President Biden on Friday picked up a replica of a ebook that described Israel as a colonial energy within the face of Palestinian resistance regardless of his repeated help for the Jewish state.
Biden was noticed by the press leaving Nantucket Bookworks holding a replica of “The Hundred Years’ Conflict on Palestine: A Historical past of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017” by Columbia College professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi, the New York Put up reported.
“I don’t communicate 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 of Biden holding his ebook.
The newspaper famous it didn’t conform to any phrases conditioning Khalidi’s response as off the document 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’ Conflict on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi. (Mandel Ngan/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Khalidi and the White Home.
The ebook argues that “the trendy historical past of Palestine can finest be understood in these phrases: as a colonial struggle waged in opposition to the indigenous inhabitants, by a wide range of events, to power them to relinquish their homeland to a different folks in opposition to 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, referred to 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 folks inside Israel Oct. 7, 2023, along with kidnapping hostages, together with Individuals.
“It’s completely unclear, studying the Israeli press, what their political goal is. I imply, ethnic cleaning. That’s not a political goal. They’re doing that. They’re driving the inhabitants of the Northern Gaza Strip into the Southern Gaza Strip. However what their political goal is, is, to me, solely unclear, within the writings of, so far as one can inform, from the Israeli press,” he stated on the “Intercepted” podcast in November 2023.
President Biden along with his household on Nantucket Island. (Mandel Ngan/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Biden has repeatedly declared his help 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 12 months.
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 shifting the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria throughout the 1967 Six-Day struggle.
Within the ebook, Khalidi wrote about Israel’s alleged discriminatory insurance policies in opposition to Palestinians.
“Settler-colonial confrontations with indigenous peoples have solely led to one in every of 3 ways: with the elimination of full subjugation of the native inhabitants, as in North America; with the defeat and expulsion of the colonizer, as in Algeria, which is extraordinarily uncommon; or with the abandonment of colonial supremacy, within the context of compromise and reconciliation, as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Eire,” he wrote.
President Biden holds the ebook “The Hundred Years’ Conflict on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi as he walks out of Nantucket Bookworks in Nantucket, Mass. (Mandel Ngan/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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He additionally praised the primary intifada by Palestinians in opposition to Israel, which occurred from 1987 to 1993 and left greater than 2,000 folks lifeless, the Put up wrote.
“The First Intifada was an excellent instance of widespread resistance in opposition to oppression and will be thought of as being the primary unmitigated victory for the Palestinians within the lengthy colonial struggle that started in 1917,” the ebook says.