Omer talks with Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, about the war in Gaza, the history of Palestine and Israel, Zionism, the notion of Western guilt, Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump, the disconnect between political elites and the public, and what ordinary people can do to make their voices heard.

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, by Rashid Khalidi

Poems, by Mahmoud Darwish

Plays and Novels, by Ghassan Kanafani

Justice For Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, by Noura Erakat

Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance, by Tareq Baconi

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