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'''Jillian Becker''' (born 2 June 1932<ref name=BBC130210>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21336933|title=Sylvia Plath: Jillian Becker on the poet's last days|date=10 February 2010|work=BBC News|accessdate=9 March 2015}}</ref> is a British author, journalist, and lecturer. She specialises in research about terrorism, having written ''[[Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang]]'' (1977), among other works.
'''Jillian Becker''' (born 2 June 1932)<ref name=BBC130210>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21336933|title=Sylvia Plath: Jillian Becker on the poet's last days|date=10 February 2010|work=BBC News|accessdate=9 March 2015}}</ref> is a South African-born British author, journalist, and lecturer, who specialises in research about terrorism. Her work includes ''[[Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang]]'' (1977).<ref name="Spender">{{cite news |last1=Spender |first1=Stephen |title=German Terror From the Left |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/19/archives/german-terror-from-the-left-terror.html |access-date=28 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=19 June 1977}}</ref>

==Life==

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Her father, Dr [[Bernard Friedman]], was a South African surgeon and politician who co-founded the anti-apartheid [[Progressive Party (South Africa)|Progressive Party]]. Becker attended [[Roedean School (South Africa)|Roedean School]] in [[Johannesburg]]. At the age of 14 she won first prize in a national essay competition on the evils of race-discrimination set by the (anti-apartheid) Institute of Race Relations.

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She graduated from the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] where she made a lifelong platonic friendship with the scientist, [[Lewis Wolpert]] and the writer, [[Lionel Abrahams]]. She left her first husband, Michael Geber, in South Africa to live in Italy with her second husband, Gerry Becker, later moving to Mountfort Crescent off Barnsbury Square, in London. It was here that Becker's friend, [[Sylvia Plath]], came to stay with her young children in the days immediately before Plath committed suicide and it is here that Becker's book about Plath's last days, ''Giving Up'' is based. Becker has been a British citizen since 1960.<ref name=BBC130210/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://penguin.bookslive.co.za/blog/2008/09/29/new-penguin-modern-classic-the-keep-by-jillian-becker/|title=New Penguin Modern Classic: The Keep by Jillian Becker|date=29 September 2008|work=Penguin Books South Africa }}</ref>

She had two marriages which ended in divorce, succeeded by a long relationship with Bernhard Adamczewski who filled the triple role of co-director of the [[#Institute for the Study of Terrorism|Institute for the Study of Terrorism]], computer manager and explosives expert, having become qualified in the use of explosives when he had worked in the South African gold mines in the 1950s. The marriages produced three daughters and six grandchildren.

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Becker is on the council of the [[The Freedom Association|Freedom Association]].<ref>[http://www.tfa.net/about-us/council-and-supporters/ The Freedom Association - Council and Supporters] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407205549/http://www.tfa.net/about-us/council-and-supporters/ |date=7 April 2013 }}</ref> She lives in California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/jillianbecker |title=Jillian Becker &#124; Authors &#124; Macmillan |publisher=Us.macmillan.com |accessdate=2015-06-20}}</ref>

She is the manager and editor of The Atheist Conservative blog.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://theatheistconservative.com/about/|title=1. About us|date=2009-05-06|work=The Atheist Conservative|access-date=2017-11-17|language=en-US}}</ref> She is a lifelong friend of the atheist scientist, [[Lewis Wolpert]], and she knew and frequently corresponded with the famous atheist philosopher, [[Antony Flew]], and the Irish artist husband and wife pair, [[Philip and Barry Castle]]. Indeed, Barry painted a portrait of Becker and Adamczewski.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}} A series of biographical sketches about southern African writers she has known, such as [[Doris Lessing]] and [[Lionel Abrahams]] and others has been published in the New English Review in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=190232|title = Jillian Becker}}</ref>

A lecture series titled The Jillian Becker Annual Lecture was launched under the auspices of The Freedom Association in 2018. The invited lecturers are required to speak on the general theme of the importance of individual freedom and/or of the nation-state.

