Israel has lodged an official protest to Ireland over the invitation of Leila Khaled, a convicted Palestinian plane hijacker who has continued to advocate violence against Israelis, to speak at a teachers’ club in Dublin belonging to the Irish National Teachers’ Organization.
Violent jihadist “plane hijacker Leila Khaled” is invited to speak at a teachers’ club, while free speech activists and supporters of democratic values continue to be demonized.
It’s the theatre of the absurd. Human rights, tolerance, pluralism and the freedom of speech once flourished across Europe; now, those who uphold hatred, intolerance, violence, and the forcible silencing of dissenting views are celebrated and lionized.
The invitation to Khaled, even though it was ultimately rescinded under pressure, is another step for Ireland down the path to self-destruction. Irish officials also recently asked homeowners to house Muslim migrants in the spare rooms of their homes for up to a year. The Irish government paid media to promote a plan to bring in one million Muslim migrants.
“Israel urges Ireland to cancel speech by Palestinian terrorist,” by Michael Bachner, Times of Israel, May 31, 2018:
Israel has lodged an official protest to Ireland over the invitation of Leila Khaled, a convicted Palestinian plane hijacker who has continued to advocate violence against Israelis, to speak at a teachers’ club in Dublin belonging to the Irish National Teachers’ Organization.
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan sent the protest letter to Dublin’s education minister, Richard Bruton, demanding that he cancel Khaled’s appearance, Hadashot TV reported Thursday.
Khaled is scheduled to speak via video link in a public talk hosted at the club by the socialist groups Anti Imperialist Action Ireland and Lasair Dhearg.
“It is hard to understand why Ireland, which has also experienced many terror attacks, would agree to honor a terrorist at an educational event, who expresses solidarity with terror attacks and views them as a legitimate tool,” Erdan wrote.
“I implore you to cancel Khaled’s speech in Ireland and join the large number of countries banning terrorists from spreading their criminal messages and ideas,” Erdan added in the letter….
Khaled was arrested by Israeli sky marshals in 1970 during an attempt to hijack an El Al flight from Amsterdam along with an accomplice, who was killed by the security officers. She was carrying two grenades. British authorities later released her in exchange for hostages from another hijacking which occurred a month after her arrest.
She had previously hijacked an American passenger plane in 1969, landing it in Damascus, where the two Israeli passengers aboard were held for three months before they were traded for Syrian prisoners of war held in Israeli jails.
Khaled is also a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an organization which is blacklisted as a terrorist entity by the European Union.
The planned speech by Khaled in Ireland titled “The Nakba and the Great March of Return,” gained public attention in Israel when it was first reported Friday…..
Nour says
I think you got it wrong here. Laila Khaled is not religious to be called Islamist or Jihadist. She’s a socialist. she is part of the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” formed by George Habash, a Christian Palestinian.
Why are you ignoring the fact that many Palestinians are Christians? Many of them are also white like you. Do you consider them brothers? or you discriminate against them because they are Orthodox and Arabs?
Palestinian Christians, have always been at the forefront of efforts to resist Israeli expansionism: from politicians such as Hanan Ashrawi to diplomats such as Afif Safieh, who served as the PLO’s envoy in London, Washington and Moscow; from the New York-based academic Edward Said to the militant leader George Habash, who founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The current mayor of Bethlehem is Vera Baboun, a Palestinian Christian who has written of “the despair of decades of living under a foreign occupation”. The Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, is Christian, too. “We as Christians are part and parcel of the social fabric of [Palestinian] society,” Hassassian told me, adding: “I want to celebrate Christmas in a free country.”
Rarely says
The PFLP is a terrorist organization. Period.
David Barrett says
OK – have it your way. Khaled is a convicted Christian terrorist .Habash, a deceased revolutionary Marxist !!, had much blood on his hands.
The esteemed retired mayor Vera should be a reminder to her Muslim colleagues not to refer to Jews as monkeys.
