South African Officials Plan to Rename Road Near US Embassy After Palestinian Terrorist

Critics say the move to honor a woman who hijacked an American passenger plane in the late 1960s is designed to ‘humiliate’ the United States.

Leila Khaled of Palestinian Liberation Front attends a press conference upon her arrival at the O.R. Tambo international Airport, in Johannesburg, on Feb. 6, 2015. Gianluigi Guercia/AFP via Getty Images

JOHANNESBURG—Officials in South Africa’s biggest city, Johannesburg, have proposed renaming a major road after a Palestinian woman who was involved in the hijacking of passenger jets more than 50 years ago.

Sandton Drive, on which the U.S. Embassy is located, is in an area often referred to as “Africa’s richest square mile.”