The mystery behind Biden’s anti-Israel book purchase
White House spokesman John Kirby: ‘It doesn’t surprise me that he would go into a bookstore and get a book of history, particularly about the Middle East, to try to keep learning’

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US President Joe Biden (L) walks out of Nantucket Bookworks with son Hunter Biden, grandson Beau and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on November 29, 2024. Biden holds the book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi.
Last Friday, a photographer captured President Joe Biden leaving a Nantucket, Mass., bookstore holding a copy of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, a controversial book by the Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi, an anti-Israel academic who recently retired from...