It was only in the 1950s, with the rise of the potent ideology of Arab Nationalism as part of the Third World liberation movements, that such a conception of Zionism as a reactionary forward base for Western imperialism and capitalism became the official line of Arab revolutionaries in Egypt and the Levant, who presented themselves as part of the world socialist revolutionary process. [...] Arab politics of the era were defined by the cosmic 12 clash between the Arab Nationalist trinity of the good of “Unity, Liberty, and Socialism” facing off with the triad of the evil of “imperialism, Zionism, and Arab reaction.” It was in the 1960s, however, that monolithic ideological leviathans of what became known as the “old left,” such as Stalinism and Arab Nationalism, were irreversibly frac. [...] By the late 1960s, after a new generation of New Left Palestinians was able to wrestle the Palestinian Liberation Organization from the hands of the Nasserist Old Left, the Palestinian Cause formally became one of the components of the International Left consortium of struggles fueling the radical left worldwide and which included rising forms of identity, gender, and sexual, political movements. [...] This smooth incorporation was aided by a new generation of Arab American intellectuals who helped establish the Palestinian Cause in the moral category of the New Left, notable of whom were Fayez Sayegh, the first to explain the Palestinian Cause in the language of racism and apartheid, and Edward Said, who had a far-reaching influence on the development of contemporary identity politics and the c. [...] Within the ideational structure of the New Left, the identity of the Palestinians stood next to blacks, women, and homosexuals as symbols of the dehumanization of humanity at the hands of the Western world order and its delusion of freedom.
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