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Top: Flags of U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) at a Sept. 2025 Masar Badil memorial for Nasrallah in Athens (via Masar Badil’s website). Bottom: Sanctioned Specially Designated Global Terrorists and Masar Badil leaders (L to R) Rawa Alsagheer, Khaled Barakat, Jaldia Abubakra and Mohammed Khatib.
Masar Badil, also known as the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, is a transnational extreme antizionist organization sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity as of August 2026.
Founded in 2021, the group operates in close coordination with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, sanctioned in 2024 by the U.S. and Canada as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated terrorist group. Masar Badil and Samidoun co-host events and rallies, share leadership, organizational structure, and funding mechanisms, and several of their leaders are personally sanctioned.
The group is scheduled to host a conference in Toronto, Canada, on November 28-29, 2026, marking the third anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks. Organizers have indicated the event will "proceed as planned" despite the sanctions.
Beyond expressing support for the PFLP and other groups at rallies and in social media posts, the group has connected American and international activists directly with members of U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), including the PFLP, Hamas, and Ansar Allah (the Houthis), via Masar Badil webinars and in-person conferences. The group has also built a U.S. presence through affiliated groups and an international student wing, Tariq El-Tahrir, that seeks to organize student activists worldwide. During one webinar, Hamas leader Osama Hamdan praised the 2024 U.S. campus encampments as a "globalized intifada led by university students," whom he called "heroes," and said, "We [Hamas] appreciate this intifada." At another 2024 webinar, this time with Hamas leader Basem Naim, a Masar Badil member said the group's role was "to transfer the voice of the resistance to the world."
While claiming to advocate for the Palestinian diaspora, the group promotes "revolutionary armed struggle" and publishes inflammatory statements that legitimize or glorify terrorist violence against the State of Israel, Israelis, and Zionists. In May 2025, co-founder Khaled Barakat hailed the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., as a "heroic operation" and argued it should spur more armed "direct action" against perceived Zionist targets abroad.
Masar Badil's leadership is largely drawn from Samidoun's, and the most prominent figure in both is Barakat, a PFLP member who was personally sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury as a Specially Designated National (SDN). Barakat is a Canadian citizen. Before its listing as a terrorist entity, Samidoun operated as a registered non-profit organization in Vancouver, Canada.
Barakat’s spouse, Charlotte Kates, is Samidoun’s international coordinator and 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. She often co-hosts Masar Badil’s webinars, where terror figures are regularly interviewed.
As of 2026, both Kates and Barakat reportedly operate from Lebanon.
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Khaled Barakat speaks at a Samidoun and Masar Badil joint rally in Vancouver, Canada, June 2024.
Barakat often writes for and appears on terror-aligned media, including Iran’s sanctioned Press TV. In a May 2025 article in the Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese publication Al-Akhbar, Barakat praised Elias Rodriguez, who allegedly killed two Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May 2025, as a “Feda’i" (Arabic word for “militant guerrilla”), hailed his actions as a “heroic operation,” and called for more armed "direct action" against perceived Zionist targets abroad.
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A cover image from an English translation of Barakat’s article on Rodriguez, which was superimposed on a 1971 poster featuring a Star of David in crosshairs, shared by Unity of Fields, May 2025.
Members of Masar Badil’s executive committee include U.S.-sanctioned Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) 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 minister of asylum and migration in April 2024. In August 2026, the U.S. also sanctioned two leaders of both Samidoun and Masar Badil: Zaid Abdulnasser, who lives in Germany, and Rawa Alsagheer, who resides in Brazil, as Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs).
Masar Badil officially launched in November 2021 with a planning committee that included PFLP member Majed Dibsi, as well as Barakat and Abubakra. 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.”
Its founding declaration laid out a number of positions, including a commitment to support youth and student movements, and women’s movements in the Palestinian diaspora; “bring down” the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which it deems as “an agent of Zionist colonialism”; lead 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.”
Over the past five years, Masar Badil has evolved from a loosely organized, largely online network into an umbrella movement of affiliated antizionist organizations that operate through shared leadership, sustained in-person organizing, and partnerships with allied groups that provide event infrastructure across the United States.
