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“The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine”

Monday, October 14, 2024
5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
“The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine”
A talk with Rashid Khalidi, America's foremost scholar of Palestine

Khalidi's talk will be followed by a discussion with Penn State professors Alex Lubin and Michelle Campos.

 

Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.

Khalidi, Rashid. “The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017.” Macmillan Publishers. Accessed September 30, 2024.

 

Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library

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