Charlotte Kates

Ahmad Sa’adat is the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He is currently serving in an Israeli prison for terror activities, including his role in the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi. Under Sa’adat’s leadership, the PFLP perpetrated many suicide bombings against Israeli civilians during the second intifada.

The PFLP is dedicated to the violent destruction of Israel. It is designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States. The EU, Canada, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Australia and Israel also list it as a terror group due to its history of carrying out assassinations, suicide bombings, hijackings and multiple murders.

On February 23, 2025, Kates attended the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon.

On August 24, 2024, Kates posted on X: “Hate to self-post, but back in 2006, some zionist posted this video on youtube which was supposed to ‘expose’ me (and our movement). Inspired tonight to repeat that call today, 18 yrs later -- We stand with the Palestinian resistance, with Hezbollah, with the resistance and people in Iraq. These are our troops, our freedom fighters, and we support them! And we must still work to build our resistance here.” 

Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.

Hezbollah has long been known as an anti-Semitic and genocidal terror organization dedicated to destroying Israel. 

On March 24, 2024, Kates was a featured speaker at an event titled: “Palestinian Resistance 101,” where various anti-Israel agitators were invited to deliver lectures on “‘the fight for liberation.’” Kates spoke via Zoom, where she celebrated [00:00:33] the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 Israeli Jews were murdered.

The event took place in the wake of Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group, and was held at Q House, “the LGBTQ+ special interest community at Columbia University” (Columbia) in New York City. The organizers were reportedly unauthorized to use Columbia property for their event, and therefore moved the venue to Q House.

The event was led by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a pro-BDS coalition of “over 80 student groups working toward the goal of collective liberation.” CUAD began in 2016 but was revived in late 2023 during Israel’s war against Hamas.

CUAD’s demands include “a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, divestment from Israel…and to reinstate” the campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) after the university suspended them.

During the event, Kates praised [00:00:01] Hamas’s actions subsequent to the October 7, 2023 atrocities, saying: “The Palestinian resistance has been able to essentially create through the tunnels a base area from which it’s able to…conduct very powerful resistance operations.”

Hamas terror tunnels are intended for mass murders and hostage-taking scenarios against Israeli civiliansand soldiers. They stretch from the Gaza Strip into Israel.  

Kates also lauded [00:25:41] “the way in which the Palestinian people…were able to build the tunnels…to go underground, to develop comprehensive systems of building weapons…to create Palestinian-made weaponry inside Gaza that the Palestinian resistance is currently using to defend the land and the people against genocide. And that’s a tremendous achievement.” She also reportedly “praised Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group and Yemen’s Houthis…”

Hezbollah has long been known as an anti-Semitic and genocidal terror organization dedicated to destroying Israel, while Houthi terrorists attacked commercial ships off Yemen’s Red Sea coast and launched missiles into southern Israel in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks. Iran financially backs both groups.

Kates also said [00:00:32]: “...we say October 7th changed the world because on October 7th, we saw the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism by the forces of the resistance.”

Later, Kates lauded [00:02:58] Iran, calling it “a nation on the side of the Palestinian people, intervening and building a movement of resistance to free this entire region. To free Palestine from Zionism and to free the entire region from U.S. imperialism.”

Kates reportedly advocated for dissolving the U.S. list of designated terror organizations, claiming the list stops Palestinian activists from staying in contact with foreign actors. She said [00:58:41]: “It is important to popularize campaigns to…scrap the U.S. terror list entirely, or at the very least to get Palestinian…and other revolutionary organizations off the terror list, because that's a weapon that's being used against the Palestinian people, against the Arab people and against the solidarity movement as a whole…”

Toward the end of the event, Kates told [01:32:48] participants: “It is incumbent on us that when we do go out and speak at demonstrations and we do go out and organize, to say that we stand with the Palestinian armed resistance and that we support them.” She continued [01:34:42]: “There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas, being a leader of Hamas, being a fighter in Hamas.”

On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

On December 24, 2022, Kates tweeted: “14-24 January 2023: International Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners — Action Call…” 

In October 2021, Israel’s Ministry of Defense declared six Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to be “terror organizations” operating “as an arm” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group. The six NGOs were accused of funneling donor aid to militants and employing senior PFLP members, “including activists involved in terror activity.”

