Leila Khaled
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Leila Khaled (born April 9, 1944) is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Khaled came to national attention after being involved in the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of four simultaneous Dawson's Field hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of Black September in Jordan.
She was later released in a jailer swap for civilian hostages abducted by her fellow PFLP members.
Early life
Khaled was born in Mandatory Palestine, Haifa, to Arab parents. On the 13th of April 1948, her family fled to Lebanon, leaving her father behind. She joined the pan-Arab Nationalist Movement, first established in the late-1940s by George Habash, then a medical student at the American University of Beirut, at the age of 15. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, the Palestinian branch of this movement became the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Khaled spent time in Kuwait, and she recalled cries of terror when she learned that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated on the day she learned it.
Later life
Khaled has expressed a fondness for the United Kingdom as her first visitor in jail, an immigration officer, wanted to know why she had arrived in the country without a valid visa. She also had a relationship with the two policewomen who were hired to guard her in Ealing and later corresponded with them. Khaled continued to visit the United Kingdom until 2002, although she was refused a visa by the British embassy in 2005 to attend a meeting at the Féile an Phobail in Belfast, where she had been invited as a speaker. She eventually managed to contact people at the Belfast Féile via video connection.
According to Khaled, there is no such thing as an Arab-Israeli "peace process." It's a political process in which the Israelis dominate the balance of power rather than for us. They have all the cards to play with, and the Palestinians have little to fear if the PLO is not united. Khaled has also supported the People's Democratic Party (HDP) and pointed to the similar fate of the Palestinian and Kurdish peoples. She has participated in politics, becoming a member of the Palestinian National Council, and attending regularly at the World Social Forum.
She is married to Fayez Rashid, a physician, and they have two sons Bader and Bashar in Amman, Jordan. She is irreligious.
Leila Khaled, Hijacker, directed by Palestinian filmmaker Lina Makboul, premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam in November 2005.
Khaled spent 2011 in Sweden on a speaking tour, including speeches at May Day marches of the Communist Party and the Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden, a public art gallery, Södertörn University College, and a Left Party seminar.
Khaled was refused admission to Rome, Italy, at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, and she was forced to return to Amman, Jordan, as a member of a group that is classified as a terrorist group by the Italian government.
Khaled was supposed to speak at a virtual Zoom conference at San Francisco State University hosted by Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa in mid-September 2020. Following lobbying by the Jewish coalition group "End Jewish Hatred," Zoom Video Communications and Facebook stopped the conference from using their video conferencing services and platforms, citing US export control, sanctions, and anti-terrorism regulations.