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December 5, 2024

A Personal Encounter with Rashid Khalidi, Whose Book the President Recently Displayed

Dean of the pseudo-scholars.

While vacationing in Nantucket last week, Joe Biden was photographed walking out of a bookstore holding The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017. This book is the work of the retired academic and former PLO spokesman (a position he held long before the group made a pretense of forsaking terrorism) Rashid Khalidi, one of the deans of anti-Israel pseudo-scholarship. Jonathan Schanzer describes meeting Khalidi in February 2001, while searching for a dissertation adviser:

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