Tag Archives: Rashid Khalidi

Gaza errors (or lies)

Henry Siegman, who must spend every waking hour hating Israel, has a piece in the London Review of Books, which is never complete without an Israel-bashing tirade. This one is called simply “Israel’s Lies.” Siegman spends a lot of time … Continue reading

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Shrinking Gaza

Last week, I was listening to a podcast of an interview with Professor Rashid Khalidi on a Chicago public radio station. I had downloaded it in great anticipation, and it got off to a great start. Khalidi, a Palestinian-American, is the … Continue reading

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Khalidi: former PLO official

A reader sends me yet another piece of contemporary evidence from the mainstream U.S. media for Rashid Khalidi’s PLO connection, to add to the collection I assembled at the end of October. This one appears in the Los Angeles Times … Continue reading

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Settlers from Brooklyn

Question for Christopher Hitchens: Were Rashid Khalidi to forgo the familiar pleasures and privileges of Columbia University for the rigors of Jerusalem, wouldn’t he also be a settler from Brooklyn? Continue reading

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Khalidi-PLO, for email subscribers

This short post is to alert rss and email subscribers (via Feedburner) that there are several important updates to my earlier post, “Khalidi of the PLO.” One brings a passage from a 1978 New York Times report from Beirut, noting … Continue reading

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