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FIRST READING: Canada finally gets around to stripping non-profit status from a terrorist group

It took 17 months, and happened only because the terror group didn't file proper paperwork

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FIRST READING: Canada finally gets around to stripping non-profit status from a terrorist group Back to video

Seventeen months after Canada designated Samidoun as a terror entity, authorities have only just gotten around to stripping the group of its non-profit status.

And even that wasn’t because of the group’s open support of violence, or its alleged exploitation of the Canadian charitable sector in order to wire money to terrorists.

Rather, it was because their paperwork wasn’t in order.

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On March 27, Corporations Canada pulled the registration of Samidoun, an anti-Israel organization added to Canada’s official list of terror entities in October 2024.

In a statement at the time by Public Safety Canada, Samidoun was accused not only of advocating for violent terrorism, but of helping to fundraise........

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