Rashid Khalidi

Professor Rashid Khalidi   (historian, academic)
Born	18 November 1948
Alma mater	Yale University, Oxford University
Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East

Rashid Ismail Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He served as editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies from 2002 until 2020, when he became co-editor with Sherene Seikaly.

Rashid Khalidi has authored a number of books, including "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" and "Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness". He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and the University of Chicago.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Rashid Khalidi has written that the establishment of the state of Israel resulted in "the uprooting of the world's oldest and most secure Jewish communities, which had found in the Arab lands a tolerance that, albeit imperfect, was nonexistent in the often genocidal, Jew-hating Christian West." Regarding the proposed two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Khalidi has written that "the now universally applauded two-state solution faces the juggernaut of Israel's actions in the occupied territories over more than forty years, actions that have been expressly designed to make its realisation in any meaningful form impossible." However, Khalidi also noted that "there are also flaws in the alternatives, grouped under the rubric of the one-state solution".

He supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Regarding American support for Israel, Prof. Khalidi stated in an interview, "every other single place on the face of the earth is in support of the Palestinians, yet all of them together aren't a hill of beans compared to the United States and Israel, because the United States and Israel can basically do anything they please. They are the world superpower, they are the regional superpower."

Brilliant speech

Israeli invasion of Gaza: “Students have been on the right side of history at Columbia and other universities"

In May 2024, during US student protests against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, Professor Rashid Khalidi made a brilliant speech outside Columbia University castigating its president Minouche Shafik and praising the students. Steven Donziger posted:

This brilliant speech yesterday by a Columbia University professor on the cowardice of the university administration in calling in police to arrest students will be cited throughout history – and will inspire generations of students for decades to come.

Columbia still on lockdown two days later.

Published works

• British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906–1914. Ithaca Press for St. Antony's College, 1980.
• Palestine and the Gulf (Co-editor), Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982.
• Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War. Columbia University Press, 1986.
• The Origins of Arab Nationalism (Co-editor), Columbia University Press, 1991.
• Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 1997.
• The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948
• Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2004.
• The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
• Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2009.
• Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2013. ISBN 978-08070-4475-9
• The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017,

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