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Saturday, November 30, 2024
Biden spotted leaving bookstore holding ‘The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine’
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US President Joe Biden was spotted yesterday leaving a bookstore in Nantucket, Massachusetts holding Arab-American academic Rashid Khalidi’s “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.”
The book presents itself as “a history of settler colonialism and resistance from 1917 to 2017.”
Khalidi has argued that Palestinians living under Israeli military rule have a legal right to resistance and that supporters of Israel use McCarthyite tactics to silence debate in America.
Asked by the New York Post his thoughts on Biden picking up his book, Khalidi responds that it was “four years too late.”
Many Arab Americans who typically voted for Democratic candidates in presidential elections shifted their support to Donald Trump in this month’s election due to anger over Biden’s support for Israel in the war against Hamas.
