Canada, Fundraising Haven for Palestinian Terrorism

"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 Nasralla and Sayyed Hisham Safieddine."

Charlotte Kates, Canadian citizen, co-founder, Samidoun Terrorist group, Vancouver-based

 

"Today, I attended the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut."

"During the ceremony, Israeli warplanes flew low over the stadium on two occasions, provoking a defiant response from tens of thousands of mourners."

Dimitri Lascaris, lawyer 'activist journalist', Canadian citizen 

"Barakat [Khaled Barakat, Samidoun co-founder] has previously publicly acknowledged Samidoun's affiliation with the PFLP [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group outlawed in Canada], despite direction from PFLP leadership to maintain the confidential nature of the relationship."

U.S. Treasury Department statement

Charlotte Kates posted this photo on her X account with the following caption: "It is such an honor 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." Photo by Charlotte Kates /X

Charlotte Kates, who styles herself an 'international coordinator' for Samidoun, circulated photographs of herself at the Beirut 'funeral' of Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, while holding a Samidoun flag. Apart from her presence at the event, two other Canadians were in attendance to mourn the assassination by Israeli airstrikes of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, leaders of the Islamist terror group. Representatives of Islamist terrorist groups gathered in their tens of thousands to pay homage to the two acclaimed terrorist leaders, beloved of the Islamic Republic of Iran theocratic leadership and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

 

Lebanon's largest sports arena was used as a venue for this public funeral, where mass chants of 'death to Israel, 'death to America' rang out. The current head of Hezbollah, Naim Qassam, gave a keynote address to the crowd -- remotely, in fear he would become the third in succession to be assassinated by the military of the country that remains the sole target of Islam's terrorist contingent. 

It is telling just how deeply Islamist terrorism has infiltrated Canada at all levels of society, from its growing Muslim population, ascending to become stealth-acting members of government at every level. Dimitri Lascaris, one of the three Canadians attending this notorious event was a candidate for the leadership of the far left Green Party of Canada in 2020; a former chair of the board of directors for Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. Yet another innocuous-sounding title for yet another group whose purpose is to slander Israel, to mount divestment campaigns in BDS and to persuade others that Palestinians are entitled to the Judean ancestral land that present-day Israel sits upon.

 

The Israel Air Force flyby Lascaris referred to in a video he shot of the warplanes buzzing the funeral was confirmed by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz to include the very types of aircraft used to assassinate both Nasrallah and Safieddine in separate incidents; intended to send a 'message' to the faithful in Hezbollah. "You will specialize in funerals, and we will [specialize] in victories", he had stated. 

Born in the United States, Kates claims Canadian citizenship, living in Vancouver since 2009, founding Samidoun with her husband Khaled Barakat, a high-ranking member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, recognized as a terrorist group in Canada since 2003. Samidoun was also declared a terror entity following Samidoun organizers seen burning a Canadian flag on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, leading chants of "death to Canada", during one of their pro-Hamas demonstrations following the events of October 7, 2023 when Hamas operatives by the thousands that included PFLP members, stormed across the border from Gaza into Israel to perpetrate a savage bloodbath killing 1,200 and taking 120 Israeli children, elderly, women and men along with foreign farm workers into Gaza as hostages.

 

To say that the current Liberal-led Justin Trudeau government is soft on Palestinian terrorism is a bit of an understatement. Despite the fact that these terrorist groups are classed as such in Canada, no level of government has acted to outlaw them and arrest those supporting them in Canada. Their ongoing representations on behalf of Palestinian terrorism, openly supporting the sadistic savagery of October 7, the mutilation and rapes of Israeli girls and women, the torching of Israeli homes with entire families inside, the wholesale slaughter of a high percentage of Israelis living in border kibbutzim (communal farming villages), with no official intervention, much less action on the part of Canadian police forces.

 

The United States assigning terror status to Samidoun, stated that the group headquartered in Canada functions as an "international fundraiser" for the PFLP. While in Lebanon, Barakat writes openly about co-ordinating 'resistance' activities with Hezbollah. "This country Lebanon, will fight, and will emerge stronger and unified, trampling the criminal Zionists and imperialists", he stated while praising the Al-Aqsa Flood, so named by Hamas as a titular nomenclature for the massive bloodletting October 7 campaign of 2023. 

Also present for the funeral last Sunday for Nasrallah, Barakat made an on-camera appearance for the English-language propaganda outlet of the Islamic Republic of Iran: "Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was an exceptional historical leader and we are very lucky that we lived in his time", he stated, lauding the Hezbollah leader whose butchery against Israel gained him fame in the Islamist world of terrorism. Barakat also boasts Canadian citizenship.

 

Despite having been designated by Canada as a terrorist group, Samidoun's website and social media channels continue to function openly with no intervention by any government agency. They continue their solicitation of donations, while continuing to support the BDS movement, and although under suspicion of terrorism activity and subject to court-ordered conditions barring Kates from attending public protests she was still able to travel to Iran where she accepted an Islamic Human Rights Award in recognition of her "anti-Zionist activities". 

