Former UN Official to Share Platform with Convicted PFLP Terrorist Who Planned Suicide Bombings
Former UN official is set to speak at a webinar alongside a convicted PFLP terrorist who planned suicide attacks in 2005 and now runs an Israeli-designated front group for the terror organization
A November 3, 2025 webinar titled “Uniting for Peace” will feature Craig Mokhiber, a former UN human rights official, alongside Ubai Aboudi, a convicted member of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who planned foiled suicide bombings.
Aboudi is executive director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development, which was designated a terrorist entity by Israel in 2021, and a steering committee member of the Palestinian NGOs Network. The online event is billed as discussing solutions to “stop Israel’s aggression.”
Aboudi’s Criminal History and Terror Convictions
Aboudi was arrested for planning a terrorist attack in 2005 at the IDF Armored Corps Museum at Latrun using two suicide bombers and a car bomb. Amnesty International confirmed he was arrested in 2005 and 2010 for PFLP-related offenses, and has spent over four years in Israeli prisons.
His involvement with the PFLP continued, and Israeli authorities arrested him again in November 2019, sentencing him to 12 months in prison in June 2020. Aboudi was convicted of being PFLP member from 2016 to July 2019, during which he was convicted for recruiting “activists” to the terror group and strengthening its infrastructure.
Terror Designation of Bisan Center
Before joining Bisan, Aboudi worked as Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) until 2019. The UAWC has been identified by the Palestinian Fatah movement as an official “affiliate” and described in a USAID-commissioned audit as the “agricultural arm” of the PFLP.
On October 22, 2021, Israel’s Ministry of Defense designated both the Bisan Center and UAWC as two of six organizations operating as part of a network of front groups for the PFLP. The official designation from Israel’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing stated that these organizations “present themselves as acting for humanitarian purposes; however, they serve as a cover for the promotion and financing of ‘Popular Front’ activity.”
According to the ministry, the designated organizations received substantial funding from European countries and international organizations that was used to support PFLP terror activities, recruit activists, and pay security prisoners’ families.
The Bisan Center’s Ties to PFLP & Hamas
A 2019 video from Palestinian Wattan Media Network documented a PFLP-organized memorial in Ramallah for its former political bureau member Rabah Muhanna. The event featured representatives from several now-banned NGOs, including Bisan senior researcher Gebril Muhamad, alongside prominent PFLP members such as Khalida Jarrar.
The PFLP’s official website has publicized Bisan events. Among them was a 2013 workshop that featured PFLP member Khalida Jarrar and Fadel Hamdan, a U.S.-sanctioned Hamas legislator who was involved in planning suicide attacks. At the workshop, Hamdan reportedly “stressed the importance of studying the Gaza experience.”