On Zionist LiteratureTranslated into English for the first time after its publication in 1967, Ghassan Kanafani's On Zionist Literature makes an incisive analysis of the body of literary fiction written in support of the Zionist colonization of Palestine. Interweaving his literary criticism of works by George Eliot, Arthur Koestler, and many others with a historical materialist narrative, Kanafani identifies the political intent and ideology of Zionist literature,

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a genre-shattering testament to the power of imagination

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who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born

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Yet all of this collapsed when states pursued wealth and empire by means of war

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