarbadil.org/en/2024/10/5318/. ↑
- Samidoun, “1-7 October, Madrid: The Line of Resistance and Liberation — Conference, Mobilization and Public Events — Register Now!,” September 1, 2024, https://samidoun.net/2024/09/1-7-october-madrid-the-line-of-resistance-and-liberation-conference-mobilization-and-public-events-register-now/ ↑
- Democ.de, “Terrorist Propaganda for the West: The anti-Israeli organization “Masar Badil,” https://democ.de/en/masar-badil-terrorist-propaganda-for-the-west/ ↑
- Masar Badil, “There Is No Place for Zionism, Racism and Fascism in the Squares and Stadiums of Europe,” November 8, 2024. Direct Masar Badil page not retrievable; statement reproduced and discussed at: Samidoun, “Amsterdam Free from Zionism! For a Total Boycott — Globalize the Intifada,” November 2024, https://samidoun.net/2024/11/amsterdam-free-from-zionism-for-a-total-boycott-globalize-the-intifada/. ↑
- Brussels Times, “Saint-Gilles Mayor Denounces ‘Pro-Hamas’ Performance,” https://www.brusselstimes.com/1618175/saint-gilles-mayor-denounces-pro-hamas-performance; The Bulletin, “Performance in Saint Gilles Deemed ‘Pro-Hamas’ Sparks Controversy,” https://www.thebulletin.be/performance-saint-gilles-deemed-pro-hamas-sparks-controversy; Jerusalem Post, “Brussels Mayor Had Prior Knowledge of Samidoun’s Oct 7 Reenactment,” https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-858382. ↑
- Israel Hayom, “‘Massacre Performance’ in Belgium Sparks Outrage,” June 12, 2025, https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/06/12/massacre-performance-in-belgium-sparks-outrage/; Ynet News, “Pro-Palestinian Activists Reenact October 7 Massacre at Brussels Festival,” June 11, 2025, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skkwgzvqlx; THEJ.CA, “Pro-Palestinian ‘Resistance Festival’ With Intifada Chants Draws Criticism in Brussels,” June 15, 2025, https://thej.ca/2025/06/15/pro%E2%80%91palestinian-resistance-festival-with-intifada-chants-draws-criticism-in-brussels/. ↑
- Samidoun, “October 7, Al-Aqsa Flood: Today’s Palestinian Revolution Resisting Two Years of Genocide and the Urgent Tasks of Our Movement,” October 7, 2025, https://samidoun.net/2025/10/october-7-al-aqsa-flood-todays-palestinian-revolution-resisting-two-years-of-genocide-and-the-urgent-tasks-of-our-movement/; NBC News interview with Tom Winter, early October 2025. ↑
- ADL, “On 2nd Oct. 7 Anniversary, U.S. Anti-Israel Activists Reaffirm Support for Hamas Attack Amid Continued Glorification of Violence,” October 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/2nd-oct-7-anniversary-us-anti-israel-activists-reaffirm-support-hamas-attack-amid; coverage of Seattle protests by Nidal Seattle, SUPER UW, Bilyad Seattle, Seattle Against War. ↑
- Combat Antisemitism Movement, “U of Washington Student Group Celebrates October 7th Massacre as ‘Victory’ in Pro-Terror Teach-In,” October 27, 2025, https://combatantisemitism.org/on-campus/u-of-washington-student-group-celebrates-october-7th-massacre-as-victory-in-pro-terror-teach-in/. ↑
- Masar Badil, “We Salute the Islamic Jihad Movement on the Anniversary of Its Founding,” October 6, 2025, https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/10/6990/; coverage in Jerusalem Post, August/September 2025 reporting on Madrid conference dates of October 3–7, 2025. ↑
- Honestly Concerned, “Masar Badil – A Clone for Samidoun and a Front of PFLP,” February 2025, https://honestlyconcerned.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Masar-Badil-Report-2025.pdf. ↑
- Ibid. ↑
- Ibid. ↑
- Ibid. ↑
- Ibid. ↑
- Masar Badil, “Our Palestinian people are stronger than the massacres! Confront normalization in Days of Rage and Resistance, Feb. 10-12,” Jan. 30, 2023, https://masarbadil.org/en/2023/01/3272/ ↑
- Democ.de, dossier on Masar Badil’s German activities (“Terrorist Propaganda for the West: The Anti-Israeli Organization ‘Masar Badil’ Promotes Armed Struggle”), https://democ.de/en/masar-badil-terrorist-propaganda-for-the-west/, full PDF dossier at https://democ.de/documents/31/Dossier-Masar-Badil_democ.pdf. ↑
- Ibid. ↑
