POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mean? 

• POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE (noun)
  The noun POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist group of limited popularity formed in 1967 after the Six-Day War; combined Marxist-Leninist ideology with Palestinian nationalism; used terrorism to gain attention for their cause; hoped to eliminate the state of Israel

  Familiarity information: POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist group of limited popularity formed in 1967 after the Six-Day War; combined Marxist-Leninist ideology with Palestinian nationalism; used terrorism to gain attention for their cause; hoped to eliminate the state of Israel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

PFLP; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)