Congress Calls for Federal Investigation of University for Hosting Convicted Terrorist Leila Khaled

September 22, 2020

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[Update: Following today's letter from Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) requesting a cutoff of federal funds and an investigation by the Treasury Dept., the September 23 Zoom event at SFSU featuring convicted terrorist Leila Khaled has been canceled.]

Unrepentant terrorist Leila Khaled’s scheduled Zoom lecture at San Francisco State University sparked swift reactions. Rep. Doug Lamborn today sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, copied to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, threatening SFSU with federal investigations and a cut-off of all federal funds. Campus Watch examined the implications of and reasons for the Congressional letter in The American Spectator.

Fresh off the 50th anniversary of her most notorious act of terrorism, Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled will speak to San Francisco State University (SFSU) students via Zoom on September 23.

Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled, the first female hijacker, will speak September 23 via Zoom to the “open classrooms” of San Francisco State University professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa. It is an outrage that a public, taxpayer-supported American university would glorify a hardened terrorist by providing a platform from which she can radicalize college students.

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.