P.F.L.P.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was founded in 1967 by George Habash, following the Arab defeat in the Six-Day War. It emerged from the Arab Nationalist Movement, adopting a Marxist-Leninist ideology that framed the Palestinian struggle not just as a nationalist quest, but as part of a global socialist revolution against imperialism and Zionism. During the late 1960s and 1970s, the PFLP gained international notoriety for its external operations, most notably a series of high-profile aircraft hijackings led by figures like Leila Khaled, which were intended to draw global attention to the Palestinian cause. As the second-largest faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) after Fatah, the PFLP acted as a radical secular alternative to Yasser Arafat’s leadership, consistently opposing diplomatic compromises like the Oslo Accords in favor of a "one-state solution" achieved through armed struggle. To this day, the PFLP's Ali Abu Mustapha Brigade fights with the resistance in Gaza. The PFLP is not a proscribed organisation in the UK. It should not be confused with the PFLP-GC, which is.