President Biden on Friday picked up a duplicate of a ebook that described Israel as a colonial energy within the face of Palestinian resistance regardless of his repeated assist for the Jewish state.
Biden was noticed by the press leaving Nantucket Bookworks holding a duplicate of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017” by Columbia College professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi, the New York Put up reported.
“I do not speak to the Post (or the Times for that matter), so this is not for publication, but my reaction is that this is four years too late,” Khalidi informed the Put up of Biden holding his ebook.
The newspaper famous it didn’t comply with any phrases conditioning Khalidi’s response as off the file or on background.
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President Biden, left, walks out of Nantucket Bookworks with son Hunter Biden, grandson Beau and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden in Nantucket, Mass., Friday. Biden holds the ebook “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi. (Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Khalidi and the White Home.
The ebook argues that “the modern history of Palestine can best be understood in these terms: as a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.”
It was not clear if Biden bought the ebook or if it was given to him.
Khalidi, who’s of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, known as the primary Trump administration a “mouthpiece” for Israel and has criticized Israel over the humanitarian toll in Gaza after Hamas killed about 1,200 individuals inside Israel Oct. 7, 2023, along with kidnapping hostages, together with People.
“It’s perfectly unclear, reading the Israeli press, what their political objective is. I mean, ethnic cleansing. That’s not a political objective. They’re doing that. They’re driving the population of the Northern Gaza Strip into the Southern Gaza Strip. But what their political objective is, is, to me, entirely unclear, in the writings of, as far as one can tell, from the Israeli press,” he stated on the “Intercepted” podcast in November 2023.
President Biden together with his household on Nantucket Island. (Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Biden has repeatedly declared his assist for Israel however has been criticized by Israeli supporters for placing circumstances on U.S. support to the Center East ally and pausing shipments of heavy munitions to Israel earlier this yr.
In the meantime, pro-Palestinian supporters, who nicknamed Biden “Genocide Joe,” have more and more criticized him and Netanyahu over civilian casualties in Gaza. Biden has additionally reportedly criticized his Israeli counterpart behind closed doorways, the Put up reported.
The ebook, revealed in 2020 earlier than Trump brokered relationships between Israel and 5 Muslim nations, criticized Trump for transferring the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria through the 1967 Six-Day battle.
Within the ebook, Khalidi wrote about Israel’s alleged discriminatory insurance policies towards Palestinians.
“Settler-colonial confrontations with indigenous peoples have only ended in one of three ways: with the elimination of full subjugation of the native population, as in North America; with the defeat and expulsion of the colonizer, as in Algeria, which is extremely rare; or with the abandonment of colonial supremacy, in the context of compromise and reconciliation, as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Ireland,” he wrote.
President Biden holds the ebook “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi as he walks out of Nantucket Bookworks in Nantucket, Mass. (Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Pictures)
He additionally praised the first intifada by Palestinians towards Israel, which occurred from 1987 to 1993 and left greater than 2,000 individuals useless, the Put up wrote.
“The First Intifada was an outstanding example of popular resistance against oppression and can be considered as being the first unmitigated victory for the Palestinians in the long colonial war that began in 1917,” the ebook says.
