California College Distances Itself from Planned Event with Palestinian Terrorist Leila Khaled (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP via Getty Images) Alex Nester • April 23, 2021 5:20 pm
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The University of California, Merced, tried to distance itself from a planned Zoom discussion with a Palestinian terrorist that was canceled after the university faced pressure from Republican congressman Doug Lamborn (Colo.).
UC Merced spokesman Jim Chiavelli claimed that the school was never the ‘cohost or sponsor of an online discussion featuring Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. UC Merced professor Sean Mallow was set to cohost Friday s event on UC Merced s Zoom portal alongside San Francisco State University professor Rabab Abdulhadi.