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Propaganda with John Harfouch
Season 1 · Episode 21

Propaganda with John Harfouch

Unpacking Zionism · Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

October 14, 202431m 31s

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Show Notes

This episode with philosopher John Harfouch considers “propaganda” as a keyword for Critical Zionism Studies. We’re looking at the work of Fayez Sayegh — the incredibly prolific Palestinian-Syrian-American scholar who was instrumental in theorizing Zionism and defining Arab American politics. Dr. Harfouch walks us through Sayegh’s studies of how Zionism works as a colonial process in Palestine and as a system of politics and messaging in the United States.

Syllabus: Philosophical Approaches to the Question of Palestine (American Philosophical Association)

https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonline.org/resource/resmgr/inclusiveness_syllabi/inclusiveness_syllabi_2/philosophical_approaches_to_.pdf

Fayez Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (Palestine Research Center, 1965)

https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC12_scans/12.zionist.colonialism.palestine.1965.pdf

Fayez Sayegh, “A Strange Concept of Reward and Punishment” (The Caravan, Mar. 26 1959) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ituULMZPUkHZzhug3ylQHunksB7euOze/view?usp=drive_link

John Harfouch's diagram of the Zionist movement as theorized by Sayegh https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j4JLKC62xVHJnUrj5h_M8bfZkl_3A4Qx/view

There’s another Unpacking Zionism episode on the work of Fayez Sayegh: Zionism and anti-Zionism with Miriam Osman.