Samidoun: Canadian federal corporation 1279374-1.

Status: active, since March 3, 2021. Three directors: Charlotte Lynne Kates, Vancouver. Dave Diewert, also of Vancouver, and Thomas Gerhard Hofland, of the Netherlands.

Annual filings in 2022, 2023 and 2024, done. Last annual meeting: 2023.

Most federally-registered non-profit corporations, like Samidoun, don’t pay taxes. That’s a big benefit. Often they don’t pay HST on goods or services, either. Other benefits: being able to receive “gifts” from charities.

Now, being a non-profit like Samidoun isn’t exactly the same thing as being a charity. A charity has to stick to their charitable purposes — although, as the Sun has reported, some pro-Palestinian charities have been allowed to operate despite funding or possible links to extremism or terror, which is against the rules. But a non-profit? A non-profit can do pretty much whatever it wants to do.

Which Samidoun — full name: the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network — does. Their record is clear, and has included advocating for the listed terrorist entity Hamas, and the Trudeau government lets them do it.

For example: just this week, the aforementioned Kates — who happens to be a non-Canadian — popped off to Iran to receive, wait for it, a human rights award from Iran, the country that is considered to have the worst human rights record in the world, second only to Yemen.

There Charlotte was, her crewcut covered with a modest scarf — she was in Iran, after all, where women get tortured and killed for not doing so — beaming as she was lauded by the monsters present.

Other winners of the Eighth Annual Islamic Human Rights Award included Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’ “political bureau” until Israel sent him off to meet his 72 virgins last month. Also: Hossein Amir Abdollahian, the Iranian foreign affairs minister who was killed in a helicopter crash in May, and is assumedly now swapping virgins with Hanieyh in the Ninth Circle of Hell. Also honoured: Mohammed Reza Zahedi, a top officer in the banned Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Israel sent him virgin-hunting back in April.

Now, for Charlotte Kates to honored with the likes of Haniyeh, Abdollahian and Zahedi is a big, big deal in Iran. Those dead terrorists are revered in terrorist-loving Iran. Does that mean our Samidoun gal supports terror, too?

To answer that, let’s look at some of Charlotte’s bon mots, shall we? These are quotes from Charlotte on just one day in April, on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

• “Long live October Seventh! Long live October Seventh!”

• “We stand with the brave Palestinian resistance, and their heroic and brave action on October Seventh.”

• “The beautiful, brave and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people (Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine).”

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In Trudeau’s Canada, some charities seem to be more equal than others.

That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from the shocking notices posted this week on the Canada Gazette, which is where Ottawa publishes all of its official bulletins. Whenever a regulation, treaty, proclamation or the like is passed by the government – usually the cabinet – it gets published on the Canada Gazette.

And, this week, the Trudeau Liberal government published notices revoking the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the Ne’eman Foundation.

The JNF has branches in the United States and the United Kingdom, and has been active in Canada for 123 years. Among other things, it plants trees in Israel, builds infrastructure like dams and reservoirs, and creates parks. Its Canadian chapter helped build a 1,700 acre park in Israel, for instance, one that is used by Jews and non-Jews alike. As parks are.

The Ne’eman Foundation, meanwhile, is focused on reducing and eliminating poverty, helping firefighters and paramedics, and funding educational and health initiatives – particularly accident victims and cancer patients.

And, this week, the Trudeau government essentially posted death notices for both charities in Canada, without any explanation. On the Canada Gazette, Sharmila Khare, head of the “charities directorate” wrote that “notice is hereby given” that the JNF and Ne’eman Foundation were getting their charitable status revoked for violating obscure sections of the Income Tax Act, which governs charities in Canada.

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Ottawa wants to take away the charity status of the 100-year-old Jewish National Fund of Canada for allegedly breaking the rules – but the Trudeau Liberals aren’t doing likewise with a host of pro-Palestinian charities, some with questionable links.

Because some Canadian pro-Palestine charities have been funding – or have possible links to – Palestinian extremist or terror groups, the Sun has learned. And, in some cases, they’re doing so right out in the open.

The four charities are Canadian Palestinian Foundation, Hands For Charity, International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF) and Medical Aid for Palestine.

All have been accepted as legitimate charities by Ottawa. All have the ability to provide tax receipts for donations, which together add up to millions. And all have been sending large amounts to Gaza and the West Bank, for years.

The revelations are found in the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) filings made by the charities themselves. The filings show links or possible links with entities in the Middle East that have long been associated with terror.

This newspaper obtained the information through searches of CRA charity databases, their T3010 filings, corporation searches and evidence found openly on social media.

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It’s Summer. It’s almost the weekend. Here’s some contextless, linkless bits of this and that.

