The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of the Palestinian struggle, told through six turning points and enriched by the author's own family archive across a century.
Rashid Khalidi frames the past century in Palestine not as a tragic conflict between equals but as a colonial war waged against an indigenous people — one declared in 1917 with the Balfour Declaration and sustained since by successive great powers. Organized around six “declarations of war,” from 1917 through the assaults on Gaza, the book combines archival scholarship with something rarer in academic history: the lived record of the Khalidi family, one of Jerusalem’s oldest, whose members witnessed and participated in the events described.
The result is at once a rigorous synthesis and a personal testimony. Widely hailed as essential reading, it has become the standard single-volume history of the Palestinian national struggle for general readers.
About the author
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of Palestinian Identity, The Iron Cage, and Brokers of Deceit, among other works. He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Details
- Published by Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt), 2020
- ISBN 9781627798556
The edition
Support a local independent bookseller or your library first. The publisher’s page is given for the edition and its details.
Connected in the archive
14 connected records14 records elsewhere in the archive are linked to this one, each by a piece of evidence you can read below.
named in this record — 5 records
One record names the other. A pointer for reading, not a claim that they belong to each other.
- Jerusalemالقدس
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Organized around six "declarations of war," from 1917 through the assaults on Gaza, the book combines archival scholarship with something rarer in academic history: the lived record of the Khalidi family, one of Jerusalem's oldest, whose members witnessed and participated in the events described.
- Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of Palestinian Identity, The Iron Cage, and Brokers of Deceit, among other works.
- Rashid Khalidiرشيد خالدي
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Rashid Khalidi frames the past century in Palestine not as a tragic conflict between equals but as a colonial war waged against an indigenous people — one declared in 1917 with the Balfour Declaration and sustained since by successive great powers.
- The Balfour Declaration
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Rashid Khalidi frames the past century in Palestine not as a tragic conflict between equals but as a colonial war waged against an indigenous people — one declared in 1917 with the Balfour Declaration and sustained since by successive great powers.
- The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of Palestinian Identity, The Iron Cage, and Brokers of Deceit, among other works.
names this record — 2 records
One record names the other. A pointer for reading, not a claim that they belong to each other.
- Settler Colonialism
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: The framework has since become central to Palestinian historiography, most prominently in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, which reads the period from the Balfour Declaration onward as a settler-colonial war rather than a communal conflict between two symmetrical nationalisms.
- The Khalidi familyالخالدي
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: - Rashid Khalidi (b. 1948) — historian, Edward Said Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, author of Palestinian Identity and The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.
on a related subject — 7 records
Filed near each other — the same Mandate district, or the same uncommon subject tags.
- A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Shared tags: "history", "settler colonialism".
- Adel Mannaعادل مناع
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "history".
- Fayez Sayeghفايز صايغ
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "settler colonialism".
- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "history".
- Ten Myths About Israel
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "history".
- The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "history".
- and 1 more
Cite this page
Every claim above carries its sources — citation is the point.
- Chicago
“The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017.” Library, FALASTEEN.AI. Accessed 22 August 2026. https://falasteen.ai/library/the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine/.- MLA
“The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017.” Library, FALASTEEN.AI, 2026, https://falasteen.ai/library/the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine/. Accessed 22 August 2026.- BibTeX
@misc{falasteen-the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine, title = {The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/library/the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine/}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }