Jun 25, 2022 • 52M

Bonus - A History of Modern Palestine, Ep. 4 w/ Rashid Khalidi

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American Prestige
A podcast from Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison that provides listeners with everything they need to know about what’s going on in the world.
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Danny and Derek welcome back Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, to discuss his book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. In this fourth episode, they focus on the 1947 UN partition plan and outbreak of war, discussing the UN Special Committee On Palestine (UNSCOP), U.K. General Orde Wingate, the training and tactics of Zionist militias, the historiography of Plan Dalet and the beginning of the Nakba, and more.  

Grab a copy of Professor Khalidi's book here: https://bit.ly/3LNDLJV

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