Anti-Israel Protests Disrupt Black Friday Shopping; Biden Exits Bookstore With Anti-Israel Tome

Even as anti-Israel protests disrupted Black Friday shopping — all over the United States and beyond — outgoing President Joe Biden was seen exiting a Nantucket bookstore with an anti-Israel volume clutched in his arms.

The protests were documented in several cities across the country — everywhere from Boston and New York City to Chicago and Seattle — where they blocked traffic on the streets and harassed shoppers in local malls.

“Bombs are dropping, why are you shopping?” protesters demanded as customers attempted to find their post-Thanksgiving deals in New York City’s Columbus Circle.

"Bombs are dropping, why are you shopping?”

Pro-Palestinian protesters harass Black Friday shoppers in NYC. pic.twitter.com/eAnoxWtraV

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 24, 2023

Some in the Palestinian crowd in NYC are now giving the middle finger to Black Friday shoppers: pic.twitter.com/D5VXbLl2WL

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 24, 2023

“Protesters blocked traffic for an hour on the Magnificent Mile on Black Friday to highlight the ongoing war in Gaza to holiday shoppers and to call for boycotts of major retailers that do business in Israel,” The Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Protesters blocked traffic for an hour on the Magnificent Mile on Black Friday to highlight the ongoing war in Gaza to holiday shoppers and to call for boycotts of major retailers that do business in Israel.https://t.co/2Au5CUdyB3

— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) November 30, 2024

“Protest at the Apple store in U Village, the store has now shut down on Black Friday and protestors say they’ve been trespassed and told if they don’t leave they will be arrested,” KOMO News reporter Lynnanne Nguyen reported.

Protest at the Apple store in U Village, the store has now shut down on Black Friday and protestors say they’ve been trespassed and told if they don’t leave they will be arrested @komonews pic.twitter.com/ZcgRTlpzjx

— Lynnanne Nguyen (@LynnanneNguyen) November 29, 2024

Protesters also hit the streets in Santa Monica, California.

Black Friday Boycott: Pro-Palestine Protesters Rally in Downtown Santa Monicahttps://t.co/8uAwpWVpX2 pic.twitter.com/Oj6jV9cGSR

— Santa Monica Closeup (@smcloseup) November 30, 2024

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“Happening now: Pro-Hamas protesters led by USPCN are marching in the streets of Chicago to disturb Black Friday shopping screaming about boycotting Apple while using their iPhones… Can’t make this up folks!” Angela Van Der Pluym posted.

Happening now: Pro-Hamas protesters led by USPCN are marching in the streets of Chicago to disturb Black Friday shopping screaming about boycotting Apple while using their iPhones…

Can't make this up folks! https://t.co/deiuJ14NH4 pic.twitter.com/W6shf5ObFI

— Angela Van Der Pluym (@anjewla90) November 29, 2024

Protesters also swarmed Boston’s Copley Mall.

BREAKING: Pro-Palestine protesters in Boston flood into one of Boston's largest malls, Copley Place, to disrupt Black Friday shopping. pic.twitter.com/clp2FiTPLS

— Stu (@thestustustudio) November 29, 2024

The protests also stretched outside the United States, reaching Montreal, Canada, and even London.

HAPPENING NOW ????
Oxford St, London????

Anti-Israel mob Youth Demand are blocking the roads and annoying everyone on Black Friday.

Yesterday the Anti-Israel lot tried to storm Downing Street and tomorrow they have another march planned through London.

It’s every bloody day now. pic.twitter.com/sKMcqcaMIo

— Kosher???????? (@koshercockney) November 29, 2024

Meanwhile, a vacationing President Biden was seen leaving Nantucket Bookworks clutching a copy of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017.”

The book’s author, Columbia University professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi, responded to the news by telling The New York Post, “I do not speak to the Post (or the Times for that matter), so this is not for publication, but my reaction is that this is 4 years too late.”

As The Post noted, the outlet “did not offer or agree to any terms conditioning that response as off the record or on background.”

Khalidi’s book posits that “the modern history of Palestine can best be understood in these terms: 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.”

Khalidi himself has also lashed out at President-elect Donald Trump, claiming that during his first term in the White House, he was effectively an Israeli “mouthpiece.”