Biden seen holding anti-Israel book during Black Friday shopping excursion

President Biden on Friday got a copy of a book that explained Israel as a colonial power in the face of Palestinian resistance regardless of his repetitive assistance for the Jewish state.

Biden was identified by the press leaving Nantucket Bookworks holding a copy of “The A Century’ War on Palestine: A History of Inhabitant Manifest Destiny and Resistance, 1917-2017” by Columbia University teacher emeritus Rashid Khalidi, the New york city Post reported.

” I do not speak with the Post (or the Times for that matter), so this is not for publication, however my response is that this is 4 years too late,” Khalidi informed the Post of Biden holding his book.

The paper noted it did not consent to any terms conditioning Khalidi’s action as off the record or on background.

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Fox News Digital has actually connected to Khalidi and the White Home.

The book argues that “the modern-day history of Palestine can best be comprehended in these terms: as a colonial war waged versus the native population, by a range of celebrations, to require them to relinquish their homeland to another individuals versus their will.”

It was unclear if Biden acquired the book or if it was provided to him.

Khalidi, who is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, called the very first Trump administration a “mouth piece” for Israel and has actually slammed Israel over the humanitarian toll in Gaza after Hamas eliminated about 1,200 individuals inside Israel Oct. 7, 2023, in addition to kidnapping captives, consisting of Americans.

” It’s completely uncertain, checking out the Israeli press, what their political goal is. I suggest, ethnic cleaning. That’s not a political goal. They’re doing that. They’re driving the population of the Northern Gaza Strip into the Southern Gaza Strip. However what their political goal is, is, to me, completely uncertain, in the works of, as far as one can inform, from the Israeli press,” he stated on the “Obstructed” podcast in November 2023.

President Biden with his household on Nantucket Island. ( Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Images)

Biden has actually consistently stated his assistance for Israel however has actually been slammed by Israeli advocates for putting conditions on U.S. help to the Middle East ally and stopping briefly deliveries of heavy munitions to Israel previously this year.

On the other hand, pro-Palestinian advocates, who nicknamed Biden “Genocide Joe,” have actually progressively slammed him and Netanyahu over civilian casualties in Gaza. Biden has likewise supposedly slammed his Israeli equivalent behind closed doors, the Post reported.

The book, released in 2020 before Trump brokered relationships in between Israel and 5 Muslim nations, slammed Trump for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and acknowledging Israel’s addition of the Golan Heights, which it recorded from Syria throughout the 1967 Six-Day war.

In the book, Khalidi blogged about Israel’s supposed prejudiced policies versus Palestinians.

” Settler-colonial conflicts with native individuals have actually just ended in among 3 methods: with the removal of complete subjugation of the native population, as in The United States and Canada; with the defeat and expulsion of the colonizer, as in Algeria, which is exceptionally uncommon; or with the desertion of colonial supremacy, in the context of compromise and reconciliation, as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Ireland,” he composed.

President Biden holds the book “The A century’ War on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi as he goes out of Nantucket Bookworks in Nantucket, Mass. ( Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Images)

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He likewise applauded the very first intifada by Palestinians versus Israel, which took place from 1987 to 1993 and left more than 2,000 individuals dead, the Post composed.

” The First Intifada was an exceptional example of popular resistance versus injustice and can be thought about as being the very first straight-out success for the Palestinians in the long colonial war that started in 1917,” the book states.