reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nKhalidi, who is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, has referred to the first Trump administration as a \u201cmouthpiece\u201d for Israel and has criticized Israel for the humanitarian impact in Gaza following the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. The attack resulted in the deaths of approximately 1,200 people inside Israel and the kidnapping of hostages, including Americans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s perfectly unclear, reading the Israeli press, what their political objective is. I mean, ethnic cleansing. That\u2019s not a political objective. They\u2019re doing that. They\u2019re 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,\u201d he said on the \u201cIntercepted\u201d podcast in November 2023.<\/p>\n
Fighters from the group Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israeli communities in October 2023, killing more than 1,300 unarmed civilians. Israel responded by invading Gaza and, more recently, striking Hezbollah targets in neighboring Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Biden has consistently expressed support for Israel but has faced criticism from Israeli advocates for imposing conditions on U.S. aid to the ally and for pausing shipments of heavy munitions to Israel earlier this year, Fox noted.<\/p>\n
At the same time, pro-Palestinian activists, who have dubbed Biden \u201cGenocide Joe,\u201d have increasingly criticized both him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the civilian casualties in Gaza. Biden has also reportedly expressed frustrations with Netanyahu in private, according to the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\nThe book Biden was seen holding,\u00a0published in 2020, predates the Trump administration\u2019s brokering of ties between Israel and five Muslim-majority nations. It criticizes Trump for relocating the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and for recognizing Israel\u2019s annexation of the Golan Heights, captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.<\/p>\n
In the book, Khalidi also highlights Israel\u2019s alleged discriminatory policies toward Palestinians.<\/p>\n
\u201cSettler-colonial confrontations with indigenous peoples have only ended in one of three ways: with the elimination of full subjugation of the native population, as in North America; with the defeat and expulsion of the colonizer, as in Algeria, which is extremely rare; or with the abandonment of colonial supremacy, in the context of compromise and reconciliation, as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Ireland,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
He also hailed the first intifada by Palestinians against Israel, which occurred from 1987 to 1993 and left more than 2,000 people dead, noted The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe First Intifada was an outstanding example of popular resistance against oppression and can be considered as being the first unmitigated victory for the Palestinians in the long colonial war that began in 1917,\u201d the book says.<\/p>\n