==Published works==
Her early work is mostly fiction which was banned in her native South Africa, under the [[apartheid]] regime. Her short story "The Stench" received a [[Pushcart Prize]].

She has written an account of the death of her friend, the poet [[Sylvia Plath]], who stayed with Becker for the last weekend of her life.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21336933|title = Sylvia Plath: Jillian Becker on the poet's last days|work = BBC News|date = 10 February 2013}}</ref> Dissatisfied with the biographers' treatments and after seeing the film script to ''Sylvia'' (and declining the opportunity to have anything to do with the film), Becker decided to write her own account of Plath's death: ''Giving Up: the last days of Sylvia Plath''. Becker was also a friend and near neighbour of [[Douglas Cleverdon]], whose wife, Nest, gave Becker spare clothes for Plath's children during the period just after the suicide was discovered. When her memoir The Last Days of Sylvia Plath was published in Britain in 2002, its revelations were the subject of a major feature by the Independent on Sunday, provoking both supportive and hostile comments. The printed correspondence brought to light new facts about the poet's life.

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Her most famous book, ''Hitler’s Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang'', is about the German [[Red Army Faction]]. The book was chosen by [[Golo Mann]] as ''[[Newsweek]]'' (Europe) book of the year 1977<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddvLDAAAQBAJ&q=%22newsweek%22+book+of+the+year+1977+Hitler%27s+Children&pg=PA127|title=Revolutionary Violence and the New Left: Transnational Perspectives|isbn=9781317291374|last1=Alvarez|first1=Alberto Martin|last2=Tristán|first2=Eduardo Rey|date=5 August 2016}}</ref> and serialised in newspapers in London, Oslo and Tokyo.

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''The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization'' was commissioned by [[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] and published in 1984. Becker spent months in [[Lebanon]] during the war in which [[Israel]] drove the [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]] out of that country. She claimed to have retrieved secret documents from ruins of bombed PLO office buildings and to have interviewed Lebanese of all denominations and Palestinians who had experienced PLO oppression, as well as supporters, members and leaders of the PLO.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000688502/The-Plo.aspx|title=The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization|work=Authorhouse}}</ref>

Other works include novels, short stories, and numerous contributions to periodicals. She has contributed to scholarly articles on terrorism in the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''.

==Institute for the Study of Terrorism==
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In the 1980s, Becker served in a multi-party working group to advise the British Parliament on measures to combat international terrorism. She was also consulted by the embassies of several countries affected by indigenous terrorist organisations, some of which were supported by foreign nation states. In many of these cases, terrorist activity was an aspect of proxy wars, or what Becker called "the hot spots of the Cold War".<ref name=hb>{{cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3417700019.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114095814/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3417700019.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 November 2018|title=Becker, Jillian (Ruth) 1932-|accessdate=18 January 2016|via=HighBeam Research}}</ref>

In 1985, with [[Lord Chalfont]], a former minister in the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]], she founded the "Institute for the Study of Terrorism" (IST) of which she was executive director from 1985 to 1990. With Chalfont on the presiding council were [[Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox|Baroness Cox]], who was then deputy speaker of the House of Lords, and [[Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing|Lord Orr-Ewing]]. The institute's International Advisory Council included experts in many Western countries on terrorism, security, weaponry, and geo-politics. In the Institute itself Becker worked with a small staff of researchers and translators. Bernhard Adamczewski was her co-director at IST.<ref name=hb/>


==Early life and move to London==
IST kept in close touch with the Bomb Disposal Unit of the [[Metropolitan Police]] and the Airport Police Authorities. On some occasions IST received information, for instance about the smuggling across international borders of explosive material, before it had been conveyed by official channels, and was able to alert the relevant authorities. Institute personnel undertook to test airport security by smuggling imitation bombs in luggage through international airports, and found it deficient.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}
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Becker's father was [[Bernard Friedman]], a South African surgeon and politician who co-founded the anti-apartheid [[Progressive Party (South Africa)|Progressive Party]]. Becker attended [[Roedean School (South Africa)|Roedean School]] in [[Johannesburg]] before graduating from the [[University of the Witwatersrand]].