Khaled Barakat — the husband of Samidoun leader Charlotte Kates — is seen at a 2015 protest in Brussels in a photo posted on the Samidoun website. Israel’s internal security service alleges that Barakat is a senior figure in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a listed terrorist organization in Canada and elsewhere. Photo by samidoun.net

 

The Alpha Celebirity Pair

"[The documentary was] about as realistic as a North Korea propaganda film."

"In the story of the jealous, evil stepmother Kate and the scheming brother-in-law William, who want to crush poor Cinderella Meghan with the help of the bloodthirsty media."

Die Zeit newspaper, Germany

"The show is perfectly orchestrated, with all the ingredients that really good reality TV needs."

"In the end, you know everything and nothing."

Die Welt newspaper, Germany

"[The Duke] is attacking in the knowledge that no one will refute his version whether it is true or not."

"Just like in a fairy tale, no one asks the baddies for their side of the story."
Spiegel magazine, Germany

 

"[The show was] stretching chewing gum for [enough content to fill up six episodes and justify] the contract of 100 million pounds signed with Netflix.]"

"For a couple who crave freedom ... and who profess a profound rejection of media bullying, it may come as a surprise that now they can't even make a birthday cake  without being followed by a camera."

Vanitatis, celebrity magazine, Spain

" ... While the Duke of Windsor let his people down by being irresponsible, he and his wife [Wallis Simpson] did not seek the spotlight nor did they seem hell-bent on destroying the monarchy."

Lee Cohen, U.S.  journalist

"[The latest installment of the show was] the final (thank the Lord!) soul-baring tranche of pouty hurt feelings, mud-slinging and melancholy string music."

"Never have Harry and Meghan looked more isolated."

news.co.au website, Australia

Was it worth it for Harry and Meghan? That depends what they were hoping for. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/AP

 

Mouth agape, one reads the complaints and heartbreak of two lost souls who pined to be loved and found themselves-- according to their continual testimonials -- heartlessly, unceremoniously turned away and left to their own sad devices by a family too fixated on the trappings of responsibilities they inherited as a Royal Family, busying themselves with official duties and failing to adequately embrace the two waifs who tremble with indignation that their plight of insecurity was not recognized, leaving them inadequately cuddled and coddled.

Harry, poor Harry, was 'terrified' when his older brother shouted at him.  Oh dear, that really is terrifying, poor lad. "It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and have my father say things that simply weren't true and my grandmother sit there and sort of take it all in", a shaken Harry recalled for the avid news media. His father, now England's reigning King with the death of Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, might have done as fathers do; recriminating a self-absorbed son for public statements viewed through the lens of resentment and self-pity.

And the grandmother, frail and beyond elderly, sitting there wondering why it all went wrong when they all tried so hard to accommodate themselves to every whim and whimsy of this boy yet to assume the emotional mantle of a man, and to no avail. Wondering, no doubt, why he might feel entitled to have exhausted their patience, and regretting that his unbecoming petulance had alienated his ailing grandfather, in the process tarnishing her love for the boy. No little regretful that the love and care lavished on poor Harry was reciprocated by bitter remonstrance that had no basis in reality.

But then, of course, there was Meghan, who so adeptly and with malice aforethought, encouraged and incited little Harry's sense of having been neglected. There is no justice, she urged him, other than that which we will ourselves invoke. And to that end, setting out in a conspiracy of two egos addicted to sanctimoniously demanding they be left in the peace of anonymity, while assiduously conniving to raise their relationship to the celebrity status of the creme de la creme; in the process destroying the respect held for the British Royal Family.

 

The crass goal of slanderous mischief in exchange for proposed insider revelations through the lens of a bitter, noxiously-constructed narrative of neglect, psychic torment and racism would have its handsome rewards in generous contracts reflecting the value of smashing the delicate iconography of Royal service and gracious civility. They would abandon their titles and the perquisites that come with the dedication to upholding the honour of a heritage institution, while reaping a windfall.

 

They could, and would and did besmirch the reputations of their entire family, scorching the truth to present their version of reality, one nursed as a victim seeking vengeance where reality is whatever you want it to be in the knowledge that the Royals would never succumb to the solution taken by ordinary folk, to sue the malefactors who slander them, for the restoration of their dignity and reputation. Turning the other cheek with grace and forbearance, King Charles has invited his wayward son and daughter-in-law to his upcoming formal Coronation.

When and where they will take the opportunity to once again shoot protocol-forbidden photographs and indulge their imaginations in additional instances of racism committed against Meghan and their biracial son and daughter. All the while courting their adoring public who see them as validated not disgraced, while whetting the appetites of the sensationalist tabloids making it certain they will be assiduously followed, their every phrase and quip maligning their family repeated with delight.

Giving Harry the opportunity to blame journalists yet again for not only the death of his drama-thespian mother but as well, the miscarriage of his wife. Following, in fact in the footsteps of his mother, Princess Diana, fondly named the Princess of Tarts whose own intrigues and claims and complaints Harry appears to have inherited in large part. Harry and Meghan, if any two people ever deserved one another, it is they.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle lean into their Hollywood future. Forbes