Samidoun

Samidoun (Arabic: صامدون, romanized: Ṣāmidūn, lit. 'steadfast'—see sumud for the cultural context of this term), officially Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, is a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel advocacy group based in Canada. Samidoun was banned by Germany in November 2023 and was designated as a terrorist organization by Canada and sanctioned by the United States in October 2024. Since the October 7 attacks and ensuing Gaza war, Samidoun has organized Palestinian solidarity protests in the US and Canada.

Samidoun has been designated as a terrorist group by Israel and Canada for raising funds for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a political and militant group that the US, European Union, and several other countries designate as a terrorist organization. Samidoun has been described as "pro-Hamas". Samidoun founder Khaled Barakat was also designated as a terrorist in Canada, where he is a citizen, and as a "Specially Designated National" or SDN by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in October 2024 for fundraising and operating on behalf of the PFLP.

Samidoun and its fiscal sponsor, the Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice, have been de-platformed from a number of major financial platforms. Leaders of Samidoun have led "death to Canada, death to the United States and death to Israel" chants and have said that the chants accurately reflect the group's goal of destroying "colonial, capitalist states."