Thread by @HusseinAboubak

Meet the maker of Zionist "Settler Colonialism" Libel
Perhaps no man ever outdid Fayez Sayegh (1922) in contributing to the global war to delegitimize Israel and the Jewish State. Sayegh was the first to apply Sartre's critique of racism and neocolonialism to Israel and argued /1

that what applied to Algeria, Congo & Vietnam also applied to Israel. He was also the principal author of the 1975 UN Zionism is racism resolution. Sayegh, born in Syria to a Presbyterian minister, started his active life by joining the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, a Naizi /2

inspired pan-Syrian movement that was established in 1932 by Antoun Sa'ada, a Lebanese Christian Orthodox who insisted on being called Al Za'iem, the Arabic translation of Der Fuhrer. In his book Greater Syria, Daniel Pipes maintained that Sa'ada provided the model for all /3

nationalist movements of all Levant. He was fluent in German and held a deep admiration for Germany and his movement, including its flag, was largely imitative of Nazism with colored shirts, slogans, and militias. His intellectual edifice is built on the organic union /4

between soil and nation that he took back to pre-Islamic pagan origins, similar to Nazi paganism, locked in an eternal struggle and a violent Hegelian march in history. The SSNP valorized violence as a regenerative force in the service of mystical nationalism. His antisemitic /5

theories largely echoed those of Europe, constantly referring back to a mythological foundation in the Torah and the Talmud to Jewish villainy that created a Jewish race that is essentially always separate and can not become anything else.
Fayez Sayegh fell in love with the /6

SSNP, joined it in 1938, and became its rep in the American University of Beirut. In the same year Sa'ada left to Brazil which gave Sayegh the opportunity to shine and by 1943 he become one of the most prominent names in newborn Lebanon. In 1944 he became the SSNP's executive /7

for culture and media. He quickly became the man who defined the intellectual lines, the message, and the doctrines of the SNNP. On July 20, 1946 he published a memo about the "danger of Zionism on civilization and the soul," in which he expounded on his typically antisemitic /8

ideas "the Jewish people believe they are the chosen people... so it self-segregated... to live in superiority and believing they are the essence of all progress and that other nations are only a mean to be used to their prosperity... this is the Jewish psyche: a sense of /9

destiny, a sense of superiority... and enslaving the world for the goals of Jews. This psyche creates a certain Jewish bond, a mix of violent racial and religious bond... such a black and complex psyche..."
In 1947 Sa'ada finally returned to then Lebanon and kicked Sayegh /10

out of the party due to his "deviation" towards existentialism, a philosophy for the individual and not the nation. Sayegh then became a major existentialist and the biggest Arab authority on existentialism. With the massive assault carried by the international Left against /11

the US in the 1950s, Sayegh became one of the major nodes that tied the new pan-Arab radicalism to the international Left and helped to transform Nazi-inspired "valorized violence as a regenerative force in the service of mystical nationalism" into Fanon's redemptive /12

violence of liberation. In 1950 he got his PhD from Georgetown and later taught at Yale, Princeton, and Stanford. He also worked for the UN in which he was responsible for the 1975 Zionism is racism resolution. But perhaps Sayegh's lasting influence was his booklet Zionist /13

Colonialism in Palestine (1965) which he wrote during working for Stanford. This booklet, published by the PLO then translated to a dozen of languages and distributed globally by Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO), was the birth moment of the global cause for /14

Palestine. The booklet hit all the major notes played by the international Left, racial supremacy, segregation, exclusion, civil rights, emancipation, anti-capitalism, self-defense, human rights, resistance. It invoked Algeria, African Americans, Congo, and Vietnam and used /15

existentialist vogue ideas of otherness. It was Sayegh who inserted Palestine into the intellectual makeup and the anti-Western canon of the international Left. Major figures of the Left, such as Maxime Rhodisnson, would only continue Sayegh's work.The story of Fayez Sayegh is/16

only one example of a story rarely told about the history of the modern ME, of how the most violent and pathological European reactions to the Enlightenment formed the basis of the modern makeup of the ME, with a large contribution by Levant Christians. How the Nazi and /17

fascist foundation morphed into the Arab Left that had complete cultural hegemony in the 50s and 60s, endorsed by the international Left of a pathological Western movement of cultural revolution before it then morphed into an Islamic phase. Indeed many of Sayegh's peers of /18

Arab intellectuals would convert from the Arab left to Islamism in the late 70s. Its a story of Western institutions and intellectuals that funded, supported, and aided all of this. It's a story about the jihad before jihad. What started in Europe in the 19th century didn't /19

end, it's still with us today, waves of pathology and madness that went very global very early on. The progressive wave, tha anti-Zionism, the gender bs, are just the latest iteration of this. ITS THE LEFT

And dare I say that this important story is important not just because its about Arabs, Israel, and antisemitism but because it's about a global war? Wasn't the global offensive of Palestine in the 1960s a part of a global offensive?

Isn't it a part of a global offensive now?

PS: There is A LOT of details left out from this. There was a WWII context and then a Cold War context to all of this. The details of how this was an interconnected global war that is continuing till today would fill volumes.

And in defense of my modest family in Egypt with all their messed-up problems, modern mainstream Islam is mostly a product of this long-drawn process.

And you can imagine how much work this took, is taking, and will take to put down in a full tight cohesive argument to try and reorient the entire way the modern history of the ME is seen. A deep dive into the intellectual history of whole worlds from the 18th century until today

And the reason you will not find anything about this coming from academia, is that academia today is the left. The Gramscian march through the institutions succeeded and the left has complete culture hegemony today. I also failed to mention that till today in Arab countries/

The word "culture" means the left and so does the world "intellect". They don't mean anything else. Ask an Arab.

The Arab radical leftist hegemony is also what established the Arab absolutist states and republica that collapsed during the Arab Spring. This explains why Arab monarchies that survived the 50s leftist liberation waves survived and seem to have a future that is less antisemitic.

This story also goes back to the relationship between 19th-century German romanticism and Islam. There is a reason Germany has been the most prestigious home to Islamic studies in the West.

Also, this is the real context in which Islamism and Jihadism should be understood and studied and not freaking Islamic legal theories from the 9th century!! What an epic waste of resources!

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And Yuval Noah Harari doesn't know what he's talking about. A terrible thinker, for terrible thinkers, by terrible thinkers.

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