Canada has designated Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian group responsible for leading "death to Canada" chants and burning the Canadian flag during an anti-Israel protest in Vancouver earlier this month, as a terrorist entity.
Canada's timing was made alongside the US Treasury Department's decision to list the group as a specially designated global terrorist entity.
The announcement was made Tuesday by Canada's Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who in a statement said, "violent 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 Criminal Code sends 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’s national security and all people in Canada.”
They allege that Samidoun has links with another terrorist-designated group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Samidoun director, Charlotte Kates, accepted a "human rights award" in Iran from their government on August 4th and appeared on State TV, where she praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
“I spoke about the brave, heroic October 7 operation and the legitimacy of the resistance,” Kates said, dedicating the award to the “martyrs and prisoners of Palestine.”
She is also under a hate speech investigation in Canada, for also praising Oct 7, in Vancouver as well.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP, and Popular Resistance Committees have also boasted about their relationship with Iran including military support they said they received.
The United States, in a separate news release, said Samidoun was “sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization.”
Kates husband, Khaled Barakat, also a director of Samidoun, was identified in the news release as serving the fundraising and recruitment efforts to support the PFLP's terrorist activity against Israel.
More to come...