In June 2026, Masar Badil listed several groups as part of its U.S. network, including Nidal and SUPER UW, alongside a new youth and student wing it established in late 2024 called Tariq El-Tahrir (TET).
Network map showing Masar Badil and the organizations identified in this report as part of its network, created using artificial intelligence tools to enhance visual analysis. Human oversight is maintained to ensure quality and compliance.
Nidal is an antizionist organization that frequently engages in anti-Israel protests and teach-ins, with chapters in New York and Seattle. The group says it "celebrates the victories of the resistance."
Nidal Seattle emerged in April 2025 with two formerly prominent Samidoun Seattle activists among its leadership: Bissan Barghouti and Alon Lapid, both of whom have a longtime presence in the Seattle activist space. Samidoun's Seattle chapter became inactive on social media following U.S. sanctions on the group in the fall of 2024.
In New York, the Nidal chapter emerged in June 2025 and has hosted events across the city, including a film screening in July 2025, at which printed zines and graphics from the Resistance News Network (RNN) were circulated. These graphics included photos of Hamas terrorists overtaking Israeli tanks during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, a depiction of former Hamas leader and October 7 architect Yahya Sinwar, and an image of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani together.
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Material glorifying terrorism and terrorists distributed at a Nidal NYC event, July 2025.
In June 2025, Nidal, Masar Badil and TET met with the Iranian Mission to the U.N. in New York City to express solidarity with the Iranian regime and call for the removal of U.S. military bases from the region. Days later, together with representatives from fellow antizionist groups, the Bronx Anti-War Coalition and the Workers World Party (WWP), they attended a memorial at the Iranian Mission for the "martyrs of US-Zionist Aggression."
Attendees at these events reflect a network of overlapping ties among antizionist groups, including longtime activist Calla Walsh (a former Unity of Fields member), Bissan Barghouti and associate George Qarmout for Masar Badil, Carrie Zaremba (a former National Students for Justice in Palestine steering committee member), and Richie Merino of WWP and the Bronx Anti-War Coalition.
(via Tariq El-Tahrir and Masar Badil websites)
Masar Badil, Tariq El-Tahrir, Bronx Anti-War Coalition, and Workers World Party members visited the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in June 2025 (left) and July 2025 (right).
Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return at University of Washington (SUPER UW) is a chapter of National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) that has since been removed as an official student group on UW’s campus. However, the group remains active as an unrecognized “student and youth group” and organizes rallies and events in Seattle that often uplift materials from Samidoun and Masar Badil.
SUPER UW has co-hosted events and rallies with Nidal Seattle and TET, some of which have glorified terrorism and called for Zionists to be expelled from public life.
Lapid, the Nidal Seattle leader, is a former spokesperson for SUPER UW who has explicitly expressed support for Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah.
Al-Ahrar Palestinian Prisoner Support is a prisoner solidarity group that hosts events and social media campaigns to advocate for Palestinian prisoners, with chapters in New York and Toronto.
The group claims inspiration from “Toufan Al-Ahrar [Flood of the Free], the prisoner exchange secured by the Resistance,” a reference to the 2025 Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal that led to the release of some Hamas members from Israeli prisons.
In October 2024, Masar Badil established a youth and student wing, Tariq El-Tahrir (“Path of Liberation” in Arabic) or TET, during a conference in Madrid, Spain, to capitalize on the momentum from the anti-Israel student encampment movement across the world earlier in the year. TET seeks to organize a global network of student activists aligned with its revolutionary framework, coordinate international campus activities, and strengthen ties between Palestinian student movements in the Palestinian territories and across the world.
In the U.S., TET’s activities have included signing a statement in support of Rodriguez, the alleged D.C. Capital Jewish Museum shooter; organizing a co-sponsored vigil for Sinwar; and joining a delegation to the Iranian Mission to the U.N. alongside Nidal New York and Masar Badil.
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Images from a vigil for the late Hamas arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar, featuring banners and images of terrorists and their group logos, co-sponsored by TET, Al-Ahrar NY/NJ, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Bronx Anti-War Coalition in New York, October 2025.
