Dec 10, 2006
apartheid wall art
i was looking through pictures of the demonstration against the beit hanoun murders by israeli forces and other demonstrations on activestill’s flickr and came across this picture (click to see higher res).
that’s a stenciled drawing of leila khaled, a former guerilla with the PFLP, now a member of the seemingly dormant Palestinian National Council.
here’s an article that appeared in the guardian in 2001, an interview conducted 30 years after recounting her infamous 1969 hijacking of TWA Flight 840.
lina makboul, a swedish-palestinian journalist, interviewed here, released a documentary this year called leila khaled – hijacker. i haven’t seen it yet, but when i find it, i’ll make it available here.
“Ladies and gentlemen, your attentions please, kindly fasten your seat belts. This is your new Captain speaking. The Che Guevara commando unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…”
24 year old Leila Khaled had just completed her first hijacking and at the same time she became the first woman ever to hijack an airplane.