- NGO Monitor, “The Global Samidoun Network: Mapping Branches in Europe and Beyond,” https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/global-samidoun-network/, and Honestly Concerned, “Masar Badil – A Clone for Samidoun and a Front of PFLP,” February 2025, https://honestlyconcerned.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Masar-Badil-Report-2025.pdf; Brussels Declaration available at: Masar Badil, “Brussels Declaration,” November 1, 2022, https://masarbadil.org/en/2022/11/3109/. ↑
- Masar Badil, “The Heroic Huwwara Operation Confronts the Shameful Aqaba Summit,” February 26, 2023, https://masarbadil.org/en/2023/02/3366/. ↑
- Rally documented in: democ.de, “Terrorist Propaganda for the West: The Anti-Israeli Organization ‘Masar Badil,'” https://democ.de/en/masar-badil-terrorist-propaganda-for-the-west/. ↑
- Masar Badil, “The Revolutionary Path Movement Mourns the Exceptional, Historic Leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah,” September 28, 2024 https://masarbadil.org/en/2024/09/5259/ ; ADL, “Anti-Israel Activists Display Brazen Support for Terror at Hezbollah Chiefs’ Beirut Funeral,” March 6, 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/anti-israel-activists-display-brazen-support-terror-hezbollah-chiefs-beirut. ↑
- ADL, “Anti-Israel Activists Display Brazen Support for Terror at Hezbollah Chiefs’ Beirut Funeral,” March 6, 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/anti-israel-activists-display-brazen-support-terror-hezbollah-chiefs-beirut. ↑
- Masar Badil, “Our pledge to the leader Yahya Sinwar, to resist Zionism and colonialism until the defeat of the Zionist entity and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea,” Oct. 20, 2024,https://masarbadil.org/en/2024/10/5318/ ↑
- Vancouver Sun, “Police Search East Vancouver Home of Samidoun Founder Charlotte Kates,” https://vancouversun.com/news/police-search-east-vancouver-home-of-samidoun-founder; CityNews Halifax, “Vancouver Police Probe Oct. 7 Rally Where ‘Death to Canada’ Cry Heard,” October 8, 2024, https://halifax.citynews.ca/2024/10/08/leaders-condemn-hateful-rhetoric-at-b-c-pro-palestinian-protest-on-oct-7/. ↑
- ADL, “Anti-Israel Activists Display Brazen Support for Terror at Hezbollah Chiefs’ Beirut Funeral,” March 6, 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/anti-israel-activists-display-brazen-support-terror-hezbollah-chiefs-beirut; Canary Mission profile of Khaled Barakat (updated February 17, 2026), https://canarymission.org/individual/Khaled_Barakat. ↑
- MEMRI, “Designated Terrorist Khaled Barakat of PFLP, Samidoun, and Masar Badil Lauds ‘Heroic’ Pro-Palestinian Shooter Who Targeted Washington DC Event,” May 30, 2025, https://www.memri.org/reports/designated-terrorist-khaled-barakat-pflp-samidoun-and-masar-badil-lauds-heroic-pro; Masar Badil website, “Elias Rodriguez… the Feda’i Who Revealed Positions on the Resistance,” May 29, 2025. ↑
- ADL, “Swaths of Anti-Zionist Movement Legitimize Killings at D.C. Jewish Museum,” June 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/swaths-anti-zionist-movement-legitimize-killings-dc-jewish-museum. ↑
- Samidoun, “Speech from demonstration in Gothenburg” (translated from Swedish), https://samidoun.net/sweden/tal-fran-demonstration-i-goteborg/, July 6, 2025 ↑
- Masar Badil, “Tehran Resolution,” April 2026, https://masarbadil.org/en/2026/04/7921/ ↑
- Reuters, “Argentina Expels Iran’s Charge d’Affaires,” April 2, 2026, https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-expels-irans-charge-daffaires-2026-04-02/; Al Jazeera, “Argentina Expels Iranian Diplomat Amid Rift Over Blacklisting IRGC,” April 2, 2026, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/2/argentina-expels-iranian-diplomat-amid-rift-over-blacklisting-irgc. ↑
- MEMRI, “PFLP-Affiliated Masar Badil Conference in Brazil Concludes with Calls to Escalate Global Campaign Against U.S. Military Presence Overseas,” April 1, 2026, https://www.memri.org/jttm/pflp-affiliated-masar-badil-conference-brazil-concludes-calls-escalate-global-campaign-against ↑
- Jewish Onliner, “Webinar Hosted by Alleged PFLP Proxy Reportedly Canceled by Zoom,” March 16, 2025, https://jewishonliner.org/p/webinar-hosted-by-masar-badil-an ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Hamas leader hosted as honorable speaker at PFLP-linked webinar,” February 29, 2024,https://www.jpost.com/international/article-789716 ↑
