Thread by @GREENESJ333

Daniel Swindell wrote, "Today, Students for Justice in Palestine set up a booth at the University of Missouri. A student called me when he saw the display and I drove to campus. When I arrived, I began to hand out Pro-Israel literature.
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This is a picture of a student I met on campus. In this case, he told me that he supported Israel. He began to ask me questions about the different wars Israel had fought.
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We found ourselves in a conversation about how Israel had won The 1967 War by waging a surprise attack on the Egyptian forces.
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I explained to him that when the Arabs realized that they could not beat the Israelis through conventional warfare, they launched a propaganda war with the help of the Russians. The goal was to delegitimize Israel by calling it a racist, colonialist and apartheid state.
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I want to share this picture to thank Hussein Aboubakr. I have been listening to his lectures on the history of the Arab propaganda war against Israel. Because of Hussein’s lectures, I was able to tell this student about a man named Fayez Sayegh.
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He was the chief architect of the “Zionism is Colonialism” propaganda attack. In 1922, Fayez Sayegh was born in Mandatory Syria.
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In his adulthood, he became a professor and taught at several colleges. In 1965, he published a short book titled, “Zionist Colonialism in Palestine.”
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The book attempted to make two main arguments. First, the Jews were foreigners to the land and colonialist, and therefore they had no right to own the land, meaning that Israel had no right to exist.
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Sayegh stated this specifically, “The Zionist settler-state, therefore, has remained a usurper, lacking even the semblance of legitimacy.”
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Second, Sayegh claimed Zionism was a form of racial supremacy similar to Nazism. In this case, he argued that the Jews were like the Nazis and the Arabs were like the Jews.
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He charged, “The Zionist concept of the ‘final solution’ to the ‘Arab problem’ in Palestine, and the Nazi concept of the ‘final solution’ to the ‘Jewish problem’ in Germany, consisted essentially of the same basic ingredient:
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the elimination of the unwanted human element in question.” Clearly, if Zionism was the same thing as Nazism, then it had no right to exist, meaning a Jewish State had no right to exist.
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Put simply, the sole purpose of claiming that Zionism was colonialism was to argue that a Jewish State had no right to exist.

Again, I just want to thank Hussein for all of his incredible work explaining this history to a western audience!"
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