On Black Friday, when most People are searching for Christmas offers, Joe Biden seems to have gone searching for somewhat anti-Israel propaganda.
Based on The New York Post, Biden was seen leaving Nantucket Bookworks clutching a duplicate of “The Hundred Years’ Struggle on Palestine: A Historical past of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017.”
The anti-Israel missive, written by Columbia College professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi, describes Israel as a colonial energy within the face of Palestinian resistance.
In April, Khalidi penned an essay for The Guardian, “‘A brand new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ conflict on Palestine” the place he suggests the conflict Hamas began with its October 7 bloodbath is just “a brand new part in a much bigger battle” quite than a terrorist assault on civilians that included kidnapping and rape as a device of conflict.
That is the thesis of my e book The Hundred Years’ Struggle on Palestine: that occasions in Palestine since 1917 resulted from a multi-stage conflict waged on the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants by nice energy patrons of the Zionist motion – a motion that was each settler colonialist and nationalist, and which aimed to switch the Palestinian individuals of their ancestral homeland. These powers later allied with the Israeli nation-state that grew out of that motion. All through this lengthy conflict, the Palestinians have fiercely resisted the usurpation of their nation. This framework is indispensable in explaining not solely the historical past of the previous century and extra, but additionally the brutality that now we have witnessed since 7 October.
Khalidi introduced his retirement in June of 2024, citing Columbia’s crackdown on anti-Israel protests, which he vocally supported.
Khalidi didn’t appear moved by Biden’s embrace of his propaganda tome, saying it’s “4 years too late.”
“I don’t converse to the Put up (or the Instances for that matter), so this isn’t for publication, however my response is that that is 4 years too late,” Khalidi advised The Put up, which didn’t provide or conform to any phrases conditioning that response as off the report or on background.
It was not instantly clear if Biden bought the e book or if it was given to him whereas within the store — after he and first son Hunter Biden, 54, dined with first daughter Ashley Biden and different members of the family on the close by Brotherhood of Thieves restaurant forward of the island’s annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony.
Rashid Khalidi and his propaganda screed “The Hundred Years’ Struggle on Palestine” is answerable for a lot of the anti-Israel rot that has contaminated academia and the Western left.
To assert that Biden is a pal of Israel is a disgusting insult. pic.twitter.com/KwsqtCyXMA
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Nov. 12: @JoeBiden says “You don’t need to be a Jew to be a Zionist. I’m a Zionist.”
Nov. 29: Biden picks up The Hundred Years’ Struggle on Palestine: A Historical past of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by former PLO spokesman and anti-Zionist fanatic #RashidKhalidi.… pic.twitter.com/s6wL7S5LUK
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