The Hundred Years' War on Palestine | Rashid Khalidi

Ottoman History Podcast

E553 | In this episode, Rashid Khalidi discusses his latest book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, where he defines Zionism not only as a nationalist project in conflict with the Palestinian one, but also a settler colonial project supported by the British and later the American imperialism. We begin in the late Ottoman period as Khalidi examines the familiar episodes and key turning points, which he characterizes as declaratations of war and wagings of war on Palestinians. We discuss the 1917 Balfour declaration and the communal conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine that led to the general strike and Arab revolt of 1936. The 1948 war, the Palestinian Nakba, and the creation of the State of Israel provide the backdrop for Cold War period conflicts, the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the outbreak of the First Intifada, which culminated in the Oslo Accords of 1993-95. Khalidi reflects on his experiences with the failures of Oslo, which set the stage for the rise of Hamas in Gaza and periodic sieges that have continued to the present day. We conclude with a consideration of the current war, situating the unprecedented civilian toll of both the attacks by Hamas in Israel and the subsequent Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip within Khalidi's larger narrative of more than a century of war on Palestine. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/khalidi.html Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of eight books, including, most recently, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (2020). He also served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators during peace talks in the 1990s. Zeinab Azarbadegan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the intersection of inter-imperial relations and history of science, technology, and medicine, in nineteenth century Ottoman Iraq CREDITS Episode No. 553 Release Date: 19 November 2023 Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Chris Gratien Sound Elements: Life for Arabs and Jews in the British Mandated territory (1936); Yasser Arafat: Extrait du discours devant l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU, le 13 novembre 1974; Bisan Owda (wizard_bisan1) on Instagram Reading list and images available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/khalidi.html