Zoom, Facebook, YouTube Cancel Webinar Featuring Former Palestinian Hijacker

Zoom, Facebook, YouTube Cancel Webinar Featuring Former Palestinian Hijacker

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Zoom canceled a webinar Wednesday featuring Leila Khaled, a member of a Palestinian militant group who took part in two plane hijackings in 1969 and 1970, while YouTube and Facebook intervened to take down the live stream over fears of criminal liability.

Leila Khaled was speaking at an event titled “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice and Resistance,” a ... [+] virtual discussion was organized by SFSU's Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies department.



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Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was speaking at a web event held at San Francisco State University.





Israeli and Jewish groups including the Lawfare Project reportedly