Biden seen holding anti-Israel book during Black Friday shopping excursion

President Biden connected Friday picked up a transcript of a publication that described Israel arsenic a assemblage powerfulness successful the look of Palestinian absorption contempt his repeated enactment for the Jewish state. 

Biden was spotted by the property leaving Nantucket Bookworks holding a transcript of "The Hundred Years’ War connected Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017" by Columbia University prof emeritus Rashid Khalidi, the New York Post reported. 

"I bash not talk to the Post (or the Times for that matter), truthful this is not for publication, but my absorption is that this is 4 years excessively late," Khalidi told the Post of Biden holding his book. 

The paper noted it did not hold to immoderate presumption conditioning Khalidi's response arsenic disconnected the grounds oregon connected background.

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President Biden, left, walks retired of Nantucket Bookworks with lad Hunter Biden, grandson Beau and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden successful Nantucket, Mass., Friday. Biden holds the publication "The Hundred Years' War connected Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi.  (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Khalidi and the White House.

The book argues that "the modern past of Palestine tin champion beryllium understood successful these terms: arsenic a assemblage warfare waged against the indigenous population, by a assortment of parties, to unit them to relinquish their homeland to different radical against their will." 

It was not wide if Biden purchased the publication oregon if it was fixed to him. 

Khalidi, who is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, called the archetypal Trump medication a "mouthpiece" for Israel and has criticized Israel implicit the humanitarian toll successful Gaza aft Hamas killed astir 1,200 radical wrong Israel Oct. 7, 2023, successful summation to kidnapping hostages, including Americans. 

"It’s perfectly unclear, speechmaking the Israeli press, what their governmental nonsubjective is. I mean, taste cleansing. That’s not a governmental objective. They’re doing that. They’re driving the colonisation of the Northern Gaza Strip into the Southern Gaza Strip. But what their governmental nonsubjective is, is, to me, wholly unclear, successful the writings of, arsenic acold arsenic 1 tin tell, from the Israeli press," helium said connected the "Intercepted" podcast successful November 2023.

President Biden with his household connected Nantucket Island.  (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden has repeatedly declared his enactment for Israel but has been criticized by Israeli supporters for putting conditions connected U.S. assistance to the Middle East state and pausing shipments of dense munitions to Israel earlier this year.

Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian supporters, who nicknamed Biden "Genocide Joe," person progressively criticized him and Netanyahu implicit civilian casualties successful Gaza. Biden has besides reportedly criticized his Israeli counterpart down closed doors, the Post reported. 

The book, published successful 2020 before Trump brokered relationships betwixt Israel and 5 Muslim countries, criticized Trump for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day war. 

In the book, Khalidi wrote astir Israel's alleged discriminatory policies against Palestinians.

"Settler-colonial confrontations with indigenous peoples person lone ended successful 1 of 3 ways: with the elimination of afloat subjugation of the autochthonal population, arsenic successful North America; with the decision and expulsion of the colonizer, arsenic successful Algeria, which is highly rare; oregon with the abandonment of assemblage supremacy, successful the discourse of compromise and reconciliation, arsenic successful South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Ireland," helium wrote.

President Biden holds the publication "The Hundred Years' War connected Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi arsenic helium walks retired of Nantucket Bookworks successful Nantucket, Mass. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

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He besides praised the first intifada by Palestinians against Israel, which occurred from 1987 to 1993 and near much than 2,000 radical dead, the Post wrote. 

"The First Intifada was an outstanding illustration of fashionable absorption against oppression and tin beryllium considered arsenic being the archetypal unmitigated triumph for the Palestinians successful the agelong assemblage warfare that began successful 1917," the publication says.