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Targets Key Hamas Leaders and Financiers,” November 19, 2024, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2720. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Hamas leader Osama Hamdan admits: China and Russia understand that our power is at their service,” May 6, 2024, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/hamas-leader-osama-hamdan-admits-china-and-russia-understand-that-our-power-is-at-their-service-800125 ↑
- MEMRI, “In September Live Stream with Hamas Spokesman, PFLP-Affiliated ‘Masar Badil’ Continues to ‘Amplify Voices’ of Top Terrorists, Incite Protest Escalation,” November 6, 2024, https://www.memri.org/reports/september-livestream-hamas-spokesman-pflp-affiliated-canadian-masar-badil-ngo-continues ↑
- MEMRI, “Top Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad in Interview With Pro-Palestinian NGO ‘Masar Badil’: Protests in West Are ‘Much Appreciated,’ ‘Very Effective’; We Coordinate,” https://www.memri.org/reports/top-hamas-official-ghazi-hamad-interview-pro-palestinian-ngo-masar-badil-protests-west-are. ↑
- Masar Badil on Odysee, “PALESTINE MEDIA EPISODE 2: Webinar with Ali Abu Shaheen,” June 30, 2024, https://odysee.com/@masarbadil:9/Ali-Abu-Shaheen-EN:2?lid=a5637c0533cc3fc3ad810866df7c70b949bc91e1 ↑
- Masar Badil, “Video: Yemen to Palestine – At the Heart of Revolution,” https://masarbadil.org/en/2024/02/4522/ ↑
- MEMRI, “‘Masar Badil’ Org Interviews Houthi Media Official Nasruddin Amer,” https://www.memri.org/reports/masar-badil-organization-led-canada-based-former-pflp-member-and-samidoun-affiliate-khaled. ↑
- Samidoun, “Liberated Palestinian Prisoner Abdel-Nasser Issa Speaks at Event in Crete, Expresses Solidarity with Mohammed Khatib, Urges Greek Action for Palestine,” February 8, 2026, https://samidoun.net/2026/02/liberated-palestinian-prisoner-abdel-nasser-issa-speaks-at-event-in-crete-expresses-solidarity-with-mohammed-khatib-urges-greek-action-for-palestine/. ↑
- Masar Badil website, “São Paulo Declaration — Final Statement of the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement Conference – São Paulo March / April 2026,” April 6, 2026, https://masarbadil.org/en/2026/04/7860/; MEMRI clip 12081 (“Seattle Activist Defends ‘Axis of Resistance’ Wearing Hizbullah T-Shirt at Conference in Brazil”), March 29, 2026, https://www.memri.org/tv/seattle-activist-barghouti-axis-resistance-masar-badil-brazil; Just International, “Masar Badil in São Paulo: Defiance, Organizing, and Critical Reflection,” February 21, 2026 (pre-conference), https://just-international.org/articles/masar-badil-in-sao-paulo-defiance-organizing-and-critical-reflection/; Alkarama-Palestina podcast featuring Barakat, Abubakra, and al-Saghir. ↑
- Just International, “Masar Badil in São Paulo: Defiance, Organizing, and Critical Reflection,” February 21, 2026, https://just-international.org/articles/masar-badil-in-sao-paulo-defiance-organizing-and-critical-reflection/. ↑
- Tariq El-Tahrir, “FREE ELIAS RODRIGUEZ: BUILD THE INTERNATIONAL POPULAR CRADLE OF RESISTANCE,” May 26, 2025, https://tariqeltahrir.org/2025/05/26/free-elias-rodriguez-build-the-international-popular-cradle-of-resistance/ ; Free Beacon, “Meet the Left-Wing Groups and Operatives Rallying Behind Jewish Museum Shooter Elias Rodriguez,” May 30, 2025, https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-left-wing-groups-and-operatives-rallying-behind-jewish-museum-shooter-elias-rodriguez/; ↑
- KOMO News, “Pro-Palestinian Protesters Cause $1M in Damage to UW Engineering Building,” https://komonews.com/news/local/university-of-washington-protest-pro-palestinian-uw-million-damages-interdisciplinary-engineering-building-super-uw-occupation-shaban-al-dalou-gaza-boeing-funding-federal-government-spd-police; KUOW, “33 Charged in Occupation and Vandalism of UW Engineering Building,” https://www.kuow.org/stories/33-charged-in-occupation-and-vandalism-of-university-of-washington-engineering-building; CBS Austin, “UW Suspends 21 Students Involved in Pro-Palestinian Protest,” https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/uw-suspends-21-students-involved-in-pro-palestine-protest-as-federal-grants-examined-boeing-interdisciplinary-engineering-building-shaban-al-dalou-building-israel-immigration-status-federal-government. ↑
