Aiyanas Ormond (Aiyanas Feardorcha Ormond) is a member of BDS Vancouver-Coast Salish Territories. The BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) international movement is a Palestinian-led campaign promoting various forms of boycott against Israel.
On April 16, 2020 Aiyanas Ormond posted on Facebook:
Free All Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails! Free Palestine! #WeAreWithYou #FreeOurPrisoners #PalestinianPrisonersDay
A photo accompanied to the post featured Aiyanas Ormond holding a sign that reads:
Free Ahmad Sa’adat & All Palestinian Prisoners. BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish Territories. Canada Palestine Association
Ahmad Sa’adat is the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist group in Canada. Sa’adat was convicted of the assassination of the Israeli Tourism Minister, Rehavam Ze’evi and other terrorist attacks carried put by PFLP. He was sentenced to 30 years in jail.
In 2003 Canada designated PFLP as a terrorist organization. According to Public Safety Canada:
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Also known as Halhul Gang, Halhul Squad, Palestinian Popular Resistance Forces, PPRF, Red Eagle Gang, Red Eagle Group, Red Eagles, Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, Al-Jibha al-Sha’biya lil-Tahrir Filistin
Description
Formed in 1967, the goals of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) are the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a communist government in Palestine. During the 1970s, the group took part in some of the boldest terrorist attacks of the period, such as hijacking three civilian airliners in one day and storming the Vienna headquarters of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Since 2000, the PFLP has turned increasingly to the use of suicide bombers, guerilla tactics, car bombings, and mortar strikes. The PFLP was also responsible for the first assassination of a cabinet minister in Israel’s history, killing Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in 2001. In 2014, the PFLP claimed responsibility for a November gun and knife attack at an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in West Jerusalem that killed 6 people. More recently, on June 16, 2017, two coordinated attacks targeting Israeli police officers were carried out near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s walled old city.
Date listed
2003-11-13
Date reviewed
2018-11-21
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