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Becker left her first husband, Michael Geber, in South Africa to live in Italy with her second husband, Gerry Becker, later moving to Mountfort Crescent, near Barnsbury Square in London. It was here that Becker's friend, [[Sylvia Plath]], came to stay with her young children in the days immediately before Plath's suicide; Becker's book ''Giving Up'' is based around Plath's last days there.<ref name="Gladwell">{{cite news |last1=Gladwell |first1=Malcolm |author-link1=Malcolm Gladwell |title=Sylvia Plath's Final Goodbye |url=https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/culture/sylvia-plaths-final-goodbye |access-date=28 October 2021 |work=The Sunday Guardian Live |date=2 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21336933|title = Sylvia Plath: Jillian Becker on the poet's last days|work = BBC News|date = 10 February 2013}}</ref> Becker became a British citizen in 1960.<ref name=BBC130210/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://penguin.bookslive.co.za/blog/2008/09/29/new-penguin-modern-classic-the-keep-by-jillian-becker/|title=New Penguin Modern Classic: The Keep by Jillian Becker|date=29 September 2008|work=Penguin Books South Africa }}</ref>
The chief purpose of the institute was to gather intelligence about terrorist organisations and their membership, and keep the British Parliament and the media informed about them, countering the propaganda and exposing pretexts and lies put out by the violent organisations themselves.<ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1177/0032258X9106400305|title = The 1990s – the Decade of International Unrest?|journal = The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles|volume = 64|issue = 3|pages = 209–214|year = 1991|last1 = Malcher|first1 = Alan|s2cid = 148950296}}</ref> IST commissioned expert studies of terrorist groups and distributed them to members of both Houses of Parliament, to newspapers, individual journalists, radio and television news channels, foreign embassies, [[HM Customs and Excise|Customs and Excise]], police forces, military experts, and university departments. It also held seminars addressed by experts in relevant subjects from many countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle and Far East.


==Career and political advocacy==
IST cooperated with the Institute for the European Defence and Strategic Studies, (set up by [[Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker]]) in the organisation of an international conference on defence at [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]] in 1986. Also, with the Faculty of Laws of the [[University of London]], the Institute held an international conference in 1988 at Ditchley Park, the venue of many Anglo-American top-level conferences. The three-day event was opened by the Home Secretary, [[Douglas Hurd]]. One of the most important addresses was given by [[John Hermon]], Chief of the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]].
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Becker's best-known book, ''Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang'', is about the German [[Red Army Faction]]. The book was chosen by [[Golo Mann]] as ''[[Newsweek]]'' (Europe) book of the year 1977,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddvLDAAAQBAJ&q=%22newsweek%22+book+of+the+year+1977+Hitler%27s+Children&pg=PA127|title=Revolutionary Violence and the New Left: Transnational Perspectives|isbn=9781317291374|last1=Alvarez|first1=Alberto Martin|last2=Tristán|first2=Eduardo Rey|date=5 August 2016}}</ref> and serialised in newspapers in London, Oslo and Tokyo.


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''The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization'' was commissioned by [[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] and published in 1984. Becker spent months in [[Lebanon]] during the [[Lebanese_Civil_War#1978_Israeli_invasion|Lebanese Civil War]], which [[Israel]] entered to confront the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO). She claimed to have retrieved secret documents from the ruins of bombed PLO office buildings and to have interviewed Lebanese of all denominations and Palestinians who had experienced PLO oppression, as well as supporters, members and leaders of the PLO.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000688502/The-Plo.aspx|title=The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization|work=Authorhouse}}</ref> The book was heavily criticized by the ''[[Journal of Palestine Studies]]'' as "facile and tendentious," as well as the lack of any PLO members being interviewed.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Egan |first=John P. |date=1986 |editor-last=Becker |editor-first=Jillian |title=Bashing the PLO |jstor=2537028 |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=138–140 |doi=10.2307/2537028 |issn=0377-919X}}</ref>
IST was a registered charity, supported mainly by charitable donations but also partly self-supporting by providing expert consultancy and supplying reports to private companies, such as those needing risk assessments when expanding into foreign countries.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}}


