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Zoom cancels jihad terrorist Leila Khaled’s webinar at San Francisco State University

Sep 26, 2020 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams 14 Comments

Zoom canceled Leila Khaled, not San Francisco State University. SFSU was ready to host her. SFSU should be held responsible for aiding and abetting jihad terror.

Leila Khaled does much more than simply engage in “offensive” speech. Being “offensive” is very different from inciting to violence and murder, or celebrating those who have participated in the commission of terror attacks.

Zoom’s decision to cancel Leila Khaled’s webinar at San Francisco State University  demonstrates that Zoom is not giving preferential treatment to Muslims out of the prevailing political correctness and intimidation, and that violence and jihadist incitement to violence will not be tolerated. Kudos to Zoom.

“Zoom cancels Leila Khaled webinar at San Francisco State University,” Jerusalem Post, September 23, 2020:

Due to the concerted efforts of many lawyers and activists, Zoom has canceled a webinar hosted by San Francisco State University which was slated to feature Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled as one of its guest speakers.

“Zoom is committed to supporting the open exchange of ideas and conversations, subject to certain limitations contained in our Terms of Service, including those related to user compliance with applicable US export control, sanctions, and anti-terrorism laws,” Zoom said in a statement, according to the Lawfare Project. The newly established #EndJewHatred movement was also involved in pressuring SFSU to prevent Khaled’s talk.

“In light of the speaker’s reported affiliation or membership in a US designated foreign terrorist organization, and SFSU’s inability to confirm otherwise, we determined the meeting is in violation of Zoom’s Terms of Service and told SFSU they may not use Zoom for this particular event,” the statement continued.

After the announcement by Zoom, Strategic Affairs Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen tweeted: “Glad to see @Zoom_us preventing PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled from abusing its platform to spread her bigotry and calls for Jewish State’s destruction at a @SFSU event today. Tech companies need to uphold policies & protect the safety of all of its [sic] users against such hate-speech.”

Khaled, who as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked El Al Flight 219 on September 6, 1970, was due to address an event hosted by SFSU’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) study program, titled “Who’s Narratives? Gender, Justice and Resistance: a conversation with Leila Khaled,” on Wednesday, September 23.

SFSU rejected previous requests to withdraw the invitation, including a request made by Rodney Khazzam, a passenger on Flight 219 who almost lost his life when Khaled attempted to detonate a grenade while the plane was aloft. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president of Shurat HaDin, a Tel Aviv-based law firm that specializes in defending the right of the State of Israel to exist, has now written to the university on Khazzam’s behalf.

FLIGHT 219 was one of four planes hijacked that day by the PFLP, and the only one where the hijacking failed: Khaled’s coconspirator Patrick Argüello was killed by an air marshal, while Khaled was subdued and handed over to British authorities in London.

Three other planes were successfully diverted to Dawson’s Field, a remote desert airstrip in Jordan, where the 56 Jewish passengers were separated from non-Jews and held hostage.

Three days later a fifth plane was hijacked in an attempt to force authorities to release Khaled and other PFLP prisoners, and a deal was struck on September 30 which saw the hostages released in return for their freedom.

SFSU has come under criticism for antisemitism thanks to on-campus support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against the State of Israel, and other anti-Israel activities….

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Filed Under: academia, Palestinian jihad, United States Tagged With: #EndJewHatred, Leila Khaled, Orit Farkash-Hacohen, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, San Francisco State University, Zoom


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  1. mortimer says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    Even the most closed-minded Leftards are now seeing that JIHADISM is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

    Leftards are ALSO victims when Muslim supremacists gain political power.

    Islam is against ALL ‘OTHERS’. Atheists are primary targets of Islam. Militant atheists get assassinated in Bangladesh.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2020 at 6:24 pm

      Alas, Mortimer, I don’t think those at San Francisco State who invited this Jihad terrorist have learned that–or else they know and approve, which is considerably worse.

      And most of the Atheist victims in Bangladesh haven’t sounded particularly militant to me–they just admitted that they don’t believe in “Allah”. That is enough for pious Muslims to murder them.

