Rashid Khalidi: The Ongoing Nakba & US Complicity

Last Born In The Wilderness

This is a segment of 355 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Ongoing Nakba: The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/rashid-khalidi Purchase a copy of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine at Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3GTaCe Professor and historian Rashid Khalidi joins me to discuss his book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Professor Khalidi weaves his multigenerational familial roots to historic Palestine with decades of academic scholarship to present a narrative that plainly addresses the so-called Israel-Palestine conflict for what it is. With full, unyielding participation, the government of the United States is aiding the State of Israel in its months’ long bombardment of the population of Gaza, and stepping up its already horrific treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories. As of the recording of this introduction, the official death toll in Gaza has reached over 20,000 according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, with over 8,000 described as “missing,” since the IDF’s campaign began following the events of October 7th. While this campaign is extraordinary, even compared to previous military incursions into Gaza, it is part of a larger project that has been ongoing for over a century. Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. He is past President of the Middle East Studies Association, and the co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. Khalidi is the author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, 2020, winner of the 2020 MEMO Book Award; Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, 2013, winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award and the MEMO Book Award; Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East, 2009; The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, 2006, winner of the 2007 Arab American National Museum Book Award; Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East, 2004; Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, 1997, winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Prize, new edition, 2010; Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War, 1986, new edition, 2014; and British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914, 1980. He is the co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf, 1982, The Origins of Arab Nationalism, 1991, and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City, 2020, and has written over 110 scholarly articles. WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast SUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com BOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call [phone] or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior