Anger, questions after Canadian terror group leader tweets from Hezbollah funeral

2025/02/26 Leave a comment

Valid reaction:

As Israeli jets roared defiantly over Sunday’s Beirut funeral for a Hezbollah leader, a leader of a Canadian-based terror organization was among those paying tribute to the dead terrorist.

Charlotte Kates, a leader for the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network — considered a terrorist group by the Canadian government — posted tweets from the Beirut sports stadium used for the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah. Killed in an Israeli air strike, he was a founding member of the Lebanese terror group, Hezbollah.

“It is such an honour to be here in Beirut today, one among a sea of over a million people in collective tribute, mourning, love and commitment to the road of resistance and liberation exemplified by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hisham Safieddine,” Kates posted to X on Sunday morning.

Included in the posted images was a picture of Kates holding a Palestinian flag emblazoned with the Samidoun logo and the antisemitic phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” in Arabic — in front of a crowd waving yellow Hezbollah flags.

It isn’t clear how Kates found herself in Beirut for the funeral.

Reports published Monday in The Jerusalem Post detailed how scores of anti-Israel influencers were invited to attend to funeral as part of a “Global Awakening and Palestine” conference — a Tehran-backed propaganda effort.

The Toronto Sun’s questions to Samidoun regarding their association with the conference were not returned.

As well, inquires to the office of Public Safety Minister David McGuinty went unacknowledged.

Other Canada-linked attendees included former Green Party of Canada leadership contender Dimitri Lascaris, who tweeted video of the Israeli flyover.

A notorious presence in North America’s anti-Israel scene, the American-born Kates was arrested — but not charged — in Vancouver last year after praising the Oct. 7 Hamas Israel terror attacks, calling them “heroic and brave.”

While little is known about Kates’ citizenship status in Canada, she met her husband Khaled Barakat — a Palestinian-Canadian — over a decade ago, and both make their home in Vancouver….

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Jesse Kline: The Canadian terrorist supporter who Iran loves

2024/08/23 Leave a comment

Indeed. And shameful:

There are some awards that should give recipients pause and make them reconsider their life choices. Like receiving a Razzie Award for worst actor, a Grand Cross of the German Eagle from the Nazis or a human rights award from the Islamic Republic of Iran. But for Canadian terror apologist Charlotte Kates, the Iranian regime’s recognition of her anti-Israel campaign is considered a badge of honour.

Kates is the international co-ordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a registered Canadian non-profit that was founded by members of, and is closely associated with, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which Canada recognizes as a terrorist entity.

Samidoun is also responsible for organizing and funding many of the vile anti-Israel protests that have taken place on Canadian streets since October 7.

Readers may remember Kates as the woman who stood in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery in April, shouting “Long live October 7!” and praising the massacre in which 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, were brutally raped and murdered, and over 250 were taken into captivity, where many remain to this day.

Kates was arrested as part of a hate-crime investigation and released on the condition that she not attend any rallies, pending a court date in the fall. But that did not stop her from boarding a plane to Tehran, where she — along with five other individuals, including slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh — received an Islamic Human Rights Award for her “anti-Zionist activities” earlier this month.

A couple days later, Kates appeared as a guest on Iranian TV, clad in a hijab and appropriately spaced from her male host, where she blamed “Zionist organizations and political officials” for her arrest and opined about the “lie of so-called western democracy and concern for human rights.”

Iran, of course, has one of the world’s most dismal human rights records. This is the country where, in 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested and subsequently murdered for improperly wearing a headscarf in public. The government crackdown on the ensuing protests resulted in hundreds of deaths, tens of thousands of arrests and numerous executions….

Source: Jesse Kline: The Canadian terrorist supporter who Iran loves

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