Manuel Hassassian, is Armenian and obviously enjoys the life as Ambassador abroad since 2005 – bit like Abbas.? Interesting that his name reminds me of a profession.
He wants to celebrate Christmas in a free country – I can recommend a short stay in Israel during the last week of December any time, altho I am sure he does it quite well in the UK.
Yes all your citizens are human beings – like us!
But do not blame the decline of Christian presence in your Palestine on Israel – put the blame where it belongs ,namely on the shoulders of intolerant Muslims resident with and amongst you!!!!
Westman says
Gee, Nour, you’re right about her being irreligious about anything except for terrorism and relieving Israel of Jews. Wearing Arafat’s terrorist keffiyeh is a nice touch. Perhaps she can also find a way to steal from the “Palestinians”.
Being involved in two plane hijackings and surviving gives her great street cred with the jihadis as a fellow traveler; she shares hatred of Israel and is otherwise a communist. However, a terrorist, she is.
Her political association, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has the same ambition as the jihadists – a one state solution without Jews.
Perhaps she should be considered a, “jihadi without portfolio”. If her ambitions were ever realized, a one-state rid of Jews, the jihadis would turn on her as they always do for unbelieving communists.
Wellington says
Arab Christians, Nour, (there really are no such people as Palestinians—-a made-up people only from the 1960’s onwards as just one of many ways of delegitimatizing Israel) tend to be very good and obedient dhimmis. It’s the Stockholm Syndrome on display big time even before the incident which gave rise to this term occurred in the early 1970’s.
Loads of Christians across the Middle East (that is to say what’s left of them) have been dhimmified for centuries and this can take a collective psychological toll over a long period of time. Besides, it’s the height of Islamic hypocrisy to point out Christians who side with Muslims because no way Islam permits Christians so many rights that Muslims have, for instance preaching their faith freely to Muslims as Muslims can do to them or building their houses of worship (or even repairing them) without permission from Muslim authorities, or a Christian man being allowed to marry a Muslim woman even though a Muslim man can marry a Christian woman. etc. If you’re a Christian in a Muslim land you had better be a good, obedient dhimmi or else—-and many times even this is not enough.
As for the PFLP, as “Rarely,” has already mentioned, it is a terrorist organization pure and simple. But then Islam is, in effect, one gigantic terrorist organization. The largest ever over the longest period of time.
mortimer says
The Christians who affiliate themselves the Pallies are in fact dhimmis who will get few benefits from the association and much repression under DISCRIMINATORY Sharia law.
Under DISCRIMINATORY Sharia law, dhimmis have no true RIGHTS, but precarious ‘privileges’ that can be either revoked or completely ignored if Muslims decide it’s time to persecute the dhimmis… any reason to persecute is valid.
A dhimmi is not allowed to lay a charge against a Muslim under DISCRIMINATORY sharia law. .
gravenimage says
The repellent Nour wrote:
I think you got it wrong here. Laila Khaled is not religious to be called Islamist or Jihadist. She’s a socialist. she is part of the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” formed by George Habash, a Christian Palestinian.
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Laila Khaled is part of the Islamic Jihad against Israel. Pretending she is not is absurd. She may not be religious in other ways, but she waged violent Jihad–and there is nothing so Islamic as that.
More:
Why are you ignoring the fact that many Palestinians are Christians? Many of them are also white like you. Do you consider them brothers? or you discriminate against them because they are Orthodox and Arabs?
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How grotesque–it is under Muslim rule that Arab and other Middle Eastern Christians are being persecuted and murdered. The Christian population of the “West Bank” is being decimated, and very few Christians survive in Gaza.
In fact, the only place in the Middle East where Christians are safe and may freely worship is *in Israel*.
And Robert Spencer himself is of Middle Eastern Christian extraction–his ancestors fled Turkey during the Armenian Genocide.
The idea that opposing Jihad is bigotry against Middle Eastern Christians is grotesque.
