A Palestinian-American comedian went to the airport wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with an iconic photo of Leila Khaled who is widely believed to be the first-ever female airplane hijacker.
In a recent Instagram post, Amer wears a t-shirt with an iconic photo of Khaled holding an AK-47 and with the Palestinian flag draped behind her. “People say to me, Amer, enough, ‘do you have to be Palestinian all the time, even in the airport'”, Amers says in the short video.
As a member of the armed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Khaled is credited with being the world’s first female hijacker as a member of the PFLP hijack team that took control of TWA flight 840 in 1969.
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