Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled will visit South Africa next month, hosted by campaigners urging boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
Between 6 February and 14 February, Khaled will tour South Africa, deliver several lectures and be the guest of honor at a BDS South Africa dinner scheduled for 12 February, according to a Facebook event page.
“This visit by comrade Leila Khaled would further contribute to serve the purpose to bolster solidarity with the Palestine people’s struggle for their birthright,” Kebby Maphatsoe, chairperson of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association, consisting of former fighters in the African National Council’s armed wing, said in a statement.
A member of the leftwing political group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Khaled is best known for her role in a series of plane hijackings in 1969 and 1970. Khaled, who lives in Amman, Jordan, today, is often credited as the first woman to hijack a plane.
“A significant number of South African anti-apartheid activists, church leaders, government officials, trade unions, political parties, as well as civil society organizations, have expressed their support for the Palestine freedom fighter and icon Leila Khaled’s forthcoming visit to South Africa,” BDS South Africa says in a press release.
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