Rashid Khalidi On the Colonial Reality of the Present Genocidal War in Gaza And Its Ongoing Impact on the Palestinians in Palestine, Israel, the United States and the Rest Of the World

"This Is a Colonial War": Historian Rashid Khalidi on Israel, Gaza & the Future of Palestine

Democracy Now!

December 20, 2023

Historian Rashid Khalidi discusses the pending United Nations Security Council vote on suspending fighting in Gaza to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, and the future of Palestine. The Biden administration reportedly delayed the U.N. vote and pushed other countries to water down the language. This comes as Israel and Hamas leaders have signaled they are open to another truce and hostage exchange. Israel's relentless assault on Gaza has now killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians and displaced over 90% of the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people. "The situation in Gaza is unspeakable," says Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. "We are talking about traumatic events that are going to scar generations to come." 

 

He also discusses how the Gaza war risks sparking a regional conflict, ways to pressure Israel, and how U.S. leaders are prompting anger from "whole generations" in the Arab world and beyond. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. 

 

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Historian, Teacher, and Scholar Rashid Khalidi On The Real History of Palestine And What It Tells Us About the Current Israel-Hamas War in Gaza and the West Bank today and What It Means

The 100 year war on Palestine w/Rashid Khalidi

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All too often, the question of Palestine is framed as an eternal conflict arising from ancient ethnic or religious hatreds, with questions regarding the origins of the state of Israel and the legitimacy of land claims reduced to matters of scriptural interpretation. Such views entirely omit the actual history of Palestine and the Zionist movement. The colonization of Palestine, a process still playing out before our eyes to this day, has definite historical origins at the turn of the 20th century, when Zionism was born and the encroachment of Palestinian land began. Historian Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundreds' Year War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a look into this essential history, and how it can help us frame Israel's present war on Gaza. Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and the author of several books. 

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rashid Khalidi & Michelle Alexander in Conversation on Palestine

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rashid Khalidi & Michelle Alexander in Conversation on Palestine at the Palestine Festival of Literature

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November 4, 2023

On November 1st the Palestine Festival of Literature staged a free, public event at the Union Theological Seminary in New York titled: But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience. Professor Rashid Khalidi in conversation with National Book Award winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates. Michelle Alexander, the acclaimed civil rights lawyer and authors of The New Jim Crow, introduced the evening and moderated the conversation. Palestinian poet, activist and journalist, Mohammed El-Kurd opened the evening. Pulitzer Prize–winning Mojave poet, Natalie Diaz, performed three works of poetry. A message was read out from Rabbis Brant Rosen and Alissa Wise, Co-Chairs of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council. The scholar and lawyer, Noura Erakat, spoke on the urgency of the moment. The Rev Dr Raschaad Hoggard read extracts of the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s Beyond Vietnam speech.