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August 2, 2018
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Temple
University SJP Posts Column Supporting PFLP Terrorists
by John Rossomando • Aug 2, 2018
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The Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP) terrorist group is the "most ideologically clear organization
in the Palestinian liberation movement," a Temple University Students
for Justice in Palestine (SJP) officer wrote Thursday. in a column promoted and linked to Thursday by
the group.
PFLP's goal is Israel's complete destruction.
The PFLP rejects "concessions made by the Arab misleadership class,
which has supported so-called 'peace' agreements with Israel," wrote Temple SJP
Vice President Brandon Do. "These agreements have allowed the
forces of occupation to extend deeper into Palestine and diminished chances
of Palestinian liberation."
The PFLP rose to notoriety in the 1960s and 1970s through a series of
airline hijackings, including the 1976 hijacking of a Paris-bound Air France flight to
Entebbe, Uganda. It also was responsible for a 1972 airport massacre that left 26
people dead. During the Second Intifada, several PFLP terrorists committed
several suicide bombings.
Do also has supported PFLP terrorist Rasmieh Odeh, who played a key role in a 1969 Jerusalem supermarket
bombing that killed
two people. A 2016 picture posted by the Temple SJP chapter shows Do holding a
sign calling for the charges against Odeh to be dropped.
In the column, Do praised
PFLP founder George Habash, who has been called the "Godfather of Middle East
terrorism," as an authority for "raising the Arab world's
consciousness" against Israel. He attacked Palestinians who he claimed "sell
out" their own people to Israel. The Palestinian Authority's
establishment following the 1993 Oslo Accords, he says, created a
"crypto-Zionist front."
Do's SJP chapter has praised other PFLP terrorists, including Leila Khaled,
who hijacked two planes in 1970. Khaled currently is a member of the PFLP's political bureau and has been involved in fundraising for the Boycott, Divestment,
Sanctions (BDS) movement. BDS aims to economically isolate Israel by encouraging the
boycott of Israeli goods and divestment from the Israeli economy, and
impose sanctions.
SJP is a key component of the BDS movement in the U.S.
Do attempted to
link black Americans with the Palestinian fight against Israel.
"By embracing our shared destiny with Black America and those
living under the degradation of imperialism worldwide, the Palestine
solidarity movement in the United States will say that a free Palestine is
possible, and that with struggle, we can restore humanity back to
its rightful place, where the civilizations of the world are once again
united and no longer living under the threat of invasion, partitioning, and
mass exploitation," Do wrote.
The PFLP has repeatedly drawn the same connection in articles on its
website.
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