Rashid Khalidi, a leading historian of the Palestinian national movement, weaves his family history into a century of the Palestinian national struggle against Israel and international forces seeking to thwart self-determination in his new book, The 100 Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017.
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Hi, I have listened to your program on many occasions.
Putting Rashid Khalidi on with moderators who supported the professor’s fictionized stories was insulting to the listeners.
Perhaps you might consider an author like Caroline Glick, moderate Daniel Gordis, or Deborah Lipstadt, to correct the professor’s undocumented fictionized arguments.
Israel and its former name, Palestine (plagiarized from the Jews), was the home for three thousand years to indigenous Jews as opposed to the wondering of the
Arabs.
The creation of nations, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, was never mentioned.
A classic example was Transjordan, land that initially was to be part of the Jewish Mandate. but was seeded to the “faux king” Hussaini to satisfy his “jealousy” of his brothers who received, by the Brits, Saudi Arabia “more faux kings”).
All of this debate for recognition, not mentioned, was not the Arab nomads, but the greed for oil and the hatred of Jewish rejection of Islam, both going hand in hand.
I have heard Khalidi’s rant for years, along with Said and his propaganda.
They are experts in spreading the myth and giving credibility to the faux palestinians by bigotry toward Jews and again, the greed for oil.
I am proud to say, as a graduate of Columbia University(class of 1962) that I will NEVER give money to the University as long as he, like Putin (who supports Iran), is intended to destroy the only Jewish democratic country in the Middle East.
Just look at the destruction in Gaza, PLO, Lebanon, and Yemen by the rabid purveyors of hatred and anti-Semitism taught in today’s universities under the guise of faux history.
Who is a partner for peace, your moderates failed the test?
AM YISRAEL CHAI,
ALAN NATHAN CAHN
I take exception to some of Rashi Khalidi’s statements and wonder why the moderators did not challenge him more.
He referred to Zionism as “the last gasp of White European settler colonization”. He referred to colonization as an extension of the “mother country” and that in the case of Zionism, there was no “Mother Country”. However:
1. Zionists were not national entities, like the British, looking to extend their reach in the world. Those colonizers were typically looking for resources to bring home.
2. For Zionists, the “Mother Country” was in fact Zion / that which is now called Israel. DNA nowadays does confirm that the Jewish people are indigenous to that land.
3. So those Zionists coming to what was then called Palestine, now Israel were returning, coming back rather than developing “settler colonies”. They were leaving countries where they were not welcome, were persecuted, and returning to their land of origin. Of course there always have been Jews in Israel. This is well documented.
4. re “white European Settlers”- Jews in Europe, Russian Empire (and USSR), and mid-east countries were considered outsiders, non-white, not mainstream “white Europeans” and were persecuted. This was also true in many other countries (except maybe India) where Jews of all colors were seen as second class citizens, and in fact 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries in 1948. Jews come in a spectrum of colors.
5. Mr. Khalidi states that more Jews went to the USA than to Palestine early in the last century. That is true but is probably due more to available transportation (railroad, shipping) and advertising of same than to desiring one place over the other.
6. And at about 15:00 of the interview, Mr. Khalidi contradicts himself when he refers to Israel as the “ancestral home” of the Jews.
6. I am wondering if Mr. Khalidi, who grew up in New York City and lived in New York City his whole life and raised his family in New York City, would be willing to live in Gaza or the West Bank. While he discusses engagement of Israelis and Palestinians and mentions “From the River to the Sea” (strong code language), I hear nothing from him criticizing the current brutal entities governing those areas.