As for Bethlehem, the Christian population has dropped from 86% in 1950 to just 12% in 2016–and they make up less than 2% of the population across the “West Bank”. Christians may well be wiped out there in the next few years.
Meanwhile, the Christian population in Israel has *been growing*.
mgoldberg says
When you speak of ‘Israeli Expansionism’ I think you mean the ability of Israeli’s, of Jews and others to expand their lungs and breathe. That is what the Jihadists such as the Christian Jihadist you speak of, actually prefers to be against. There is no contrary opinion allowed in any muslim nation to oppose Islam’s rule. The Christians or any group can only support the muslim positions lest they be erased as opponents and a danger to Islam. So… the only christianity allowed is a ‘liberation’ marxist appearing one, that calls for Islamic rule and that lobbies against Israel, against Jews. Of course, you do know that….
Jihadist Islam only allows Jihadist supporters to breathe, of any variety.
But you know all that.
gravenimage says
+1
Unbeliever1 says
Noir,are you so blind as not to see that the jihadists wish to rid the Middle East of Christians as much as they want to of Jews?
You as a Christian don’t and won’t have any rights in a future Palestine.You are “sleeping with the enemy.”
Unbeliever1 says
Sorry Nour.Spelled your name as Noir in my second reply.
Unbeliever1 says
Which “free” country would that be? Surely not a Palestinian state under a group like Hamas.
Giacomo Latta says
If you are Christian in a Muslim-dominated part of the world, then to survive you get in line with rest. And since the rest are killing non-Muslims or the wrong kind of Muslims you do the same. Saddam Hussein had at least one Christian among his cronies as well.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
These are not Christians but, rather, Islamochristians who have internalized and parrot back the “Palestinian” party line. Christians were safe in Bethlehem when Israel controlled it; under the PA Christians have been leaving Bethlehem. The only genuinely secure place for Christians in the Middle East is, in fact, Israel.
steve says
What is up with the Irish mentality. I do mean the Southern, Eire dwellers. It seems that being ”Neutral” and detatched in the second World War has ‘entitled’ and emboldened valueless, big opinions on the post war World. Let me be very clear about this, any sovereign country that chose to ”wait and see” who ‘triumphed’ before they bowed their knee is basically beneath contempt, especially considering the seas between them and the Nazis, seas which were patrolled by the Royal Navy in which, to be fair, more thoughtful Irishmen served in thousands. Leila Khaled started the aircraft hi-jacking scourge which has cost the lives of thousands of innocent infidels over decades. The Southern Irish are contemplating the immigration of a large number of asylum seekers to increase their population and please Mrs. Merkel. Considering the terrorist events in England,….GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. I await the battle for control between The Irish Republican Army who still infest the country, controlling drugs and criminality in all its forms and the Islamic Jihad who will enter surreptitiously with the migrants.
Jayell says
I presume that housing a muslim in one’s spare room will mean banning bacon in the house and anything non-halal, providing a prayer area, resiting the toilet so that it doesn’t face Mecca, providing sufficient accommodation for 4 wives and reinforced locks for one’s daughter’s bedroom if the guest is male?
Steven RSA says
This terrorist spoke in South Africa a few years ago, I think at the behest of BDS. Our government would not allow the Dalai Lama in around the same time (for fear of upsetting our other masters, China), but did allow this criminal in.
gravenimage says
Awful. I think she spoke recently in Sweden, as well.
R Russell says
Only a Christian revival will save Ireland and the UK.
Wellington says
You could be right, but I would “settle” for just a proper understanding of what Islam intends for us all, whether one is Christian, Jewish, agnostic, atheist, etc.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
The Irish National Teachers’ Organization are a bunch of DHIMMI-wits.
They are so uninformed about Islam that they do not know Islam’s second-class citizenship doctrine ‘DHIMMITUDE’ and they do not know Islam’s APARTHEID doctrine ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’.
