Books On Zionist Literature  by Ghassan Kanafani (Author)

"On Zionist Literature" by Ghassan Kanafani is a critical analysis of the body of literary works that supported and justified the Zionist colonization of Palestine. Written in 1967 and translated into English decades later, Kanafani’s book traces how literature was used as a tool for political and ideological ends, with myths and narratives created in popular novels and fiction to rationalize Zionist aims and legitimize settler-colonial violence against Palestinians.

Kanafani closely examines works by Western authors, including George Eliot and Benjamin Disraeli, to illustrate how fiction provided an ethnic and historical justification for Jewish claims to Palestine, fabricating an ancestral connection and supporting the ideology of Zionism. He argues that such literature helped rationalize the suffering inflicted on indigenous Palestinians, and that Zionist literature was inseparable from political and military campaigns for statehood.