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The Ethnic Studies Department at San Francisco State University, SFSU, has invited Leila Khalid to speak.
From the University’s website:
“This is indeed a unique opportunity to hear from Leila Khaled who will engage in a conversation with public intellectuals, scholars and other long time internationalist leaders from Palestine, South Africa, the US Black liberation struggle, and anti-Zionist Jewish sisters and brothers. ”
No one is invited to participate unless they are “internationalist” and “anti-Zionist.”
More from the University’s website:
“Khaled was also subjected to Orientalist, Islamophobic and colonialist depictions that fail to even contemplate that Arab, Muslim and Palestinian women can and do speak for themselves, think critically and lead movements. By contrast, generations of Palestinian (and non-Palestinian) intellectuals, militants and peace and justice activists see Khaled as a feminist icon and a role model to be emulated.”
So Leila Khaled is “to be emulated” as a “feminist icon.”
I got a different perspective from an article by Moshe Raab. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked three planes on September 6, 1970. Moshe Raab was on one of the planes. Leila Khaled was one of the terrorists responsible for the hijackings. The hijackings were foiled by sky marshals and Khaled was arrested. She was later released in a trade of prisoners for hostages.
At the time, Moshe Raab was a fourteen year old boy living in Trenton, N.J. “On Sept. 6, 1970, my mother, my four siblings and I were on a plane that was hijacked by terrorists,” Raab tells us.
Why would a terrorist be “emulated” as a “feminist icon” and invited to speak at an American university?
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Why did a public university invite a Palestinian terrorist to speak?
Leila Khaled hijacked my plane. Why did a public university invite her to speak?
From the University’s website:
“This is indeed a unique opportunity to hear from Leila Khaled who will engage in a conversation with public intellectuals, scholars and other long time internationalist leaders from Palestine, South Africa, the US Black liberation struggle, and anti-Zionist Jewish sisters and brothers. ”
No one is invited to participate unless they are “internationalist” and “anti-Zionist.”
More from the University’s website:
“Khaled was also subjected to Orientalist, Islamophobic and colonialist depictions that fail to even contemplate that Arab, Muslim and Palestinian women can and do speak for themselves, think critically and lead movements. By contrast, generations of Palestinian (and non-Palestinian) intellectuals, militants and peace and justice activists see Khaled as a feminist icon and a role model to be emulated.”
So Leila Khaled is “to be emulated” as a “feminist icon.”
I got a different perspective from an article by Moshe Raab. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked three planes on September 6, 1970. Moshe Raab was on one of the planes. Leila Khaled was one of the terrorists responsible for the hijackings. The hijackings were foiled by sky marshals and Khaled was arrested. She was later released in a trade of prisoners for hostages.
At the time, Moshe Raab was a fourteen year old boy living in Trenton, N.J. “On Sept. 6, 1970, my mother, my four siblings and I were on a plane that was hijacked by terrorists,” Raab tells us.
Why would a terrorist be “emulated” as a “feminist icon” and invited to speak at an American university?
Links
Events and Activities | Student Resource & Empowerment Center
Why did a public university invite a Palestinian terrorist to speak?
Leila Khaled hijacked my plane. Why did a public university invite her to speak?
