The current tactics used by anti-Israel groups and especially with the support of senior members of the ANC and government is counter-productive. Instead of building trust through a more nuanced and balanced approach, distrust is guaranteed by applying raw aggressive and unsophisticated tactics. It is understandable that South Africa’s tri-partite alliance will side with the…
Tags: Leila Khaled
Kissing the hand that kills
Leila Khaled, double airline hijacker, after her arrival in South Africa, has asserted that “she did not want to blow up the plane” with the two hand grenades she had in her hands during her second EL Al flight hijacking and that “The grenades were only to threaten.” She does not explain why she had…
Open Letter To Minister Gigaba Re Leila Khaled

Dear Minister Gigaba, The ACDP recently commended President Zuma on the ANC’s anti-terrorism stand and called on him to withdraw Leila Khaled’s visa – sadly to no avail. A few weeks ago, Government joined the international community in condemning the terrorist murder of journalists in France and the President said the African continent and the…
Does SA need terrorists like Leila Khaled through our doors?

Leila Khaled has been invited to visit South Africa by the SA BDS movement. She is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and an airline hijacker. Khaled came to public attention for her role in a 1969 hijacking followed again the next year as part of Black September’s muliple…
Stop Importing Terrorism into South Africa

The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF), Cape Council, is dismayed that at this time, after a horrific week of attacks on civilians in France and in Nigeria, carried out by radical Islamists, the BDS movement, unashamedly associates itself with terror by inviting Leila Khaled to South Africa. BDS brazenly promotes and lauds Khaled, as a…