- Secure Community Network, “Pro-Hamas Foreign Terrorist Organization Tied to Destructive Takeover at University of Washington,” https://www.securecommunitynetwork.org/articles/pro-hamas-foreign-terrorist-organization-tied-to-destructive-takeover-at-university-of-washington/. ↑
- Samidoun, “15 June, Seattle: Film Screening and Letter Writing, Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight,” https://samidoun.net/2025/06/15-june-seattle-film-screening-and-letter-writing-fedayin-georges-abdallahs-fight/; Jerusalem Post, “Same Network, New Names: Terror Front Samidoun Secretly Operates in US, Canada via Proxies Post-Ban,” https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-866373; Masar Badil, “Seattle Demonstration Confronts Forced Starvation and Genocide in Palestine,” https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/08/6606/. ↑
- ADL, “On 2nd Oct. 7 Anniversary, U.S. Anti-Israel Activists Reaffirm Support for Hamas Attack Amid Ceasefire Talks,” Oct. 10, 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/2nd-oct-7-anniversary-us-anti-israel-activists-reaffirm-support-hamas-attack-amid ↑
- Samidoun, “Madrid Demonstration Stands in Solidarity with Lebanon Against Zionist Aggression and Massacres,” April 11, 2026, https://samidoun.net/2026/04/madrid-demonstration-stands-in-solidarity-with-lebanon-against-zionist-aggression-and-massacres/. ↑
- Israel Defense Ministry / National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF), “Israel Designates ‘Samidoun’ as a Terrorist Organization,” February 28, 2021, https://nbctf.mod.gov.il/en/Pages/SamidounEN.aspx. ↑
- National Post (Terry Glavin), “The Curious Case of Khaled Barakat,” https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-the-curious-case-of-khaled-barakat (also republished at https://therealstory.substack.com/p/canadas-counterterror-clown-show). ↑
- Samidoun, “Samidoun Netherlands Protests Deportation of Barakat and Kates at Schiphol Airport,” October 31, 2022, https://samidoun.net/2022/10/samidoun-netherlands-protests-deportation-of-barakat-and-kates-at-schiphol-airport/. ↑
- Macdonald-Laurier Institute (Casey Babb and Sheryl Saperia, originally in National Post), “As Oct. 7 Victims Sue Samidoun, Canada Continues to Provide It Shelter,” https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/as-oct-7-victims-sue-samidoun-canada-continues-to-provide-it-shelter-casey-babb-and-sheryl-saperia-in-the-national-post/. ↑
- ADL, March 6, 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/anti-israel-activists-display-brazen-support-terror-hezbollah-chiefs-beirut; Canary Mission profile of Khaled Barakat (updated February 17, 2026), https://canarymission.org/individual/Khaled_Barakat. ↑
- Masar Badil, “The Palestinian revolutionary movement praises the Yemeni operation in the heart of Umm al-Rashrash” (Arabic), September 25, 2025, https://masarbadil.org/2025/09/6932/ ↑
- National Post, “Samidoun’s Charlotte Kates, the Face of Canada’s Newest Terrorist Group,” https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/samidoun-charlotte-kates; New York Times, “Public Lives; Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns,” July 18, 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/nyregion/public-lives-law-student-with-a-history-of-taking-left-turns.html. ↑
- CBC News, “Vancouver MLA Announces Private Prosecution Against Alleged Hate Speech,” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-mla-private-prosecution-hate-speech-1.7614064; Global News, “Still No Decision on Hate Charges for B.C. Woman 1 Year After Recommendation by Police,” https://globalnews.ca/news/11199403/charlotte-kates-charge-decision-delay-1-year/. ↑
- Global News, “Still no decision on hate charges for pro-Palestinian activist Charlotte Kates,” April 23, 2026,https://globalnews.ca/news/11814886/no-decision-hate-charges-pro-palestinian-activist-charlotte-kates/ ↑
