The conference is being organized by Samidoun, an organization openly affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Masar Badil is a fairly new group of Palestinian militants who reject the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority, oppose peace talks with Israel and call for a resumption of the bloody intefadeh of 1987. By the time that campaign of violence ended in the early 1990s, about 100 Israeli civilians and 60 Israel Defence Forces personnel were dead.
Samidoun has become increasingly constrained in its ability to raise funds and organize internationally — Visa and Mastercard had already cut the group off by the time the U.S.-based Alliance for Global Justice was blocked from receiving donations in February because of its association with Samidoun. But in Canada, it’s a different story.Article content
This weekend’s conference isn’t the first time Samidoun has attracted attention in Ottawa. Last year, the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, B’nai Brith Canada, CIJA and the Israeli Embassy spent weeks trying to get a straight answer to their questions about why an event that featured Barakat as a speaker was allowed to take place at the city-owned Foster Farm Community Centre.
This weekend’s event at the SAW Centre describes itself as focusing on “building the liberation struggle in North America” by linking with Indigenous and Black “liberation movements.” The sessions include: Anti-Imperialism and the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism, Palestinian Prisoners and the Resistance, Organizing for Return to Palestine, Building the Boycott Movement and Anti-Zionism: An Anti-Colonial Struggle.
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