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president biden On Friday, he picked up a copy of a book that describes Israel as a colonial power in the face of Palestinian resistance, despite his repeated support for the Jewish state.
Biden was spotted by the press as he left Nantucket Bookworks holding a copy of Columbia University professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi’s book, “The Hundred Year War on Palestine: A History of Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017,” according to the New York Post.
“I didn’t talk to the Post (or the Times for that matter), so it’s not for publication, but my reaction is that it’s four years too late,” Khalidi told the Post of Biden while holding his book.
The newspaper stated that it did not agree to any conditions Khalidi’s answer as off or in the background.
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President Biden, left, leaves Nantucket Bookworks with son Hunter Biden, grandson Bo and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden in Nantucket, Mass., on Friday. Biden is holding Rashid Khalidi’s book, “The Hundred Year War on Palestine.” (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached out to Khalidi and the White House.
The the book claims that “the modern history of Palestine can best be understood in these terms: as a colonial war against the indigenous people by various parties to force them to surrender their homeland to another people against their will.”
It was not clear if Biden purchased the book or if it was given to him.
Khalidi, who is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, called the first Trump administration a “mouthpiece.” for Israel and criticized Israel for the humanitarian toll in Gaza after Hamas killed an estimated 1,200 people in Israel on October 7, 2023, and kidnapped hostages, including Americans.
“When you read the Israeli press, it’s completely unclear what their political goal is. I mean, ethnic cleansing. It’s not a political goal. They’re doing it. They’re driving the people of the northern Gaza Strip into the southern part of the Gaza Strip. But as far as you can tell, the Israeli press articles, it is completely unclear to me what their political goal is,” he said in the program “Paertverts”. Podcast in November 2023.
President Biden with his family on Nantucket Island. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Biden has repeatedly said he supports Israel, but has been criticized by Israel supporters for placing conditions on US aid to Israel. Middle East allies and halting shipments of heavy munitions to Israel earlier this year.
Meanwhile, Palestinian supporters, who called Biden “Genocide Joe,” are increasingly criticizing him and Netanyahu for the civilian casualties in Gaza. Biden also reportedly criticized his Israeli counterpart behind closed doors, the Post reported.
Book published in 2020 before Trump mediator between Israel and five Muslim countries, criticized Trump for moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, which it took from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.
In the book, Khalidi wrote about Israel’s alleged discriminatory policies against Palestinians.
“Settler-colonial confrontations with indigenous peoples have ended in only one of three ways: with the complete elimination of the 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 relinquishment of colonial supremacy in the context of compromise and reconciliation, e.g. , South Africa, Zimbabwe and Ireland,” he wrote.
President Biden holds Rashid Khalidi’s “One Hundred Year War on Palestine” as he walks from the Nantucket Book Factory in Nantucket, Massachusetts. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
He also praised the first intifada Palestinians against Israel, which took place between 1987 and 1993 and killed more than 2,000 people, the Post wrote.
“The first intifada was a great example of popular resistance against oppression and can be seen as the first unmitigated victory for the Palestinians in the long colonial war that began in 1917,” the book says.
