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Government Of Canada Labels Palestine Solidarity Organization As A Terrorist Entity

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16/10/2024 — The Canadian government has designated Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an international network that supports and advocates for

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"Peaceful revolution impossible makes violent revolution inevitable" people when violent revolution starts (👁 ͜ʖ👁)

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They are campist idiots, shilling for Iran and Assad, and kind of edgelords ("death to Canada", honestly roflmao) but a "terrorist" organization? That sounds to me like a stretch.

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While both the Canadian and U.S. designation emphasize financing of terrorism, there is no indication that fundraising constitutes a significant part of Samidoun's work.

Other than a “donate now” tab on the organization's website, the content is overwhelmingly concerned with coverage of Palestinian prisoners' issues, political protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and profiles of prominent Palestinian and Arab resistance leaders.

Just shows how biased these people are and how meaningless their "terrorist" labels actually are.

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- It's terrifying how the government can just declare something to be a terrorist organization with no proof at all. Just 'they raise, uh, money. For... uh... terrorism?'
  
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  Except the article itself is pointing out that there is no real evidence of the terrorism funding point. The Canadian government just said they are without backing it up.
  
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  The leader of Samidoun is married to one of the leaders of the PFLP.
  
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- Yes, they're biased against terrorists.
  
  Samidoun is very closely linked to PFLP, which is a terrorist organization. They literally invented the airline hijacking.
  
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  So where's the proof? If the Canadian government is going to make this kind of claim, they should cite their evidence. You don't expect a guilty verdict without seeing the reasoning behind it.
  
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- They were literally caught on video chanting "death to Canada"
  
  I'm not sure what else is really necessary at that point.
  
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  That's not why Canada listed them as a terrorist organization.
  
  We have actual allies exterminating entire ethnic groups, and we are supporting them. They are literally executing children at point blank range and burning them alive. How are they not labeled as terrorists and these are?
  
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  Well, the financial aspect,
  
  accused it of being a fundraiser for the Popular Front
  
  Which has been designated a terrorist organization for decades.
  
  It's not necessary "that fundraising constitutes a significant part" here, just that some did happen and some money did flow, to provide a legitimate reason for the brakes to get applied.
  
  Also, the article tries to draw a false equivalence here,
  
  the HESEG Foundation, a Canadian organization with charitable tax status, awards cash scholarships to former Israel Defence Force (IDF) soldiers.
  
  But awarding scholarships to even former soldiers is totally different from directly funding armed forces. There's no accusation being made that the HESEG Foundation directly sends money to the IDF, which would be necessary to prove actual equivalence.
  
  Somehow, I also don't think that the HESEG Foundation encouraged chants of "death to Canada". Now, the word death can mean many things, especially if used as a metaphor, and protection of free speech is rightfully very strong, so that alone wouldn't be a cause for the above (unless maybe there was reason to believe that this was a call for or would be followed by physical harm to people in Canada). However, that sort of thing also doesn't really feel like the way to win over the hearts and minds of Canadians.
  
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