On Black Friday, when most Americans are shopping for Christmas deals, Joe Biden appears to have gone shopping for a little anti-Israel propaganda.
According to The New York Post, Biden was seen leaving Nantucket Bookworks clutching a copy of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017.”
The anti-Israel missive, written by Columbia University professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi, describes Israel as a colonial power in the face of Palestinian resistance.
In April, Khalidi penned an essay for The Guardian, “‘A new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine” where he suggests the war Hamas started with its October 7 massacre is simply “a new phase in a bigger conflict” rather than a terrorist attack on civilians that included kidnapping and rape as a tool of war.
This is the thesis of my book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: that events in Palestine since 1917 resulted from a multi-stage war waged on the indigenous Palestinian population by great power patrons of the Zionist movement – a movement that was both settler colonialist and nationalist, and which aimed to replace the Palestinian people in their ancestral homeland. These powers later allied with the Israeli nation-state that grew out of that movement. Throughout this long war, the Palestinians have fiercely resisted the usurpation of their country. This framework is indispensable in explaining not only the history of the past century and more, but also the brutality that we have witnessed since 7 October.
Khalidi announced his retirement in June of 2024, citing Columbia’s crackdown on anti-Israel protests, which he vocally supported.
Khalidi did not seem moved by Biden’s embrace of his propaganda tome, saying it is “four years too late.”
“I do not speak to the Post (or the Times for that matter), so this is not for publication, but my reaction is that this is 4 years too late,” Khalidi told The Post, which did not offer or agree to any terms conditioning that response as off the record or on background.
It was not immediately clear if Biden purchased the book or if it was given to him while in the shop — after he and first son Hunter Biden, 54, dined with first daughter Ashley Biden and other family members at the nearby Brotherhood of Thieves restaurant ahead of the island’s annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony.
Rashid Khalidi and his propaganda screed “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” is responsible for so much of the anti-Israel rot that has infected academia and the Western left.
To claim that Biden is a friend of Israel is a disgusting insult. pic.twitter.com/KwsqtCyXMA
— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) November 30, 2024
Nov. 12: @JoeBiden says “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. I’m a Zionist.”
Nov. 29: Biden picks up The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by former PLO spokesman and anti-Zionist fanatic #RashidKhalidi.… pic.twitter.com/s6wL7S5LUK
— Daniel Pipes دانيال بايبس (@DanielPipes) November 30, 2024
