Masar Badil: What You Need to Know

Masar Badil, also known as the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, is a transnational extreme anti-Zionist organization. Its activities include co-hosting events and rallies with the terror-connected and fellow extreme anti-Zionist organization Samidoun, publishing inflammatory statements that glorify violence against the State of Israel and Zionists and hosting webinars featuring members of U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) Hamas and Ansar Allah (the Houthis).

Masar Badil is closely associated and shares some of its leadership with Samidoun, which was sanctioned in October 2024 by the U.S. and Canadian governments as a “sham charity” and international fundraiser for the U.S.-designated terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The most prominent of these leaders is Khaled Barakat, who was personally sanctioned by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) as a Specially Designated National (SDN) for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf, directly or indirectly, of the PFLP.

Khaled Barakat appears on Press TV, Iranian state media that is sanctioned by the United States, in May 2024. (Screenshot/Press TV)

In addition to Barakat, members of Masar Badil’s executive committee include Jaldia Abubakra, a Samidoun activist located in Spain, and Mohammed Khatib, the Belgium-based Europe coordinator of Samidoun, who was described as an “extremist hate preacher” by the Belgian secretary of state for asylum and migration in April 2024.

Masar Badil's Jaldia Abubakra appears on Fengshows, a Chinese media outlet affiliated with Phoenix TV, a television network with reported ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in February 2025. (Screenshot/ Fengshows)

Samidoun’s Canada-based international coordinator and Barakat’s spouse, Charlotte Kates, is also closely connected with Masar Badil. Kates is the owner and registered contact for Masar Badil’s website, which hosted a donation page until 2024. Before being listed as a terror entity, Samidoun operated as a registered non-profit organization in Vancouver, Canada, where Kates resides. Samidoun previously accepted donations on behalf of Masar Badil for several of its conferences.

Kates also often co-hosts Masar Badil’s webinars, where terror figures have been interviewed. Samidoun regularly shares Masar Badil events on its own social media channels and the two groups frequently coordinate both online and in-person.

Image from Samidoun’s petition to support Khatib, also a member of Masar Badil’s executive committee, after Belgium’s secretary of state for asylum and migration called to revoke his refugee status in April 2024, describing him as 'an extremist hate preacher.'

History and Mission

Masar Badil officially launched in November 2021, following an initial call to organize by Barakat a month earlier. The organization released a statement describing itself as a “radical popular political movement established by Palestinian, Arab and international will … to be a framework and a popular resistance movement confronting Zionist colonialism…”

This declaration also laid out Masar Badil’s positions, including its commitment to support youth and student movements and women’s movements in the Palestinian diaspora; “bring down” the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which it deems as “an agent of Zionist colonialism”; a full political, social and economic boycott of Israel as part of its  anti-normalization philosophy; and “establish a just and democratic society free of Zionism.”

Platforming Members of Hamas and the Houthis

Masar Badil’s activities reveal the extreme nature of the group and its alignment with the so-called “resistance” — a euphemistic reference to the various terrorist groups responsible for violent attacks against Israel. Since the Hamas-led terror massacre against Israel on October 7, 2023, Masar Badil has hosted webinars and online events with members of Hamas and the Yemen-based Houthis on Zoom on multiple occasions and uploaded the videos to its now-inactive YouTube channel and Facebook account. Several of these videos have subsequently been removed by YouTube for violating its Terms of Service.

In a February 2024 online interview hosted by Kates and Khatib—Samidoun's Europe coordinator and Masar Badil Executive Committee member—with senior Hamas leader Basem Naim, Khatib described the October 7 attack as a “holy day for us today.” During the event, Masar Badil member Khaled al-Raheb asserted that “our role in the Masar [Badil] and organizations is to transfer the voice of the resistance to the world...”

A February 27, 2024, webinar featuring U.S.-sanctioned Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) and Hamas International Relations leader Dr. Basem Naim (top), Masar Badil Executive Committee member Mohammed Khatib (right) and Masar Badil member Khaled al-Raheb (left). (Screenshot/Zoom) 

Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri, who appeared in a September 2024 Masar Badil webinar hosted by Kates, Khatib and al-Raheb, referred to the group as “friends” and supporters. “We [Hamas] support the call for escalations and to the friends from Masar Badil, we appreciate their role and their effort to work on the streets to stand behind the Palestinian people, behind the Palestinian resistance,” said Zuhri.

As host, Khatib referred to Zuhri as a “brother and leader,” praised the October 7, 2023, attack, and said he and other Palestinians have a responsibility “as activists that see ourselves as part of the Palestinian resistance and not supporters of the resistance.”

A September 7, 2024, webinar featuring senior Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri (top), Charlotte Kates (left), Masar Badil Executive Committee member Mohammed Khatib (right), and Khaled al-Raheb (not pictured). (Screenshot/Zoom)

Another Hamas leader, Osama Hamdan, who appeared in a Masar Badil webinar in May 2024 — this time hosted by Kates, Khatib and Abubakra — hailed the U.S. university encampments of the spring of 2024 as the “globalized intifada led by university students,” whom he called “heroes,” adding that "We [Hamas] appreciate this intifada."

Masar Badil webinars have also sometimes included U.S.–based extreme anti-Zionist activists, such as Nerdeen Kiswani of Within Our Lifetime (WOL).

Organized Events and Activities

In addition to webinars, Masar Badil has also hosted in-person anti-Zionist events and conferences in Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Lebanon, and other countries since its establishment in 2021.

