‘Long live October 7’ chanted in defiance of Vancouver police, calls for global intifada sound Masir Badil Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement leader and alleged PFLP operative Khaled Barakat led the Canadian crowd in chants of 'long live October 7.'

May 31, 2024   

(Jerusalem Post) A protest in Vancouver praised the October 7 massacre as the beginning of a global intifada on Monday, in support of an anti-Israel [activist] who had been arrested and was facing possible charges after glorifying the pogrom and advocating for terrorist organization[s] at an April protest.

Masir Badil Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement leader and alleged Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine operative Khaled Barakat led the Canadian crowd in chants of “long live October 7.”

“What happened on October 7 was the beginning of the great intifada,” Barakat told the crowd at … the Vancouver Art Gallery Robson Square. “It started in Gaza, and it’s led by Gaza, and it has reached Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen.”

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