On October 21, 2020, Kates spoke at a webinar, where she said [00:01:14]: “Palestinians have called themselves the people of intifadas, the people of uprisings, because they have refused to…concede to colonialism…”

At the same webinar, Kates also said [00:01:29]: “And in the past 100 years, we’ve seen Palestinians rise up time and time again in 1922, in 1929, in 1936. And those first revolts, those revolutions of the twentieth century, were all against fighting against British colonialism.”

In the 1920s and 1930s, Arabs living within British Mandatory Palestine orchestrated riots and massacres, mainly in opposition to Jewish immigration. Among the Arab uprisings were the May 1921 riots where 67 Jews were killed; a week of rioting in 1924 that left 133 Jews dead; and the Hebron Massacre of 1929, where 69 Jews were murdered. Over 400 Jews were murdered during The Arab Revolt of 1936–1939, also referred to as the “peasant revolution.”  

On January 4, 2016, Kates tweeted: “[Khaled] Barakat: Occupation re-arrest of Khader Adnan is an attempt to suppress the intifada…” Her tweet included a link to an article about Adnan’s arrest on the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat website. 

Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.

On October 31, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” Kates tweeted: “In prison letter, Sa’adat urges support to sustain the intifada…” Her tweet included a link to an article on the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat website that said Sa’adat, in his letter, “urged response and rejection of all attempts to contain the intifada through international political projects.”

In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians. The attacks were incited by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

On October 15, 2015, Kates promoted on Twitter a protest to take place in Paris called: “The Continuing Intifada – Support the Palestinian Resistance.” Her tweet included a link to an article on the Samidoun website promoting the protest and claiming that “In recent weeks, the esplanade of Al-Aqsa mosque was the target of particularly violent assaults while murders are committed almost daily by the army and the Zionist settlers.”

Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.

The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.

Hatred of Zionism

On September 2, 2024, Kates posted on X: “Honoured to have joined @PressTV today with @HashemiMarzi and Dr. Sa’d Nimr to discuss the ongoing Zionist/imperialist genocidal assault on the Palestinian people throughout occupied Palestine, and the heroic resistance continuing to fight for liberation.” 

Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.

On January 2, 2023, Kates tweeted: “‘There is no other way than to put an end to the Zionist project:’ Interview with Liliana Córdova Kaczerginski…”

Kates’s’ tweet featured a link to a November 2022 interview with Liliana Córdova Kaczerginski, an anti-Israel activist and co-founder of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), that was published on the Samidoun website.

Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.

On July 13, 2022, Kates tweeted: “Biden out of Palestine: No to imperialism, Zionism and Arab reactionary regimes – Yes to resistance, return and liberation!...” She included a link to a Samidoun article that discussed U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East. The article described terrorism as “legitimate armed and popular resistance.”

On June 11, 2022, Kates tweeted: “Mapping Project highlights US imperialism, Zionism and complicit institutions from Boston to Palestine…” Her post provided a link to an article on the Samidoun website comprising “content from The Mapping Project, including one of the Project’s articles, ‘Mapping US Imperialism.’” 


On January 28, 2020, Kates spoke at a Samidoun webinar, where she referred [00:05:05] to Zionism as “a force in the region to control and divide Palestinians and the Arab region.” 

On May 8, 2008, Kates featured in a YouTube video taken at an anti-Israel protest, where she chanted [00:02:25] with other protesters: “Zionist pigs!”

Hatred of Israel

On May 8, 2022, Kates promoted in a tweet a “Nakba Day” protest co-sponsored by Samidoun and other anti-Israel groups. She included a flyer for the rally that read: “RESISTANCE & RETURN BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.”

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”

On June 21, 2020, Kates spoke at an Anti-Imperialist Front conference, where she accused [00:10:40] Israel of “ongoing crimes against humanity” and referred to Israel as an “ongoing genocidal project.”

On July 14, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas in Gaza, Kates tweeted: “Palestinian women call for escalating boycott, divestment and sanctions to break int’l complicity w/Israeli war crimes…”

Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

BDS

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true. 

One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”  

Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”

In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”

The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.

BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.

The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.

Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.

BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.

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