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Leading UK pro-Palestine group the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) has announced its withdrawal from a fundraising event featuring prominent Palestinian activist Leila Khaled. Khaled was set to make her virtual appearance in the UK as a guest speaker for an upcoming pro-Palestine event in Birmingham this Friday. Khaled, 79, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), became a household name for her role in hijacking two planes in 1969 and 1970. The picture of her brandishing a Kalashnikov while wearing a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh became an iconic image of …