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For anyone who wants a coherent foreign policy, particularly as it relates to Israel, the Tories are the only logical choice. Like, I don’t know what the Liberals are doing anymore.

I don’t think they know, either.

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Related: 75 per cent of American Jews have always voted Democrat. The only cycle where that changed somewhat was in the Reagan years. In Canada, I would be surprised if the Liberals and New Democrats federally get a single Jewish vote.

That’s an exaggeration, but not by much.

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I just watched and listened to some of Donald Trump’s “press conference.”

Just as I said about Joe Biden, it’s not right for anyone who has not medically examined Trump to say that he has cognitive issues.

But, man oh man.

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You can’t really say the Supreme Court of Canada is wrong or right in the Jordan Peterson case – they simply refused to hear it. Courts usually don’t like substituting their views with that of professional bodies. That’s normal. (Why else have such bodies?)

Me, I think professional bodies should not police the social media of their membership if the social media commentary is unrelated to the profession. That’s a very slippery slope.

I say that, too, as someone who is no fan of Dr. Peterson’s stuff. It has a distinctly culty feel to it, to me.

And: Andre Marin was Ontario Ombudsman and complained about me to the Law Society, using public resources and staff because I had been critical of his conduct in that office. Nobody ever compensated me for the time lost. The Law Society never acknowledged they were wrong to even consider the case.

Oh, and I won.

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“Harris Doesn’t Support Arms Embargo on Israel, a Top Adviser Says.”

That’s a New York Times headline. But by all means, MAGA types, keep believing the two Israel-haters who say she does without a scintilla of fucking proof.

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I believe every political party and ideology has an anti-Semitism problem. No one is covered in virtue. The Left presently has the biggest problem, of course.

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PSA: just as I block disinformation and bullshit from Israel haters, I will block disinformation and bullshit from Kamala haters.

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I’ve been researching ISIS and Hamas a lot, lately. Those who know, know why.

Someone told me ISIS and Hamas are the same.

Not really. They both want a caliphate, but initially in different places. Also, ISIS is much more a virtual operation. Not IRL. Also, statistically, Islamic terrorists radicalized online have a way way higher failure rate when it comes to attacks.

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You sleep for a third of your life.

In the first few years, you wish it was a lot less.

In the latter years, you’re okay with moving sleepy time to two-thirds. Four-fifths, actually.

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In the video, the man is wearing an orange jumpsuit. It is the favoured uniform that ISIS uses for their prisoners. The man is dangling from a pole in a desert somewhere.

Lots of people were killed by ISIS, the Islamic State, in front of high-definition cameras, wearing those orange jumpsuits. In many of the ISIS snuff films – like the ones showing the beheading of American freelance journalist James Foley, Time magazine writer Steven Sotloff and British aid worker Alan Henning – there would be some reference to a news event, to establish its date.  The location would often be somewhere in the desert.

The victims, kneeling and wearing the Guantanamo-style coveralls, would read a statement given to them by ISIS.  Masked ISIS terrorists would be standing behind the men. One of the terrorists would typically make some statement, too, railing against Israel and America and the West.  Then, the terrorists would grab the victim, holding him down, while another terrorist would behead him, using a long-bladed knife. All on camera.

In the June 2015 ISIS video obtained by the authorities and shared this week by great reporters at Global News, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, is allegedly seen holding a sword – which he then uses to hack away at the limbs of the man. We don’t know if the man is dead, but it seems likely.

The victim’s assailant is in a black robe and a head covering bearing the ISIS logo, and his face is briefly visible. The ISIS video was titled “Deterring Spies.” Eldidi has been charged by Canadian police with an aggravated assault outside Canada, but it’s unclear whether it relates to the atrocity shown in the video.

What is clear, however, is that Eldidi and his 26-year-old son Mostafa were this week charged in Toronto with multiple terrorism-related offences, allegedly because they were planning a mass-casualty attack using machetes and axes.

Also clear: the two Eldidis weren’t born here. Nobody is saying exactly when, but they moved to Canada at some point. Perhaps after the elder Eldidi allegedly was filmed lopping off someone’s body parts, perhaps before. But it all raises an important question, doesn’t it?

Why were alleged ISIS terrorists allowed into Canada? And, now that we’re on the subject, why are not quite a few others – the ones possibly shooting up Jewish schools, firebombing synagogues, blocking major highways near Jewish neighborhoods, and issuing death threats, more less in publicly, to Jews – still here? Why don’t we, you know, kick out those who are a risk to national security, and who are convicted of breaking laws? Why not deport them?

When Ben Mulroney and I asked that question on an AM640 radio show back in the Fall, there was a great hue and cry. It was racist, some said. It was fascist, they said. It is something that should never be the law in Canada, addled progressives thundered.

Except, well, it already is.

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