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Joe Biden spotted with anti-Israel book while shopping on Black Friday

November 30, 2024 | | Print Article

Joe Biden spent the last Black Friday of his presidency doing some shopping in Nantucket and was spotted toting a controversial anti-Israel book, sparking social media outrage.

The outgoing leader and his family were spending the Thanksgiving holidays on the swanky Massachusetts island where they’ve been holed up at the home of billionaire David Rubenstein and got out for a tour of the local shops on the traditional shopping day.

Onlookers were surprised to see that the book that the geriatric Democrat was holding as he left Nantucket Bookworks was a copy of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017,” a highly biased account of the Israel-Palestine conflict that portrays Israel as an oppressive apartheid state.

Written by Professor Emeritus Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University – a hotbed of antisemitism – the book makes the case that “the modern history of Palestine can best be understood in these terms: as a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.”

A rabid critic of Israel, the author has described the first Donald J. Trump administration as a “mouthpiece” for Israel and has claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led “the most extreme government” in the Jewish democracy’s history. He has also accused Israel of carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza.

“Trump’s people abandoned even the shabby old pretense at impartiality. With this plan, the United States ceased to be ‘Israel’s lawyer,’ becoming instead the mouthpiece of the most extreme government in Israel’s history,” he wrote.

Khalidi remarked on “Genocide Joe” holding a copy of his explosive book.

“I do not speak to the Post (or the Times for that matter), so this is not for publication, but my reaction is that this is 4 years too late,” he told the New York Post.

It’s not clear whether Biden purchased the book or if it was presented to him as a gift.

X users reacted to Biden’s new book.

“It’s perfectly unclear, reading the Israeli press, what their political objective is. I mean, ethnic cleansing. That’s not a political objective. They’re doing that. They’re driving the population of the Northern Gaza Strip into the Southern Gaza Strip. But what their political objective is, is, to me, entirely unclear, in the writings of, as far as one can tell, from the Israeli press,” Khalidi said during a November 2023 podcast.

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