Airplane Hijacker Leila Khaled Invited to Speak in UK at Palestine Solidarity Campaign Fundraiser

A Palestinian woman who hijacked two airplanes in the 1960s and 1970s and called the Hamas terrorists who carried out the Oct. 7 attack “freedom fighters” has been invited to give a speech in the UK. Leila Khaled, 79, was invited to speak via videolink at a fundraiser organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s (PSC’s) West Midlands branch in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, on Friday. An archived invitation for the ticket bills Ms. Khaled as a “former militant” and “former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” (PFLP), though in a recent interview with Australian socialist newspaper Green Left, it is implied she is still active in the group, describing her as “a member of the national committee” of the PFLP....