Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين
General Secretary	Ahmad Sa'adat (imprisoned)
Deputy General Secretary	Jamil Mezher
Founder	George Habash
Founded	1967 (1967)
Headquarters	Damascus, Syria
Paramilitary wing	Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism Palestinian nationalism Secularism Anti-imperialism Anti-Zionism Pan-Arabism Arab nationalism One-state solution
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Palestine Liberation Organization Democratic Alliance List
International affiliation	International Communist Seminar (defunct) Axis of Resistance
Legislative Council (2006, defunct)	3 / 132
Party flag
Website
www.pflp.ps

George Habash, a Palestinian Christian, was PFLP's Secretary General at its beginning. He had been influenced by the ideas of Constantin Zureiq and Sati' al-Husri, Arab nationalists of the 1940s and 1950s

PFLP May Day poster

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP; Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, romanized: al-Jabha ash-Shaʿbīyya li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn) is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization, the largest being Fatah.

Ahmad Sa'adat, who was sentenced in 2006 to 30 years in an Israeli prison, has served as General Secretary of the PFLP since 2001. The PFLP currently considers both the Fatah-led government in the West Bank and the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip illegal because elections to the Palestinian National Authority have not been held since 2006. As of 2015^[update], the PFLP boycotts participation in the PLO Executive Committee and the Palestinian National Council.

The PFLP has generally taken a hard line on Palestinian national aspirations, opposing the more moderate stance of Fatah. It does not recognize Israel and promotes a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The military wing of the PFLP is called the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades.

See also

• Arab Socialist Action Party
• List of political parties in the State of Palestine
• Palestinian domestic weapons production
• Mohamed Boudia
• Carlos the Jackal
• Revolutionare Zellen
• Blekingegade Gang
• Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine