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This workshop will explore the rise of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) as the premier Marxist-Leninist faction within the Palestine liberation movement during the 1960s and 1970s, particularly their alliance with the Japanese Red Army (JRA). We will discuss how and why a Japanese student group chose to ally themselves with the PFLP and fight for the liberation of Palestine to a degree not seen by other non-Arab movements. Jeremy will also discuss his research on the history of shared actions between the PFLP and the JRA and how this created a new paradigm for Palestine liberation, while also challenging more moderate factions of the movement.

Jeremy Randall, Ph.D. in History, is the associate director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was recently the residential postdoctoral fellow at the Orient Institut Beirut.

He is a historian of leftism in the Middle East with a focus on Palestine as well as leftist critiques of sectarianism and capitalism in postcolonial Lebanon via intellectual and cultural productions.

He is currently preparing a monograph on the alliance between the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with counterparts in Japan, Europe, and Latin America as an example of internationalism and solidarity with the Palestinian revolution in the 1970s and 1980s.