Activities

• Masar Badil has clear and visible links, on both the organizational level and through its leadership, with Samidoun and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization (designated as such by the U.S., EU, Canada, and Israel). On June 16, 2023, both the PFLP and Masar Badil issued statements denying the links, although the Masar Badil statement lauded its “comrades in the Popular Front” as “an advanced revolutionary movement.”
• Masar Badil has hosted several webinars featuring terror group members. 
  • In November 2023, Masar Badil held a webinar with a senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ali Abu Shaheen. 
  • In September 2024, Masar Badil hosted a webinar with Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.
  • In February 2024, Masar Badil held a webinar with Houthi spokesperson Ahmed al-Shami. 
  • In June 2024, Masar Badil held a webinar titled “Al-Aqsa Flood and the Palestinian Resistance Today” with Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s political bureau. 
  • In July 2024, Masar Badil held a webinar with Vice Chair of the Houthi Media Authority Nasruddin Amer. 
  • In February 2024, Masar Badil hosted a webinar featuring Basem Naim, a prominent leader in Hamas.
  • On November 3, 2023, Masar Badil conducted a webinar with Husam Badran, the former leader of Hamas’s military wing.
• Masar Badil organizes an annual “Alternative Palestinian Path Conference.” 
  • The 2024 conference, headlined “The Line of Resistance and Liberation: Towards Developing a Strategy for Resistance in the Diaspora,” included “dialogue and research into developing forms of resistance for our people abroad…developing comprehensive boycott campaigns, and confronting the war of genocide committed by the Zionist entity against our people in the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine, under blatant U.S. and European imperialist sponsorship, amid the silence and complicity of the reactionary Arab regimes.”
• In November 2024, following the violent antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam against Israeli soccer fans, Masar Badil released a statement claiming, “There is no place for Zionism, racism and fascism in the squares and stadiums of Europe.” According to Masar Badil, “These repressive attacks continue to target the free revolutionary voices that defend Palestinian rights and reject the Zionist war of extermination in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, instead of the Netherlands preventing the entry of racist hooligan fans of Zionist football clubs and holding them accountable for their assaults on the population. These racist football hooligans participate directly in the crimes of the Zionist enemy and consider themselves an integral part of the ranks of the Zionist army…We call on our Palestinian, Arab and Muslim communities and all forces of solidarity with our people in the Netherlands and other European countries to confront the so-called ‘fans of Israeli teams’ and to confront their racist activities — led by Israeli security teams and Mossad members inside the embassies of the Zionist entity — that promote genocide and mobilize the Zionist football hooligans in order to divert attention from the Zionist-U.S. war crimes that they are committing continually in the Gaza Strip.”
• In September 2024, Masar Badil posted a statement offering “their warmest and most sincere condolences and congratulations to the Lebanese people and the brothers and sisters in the leadership of Hezbollah on the martyrdom of the Arab, Islamic and international leader, the exceptional teacher and great historical mujahid, the son of Palestine and Lebanon, His Eminence, the Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.”  The organization added, “Death to the enemies and the racist Zionist entity. Victory to the resistance” (emphases added).
• On April 28-30, 2023, Masar Badil hosted a “Liberation Conference” in Ottawa, corresponding to their publication of the “Ottawa Declaration” that calls for supporters to “walk together on the path of removing and dismantling the racist Zionist settler entity (“Israel”)… The movement calls to escalate the struggle at all levels, in all locations, regions and arenas, and confronting the U.S., Canadian and European policies that support the occupation and its institutions” (emphasis added). The conference was dedicated to the memory of Walid Daqqah, who was a commander of the PFLP cell that kidnapped, tortured, and executed IDF soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984.
• In April 2022, Masar Badil co-organized a rally in Berlin during which demonstrators chanted “Death to the Jews, death to Israel!” (emphasis added).

