A row has broken out over a planned talk by a Palestinian woman who claimed that Hamas gunmen who carried out the October 7 attacks were “freedom fighters”.
Leila Khaled, who hijacked two planes, will appear via video link at a fundraiser hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign .They are the same group who arranged for the “from the river to the sea” slogan to be projected onto the Houses of Parliament.In a recent interview Khaled said “Hamas freedom fighters did not attack people there. They attacked one of the military group in that settlement. They were attacking only the army and not the people,” she said.
Read more: Hamas attackers raped women’s corpses, UN report findsRead more: Jeremy Hunt to extend 5p fuel duty cut in Budget boost for drivers after damning poll predicts Tory wipeout West Midlands Mayor Andy Street told LBC this morning he was not comfortable with her speaking event going ahead: “We’ve had examples like this before where different organisations send what I would say - and I’ll use this word - I don’t know this woman ‘hate preachers’ and we’ve seen in Leicester it was last year...
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