Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

It's good stuff, right?

Unfortunately, Margaret, I hate to break it to you, it's a, uh, the government declaring left groups terrorists again.

Oh, that seems bad.

Yeah, it does seem bad, especially in this case.

Like, it's an attempt to drive autonomous left organizing off the internet.

And so if people are not familiar, we are talking today about Autistici/Inventati.

There's a, uh, a forward slash in between those two groups because on the 26th of August, the Office of Foreign Assets Control added them to a list of specially designated global terrorist groups because it alleged that A/I's services were designed to facilitate violent attacks.

I think I'm gonna refer to them as A/I just for brevity and also because I don't want to use AI because, uh, sadly that's already taken.

Defund Racism's own published partner list, confirmed on its website, includes JPA, the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Palestinian and Jewish Unity, and Samidoun.

Samidoun was jointly designated a terrorist entity by Canada and the United States in October 2024, with the Canadian government stating at the time that the organization has close links with and advances the interests of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, itself a listed terrorist entity in Canada, the U.S., and the EU.

The report notes that JPA sponsored a campaign in defense of Samidoun back in 2021, three years before that listing, and that JPA publicly criticized the designation itself in January of this year as racist weaponization of Canada's terrorist entities list.

If the report's account holds up, Canada currently has registered nonprofits building their present campaign against Jewish institutions on a coalition that includes a listed terrorist entity and is doing so in plain sight, on the public record, without apparent consequence.

According to historical records, armed hijackers took control of the aircraft.

The hijackers were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine external operations, working alongside two German militants.

Within minutes, the peaceful flight became an international hostage crisis.

Passengers were ordered to remain seated.

And we talked a bit about the odd dialectics of the DDR and the Roth Army Fraction and Horst Mahler.

Obviously, the element he was representing when he was on the ground in the Levant was that of the DDR and the Rote Army Fraction, but he did a lot to facilitate deep contact and operational interdependence with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the nascent PLO and things.

And this all ties together, not just conceptually, but in terms of a common nucleus of operative effect, if that makes sense.

I, let me see.

And don't forget, Thomas, also, like, I mean, you're talking about the client states of the Soviet Union being left like orphans in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Don't forget also the network, the vast network of paramilitary groups, including, you know, the PLO and the PFLP and other, you know, pro-Palestinian, you know, networks and left, like, basically, like, I mean...

Including the Polisario, including, you know, many other groups like, you know, the Red Brigades or whatever, the Basques, you know, we could talk on and on about like, you know, how many of these networks like, you know, were left orphans.

Why do you think the PLO decided to see the writing on the wall and decided to seek peace with the Israelis just immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union? And the First Intifada.

I mean, you think about Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103, that was in 1988.

You had the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

They simultaneously hijacked, I think it was four commercial flights for Europe and New York in September of 1970.

I mean, there's a number of examples where airlines have been weaponised, but but 9-11 seemed to be the catalyst for greater change than ever before.