Terry Newman: Pro-terror event held at government-funded community centre in Montreal

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Oberman’s letter detailed PYM’s alleged links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) — a listed terrorist entity in Canada, including a 2019 French court ruling that PYM is affiliated with the PFLP and a 2024 report by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, which concluded that PYM has “close ties with the Popular Front and its affiliates, as well as with the Student for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization linked to Hamas.”

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Oberman also notes that PYM regularly co-organizes events with Samidoun, an organization that Canada and the United States jointly designated as a terrorist entity in 2024.

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PYM offers an annual scholarship named after former PFLP spokesman Ghassan Kanafani. In 2024, PYM organized a conference in Detroit, which was endorsed by the PFLP and featured Salah Salah, one of the PFLP’s founding members. In 2025, PYM featured PFLP member Wisam Rafeedie and deceased terrorist Walid Daqqa on its Instagram account. The day after October 7, PYM declared on X: “When people are occupied, resistance is justified.”

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The letter notes that this isn’t the first time Centre St. Pierre had welcomed what it refers to as “hate-promoting events.” In 2024, the centre hosted the Coordinating Council 4 Palestine conference featuring Charlotte Kates, Samidoun’s international co-ordinator, despite her husband, Khaled Barakat, having been designated a member of the PFLP by the U.S. Treasury Department.

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Despite this information being sent to two government offices and the centre, the event went on. What we know about it comes from videos posted to PYM’s Instagram account. It’s important to note that we do not know who the speakers were, and whether they were present or live-streamed.

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In one video, a young woman says that they are gathered to “hear the testimonies of our brave liberated political prisoners. Despite Zionist opposition to this event, we will not be silenced.” She ends the video by demanding the release of all prisoners.

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Another clip shows seats with fake New York Times papers laid out on them featuring the headline: Unbarred and Free: The Prisoners Edition.

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A version of the paper exists online on a website called New York War Crimes. The website asks visitors if they are there because they hate the New York Times, tells them that they’re not alone and accuses the paper of having “imperialist” and “racist biases.”

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Another video clip tells viewers to “be sure to check out the prisoner exhibit,” then records posters with the names and faces of Mahmoud Khalil, Ahmad Manasra, Hussam Abu Safiya, Nael Barghouti, Walid Daqqa and Israa Jaabis.

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Khalil is a U.S. green card holder who was detained for allegedly posing a threat to national security and supporting Hamas.

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Manasra was convicted as a teen of attempted murder for participating in the 2015 Pisgat Ze’ev stabbing attack in Jerusalem, where he and his cousin stabbed a 13-year-old Israeli boy and another man.

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Abu Safiya was the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza and a Hamas colonel. He’s also penned op-eds for the New York Times. He was detained by Israel in 2024, for allegedly using the military hospital as a command centre.

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Barghouti killed an Israeli bus driver in 1978, was released in a prisoner exchange in 2011 and was rearrested in 2014 for violating the terms of his release by engaging in terror activities. In 2025, he was released again, as part of a prisoner exchange for hostages.

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Daqqa died in 2024. He was a PFLP member who was convicted in 1987 of commanding a cell that ordered the kidnapping, torture (including castration and eye-gouging) and murder of 19-year-old Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984.

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