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US: Three tech giants ditch video-conference by PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled
Zoom, Facebook and YouTube deny platform to Khaled's talk for San Francisco State University
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The US Big Tech companies denied their platforms to Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist Leila Khaled, Israel's Strategic Affairs Ministry reported Thursday.
Khaled was supposed to deliver an online lecture Wednesday for San Francisco State University, titled “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice & Resistance: A conversation with Leila Khaled."
The webinar was initially supposed to be delivered via Zoom, but the company banned the university from using its platform for this specific event due to Khaled's links with the PLFP, which Washington has designated as a terrorist group.
The decision was made following a complaint by the Lawfare Project, an NGO that defends human rights on behalf of Jewish and pro-Israel communities around the world.
The organizers tried to set up a broadcast on Facebook, but to no avail, as the company opted to reject the event.
Finally, a broadcast was mounted on Google-owned YouTube, but the company took it down half an hour after the start of the stream -- before Khaled was even able to start her lecture.
On August 29, 1969, Khaled and an accomplice, Salim Issaoui, hijacked an aircraft on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv and forced it to land in Damascus, Syria.
The following year, she took part in another hijacking after going through a series of plastic surgeries to conceal her identity, but was arrested by Israeli sky marshals, who handed her over to British authorities after the plane she tried to take over landed at Heathrow Airport.