- City Journal, January 23, 2026 (op. cit., quoting Kates’s October 2025 SUPER UW remarks), https://www.city-journal.org/article/university-of-washington-tariq-el-tahrir-terror-hamas. ↑
- NGO Monitor, “The Global Samidoun Network: Mapping Branches in Europe and Beyond,” https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/global-samidoun-network/. ↑
- NL Times, “Netherlands Bans Palestinian Activist Mohammed Khatib from Entering the Country,” October 25, 2024, https://nltimes.nl/2024/10/25/netherlands-bans-palestinian-activist-mohammed-khatib-entering-country; JNS, “Netherlands Bans Entry of Samidoun Leader,” October 30, 2024, https://www.jns.org/samidoun (also Jerusalem Post, “Operative from Terror-Designated Samidoun Banned from Entering Netherlands,” https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-826334). ↑
- Quds News, “Pro-Palestine Activist Briefly Arrested in Belgium After Taking Part in Protest,” May 2, 2025, https://qudsnen.co/public/post?id=58571&slug=pro-palestine-activist-briefly-arrested-in-belgium-after-taking-part-in-protest ↑
- Belga News Agency, “Belgium Revokes Asylum Status of Palestinian Activist Mohammed Khatib,” August 7, 2025, https://www.belganewsagency.eu/belgium-revokes-asylum-status-of-palestinian-activist-mohammed-khatib; Jewish Chronicle, August 8, 2025. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Greece Detains Samidoun Europe Leader Mohammed Khatib, Set to Deport Him from Crete,” February 8, 2026, https://www.jpost.com/international/article-885996; Samidoun statements February 7–11, 2026. ↑
- CPV, “Charte du Collectif Palestine Vaincra,” March 2019. Original CPV charter page not directly retrievable (CPV was dissolved by France’s Conseil d’État, definitive ruling February 2025); documented in: Honestly Concerned, “Masar Badil – A Clone for Samidoun and a Front of PFLP,” February 2025, https://honestlyconcerned.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Masar-Badil-Report-2025.pdf. ↑
- International Action Center, “URGENT: Samidoun Coordinator in Germany Under Attack,” September 4, 2023, https://iacenter.org/2023/09/04/21501/. ↑
- Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, May 10, 2023 (regarding Berlin political-events ban on Musaab Abu Atta). Original Action Group page not directly retrievable; ban documented in: Samidoun, “#JusticeForMusaab: Palestinian Organizer Musaab Abu Atta Subjected to Political Ban in Germany,” October 2023, https://samidoun.net/2023/10/justiceformusaab-palestinian-organizer-musaab-abu-atta-subjected-to-political-ban-in-germany/. ↑
- Canary Mission, profile of Rima Najjar Merriman, ongoing through 2026, https://canarymission.org/individual/Rima_Najjar (see also Rima Najjar’s Medium archive at https://rimanajjar.medium.com/ for direct examples of her Masar Badil advocacy, e.g., https://rimanajjar.medium.com/masar-badil-the-palestinian-liberation-struggle-movement-that-dare-speak-its-name-782ae1afd5d1). ↑
- Masar Badil, Facebook, February 22 and 26, 2023; Samidoun video featuring Abubakra, May 21, 2021. Original Facebook posts and Samidoun video not directly retrievable; Abubakra’s role documented in: NGO Monitor, “The Global Samidoun Network,” https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/global-samidoun-network/, and Masar Badil, “The Heroic Huwwara Operation Confronts the Shameful Aqaba Summit” (Abubakra statement, February 26, 2023), https://masarbadil.org/en/2023/02/3366/. ↑
- CIVICUS Monitor, “Valencia Protests Over Flood Response Result in Clashes With Police,” https://monitor.civicus.org/explore/valencia-protests-over-flood-response-result-in-clashes-with-police/; Samidoun, “The Persecution of Pro-Palestinian Activists in Spain: An Attack on Freedom of Expression and International Solidarity,” https://samidoun.net/2024/11/the-persecution-of-pro-palestinian-activists-in-spain-an-attack-on-freedom-of-expression-and-international-solidarity/. ↑
- ADL, “Masar Badil: What You Need to Know,” May 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/masar-badil-what-you-need-know. ↑