Support for the October 7th massacre 

• In October 2024, Masar Badil published a statement mourning the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar calling him a “great national leader” and “heroic brother.” According to the statement, Masar Badil pledged to “resist Zionism and colonialism until the defeat of the Zionist entity and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.” Additionally, the statement claimed,“Our Palestinian people have also proven through their heroic resistance, long struggle, and the launch of the glorious battle of Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October 2023, that resisting the siege, occupation and colonialism is a realistic and possible matter even in the most difficult of circumstances, and that the path to the inevitable and decisive victory over the Zionist entity is inevitable. “
• In July 2024, Jaldia Abubakra, a member of Masar Badil’s Executive Committee, wrote that “the Battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood, which was sparked from Gaza on October 7, 2023, is a unified Palestinian, Arab, Islamic and international battle to confront Zionist colonialism and U.S. and European imperialism, revealing our peoples’ yearning for national liberation and true sovereignty and self-determination.”
• In April 2024, Masar Badil co-sponsored a protest in Vancouver that featured Samidoun’s international coordinator Charlotte Kates as a speaker. In her remarks, Kates glorified the “Beautiful, brave and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people, which did not begin on October 7, which has continued for over 75 years, which has continued over 120 years.”
• In October 2023, Masar Badil issued a statement titled, “The Battle of October: Stop U.S./Israel Genocide in Gaza – Support the Palestinian People’s Resistance.” According to Masar Badil, “Since October 7, the alliance represented by the United States, Israel, Britain and European countries…and this camp is now responding with a genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.…What is happening today in Palestine is genocide and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces…This is the time to support the Palestinian armed forces and the Lebanese resistance. This is the time to defend Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as they are not only sacred and holy places; they are also the manifestations of our history, culture and existence…Do not wait until after the battle is done.” 
• In October 2023, Masar Badil published a statement claiming that “The Palestinian decision is in the hands of the resistance, and the West will pay a high price for its crimes in Gaza.” Masar Badil called on “Palestinian, Arab and Muslim youth and all of the forces of liberation and people of conscience in the world, to participate actively in the Battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood by defending our people in the Gaza Strip by all means available, including organizing popular demonstrations, occupying and besieging the embassies of the Zionist regime, and liberating the Palestinian embassies from the agents of the puppet ‘Palestinian Authority.”
• In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas attack on October 7, Masar Badil posted a statement calling on people to “express their support for the heroic Palestinian resistance… and to support the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’… The heroic Palestinian resistance has opened a chapter of battles of dignity and pride at the dawn of October 7, 2023, and it is now responding to decades of continuous and repeated Zionist, American and European aggression.”

Ties to Samidoun

• Samidoun is listed as a founding member of Masar Badil, alongside other pro-Palestinian organizations. According to Masar Badil, “we are honored by the participation of the Samidoun Network as one of the fundamental pillars in organizing the Alternative Palestinian Path conference” (the gathering that officially launched Masar Badil).
• Masar Badil leadership overlaps with Samidoun’s. Several of these officials have links to the PFLP, including Samidoun founder Khaled Barakat. (See Staff section below.)
• Masar Badil has co-sponsored rallies with Samidoun, including an April 29, 2024 protest in Vancouver during which participants praised the “Beautiful, brave and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people, which did not begin on October 7, which has continued for over 75 years.”
• In a November 1, 2022, article titled “The Masar Badil and the international popular incubator of resistance,” Barakat lists “the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, [and] the Collectif Palestine Vaincra” (Samidoun’s French branch) as being among “the solid core and key allies of the Masar Badil movement.”
• On February 11, 2023, Masar Badil and Samidoun organized a rally in Madrid, under the banner of “Days of Anger and Resistance.” According to Samidoun, the rally was “in defense and support of the Palestinian resistance, which in the last two weeks has faced more than 15 assassinations by the Israeli colonial army…our duty is to amplify the achievements of the Palestinian people, defending and supporting the Palestinian resistance and fighting against its criminalization.”
• On February 4, 2023, Masar Badil and Samidoun activists held a provocative public event in Berlin. During the event, a Masar Badil activist expressed solidarity with Musab Shtayyeh, a Hamas Qassam Brigades commander, stating: “We send our greetings of respect and appreciation to the detainees in the prisons of the Palestinian Authority, Musab Shtayyeh and his comrades.” The activist also condemned Israel and the U.S., declaring: “Down with America and colonialism… Long live the Palestinian resistance in all its forms, especially the armed resistance.”
• An October 2022 Masar Badil-organized event in Brussels – endorsed  by Samidoun – reportedly featured “Pro-Palestinian activists marched across Brussels shouting violent slogans, wearing terrorist organization headbands and carrying posters glorifying terrorist figures.”
  • During his speech at the event, member of the central follow-up committee of Masar Badil Mohammed Khatib (see below) declared, “Defeating Israel means defeating the US. Defeating Israel means defeating Canada, these settlements that exist on the backs of the Indigenous people and Black people. Defeating Israel means defeating this colonial institution [the European Union parliament], means payback for all Africans, Algerians, Moroccans, Sahraoui, second and third generations who are in Brussels. We’ve built this city and we still face fascism and racism.”
• On May 15, 2021, Masar Badil and Samidoun organized a demonstration in Berlin for “Nakba Day” as part of the international “Week of Palestinian Struggle.” Participants chanted antisemitic slogans like “Oh Qassam, oh beloved—strike, destroy Tel Aviv” and “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, Mohammed’s army returns.”

