ZOOM CANCELS PUBLIC TALK BY PALESTINIAN HIJACKER

After pressure from an American Jewish rights non-profit, Zoom has cancelled a California university-sponsored talk by a convicted Palestinian hijacker.

The Department of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State announced last month it would host Leila Khaled, pictured, for a talk on “Teaching Palestine.” The Lawfare Project convinced Zoom to cancel the talk.

Khaled is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — labelled a terrorist organization in the

U.S. — and, in 1969, helped hijack an Israel-bound flight from Rome.

The Lawfare Project is a pro bono group that supports Jewish civil and human rights causes around the world.

Undeterred, the university group said it would host the talk on Facebook Wednesday, but Facebook reportedly said the talk could not be livestreamed.

The group then turned to YouTube, but the livestream cut out 23 minutes in, after Khaled said, “People have the right to fight those who occupy their land by any means possible, including weapons.”