In the year after the Hamas-led terrorist attack of October 7, 2023, Masar Badil routinely hosted Zoom webinars with members of Hamas and the Houthis. These sessions helped normalize the group's narratives and gave pro-"resistance" activists a pathway from symbolic solidarity to direct engagement with terrorists.
During these sessions, participants spoke approvingly of both groups. In a February 2024 discussion with senior Hamas leader Dr. Basem Naim, Mohammed Khatib, a member of Masar Badil Executive Committee and Samidoun's Europe coordinator, called the October 7 attack a "holy day for us today." Masar Badil member Khaled al-Raheb said the group's role is "to transfer the voice of the resistance to the world."
Another Hamas leader, Osama Hamdan, who appeared in a Masar Badil webinar in May 2024, 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."
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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).
The group's in-person events have carried the same message since its 2021 launch conference, where participants chanted in reverence of former PFLP spokesperson Ghassan Kanafani, and displayed flags and T-shirts bearing the images of PFLP members Georges Abdallah and Ahmad Sa'adat.
At its April 2023 conference in Ottawa, Barakat saluted the military wings of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP. In October 2024, Masar Badil held a conference in Madrid 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 name for the October 7 attack).
Masar Badil has increasingly moved from online webinars to in-person gatherings in Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. These events have allowed members to move beyond Zoom and other online spaces and learn each network's structures and tactics firsthand when they travel to host countries.
Masar Badil will next host a conference in Toronto on November 28-29, co-sponsored by SUPER UW and the Al-Ahrar Palestinian Prisoner Support.
Between 2025 and 2026, Masar Badil hosted a slew of in-person events featuring Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).
In Europe, Masar Badil leaders often co-organize with the antizionist group Anti-Imperialist Front (AIF), expanding its footprint within left-wing and European spaces.
In June 2026, Abubakra spoke at a Masar Badil event in Madrid alongside PFLP member Mai Albayoumi and an AIF member under the banner "Resistance Changes the Global Balance of Power.”
A few months prior, in February 2026, Masar Badil’s Belgium-based leader Mohammed Khatib was set to speak at the Panteion University in Greece alongside AIF leader Konstantina Kartsióti and released Hamas terrorist Abdel Nasser Issa, but was arrested when attempting to enter the country due to Greek national security concerns.
Khatib and Kartsióti spoke at a September 2025 event in Athens glorifying Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Issa was set to speak in person in Athens, at a different Masar Badil-AIF event in October 2025, but ultimately spoke via video.
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Images of an event in Athens, Greece, featuring a virtual appearance by released Hamas terrorist Abdel Nasser Issa (left) and paraphernalia that glorifies U.S.-designated terrorists and terrorist organizations (right), October 2025.
Outside of Europe, Masar Badil has hosted in-person events and conferences in places like Brazil, Canada, and Lebanon.
In March 2026, Masar Badil hosted its annual conference in São Paulo, Brazil, co-sponsored by SUPER UW and Nidal Seattle. The event gathered participants from across the globe, including members of Samidoun. During the event, conference leaders and participants expressed explicit support for terrorism, and pre-recorded messages were broadcast from Hezbollah leader Ammar al-Moussawi and Hamas leader Dr. Basem Naim, both of whom appeared virtually at other Masar Badil events months earlier.
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In response to government sanctioning, Masar Badil has had to shift its financing operations from fiscal sponsorships to soliciting funds over private messages on social media.
In its earlier years, the group raised money through Samidoun and its network. For its 2022 and 2023 conferences, Masar Badil solicited U.S.-based donations through Samidoun’s fiscal sponsor (at the time), the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), with instructions to indicate “Samidoun” in the memo line. Canada-based donations were facilitated through a Canadian funds transfer service.
Following Samidoun’s sanctioning by the U.S. and Canadian governments in 2024, Masar Badil had to find new ways to raise money. For its March 2026 conference in Brazil, the group used a payment system run by the Central Bank of Brazil and encouraged its Instagram followers to purchase conference-branded merchandise via direct messages on Instagram.