- Masar Badil, “Iranian Ambassador in Madrid Receives Delegation from the Masar Badil: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement,” June 18, 2025, https://masarbadil.org/en/category/news/page/22/ (listing entry; published on Masar Badil’s news/statements feed). ↑
- Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, “Waves of Hate – The Terror Flotilla,” Accessed May 2026. https://govextra.gov.il/mda/march-to-gaza/the-hidden-networks-behind-the-global-sumud-flotilla/ ↑
- Masar Badil, “Jaldia Abubakra: ‘Returning to Palestine with the Global Sumud Flotilla,'” August 30, 2025, https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/08/6772/. ↑
- Free Beacon, “Meet the Left-Wing Groups and Operatives Rallying Behind Jewish Museum Shooter Elias Rodriguez,” May 30, 2025 (identifying Barghouti’s prior ACLU role and Samidoun Seattle / Nidal Seattle leadership), https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-left-wing-groups-and-operatives-rallying-behind-jewish-museum-shooter-elias-rodriguez/. ↑
- Tariq el-Tahrir / Masar Badil, “The Iranian Mission to the United Nations Receives a Delegation of Organizations Supporting Palestine and the Resistance,” July 10–11, 2025, https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/07/6204/; Free Beacon, “Meet the Left-Wing Groups and Operatives Rallying Behind Jewish Museum Shooter Elias Rodriguez,” May 30, 2025, https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-left-wing-groups-and-operatives-rallying-behind-jewish-museum-shooter-elias-rodriguez/ ↑
- MEMRI, “At Brazil Conference Held By ‘Masar Badil’, Tied To Terror Designated PFLP And Samidoun, Seattle-Based Extremist Bissan Barghouti Demonstrates To ‘Defend’ Iran-Lead Resistance Axis; Adds: Palestinians Will Reclaim Their Role In The Diaspora, Fight Until Victory,” March 29, 2026, https://www.memri.org/tv/seattle-activist-barghouti-axis-resistance-masar-badil-brazil ↑
- Qays Hamad LinkedIn (Greece), https://gr.linkedin.com/in/qays-hamad-7a24a621a; see also NGO Monitor, “The Global Samidoun Network,” https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/global-samidoun-network/. ↑
- Free Ahmad Sa’adat, “Ahmad Sa’adat Issues Statement to Resistance Festival in Greece,” October 4, 2017, https://freeahmadsaadat.org/2017/10/04/ahmad-saadat-issues-statement-to-resistance-festival-in-greece/. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Canada Exploring Dissolving Samidoun as Non-Profit Following Terrorism Designation,” September 14, 2025 (listing directors), https://www.jpost.com/international/article-867357. ↑
- VRT News, “Israeli Court Sentences Belgian Artist to 12 Months in Jail,” December 1, 2018, https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2018/12/01/israeli-court-sentences-belgian-artist-sentenced-to-12-months-in/; Times of Israel, “Israel Arrests Belgian National Suspected of Belonging to PFLP Terror Group,” https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-arrests-belgian-national-suspected-of-belonging-to-pflp-terror-group/. ↑
- Samidoun, “São Paulo Demonstration in Support of Gaza and Palestinian Prisoners,” July 28, 2024, https://samidoun.net/2024/07/sao-paulo-demonstration-in-support-of-gaza-and-palestinian-prisoners/; Just International, “Masar Badil in São Paulo: Defiance, Organizing, and Critical Reflection,” https://just-international.org/articles/masar-badil-in-sao-paulo-defiance-organizing-and-critical-reflection/; Samidoun, “Hagana Group: Israeli Security Bases in Brazil by Rawa Alsagheer,” https://samidoun.net/2025/07/hagana-group-israeli-security-bases-in-brazil-by-rawa-alsagheer/. ↑
- Fight Back News, “Seattle Marches to End the Siege on Gaza,” https://fightbacknews.org/articles/seattle-marches-to-end-the-siege-on-gaza; Samidoun, “Seattleites Rally in Solidarity with Jenin and Denounce Boeing’s War Profiteering,” July 2023, https://samidoun.net/2023/07/seattleites-rally-in-solidarity-with-jenin-and-denounce-boeings-war-profiteering/; Jerusalem Post, “Same Network, New Names: Terror Front Samidoun Secretly Operates in US, Canada via Proxies Post-Ban,” September 4, 2025, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-866373. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Same Network, New Names: Terror Front Samidoun Secretly Operates in US, Canada via Proxies Post-Ban,” https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-866373. ↑
