In denying Israel’s right to respond, Khalidi also denies Palestinians’ ability to make moral, constructive choices for themselves.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/11/30/rashid-khalidi-israel-had-no-right-to-respond-militarily-to-october-7-terror-attack/

Khalidi is the Edward Said of Modern Arab Studies, a chair named after the 20th century’s most prominent and influential Palestinian intellectual, whose writings on post-colonial theory have become the orthodoxy of the academic left.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/11/30/rashid-khalidi-israel-had-no-right-to-respond-militarily-to-october-7-terror-attack/

“This pressure being put on Palestinians — it just assumes that they’re insignificant and they will tolerate any degree of humiliation, and that’s just not true,” Rashid Khalidi, the Columbia University historian, says.

Source: https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23910641/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestine-explainer