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In the 1980s, Becker served in a multi-party working group to advise the British Parliament on measures to combat international terrorism. She was also consulted by the embassies of several countries affected by domestic terrorist organisations, some of which were supported by foreign nation states. In many of these cases, terrorist activity was an aspect of proxy wars, which Becker called "the hot spots of the Cold War".<ref name=hb>{{cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3417700019.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114095814/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3417700019.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 November 2018|title=Becker, Jillian (Ruth) 1932-|accessdate=18 January 2016}}</ref> In 1985, with [[Lord Chalfont]], a former minister in the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]], Becker founded the Institute for the Study of Terrorism (IST), becoming its executive director from 1985 to 1990.<ref name=hb/>
In 1990 the institute was forced to close as many donors stopped their contributions, convinced that with the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]] and its Communist satellites in Eastern Europe, there would be no more internationally sponsored terrorism. Becker warned that terrorism, far from being over, would become an even greater menace in the coming years, but she failed to persuade donors of her point of view and so lost their support.


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Becker is on the council of [[The Freedom Association]],<ref>[http://www.tfa.net/about-us/council-and-supporters/ The Freedom Association - Council and Supporters] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407205549/http://www.tfa.net/about-us/council-and-supporters/ |date=7 April 2013 }}</ref> and is the manager and editor of ''The Atheist Conservative'' blog.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://theatheistconservative.com/about/|title=1. About us|date=2009-05-06|work=The Atheist Conservative|access-date=2017-11-17|language=en-US}}</ref> She lives in California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/jillianbecker |title=Jillian Becker &#124; Authors &#124; Macmillan |publisher=Us.macmillan.com |accessdate=2015-06-20}}</ref>
The archive of the institute was bought by the [[University of Leicester]], and was one of the collections with which the Scarman Centre, a research facility for the Department of Criminology, was founded. (The Scarman Centre is now Leicester University Department of Criminology)


==Books==
==Books==
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===Selected fiction===
===Selected fiction===


*{{cite book|isbn=978-0-14-003204-8|title=The Keep|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1971}}
*{{cite book|isbn=978-0-14-003204-8|title=The Keep|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1971|publisher=Penguin Books|location=Harmondsworth}}
*{{cite book|isbn=978-0949937766|title=Modern South African Stories|last1=Gray|first1=Stephen|year=1980}}
*{{cite book|isbn=0-7011-1625-0|title=The Union|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1971|publisher=Chatto and Windus|location=London}}
*{{cite book|isbn=0-7011-1625-0|title=The Union|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1971}}
*{{cite book|isbn=978-0-86486-050-7|title=The Virgins: A Novel|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1986|publisher=David Philip|location=Cape Town}}
*{{cite book|isbn=978-0-86486-050-7|title=The Virgins: A Novel|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1986}}
*{{cite book|isbn=1-898490-46-5|title=L, a Novel History|last1=Gill|first1=Bernard|year=2005}}


===Non-fiction===
===Non-fiction===
*''[[{{cite book|isbn=978-0-397-01153-7|title=[[Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang]]|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1977}}
*{{cite book|isbn=978-0-397-01153-7|title=[[Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang]]|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1977|publisher=J.B. Lippincott|location=Philadelphia}}
*''{{cite book|isbn=0-297-78299-1|title=The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1984}} {{cite book|isbn=978-0297782995|title=The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1984}}
*{{cite book|isbn=0-297-78299-1|title=The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=1984|publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson|location=London}}
*{{cite book|isbn=978-1898490319|title=Giving up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath|last1=Becker|first1=Jillian|year=2002}}
*{{cite book|isbn=978-1898490319|title=Giving up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath |last1=Becker |first1=Jillian |year=2002 |publisher=Ferrington |location=London}}


