Key Takeaways:
- A Canadian conference organized by a U.S.-designated terrorist group is set to host speakers who may have terrorist ties.
- Past terminology used by the group to refer to those released in Hamas hostage deals has been repeated in reference to upcoming speakers.
- Palestine Action branches and the Ottawa-banned Samidoun are set to have representatives at the event designed to draw upon the “victory” of the October 7 Massacre.
Several terrorists have been teased as potential speakers a November conference in Toronto organized by a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, according to social media posts from October promoting the “Three Years of Al-Aqsa Flood Conference.”
The November 28-29 Canadian conference, organized by Masar Badil Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path, aims to advance “revolutionary” efforts in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks. In posts published on on October 17 and 20, keynote speakers were described as “liberated Palestinian prisoners.”
The term “liberated Palestinian prisoners” and similar phrases have previously been used by Masar Badil and its sister group Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network to refer to terrorists released as part of deals for hostages held captive by Hamas.
Code for Terrorist Guest Speakers
Masar Badil described Hamas international spokesman Hussam Badran as a “liberated Palestinian prisoner” in a February statement. Samidoun used the same phrase in its own statement about a Masar Badil webinar with Badran, who had been released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal. Samidoun used the exact phrase again in a November 2025 statement about terrorists released in exchange for October 7 Massacre hostages. In contemporaneous statements about the release of terrorists during the October 7 War, Samidoun consistently described them as “liberated prisoners.”
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine subsidiary groups have repeatedly hosted or organized talks featuring terrorists released in exchange for October 7 hostages. Hamas terrorist Othman Bilal, who was reportedly involved in the planning of bombings that killed 12 people, was featured alongside Masar Badil co-founder and Samidoun founder Khaled Barakat in a December 2025 webinar. Bilal spoke alongside alongside PFLP commander Nader Sadaqa in an April 2026 webinar in Argentina co-organized by Masar Badil. Fatah terrorist Nael Barghouti, who had been released in both the Shalit and October 7 War deals, spoke to participants in Madrid and Budapest in April events organized by Masar Badil’s youth movement Tariq El Tahrir and Samidoun-linked organization Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Movement. The latter group described Barghouti as a “freed prisoner.”
Samidoun and Palestine Action
Beyond the so-called “liberated prisoners,” other terrorism-tied individuals are expected to speak or attend the two-day conference. Barakat’s wife and Samidoun international coordinator Charlotte Kates is listed as a speaker. Samidoun was listed by Canada as a terrorist entity, due to its close links to the PFLP, in a joint October 2024 action with the U.S. Treasury.
Another speaker are representatives of Palestine Action Canada, a branch of the United Kingdom-based political vandalism network Palestine Action. Palestine Action was designated a terrorist organization by the UK in July 2025 and by the U.S. in August. Palestine Action Canada only recently claimed responsibility for an October attack damaging infrastructure belonging to GeoSpectrum, an Ontario subsidiary of Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems.
Another Palestine Action-link expected to speak at the conference is Calla Walsh. Walsh was one of the founders of Palestine Action US, and like Kates appears to now be based in Beirut. According to the Free Press, she is on a suspicious persons watch list, and regularly appears on Iranian-state media.
Other speakers appear to include participants in the protest encampments that paralyzed academic campuses worldwide during the height of the October 7 War.
Continued Operation of the Masar Badil Network
Masar Badil, itself designated in August by the U.S. government for being inextricable from Samidoun and its PFLP network, announced that in September that the conference would continue as planned.
“2026 marks three years since one of the most courageous acts of resistance in our lifetimes: Al-Aqsa Flood Battle. This is the time for us in the Global North – particularly in occupied Turtle Island, the home of American and Canadian imperialism – to have a serious reckoning with this glorious feat, which took the theoretical notion of liberation and made it concrete,” read the conference website. “The brave efforts of the resistance continue to open up the possibility of return for the scattered Palestinian diaspora, who must now form a response to this newfound reality.”
Masar Badil cast Canada and the US as imperialist powers that had “proven to be a threat to the world at large,” and the “victory of the Palestinian national liberation project is crucial to defeating global imperialism.”
“It is time that we examine the Palestinian and regional resistance forces from our own perspective in the imperial core, inside the belly of the beast.”
Despite terrorism designations, Masar Badil and Samidoun continue to operate in North America through a network of smaller subsidiary organizations. The groups exist in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, Ontario, and British Columbia.
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© Divuach Ne’eman R”A, 2025
