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The November event, titled “3 Years of Al-Aqsa Flood: Resistance & Return From the Belly of the Beast,” uses Hamas’ name for its invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.
By Dion J. Pierre, The Algemeiner
A group with ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations is planning to hold an “Assembly of Militants” conference in Toronto to celebrate the third anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, according to a new report by NGO Monitor, an independent Jerusalem-based watchdog group that monitors nongovernmental organizations.
Masar Badil is convening the November event, titled “3 Years of Al-Aqsa Flood: Resistance & Return From the Belly of the Beast,” which uses Hamas’ name for its invasion of and massacre across southern Israel. According to a description of the gathering, it will be an “assembly of militants, organizations, diasporas, and internationalists” who focus on forming a “collective political path” in the battle “between the vicious imperialists and the noble forces who resist them.”
In its report, published on Monday, NGO Monitor details Masar Badil’s ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Samidoun, a PFLP spinoff that the Israel Defense Forces flagged in 2021 for having planted “militant cells and motivating terrorist activity” in the Middle East.
“NGO Monitor calls on Canadian authorities to immediately investigate Masar Badil and take all lawful measures necessary to prevent extremist incitement, material support, or threats to public safety,” the watchdog group states in its report. “The federal government, together with local law enforcement and national security agencies, must ensure that Canadian spaces are not used by extremist movements to organize, fundraise, recruit, or promote violence under the guise of political activism.”
PFLP notoriously conducted a series of massacres, bombings, and airplane hijackings across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe at the peak of its activity in the 20th century. In one especially gruesome act, it partnered with a Japanese terrorist group to murder 26 people in the Lod Airport massacre in 1972. More recently, it was linked to the Jerusalem synagogue attack in 2014, killing six people. Today, it continues to plan with and supply arms and fighters to the Hamas terrorist organization.
Samidoun, which identifies itself as a “Palestinian prisoner solidarity network,” is a radical anti-Israel advocacy organization that has taken part in pro-Hamas protests across the West, including in the US, Canada, and countries in Europe.
Germany banned Samidoun, whose demonstrations in Berlin have featured cries of “Death to the Jews,” in the days following Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities.
Samidoun previously described the massacre as an act of “heroic Palestinian resistance” and hosted a webinar for a Hamas official who pledged that the Palestinian terrorist organization will repeat its slaughter of Israelis “again and again” to bring about the Jewish state’s “annihilation.”
In October 2024, the US and Canada jointly imposed sanctions on Samidoun, explaining that the prominent anti-Israel group has been operating as a “sham charity” fundraising for PFLP, an internationally designated terrorist group.
NGO Monitor notes that Samidoun was a “founding member” of Masar Badil — a fact the group has disclosed itself in statements praising Samidoun as one of its “fundamental pillars.”
Masar Badil’s roots in the global jihadist terror network run deep. From hosting webinars with fighters from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to its leaders praising the murder of Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim in Washington, DC last year, Masar Badil promotes jihadist ideology while steadily increasing its Western footprint with new conferences, digital outreach, and lobbying. In October 2024, the group said that Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas and mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, was a “great national leader” following his killing by the IDF.
Masar Badi is not the only group in the West that routinely repeats Hamas propaganda and has links to PFLP, even referring to Palestinians who allegedly work with Israel as “collaborators.”
In September 2024, Columbia University’s most strident SJP spinoff distributed literature calling on students to join the Palestinian terrorist group’s movement to destroy Israel during the school’s convocation ceremony.
“This booklet is part of a coordinated and intentional effort to uphold the principles of the thawabit and the Palestinian resistance movement overall by transmitting the words of the resistance directly,” said the material, which was passed off to incoming freshmen. “This material aims to build popular support for the Palestinian war of national liberation, a war which is waged through armed struggle.”
Other sections of the pamphlet were explicitly Islamist, invoking the name of “Allah, the most gracious” and referring to Hamas as the “Islamic Resistance Movement.” Proclaiming, “Glory to Gaza that gave hope to the oppressed, that humiliated the ‘invincible’ Zionist army,” it said its purpose is to build an army of Muslims worldwide.
“We call upon the masses of our Arab and Islamic nations, its scholars, men, institutions, and active forces to come out in roaring crowds tomorrow,” it added, referring to an event which took place the previous December. “We also renew our invitation to the free people and those with living consciences around the world to continue and escalate their global public movement, rejecting the occupation’s crimes, in solidarity with our people and their just cause and legitimate struggle.”
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