Staff

• Masar Badil is led by Khaled Barakat, a fundraiser for the PFLP terror group and the leader of Samidoun. Other members of Masar Badil, including Mohammed Khatib and Jaldia Abubakra, have established ties to Samidoun. 
• Khaled Barakat 
  • Identified by Masar Badil as an “Executive Committee member” and by Samidoun as one of Masar Badil’s “founders,” Barakat is described by the Israeli Ministry of Defense as “a senior member of the PFLP” and “the chief coordinator of Samidoun.” 
  • In 2019, the German Interior Ministry imposed a four-year ban against Barakat. 
• Mohammed Khatib 
  • Identified by Samidoun as its “Europe coordinator” and a “member of the central follow-up committee of the Masar Badil.” Khatib was a member of the 2016 PFLP delegation that met with the South African deputy Ambassador to the European Union. 
  • Khatib was the primary speaker at a Masar Badil-organized “March for Return and Liberation” outside the European Parliament, on October 29, 2022. During his speech at the event, Khatib declared, “Defeating Israel means defeating the US. Defeating Israel means defeating Canada, these settlements that exist on the backs of the Indigenous people and Black people. Defeating Israel means defeating this colonial institution [the European Union parliament], means payback for all Africans, Algerians, Moroccans, Sahraoui, second and third generations who are in Brussels. We’ve built this city and we still face fascism and racism.”
• Zaid Abdulnasser 
  • Zaid Abdulnasser serves as a member of the Executive Committee of Masar Badil. Abdulnasser also serves as the coordinator for Samidoun Germany.
  • According to +972 Magazine, in July 2023, Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees notified Samidoun Germany coordinator Zaid Abdulnasser that his refugee status in the country was set to be rescinded due to “extremist activities.”  According to the magazine, German authorities verified that “Abdulnasser’s refugee protection status is being rescinded due to an alleged connection between Samidoun and the PFLP…while the PFLP ‘is not subject to a ban on activity in Germany, the dissemination of propaganda materials and the use of symbols of terrorist organizations that are listed on the EU terror list are prohibited.’”
  • According to an article published on the Palestine Forum on June 12,  2023, Abdulnasser said, “Palestinian activity has several principles linked to the right of return, liberating Palestine from the river to the sea, and resistance, and first and foremost armed resistance, and it does not depend on the views of the state which Palestinians live in nor it is not the right of anybody to limit the method in which one defends his cause.”
• Jaldía Abu Bakra (Khaldiya Abu Bakra)
  • Jaldía Abu Bakra is a member of the Monitoring Committee of Masar Badil, as of February 2022, and Masar Badil Spain Coordinator as of October 2021. According to Masar Badil, Abu Bakra is also the “Samidoun coordinator in Madrid.” Abu Bakra is the co-founder of Samidoun Spain and a member of Samidoun Spain at least since September 2020.  Abu Bakra is also a member of the pro-BDS AlKarama Palestinian Women’s Movement (Movimiento De Mujeres Palestinas).
  • On July 26, 2022, Masar Badil released an interview with Abu Bakra in which she said that hostile Zionist organizations “keep trying to fabricate lies on the ties between Masar Badil and its organizations with resistance forces, and specifically Hezbollah, Hamas and PFLP. Despite the fact that we take pride in the struggle and sacrifices of Palestinian and Arab resistance forces, and we openly defend them when they face distortion campaigns in Europe, North America and elsewhere – there are no organizational or financial ties between Masar Badil and any Palestinian or Arab party” (emphasis added).
  • On August 22, 2021, Abu Bakra shared a video of Palestinian riots at the Gaza border in which Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Barel Hadaria Shmueli was killed and hailed Shmueli’s killing. Abu Bakra wrote, “#Gaza 2021, 15 years of blockade, economic and humanitarian crisis, covid-19 and international silence. All this has not managed to take away the desire to live and fight or their desire for freedom from the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip…In this heroic act, the young Palestinians manage to grab a sniper’s gun and shoot him.”
  • According to Samidoun, in July 2021, “Samidoun activists and members based in Sweden, France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands” visited Lebanon, as part of a delegation called “Ghassan Kanafani Brigade.” The delegation visited the PFLP offices in Lebanon, met with PFLP members, and paid respect to PFLP terrorists, such as Ghassan Kanafani, Maher Al-Yamani and Abu Saleh Al-Assadi. Jaldía Abu Bakra participated in this delegation.
  • On August 27, 2020, Abu Bakra shared an official PFLP poster of former PFLP General-Secretary Abu Ali Mustafa and wrote, “19th anniversary of the red eagle, Abu Ali Mustafa (1938-2001) son of the #workerclass whom he defended all his life…Abu Ali was an exceptional man, his assassination was a great loss not only for the Palestinian and Arab cause, but for the international struggle of all oppressed peoples and for the progressive international liberation movements…Rest your soul in peace comrade. Your legacy lives on.”
  • On July 7, 2019, Abu Bakra shared several posters featuring PFLP senior member Ghassan Kanafani and wrote, “Remembering Ghassan Kanafani, thinker, journalist and writer of the #Palestinian resistance…Dear Comrade and teacher, you have left us your ideas like a beacon that illuminates the path to follow. WE WILL NOT FORGET.”