- Israel National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing, “Samidoun – Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network,” Israel Ministry of Defense, February 2021, https://nbctf.mod.gov.il/en/Pages/SamidounEN.aspx. ↑
- German Federal Ministry of the Interior, “Federal Minister Faeser bans Hamas and ‘Samidoun’ associations,” November 2, 2023, https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/EN/2023/11/banned-hamas-samidoun.html. ↑
- FDD, “Dutch Parliament Votes to Designate PFLP Front Samidoun as a Terrorist Group,” October 11, 2024, https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/10/11/dutch-parliament-votes-to-designate-pflp-front-samidoun-as-a-terrorist-group/; NL Times, “Netherlands bans Palestinian activist Mohammed Khatib from entering country,” October 25, 2024, https://nltimes.nl/2024/10/25/netherlands-bans-palestinian-activist-mohammed-khatib-entering-country. ↑
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Sanctions Sham Charity that Funded Designated Terrorist Organization,” October 15, 2024, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2646. ↑
- Public Safety Canada, “Government of Canada lists Samidoun as a terrorist entity,” October 15, 2024, https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/10/government-of-canada-lists-samidoun-as-a-terrorist-entity.html. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Canada moves to dissolve Samidoun terror-linked nonprofit,” September 14, 2025, https://www.jpost.com/international/article-867357. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Canadian government dissolves Samidoun a year and a half after listing it as terrorist entity,” March 31, 2026, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-891793. ↑
- Samidoun, “Another outrageous act of the French judiciary: Collectif Palestine Vaincra dissolution upheld by Council of State,” February 2025, https://samidoun.net/2025/02/another-outrageous-act-of-the-french-judiciary-collectif-palestine-vaincra-dissolution-upheld-by-council-of-state/. ↑
- Al Jazeera, “Pro-Palestine activist arrested in Belgium after attending protest,” May 1, 2025, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/1/pro-palestine-activist-arrested-in-belgium-after-attending-protest. ↑
- Belga News Agency, “Belgium revokes asylum status of Palestinian activist Mohammed Khatib,” August 7, 2025, https://www.belganewsagency.eu/belgium-revokes-asylum-status-of-palestinian-activist-mohammed-khatib. ↑
- Belga News Agency, “Government approves preliminary draft law on radical organisations,” July 25, 2025, https://www.belganewsagency.eu/government-approves-preliminary-draft-law-on-radical-organisations. ↑
- CIVICUS Monitor, “Belgium: Draft law to ban radical organisations raises civic-space and protest-repression concerns,” October 23, 2025, https://civicspacewatch.eu/alert/belgium-draft-law-to-ban-radical-organisations-raises-civic-space-and-protest-repression-concerns/. ↑
- Jerusalem Post, “Greece Detains Samidoun Europe Leader Mohammed Khatib,” February 8, 2026, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-891793. ↑
- Samidoun, “Liberated Palestinian prisoner Abdel Nasser Issa speaks at event in Crete; expresses solidarity with Mohammed Khatib,” February 2026, https://samidoun.net/2026/02/liberated-palestinian-prisoner-abdel-nasser-issa-speaks-at-event-in-crete-expresses-solidarity-with-mohammed-khatib-urges-greek-action-for-palestine/. ↑
- Pomona.ch, “Switzerland imposes entry ban on prominent head of anti-Israeli network Samidoun,” June 5, 2024, https://pomona.ch/en/story/429621/switzerland-imposes-entry-ban-on-prominent-head-of-antiisraeli-network-samidoun; Samidoun, X, January 25, 2025, https://x.com/SamidounPP/status/1883240890921320653 ↑
- Jewish Onliner, “EU Lawmakers Call to Outlaw Samidoun at European Parliament Conference,” March 6, 2025, https://jewishonliner.org/p/eu-lawmakers-call-to-outlaw-samidoun ↑
