| Noun | 1. | Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine - a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change; "in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren" 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 Palestine - a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948 |