All Muslims are required to believe and PRACTICE Islam’s ‘ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE’ or be sent to Islamic hell.
ALL Muslims are required to HATE the DISBELIEVING KAFIRS ‘for the sake of Allah’.
Wellington says
Seconded, moritmer. Yep, the “ignorance factor” by non-Muslims and the “hate factor” by Muslims makes for a terrible combination, that being the continued spread and existence of Islam posing as something good and sapient.
Of course, as often is the case, the “received wisdom” is exactly the opposite of the truth. Never more so than with this example.
gravenimage says
Ireland invites Palestinian jihadi plane hijacker to speak at teachers’ club in Dublin
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*Repulsive*–this is *far* worse than being fooled by some Taqiyya-spouting Muslim pretending that Islam is a “religion of peace”. This is *active support for evil*. *Ugh*.
Wellington says
Seems, gravenimage, that Ireland over the last ten years or so functions in the forefront of Western European nations proceeding in full stupid mode about Islam. Yes, there are other “contenders,” and Sweden, Germany and the UK come foremost to mind here, but Ireland is giving other dimwit Western European nations a “run for their money” in this regard.
Too bad Ireland has not produced a leader like Orban of Hungary or Syzdlo of Poland. Damn shame indeed. Meanwhile, Ireland remains in full stupid mode. Clearly so.
gravenimage says
And this is worse than stupid, Wellington–this is “radical chic”.
If this group just thought she was a peaceful Muslimah, it would be stupid–but they *know* that she is a hijacker. It is her main claim to fame.
But I agree with you about Ireland, sadly. Both myself and my husband are part Irish. Terribly sad to see such dhimmitude there.
Elizabeth Lawson says
Mr. Wellington, we both know that Ireland, despite al of its historic woes with the British, has never ‘enjoyed’ the attention of Marxist totalitarianism. Hungary and Poland find themselves in the enviable position of being led by leaders who know all too well what totalitarianism looks like, smells like etc., and they want NONE of it. This new threat to the stability, culture and charm of Ireland by marauding seventh century cuckoo’s, will only be handled, and decisively so, by leaders such as they. Be afraid Ireland, be very afraid.
Fred H says
Do not underestimate the sheer ignorance of the average Irish person these days. That is what makes the Irish so ready to actually believe terrorist sob stories and claptrap.
FYI says
I saw that recently the muslims were talking about building a mosque in Kilkenny:a medieval,Christian city.
Give a moslem an inch and they will steal a mile.
No doubt the leftards and the judas priesthood will be happy to facilitate the destruction of their own culture and country
sean walsh says
Sad to say you are right Kilkenny , a medieval Christian city . Is on the way to building a very large Mosque much to the objection of most of the locals . They well turn Kilkenny into a no go zone as in cities of north England and the rest of Europe.
gravenimage says
Awful to hear this.
Elizabeth Lawson says
I am an Irishwoman. I do NOT want a Leila Khaled disseminating her dubious information To Irish citizens.. Her skill set, hijacking aircraft, and hoping to blow them up, with or without unfortunate victims aboard, is categorically NOT information that any self respecting professional group would either need nor want. Were the professional organization one of specialists in anti terror, I might, grudgingly, approve. Being a card carrying member of the PLO, reduces her Christian claim to zero. Christians who have membership in secret organizations are excommunicated from the Catholic Church, and Christians who engage, as Ms. Khaled has done, in terrorism and efforts to murder others, is emphatically, NOT a Christian. We in Ireland fought long and hard to free our country of oppressors, we do not need new ones. Countless Irish citizens lost their lives in our many efforts to free ourselves. The Republic is now free. Let’s see to it that it remains so, and leave these terrorists where they rightfully belong, in the country and in the company of their own ilk and kind.
Granddaddy says
What a great idea, a Muslim jihadi hijacker in Ireland. And so close to Lockerbie. What genius!