Thread by @ShaiDavidai

Today, the heads of Samidoun – an organization that was banned from Germany for its ties with terrorism – held a recruitment event at @Columbia to get more students to join their calls for violence.

(a long, disturbing, yet important thread)

The recruiting event, hosted by a pro-terror student organization at @Columbia, had speakers from three extremely dangerous organizations:
- Within Our Lifetime (WOL)
- Masar Badil
- Samidoun

I’ve already written a lot about Within Our Lifetime.

One thing to remember about WOL: several of its members are currently in prison for gang-beating a random Jewish man in NYC.

This is who’s is recruiting students at @Columbia

https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1737512539536138368

Now, to Masar Badil.

On October 7, while the massacrte of civilians was ongoing, Masar Badil put out a call for everyone to join in the violence.

This is what makes the @Columbia organizations who invited them pro-terror.

But it gets worse.

On October 9, Masar Badil issued a call for terrorism and violence to expand beyond Israel to the U.S. and other Western countries

masarbadil.org/en/2023/10/437…

They are literally calling for attacks in cities around the U.S.

This is as close to terrorism you can get without holding a gun or an RPG.

And this is who was speaking today at @Columbia.

This was no speaking gig. This was a recruiting event.

And now, let’s get to the worse of it all – Samidoun – a pro-terror organization that calls for the release of all PFLP terrorist with ‘blood on their hands’

Remember: the PFLP were recognized as a terrorist organization by the U.S. in 1998.

Now, the PFLP is at @Columbia

Side note: There’s a lot to write about the PFLP - one of the deadliest terror organizations in history.

Along with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, they took part in the October 7 massacre

For now, I will leave you with a video of their spokesperson promising more October 7's:

Back to Samidoun, the organization recruiting students at @Columbia.

On Oct. 7, this organization *gave out candy* to celebrate the massacre of Israeli civilians.

The caption reads: “Distributing treats [on the streets of Berlin] to celebrate the victory of the resistance”

In fact, Samidoun’s links to the PFLP terrorist group are so clear, that credit companies have stopped working with them.

(you know, because providing support for terrorism is illegal)

Even more damning, Samidoun has been banned from Germany due to its clear links to terrorism.

They are not allowed to operate in Germany, but they are allowed to recruit operatives at @Columbia.

I guess the President of @Columbia thinks she’s smarter than the rest of us.

There are so many examples of Samidoun’s support of terror. Here's one of them:

Joe Catron is Samidoun’s U.S. Coordinator.

He’s the guy in charge of radicalizing young Americans to support terror organizations.

Here is a screenshot of his Facebook coverphoto from May 2023:

This may seem like an innocuous image, but the guy in the picture is Khader Adnan, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad.

Here is a video of him recruiting young people to become suicide bombers:

So, who represented Samidoun at today’s recruiting event at @Columbia?

Let’s start with Khaled Barakat – one of the leaders of Samidoun in North America and reportedly a member of the Central Committee of the PFLP terror organization.

Here is Barakat praising a PFLP terrorist who hijacked an airplane in an attempt to kill as many civilians as possible:

(btw – the flag behind “Ted Kelly” is the PFLP flag)

And here Barkat’s tweet from 2017, saying:

“I wish ISIS would fight the Zionists and direct all their weapons against the Zionist enemy. We wouldn't be upset at all if this happened. The whole problem is here.”

If this isn’t support for terrorism, I don’t know what is.

This is the person recruiting students to support terroism at @Columbia.

How is this OK?

But don’t take my word for it.

Here is Barakay, in Denmark in 2018, speaking in front of the PFLP flag.

Stop scrolling and think about it:

A man with clear ties to terrorism is recruiting operatives for his mission on campus and @Columbia refuses to do anything about that.

This is why Kahled Barakat was banned from entering the European Union in 2020.

Banned from the EU, but accepted with open arms by @Columbia’s President.

jpost.com/diaspora/antis…

Barakat doesn’t operate alone.

Charlotte Kates (his wife) joined him at @Columbia in their recruiting attempt for their pro-terror organization.

Along with Barakat, Kates as also been barred from entering the EU.

(Kates is sitting next to Barkat, under the PFLP flag)

Charlotte Kates is as dangerous as Khaled Barakat.

Here she is speaking at an event praising a convicted terrorist (Georges Abdallah), who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Charles Ray (an American officer of the U.S. Army) and Yaacov Bar-Simantov (the 2nd secretary of Israel's embassy in France)

Let that sink in.

She is calling for the release of a terrorist who murdered in cold-blood an *American officer in the U.S. army*.

It doesn’t get more pro-terror than that.

By the way, do you know where that event took place?

In *Iran* – the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Charlotte Kates is welcome in only two places in the world – Iran and @Columbia University.

That's the epitome of @Columbia's moral decay.

In sum: a pro-terror student group @Columbia hosted a “Resistance 101” event that included organizations with confirmed ties to the PFLP – a U.S. designated terrorist organization.

They are no longer hiding their support for terrorism.

If you have made it this far in the thread, I’d like to highlight a few more things:

#1 This event was advertised by Faculty and Staff for ‘Justice’ in Palestine ( at @Columbia.

Professors who may be teaching *your children* advertised a recruiting event for the PFLP’s mission.

If you know someone who’s kid goes to @Columbia, send them this thread.

#2: The pro-terror organization Masar Badil really loves Prof. Joseph Massad.

You know, the @Columbia Professor who called the rape, torture, kidnapping, and murder of October 7 “awesome”

Massad is one of the main actors in radicalizing students at @Columbia to support Hamas.

#3 @Columbia’s administration knew about this event. I know, because dozens of us alerted them of it.

The entire responsibility for this event falls on the shoulders of the President of @Columbia and the President of @BarnardCollege

The Presidents of @Columbia and @BarnardCollege have let people with clear links to terrorism to recruit students on campus.

THEY SHOULD BOTH BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY.

I don’t know how to conclude this thread.

I don’t know how an Israeli professor - who is considered a legitimate target by Samidoun, Masar Badil, and Within Our Lifetime – is supposed to feel safe on campus with this kind of event happening.

Somebody should sue the pants off of @Columbia University, @BarnardCollege, the individual organizers of this event, AND their faculty advisors.

I am tired of this shit.

@Columbia @BarnardCollege Here's some damning footage from the "Resistance 101" recruitment event:

https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1772104657894101154

It's been a couple of hours.

There's now footage from this "Resistance 101" recruitment event at @Columbia.

Here's footage of Charlotte Kates openly embracing Hamas. She later added that October 7 was necessary.

All of this, at @Columbia.

https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1772104657894101154

As always, a huge thank you to @thestustustudio for his detailed and disciplined journalistic work!