President Biden on Friday picked up a book that depicts Israel as a colonial power in the face of Palestinian resistance, despite repeatedly supporting the Jewish state.
According to a report in the New York Post, Biden held the Nantucket Book with Columbia University professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi's book, “Palestinian Hundred Years' War: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017.'' He was seen by the press coming out of the works.
“I haven't talked to the Post (or the Times, for that matter), so this isn't for publication, but my reaction is that this is four years too late,” Halliday said. He told the Post while holding it in his hands.
The newspaper noted that it did not agree to the terms of Halliday's response being off the record or on the background.
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President Biden, left, leaves Nantucket Bookworks with his son Hunter Biden, grandson Beau, and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Friday. Mr. Biden is holding a book by Rashid Khalidi called “The Hundred Years' War in Palestine.'' (Mandel Gunn/AFP via Getty Images)
FOX News Digital reached out to Halliday and the White House.
of the book makes a statement “The modern history of Palestine is best understood in terms of a colonial war waged against indigenous peoples by various parties, forcing another people to abandon their homeland against their will. I guess.”
It is unclear whether Biden purchased the book or gave it to him.
Khalidi, who is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, called the first Trump administration Israel's “spokesman” and accused Hamas of killing about 1,200 people and kidnapping hostages in Israel on October 7, 2023. Afterwards, he criticized Israel for its humanitarian damage in Gaza. , including Americans.
“If you read the Israeli press, it's not clear at all what their political objective is: ethnic cleansing. That's not a political objective. That's what they do. “But what their political objectives are, as far as the Israeli press knows, is completely unclear to me,” he said in a November 2023 podcast, ” He told The Intercept.
President Biden spends time with his family on Nantucket Island. (Mandel Gunn/AFP via Getty Images)
Biden has repeatedly voiced support for Israel, but was criticized by Israel supporters earlier this year for placing conditions on U.S. aid to the Middle East ally and suspending shipments of heavy munitions to Israel. are.
Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian supporters who nickname Biden “Genocide Joe” have stepped up their criticism of him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip. According to the Post, Biden has criticized Israel behind closed doors.
The book was published in 2020, before President Trump brokered relations between Israel and five Muslim countries, and before he moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, which it captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. He criticized Israel's recognition of its annexation of the Golan Heights.
In his book, Khalidi wrote about Israel's alleged discriminatory policies against Palestinians.
“Conflicts between settlers and indigenous peoples in colonies can only end in one of three ways: by eliminating the complete conquest of indigenous peoples, as in North America; , but this is very rare or, as in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Ireland, the abandonment of colonial advantage in the context of compromise and reconciliation,” he wrote. .
President Biden holds a copy of Rashid Khalidi's “Hundred Years' War in Palestine'' as he leaves Nantucket Bookworks in Nantucket, Massachusetts. (Mandel Gunn/AFP via Getty Images)
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He also praised the first Palestinian intifada against Israel, which killed more than 2,000 people between 1987 and 1993, the newspaper wrote.
“The First Intifada was a remarkable example of popular resistance to oppression and can be considered the first merciless victory for the Palestinian people in a long colonial war that began in 1917,” the book says. .
