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Columbia University students hosted a pro-Hamas couple who said ‘there is nothing wrong with being a Hamas fighter’ two weeks before its campus exploded in anti-Israel protests.
Khaled Barakat was invited to present a seminar called ‘Resistance 101’ along with his wife Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator of Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
Barakat is allegedly a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the US government for its links to Hamas and Hezbollah.
The PFLP has been involved in several suicide bombings and claimed responsibility for a 2014 attack on a Jerusalem synagogue which killed four rabbis and a policeman. Barakat has denied he is linked to the organization.
However he and Samidoun, and by extension Kates, have been banned from Germanyover alleged anti-Semitism, due to the ‘celebration of October 7’ by Samidoun members. …