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 20:55, 7 February 2024

Jillian Becker
Jillian Becker in 1972
Jillian Becker in 1972
Born (1932-06-02) 2 June 1932 (age 92)
Johannesburg, South Africa
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
American
EducationUniversity of the Witwatersrand (BA)
Notable worksHitler's Children
Notable awardsPushcart Prize
Website
www.theatheistconservative.com

Jillian Becker (born 2 June 1932)[1] is a South African-born British author, journalist, and lecturer, who specialises in research about terrorism. Her work includes Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang (1977).[2]

Early life and move to London

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Becker's father was Bernard Friedman, a South African surgeon and politician who co-founded the anti-apartheid Progressive Party. Becker attended Roedean School in Johannesburg before graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Becker left her first husband, Michael Geber, in South Africa to live in Italy with her second husband, Gerry Becker, later moving to Mountfort Crescent, near Barnsbury Square in London. It was here that Becker's friend, Sylvia Plath, came to stay with her young children in the days immediately before Plath's suicide; Becker's book Giving Up is based around Plath's last days there.[3][4] Becker became a British citizen in 1960.[1][5]

Career and political advocacy

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Becker's best-known book, Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang, is about the German Red Army Faction. The book was chosen by Golo Mann as Newsweek (Europe) book of the year 1977,[6] and serialised in newspapers in London, Oslo and Tokyo.

The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization was commissioned by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and published in 1984. Becker spent months in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, which Israel entered to confront the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). She claimed to have retrieved secret documents from the ruins of bombed PLO office buildings and to have interviewed Lebanese of all denominations and Palestinians who had experienced PLO oppression, as well as supporters, members and leaders of the PLO.[7] The book was heavily criticized by the Journal of Palestine Studies as "facile and tendentious," as well as the lack of any PLO members being interviewed.[8]

In the 1980s, Becker served in a multi-party working group to advise the British Parliament on measures to combat international terrorism. She was also consulted by the embassies of several countries affected by domestic terrorist organisations, some of which were supported by foreign nation states. In many of these cases, terrorist activity was an aspect of proxy wars, which Becker called "the hot spots of the Cold War".[9] In 1985, with Lord Chalfont, a former minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Becker founded the Institute for the Study of Terrorism (IST), becoming its executive director from 1985 to 1990.[9]

Becker is on the council of The Freedom Association,[10] and is the manager and editor of The Atheist Conservative blog.[11] She lives in California.[12]

Books

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Selected fiction

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  • Becker, Jillian (1971). The Keep. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-003204-8.
  • Becker, Jillian (1971). The Union. London: Chatto and Windus. ISBN 0-7011-1625-0.
  • Becker, Jillian (1986). The Virgins: A Novel. Cape Town: David Philip. ISBN 978-0-86486-050-7.

Non-fiction

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Sylvia Plath: Jillian Becker on the poet's last days". BBC News. 10 February 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  2. ^ Spender, Stephen (19 June 1977). "German Terror From the Left". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  3. ^ Gladwell, Malcolm (2 November 2019). "Sylvia Plath's Final Goodbye". The Sunday Guardian Live. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Sylvia Plath: Jillian Becker on the poet's last days". BBC News. 10 February 2013.
  5. ^ "New Penguin Modern Classic: The Keep by Jillian Becker". Penguin Books South Africa. 29 September 2008.
  6. ^ Alvarez, Alberto Martin; Tristán, Eduardo Rey (5 August 2016). Revolutionary Violence and the New Left: Transnational Perspectives. ISBN 9781317291374.
  7. ^ "The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization". Authorhouse.
  8. ^ Egan, John P. (1986). Becker, Jillian (ed.). "Bashing the PLO". Journal of Palestine Studies. 16 (1): 138–140. doi:10.2307/2537028. ISSN 0377-919X. JSTOR 2537028.
  9. ^ a b "Becker, Jillian (Ruth) 1932-". Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  10. ^ The Freedom Association - Council and Supporters Archived 7 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "1. About us". The Atheist Conservative. 6 May 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Jillian Becker | Authors | Macmillan". Us.macmillan.com. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
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