… offered for sale on land once owned by Native Americans who were dispossessed by settler colonialism. From the window of the Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Where has the author, Rashid Khalidi, settled? Wikipedia says he’s a professor at Columbia, so presumably he is living on what was, until recently, Native American land (in case you want to argue that Manhattan was purchased, that’s also true of much land in present-day Israel).
I know you don’t want to ruin the book for us, Phil, but why don’t you tell us what he has to say about the Jews kicked out of Arab lands who are about equivalent in number to the displaced Palestinians & were forced to emigrate to Israel? Does he present a convincing case that the Jews who had lived in Baghdad since say 570 BCE and were booted in the 20th century should receive reparations for the property that was taken from them?