Fascist Arab dictatorsÂ’ favourite British MP George Galloway will be speaking on November 17 to Concordia UniversityÂ’s Syrian Students Association and on November 19, in Ottawa, to the Syrian Social Nationalist Movement on the occasion of its 74th anniversary which coincides with the 74th anniversary of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP).
Neither is the party nameÂ’s echo of the National-Socialist Party (the Nazi Party) nor is its insigniaÂ’s evocation of the Nazi-hijacked swastika a coincidence. It was founded in 1932 by Antun Saadeh, a Christian journalist from Mount Lebanon inspired by contemporary European fascist movements.
The secular party promotes the idea of a Greater Syria that would cover the territories of Syria proper, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian zones, and the Egyptian Sinai. Repressed since the mid-fifties, it joined the Baath-led National Progressive Front coalition in 2005 and has a bloody history of terrorist attacks.
In 1987, the Atlantic Monthly published a study of the SSNP by Ehud YaÂ’ari: excerpts from the article follow at link |