Leila Khaled is about to offer a speech by way of video name at a fundraiser organized by the pro-Palestine activist group the Palestinian Solidarity Marketing campaign (PSC) on Friday.
Khaled, 79, rose to prominence following her profitable hijacking of 1 aircraft in 1969 and her failed hijacking of a second aircraft in 1970.
She was concerned with the Fashionable Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist group that has operated intently with different armed Palestinian teams. The PFLP has carried out assaults on civilians and was concerned within the October 7 assaults.
Khaled praised the October 7 assaults and known as Hamas “freedom fighters” in an interview with the Australian Inexperienced Left group.
“The liberty fighters didn’t assault bizarre individuals, they attacked the navy settlements. However when the borders had been open, another individuals took civilians,” she mentioned.
Leila Khaled’s hijackings
Khaled’s first hijacking concerned her taking management of TWA flight 840 on its approach from Rome to Tel Aviv and diverting it to Damascus.
After the hijacking, photographs of her smiling and holding an AK-47 had been disseminated, and she or he grew to become generally known as the “pin-up woman of revolution.”
She supposedly underwent many cosmetic surgery operations to hide her identification earlier than she may take part in additional hijackings.
Her second hijacking was of El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam to New York and was a part of a sequence of PFLP hijackings carried out concurrently.
The hijacking failed, Khaled’s confederate was killed, and she or he was arrested, solely being launched in an change later that 12 months.
Khaled has, since her launch, given quite a few speeches and talks about her life as a hijacker. She was granted entry to the UK quite a few occasions till 2005, when she was refused a visa by the British embassy for a chat in Belfast.
She is slated to look by way of video on the PSC fundraiser being held in Birmingham, UK.
Outrage on the transfer was voiced by the West Midlands Mayor Andy Avenue, on UK radio on Tuesday.
He introduced that he can be investigating whether or not it could be potential for the police to forestall the occasion for “causes of public order.”
Khaled’s group, the PFLP, is taken into account a terrorist group within the European Union, the US, Canada, and Japan, however not the UK.
Following the outcry, PSC distanced itself from the fundraiser, saying “the framing of the occasion didn’t clearly fall inside the framework of the ideas” held by the group, though the host of the occasion mentioned it could nonetheless be going forward, in keeping with Jewish Information.