      Reply
  2. Palladini says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 2:37 pm

    Good for ZOOM. Islam needs a Big Reform, the book that they have say they have to follow the life of their Profit, needs to either be rewritten or taken out of the teachings. I say this because this profit lived 600 years ago, it was a much different time then today All the Violence and killing, was a normal thing back then, not so much these days, society has gotten a little bit more safer.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2020 at 6:19 pm

      Christianity is more than 1400 years old, and it does not preach violence, nor was Jesus a warlord, pedophile, slaver, rapist, and mass murderer.

      Reply
      • Rochelle Opseth says

        Sep 27, 2020 at 9:08 am

        Gravenimage, you are correct, Jesus was not any of these abominable things.

        Reply
        • gravenimage says

          Sep 27, 2020 at 10:44 pm

          Thanks, Rochelle.

    • Mafya says

      Sep 27, 2020 at 4:02 am

      In my opinion the biggest problem with Islam is the traditionalist Sunni orthodox Islam. There are some peaceful, humane, human-centered Batiniyya-Islamic sects like Alevism, Alewite, Druze, Ali-Ilahism (They worship the Imam Ali), and many more local Sufi-Batiniyya sects… But Sunni Islam is Arab Imperialism. These peaceful sects that I wrote are syncretic sects. They syncretized their local and ancient beliefs with Islam so they are peaceful beliefs and sects. Muslims should remember their ancient, ancestors’ beliefs and syncretize them with Sufism. For example Alevis in Turkey syncretized our ancestors’ religion, Tengrism, with Sufism. They face persecution from orthodox Sunni Islamists who call themselves as “Turkish” nationalists but they hate Alevis, the people who maintained ancient Turkic belief Tengrism/Shamanism, syncretized with Sufism. Orthodox Sunni Islamist Ottomans also persecuted the Turkish Alevis.

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      • gravenimage says

        Sep 27, 2020 at 11:11 pm

        Sufism preaches Jihad, and so does Shia Islam.

        Reply
  3. Sheikh Anvakh says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 2:47 pm

    It’s high time for a federal investigation into the Universities. Time to withdraw all title 9 federal funds unless the bias and Jew hatred ends. Also remove their tax exemption status and let them run as a commercial enterprise, market driven. Let them Kay tax like the rest of us. Oh yes and let them use the enormous endowments they’re sitting on while milking the taxpayer.

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    • Alice W says

      Sep 27, 2020 at 8:44 am

      This is exactly what needs to happen across the US!
      Universities have become Marxist education camps spewing out the Critical Race Theory as fact and having Safe Spaces! And having jihadists speak there as tax payers foot the bill is criminal!

      Reply
  4. Horace Jeffery Hodges says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 5:48 pm

    “Who’s Narratives? Gender, Justice and Resistance: a conversation with Leila Khaled”
    “Who’s Narratives?”
    “Nobody is Narratives.”

    Jeffery Hodges

    Reply
  5. gravenimage says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 6:11 pm

    Zoom cancels jihad terrorist Leila Khaled’s webinar at San Francisco State University
    ………….

    This is good to hear.

    And yes–inciting violence and murder is *much* different from merely offensive speech. I may not like some speech considered offensive, but I support it.

    That San Francisco State was happy to sponsor this Jihad terrorist is deeply disturbing–but sadly unsurprising.

    Reply
  6. Giacomo Latta says

    Sep 27, 2020 at 10:07 am

    ”Muslim Ethnicities”? ”Who’s Narratives?” Was this to be a convention for the ethnological ignorant and the illiterate of the muslim illiterati?

    Reply
    • Horace Jeffery Hodges says

      Sep 27, 2020 at 6:36 pm

      Unintended knock-knock joke on note cards slipped back and forth under entrance door for conference security reasons:

      Knock-knock.

      Whose there?

      Nobodies there here.

      Nobodies there there?

      No nobodies.

      Nobodies?

      Nobodies.

      The conference is canceled due to lack of attendance, except for a few nobodies.

      Jeffery Hodges

      Reply

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