Rashid Khalidi's False Narrative of Israeli History

Rashid Khalidi’s False Narrative of Israeli History

Rashid Khalidi

Former PLO spokesman and Columbia University historian Rashid Khalidi recently offered an audience in Washington, D.C., a false version of Israeli history in which the U.S. and Israel share the blame for the failure of numerous attempts to reach a permanent peace with the Palestinians. Andrew Harrod reported on Khalidi’s lecture for Campus Watch in an article published at FrontPage Magazine:

Palestinian-American Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi addressed America’s role in the Arab-Israeli peace processon April 17, 2014, at Washington, DC’s Jerusalem Fund, a pro-Palestinian think tank. Describing Israel’s “entirely false narrative” into which “we have all been brainwashed,” Khalidi revealed his own myopia before an audience of about forty mostly likeminded, middle-aged people.

John Halaka‘s “Portraits of Denial and Despair” photo exhibit currently displayed in Jerusalem Fund hallways set a worrying ambience for Khalidi. Amidst photo captions damning an Israeli “settler colonial state,” one photo montage shows Yasser Arafat’s former press secretary, Raeda Taha. She grew up “in the shadow of a martyr,” a caption declares, a “symbol of the national struggle,” namely her pictured terrorist father Ali Taha, “killed in a hijacking operation he commanded.”

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.