[3] Franji was hospitalized after he and Eli Lobel, a member of the Israeli dissident group Matzpen, were attacked and injured in an event organized by the Socialist German Student Union to protest the talk of the Israeli ambassador to West Germany Asher Ben-Natan in the summer of 1969.

[1] He served as the permanent PLO representative to United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna between 1982 and 1985.

[2] Franji was elected to the Central Committee of Fatah in August 1989[5] and became one of the advisers on European affairs to the PLO leader Yasser Arafat.

[1] Franji was made the head of the PLO delegation to Germany in 1993 which he held until 1998 and became a member of the Palestinian Central Council in 1998.

[2] He was appointed adviser on foreign affairs to Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian National Authority, in 2010 with the rank of minister.