"By Any Means Necessary:' Palestinian leftists historically used Westerners as terrorists, and campuses today are recruitment centers for the next generation ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, January 26, 2025

"By Any Means Necessary:' Palestinian leftists historically used Westerners as terrorists, and campuses today are recruitment centers for the next generation

Last year, Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote about how Palestinian Leftist groups like the PFLP recruited young women from the West to be terrorists attacking Israel.

The article highlights a French woman, a teacher, named Evelyne B. who was recruited by an Algerian theatre director to the PFLP in 1970. She smuggled weapons from Beirut to Paris that were used in an airplane hijacking, she drove Palestinian terrorists to blow up an oil depot in Rotterdam and then she was set to be a ringleader of a series of attacks in Tel Aviv on Easter Monday 1971, but she was caught at the airport with explosives meant to attack hotels.

Another young European woman, Anne-Marie B., a pharmacy student who was recruited by the same Algerian to help a planned attack on a camp in Vienna with Soviet Jews en route to Israel.

People don't remember that the actual hijackers of the plane to Entebbe in 1976 included two Germans, Brigitte Kuhlmann and Wilfried Böse. Members of Germany’s Revolutionary Cells, Italy’s Red Brigades and the Japanese Red Army cooperated with the PFLP in several terror attacks including the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre.

More recently, in 2006, International Solidarity Movement volunteers posed happily holding weapons with the Palestinian terrorists they were helping.

When we see slogans like "Globalize the Intifada" and "By Any Means Necessary" being shown prominently in anti-Israel demonstrations organized by communist and socialist organizations like Within Our Lifetime and International ANSWER, it seems highly likely that they are brainwashing the next generation of violent radicals and setting the agenda for a larger group to justify the upcoming terror attacks.

Today's "progressives" claim to eschew violence, but on their more radical websites they justify all violence against Jews. It is not difficult to draw a direct line from the students recruited in the name of Palestinian solidarity in the 1970s and those who support Hamas today.

Only a tiny percentage of the leftists of the 1970s actually engaged in terror, but a larger pro-Palestinian, anti-Western movement created the conditions for those people to emerge. The playbook today sure feels a lot like that of fifty years ago.

(h/t Daniel)