Damascus-SANA
The Zionist movement sought to distort literature and use it as an arm to spread the falsehood it wanted, so it used it to achieve its goals by adopting and publishing fabricated allegations and stories to justify the occupation of Palestine and the displacement of its people.
Ways to confront this literature and its promoters and the means that the Arab writer and intellectual should undertake to confront its contents forcefully were the focus of the symposium held by the Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh with the participation of researchers and writers entitled (Facing the Cultural Invasion.. Arab literature and the Zionists' adoption of forgery.
Critic Omar Juma'a pointed out that the Zionist novel relied on characters drawn from the Talmud, with a focus on portraying the Zionists in a positive way and distorting the personality of the Arab man, as in the novel (A Star in the Wind) by Robert Nathan.
Juma'a stopped at Zionist poets such as Ya'qub Basar, author of the poem (The Next War), in which he spoke of the necessity of the permanent occupation entity's readiness to wage wars, which reflects the aggressive nature of this entity.
On the other hand, researcher Ali Badwan explained that the literature presented in the schools and universities of the occupation is based on guiding young people according to Zionist thought, developing extremist feelings from childhood, and perpetuating the method of violence and distorting the image of Arabs and Muslims.
Badwan indicated that education relied on religious references and a Jewish and Zionist culture that was characterized by racism and hostility, and to devote submission to their aspirations.
In his axis within the symposium, the poet Muhammad Saeed Al-Ateeq explained that the Zionists devoted their efforts in culture and literature to planting the falsehood that they want by relying on writers and media institutions from the West, pointing out that this literature is weak and some critics classify it as being of the third degree, but it was not subject to criticism in a way that serves the Arab nation and reveals what It contains errors and lies.
Al-Ateeq believed that Zionism mixed in literature writings charlatan, superstition and slander, and sought to spread the Zionist ideology, offend the Arab character, and sow hatred and division, calling for confronting it by planting a culture of love, revealing falsehood, and supporting the Arab cultural system with knowledge derived from reality and making room for criticism of the other.
The poet and journalist Muhammad Khaled al-Khidr, who moderated the symposium, shed light on the issue of Zionism's subjugation of some Arab writers and intellectuals and their service to promote the occupation by including personalities with Zionist ideas in their books to give them a positive character.
Shatha Hammoud
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