“We now ask for your intervention to end this silencing of Palestine and other narratives of resistance and justice.” Organizers of an April online event featuring Leila Khaled, which was shut down by private tech companies following Israel lobby pressure, respond.
A program in Muslim and Arab studies at San Francisco State is again attempting to present an online forum featuring a Palestinian militant who participated in two airplane hijackings, and is again running into roadblocks by internet companies and opposition from Jewish groups.
On Thursday, a page for the forum was removed by Eventbrite, a San Francisco-based ticketing and event registration company. Facebook also reportedly took down its page for the forum, called “Whose Narratives? What Free Speech for Palestine?”
The internet companies’ rebuffs come as little surprise after a similar forum held last September and featuring many of the same panelists encountered equal pushback: Its Zoom registration link was deactivated, Facebook removed the event page, and YouTube, which is owned by Google, cut the talk short after 23 minutes.
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American website removes event featuring terrorist Leila Khaled
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled.
Eventbrite, an American website for the organizations of events, has decided to remove an event featuring Leila Khaled, a member of the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (FPLP), from its platform for violating its terms of service.
The zoom webinar is being co-sponsored by San Francisco State University’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED), as well as the University of California Humanities Research Institute. It was due to be hosted by UC Merced’s Zoom account and moderated by UC Merced professor Sean Malloy.
Lawfare Project urges Zoom, UC Merced to cancel event featuring Palestinian terrorist
Lawfare Project urges Zoom, UC Merced to cancel event featuring Palestinian terrorist
In letters to Zoom and UC Merced Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz, the organization notes that the event featuring Leila Khaled could violate federal law by providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
(April 14, 2021 / JNS) The Lawfare Project is urging Zoom and the University of California, Merced, to cancel an upcoming event featuring Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled.
The event, titled “Free Speech and Palestine,” is scheduled to take place on April 23 at noon Pacific Time, and is being co-sponsored by San Francisco State University’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED), as well as the University of California Humanities Research Institute. It will be hosted by UC Merced’s Zoom account and moderated by UC Merced professor Sean Malloy.