BC Woman Arrested Over Alleged Hate Speech Takes Part in Webinar With Hamas Official

Published on May 6, 2024

A leader of the pro-Palestinian activist group Samidoun, arrested last week by Vancouver police in connection with an alleged hate crime, took part in an online discussion with a spokesman of the terrorist group Hamas this week. Charlotte Kates, who serves as international co-ordinator for Samidoun, took part in a May 5 discussion with Osama Hamdan. Mr. Hamdan has been a media spokesman for Hamas since the Oct. 7 mass killings in Israel and was formerly a representative for the group in Lebanon. Ms. Kates spoke of her brush with law enforcement earlier this month in the video, saying she had been arrested by the Vancouver police for “giving a speech that was unequivocally in support of the Palestinian resistance.”...

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