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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is a 2020 book by
Rashid Khalidi, in which the author describes the
Zionist claim to
Palestine in the century spanning 1917–2017 as late
settler colonialism and an instrument of British and then later American
imperialism, doing so by focusing on a series of six major episodes the author characterizes as 'declarations of war' on the
Palestinian people. In the book, Khalidi—historian and Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at
Columbia University—argues that the struggle in Palestine should be understood, not as one between two equal national movements fighting over the same land, but rather as 'a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.' In addition to the more traditional sources and methods employed by a historian, the author in this book draws on
family archives, stories passed down through his family from generation to generation, and his own experiences, as an activist in various circles and as someone who has been involved in negotiations among Palestinian groups and with Israelis. ..."
Large bundles of personal possessions are carried on the head of Palestinian women and children flee the Israeli offensive that established the state of Israeli in 1948.
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