Its launch conference that year took place across international venues in Beirut, Madrid, and São Paulo, with attendees gathering concurrently in each city and connecting virtually. The launch conference’s planning committee included PFLP member Majed Dibsi, as well as Barakat and Abubakra.

Khaled Barakat speaks at a Samidoun and Masar Badil joint rally in Vancouver, Canada, June 2024. (Source: Masar Badil’s Telegram)

Samidoun claimed it sent some of its own members from all over the world, including "Germany, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, [and] Belgium." Other represented anti-Zionist organizations included the International League of People’s Struggles (ILPS), the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Al-Awda.

The conference featured extreme anti-Zionist rhetoric and explicit support for terror group leaders. At various moments during the conference, participants chanted “Palestine is Arab!” and “That’s how Ghassan [Kanafani] taught us, the target is everywhere!” in reference to the former PFLP spokesperson. The conference also featured flags and T-shirts with the images of PFLP members Georges Abdallah and Ahmad Sa’adat.

In April 2023, Masar Badil hosted a "Liberation Conference" in Ottawa, Canada, with endorsers that included radical anti-Zionist groups such as Al-Awda, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Within Our Lifetime (WOL). The Jewish anti-Zionist organization Neturei Karta was in attendance as well.

Protesters at the Samidoun and Masar Badil joint rally in Vancouver, Canada, hold a banner that reads, 'Long Live Palestinian Resistance, From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free,' June 2024. (Source: Masar Badil’s Telegram) 

Masar Badil solicited U.S.-based donations to offset the costs of the conference via Samidoun fiscal sponsor the Alliance for Global Justice (AFJG), with instructions to indicate “Samidoun” in the memo line. Canada-based donations were facilitated through a Canadian funds transfer service. Donations were similarly solicited for a 2022 “March of Return and Liberation for Palestine” in Belgium, organized jointly by Masar Badil and Samidoun.

Masar Badil claimed that “nearly 100 people representing 25 organizations, parties, associations and unions” participated in the 2023 conference in Ottawa, “which collectively declared the official launch of the Masar Badil movement in the United States and Canada.”

This conference, too, featured inflammatory rhetoric, including expressions of support for U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations like Hamas, the PFLP and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and a call to “confront Zionist colonialism, racism and settler colonialism in Palestine and North America.”

A speech delivered by Barakat saluted "Al Qassam [Hamas’s military wing], Saraya al Jihad [sic] (likely meaning Saraya al-Quds - the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad), Kata’ib Abu Ali Mustafa [the military wing of PFLP] and all of the Palestinian resistance factions who put their lives [sic] so we can live in a free world.”

Protesters march with posters in support of Georges Abdallah and Ahmad Sa’adat, PFLP members, at a Masar Badil rally in 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube) 

In October 2024, on the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack, Masar Badil hosted a conference in Madrid titled “The Line of Resistance and Liberation: Towards Developing a Strategy for Resistance in the Diaspora.”  The event concluded with a rally in front of the U.S. embassy in Madrid. Abubakra highlighted the intentional choice of dates for the conference and rally, stating, “It was necessary for us to express our position in support of the Palestinian and Arab resistance in Gaza, Beirut, Sana’a and Baghdad, especially on the first anniversary of the glorious Al-Aqsa Flood [Hamas’s monicker for their October 7 terrorist attack].”

Messaging, Social Media and Reach

In addition to hosting in-person events and webinars, Masar Badil has a social media presence on X (formerly known as Twitter), Telegram, and Odysee, which the group uses to glorify terrorism. Statements expressing support for violence, encouraging chaos in the Palestinian diaspora and praising terrorist groups and their affiliated individuals are also regularly posted to Masar Badil’s website.

For example, in response to violent antisemitic attacks on Israelis in Amsterdam in November 2024, Masar Badil released a statement supporting the violence — in which visiting Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and others were brutally attacked in the streets — and called “to confront every attempt to whitewash the crimes of the Zionist regime under the banner of ‘sports.’”

A month earlier, on the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023, attack, Masar Badil called for days of rage against the “Zionist massacres,” in response to the call from “the Resistance.”  Abubakra emphasized that all must “express popular anger in the streets of Europe, North America, and Arab capitals against the Zionist movement…”

Masar Badil has also amplified the anti-Israel campus movement in the spring and summer of 2024, sharing an appeal from the Palestinian student movement in Gaza calling for “revolutionary escalation of the global student intifada for Palestine,” and explicitly thanking Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for the anti-Israel encampments on university campuses. This statement aligns with Masar Badil’s goal of supporting the international Palestinian student movement. The organization called for Palestinian students to “strengthen our common front against the organizations of the Zionist movement and its student branches around the world” as early as 2022.

Notably, the group released statements mourning the deaths of terrorist chiefs such as Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, hailing them as great leaders and “martyrs.” The statement on Nasrallah’s assassination ended with the words, “Death to the enemies and the racist Zionist entity, Victory to the resistance.”

Masar Badil’s various statements have been shared by U.S.-based anti-Zionists on mainstream social media platforms. In March 2024, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)’s International Committee shared a statement on X from Masar Badil calling for Israel to be expelled from the United Nations. In another example, in March 2025, the University of Washington’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, SUPER (Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return) UW, linked out to a Masar Badil statement on Instagram that called for solidarity with Palestine, Yemen, and Lebanon against the “US-Zionist enemy.”