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{{Short description|Analysis of Zionism and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict}} {{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see ] -->
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]|upright=1.3]]'''Zionism as settler colonialism''' is a paradigm that views ] and the ] as a form of ].{{sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=Conclusion}} ], the most influential theorist of settler colonial studies, considered Israel an example and discussed it in his widely cited essay "Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native".{{sfn|Wolfe|2006}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Forum on Patrick Wolfe |url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3437-forum-on-patrick-wolfe |website=Versobooks.com |access-date=26 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=What is at Stake in the Study of Settler Colonialism? |url=https://developingeconomics.org/2020/10/26/what-is-at-stake-in-the-study-of-settler-colonialism/ |website=Developing Economics |access-date=26 April 2022 |language=en |date=26 October 2020}}</ref> Other influential scholars who have used a settler-colonial analysis of Israel/Palestine include ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].{{sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=first section}} This paradigm has become increasingly prevalent in the twenty-first century, although it is not a dominant framing as of 2022.{{sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=Conclusion}}
] calls the "Jewish establishment"]]
] has been described by several scholars as a form of ] in relation to the ] and the ]. This paradigm has been applied to Zionism by various scholars and figures, including ], ], ] and ]. Zionism's founders and early leaders were aware and unapologetic about their status as colonizers. Many early leading Zionists such as ], ], and ] described Zionism as colonization.


The settler colonial framework on the conflict emerged in the 1960s during the ] and the ], and re-emerged in Israeli academia in the 1990s led by Israeli and Palestinian scholars, particularly the ], who refuted some of Israel's foundational myths and considered the ] to be ]. This perspective contends that Zionism involves processes of ] and assimilation of Palestinians, akin to other settler colonial contexts similar to the creation of the ] and ].
Portrayal of Zionism as a settler colonial movement is perceived by many scholars and most Israeli Jews as either as an attack on the ] or a form of ].{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|pp=97–98}} Some scholars have described the settler-colonial thesis as a form of selective ] aimed at demonizing Israel, promoted by extreme ] groups.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Norwood |first=Stephen H. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/826076089 |title=Antisemitism and the American far left |date=2013 |isbn=978-1-107-03601-7 |location=New York, NY |pages=215 |oclc=826076089 |quote=Contemporary far left groups share the same basic assumptions about Israel and antisemitism, whatever their disagreements on other issues. They all maintain that antisemitism today is of little or no importance, both in the West and in the Middle East. None of the far left groups believe that there is any need for a Jewish state. The far left views modern Zionism from its inception as an instrument of Western imperialism. Except for the fragments that remain of the CP, far left groups consider the partition of Palestine illegitimate. They refer to the rebirth of Israel in 1948 by the Arabs’ term for it, “Nakba,” or catastrophe. The contemporary far left continues to regard Israel as a European colonial-settler state and frequently compares it to apartheid-era South Africa and Nazi Germany. It considers Israel the aggressor against the Arabs in every war and military conflict in which it has been involved. Every far left group calls Israel expansionist and genocidal. As in the period from 1967 to 1973, the far left often invokes economic and theological antisemitic stereotypes in its propaganda.}}</ref>

Critics of the characterization of Zionism as settler colonialism, such as ], ] and ], argue that it does not fit traditional colonial frameworks, seeing Zionism instead as the repatriation of an indigenous population and an act of ]. This debate is part of the broader tensions over the historical and contemporary narratives surrounding the founding of the State of Israel and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

==Concepts==
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{{Main|Settler colonialism}}
In contrast to classical ], in settler colonialism the focus is on eliminating, rather than exploiting, the original inhabitants of a territory. Commonly cited cases of settler colonialism include the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=92}} As theorized by ], settler colonialism is an ongoing "structure, not an event" aimed at replacing a native population rather than exploiting it.{{Sfn|Wolfe|2006}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forum on Patrick Wolfe |url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3437-forum-on-patrick-wolfe |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621043010/https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3437-forum-on-patrick-wolfe |archive-date=21 June 2021 |access-date=26 April 2022 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=26 October 2020 |title=What is at Stake in the Study of Settler Colonialism? |url=https://developingeconomics.org/2020/10/26/what-is-at-stake-in-the-study-of-settler-colonialism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125221504/https://developingeconomics.org/2020/10/26/what-is-at-stake-in-the-study-of-settler-colonialism |archive-date=25 November 2021 |access-date=26 April 2022 |website=Developing Economics |language=en}}</ref> Settler colonialism operates by processes including physical elimination of native inhabitants but also can encompass projects of assimilation, segregation, miscegenation, religious conversion, and incarceration.{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=95}} Commentators, such as Daiva Stasiulis, Nira Yuval-Davis, and ] have included Israel in their global analysis of settler societies.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446222225.n11 |title=Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class |date=1995 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-8039-8694-7 |editor-last=Yuval-Davis |editor-first=Nira |volume=11 |doi=10.4135/9781446222225.n11 |access-date=10 June 2022 |editor-last2=Stasiulis |editor-first2=Daiva K |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610150507/https://sk.sagepub.com/books/unsettling-settler-societies/n11.xml |archive-date=10 June 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Massad |first=Joseph |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780203965351-9/post-colonial-colony-time-space-bodies-palestine-israel-joseph-massad |title=The Persistence of the Palestinian Question |date=2006 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-2039-6535-1 |location=New York |chapter=Post Colonial Colony: time, space and bodies in Palestine/Israel |doi=10.4324/9780203965351 |access-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610150506/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780203965351-9/post-colonial-colony-time-space-bodies-palestine-israel-joseph-massad |archive-date=10 June 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-pre-occupation-of-postcolonial-studies#:~:text=The%20Pre%2DOccupation%20of%20Postcolonial%20Studies%20not%20only%20offers%20an,clear%20pathways%20for%20its%20future. |title=The Pre-Occupation of Post-Colonial Studies |date=2000 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-8223-2521-5 |editor-last=Afzal-Khan |editor-first=Fawzia |location=Durham |access-date=10 June 2022 |editor-last2=Seshadri |editor-first2=Kalpana Rahita |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303235531/https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Pre-occupation-of-Postcolonial-Studies/#:~:text=The%20Pre%2DOccupation%20of%20Postcolonial%20Studies%20not%20only%20offers%20an,clear%20pathways%20for%20its%20future. |archive-date=3 March 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> ] describes ] and Israel in similar terms.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Palestinian Enclaves Struggle: An Interview with Ilan Pappé |url=http://kingsreview.co.uk/articles/the-palestinian-enclaves-struggle-an-interview-with-ilan-pappe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519175348/http://kingsreview.co.uk/articles/the-palestinian-enclaves-struggle-an-interview-with-ilan-pappe |archive-date=19 May 2017 |publisher=King's Review}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pappé |first=Ilan |author-link=Ilan Pappé |date=5 April 2017 |title=Decolonizing Israel. Ilan Pappé on Viewing Israel-Palestine Through the Lens of Settler-Colonialism |url=https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/04/05/ilan-pappe-on-viewing-israel-palestine-through-the-lens-of-settler-colonialism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816161148/https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/04/05/ilan-pappe-on-viewing-israel-palestine-through-the-lens-of-settler-colonialism |archive-date=16 August 2021 |access-date=10 June 2022 |publisher=]}}</ref>


==Background== ==Background==
Many of the fathers of Zionism themselves described it as colonialism, such as ] who said "Zionism is a colonization adventure".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Liu |first=James H. |title=Collective Remembering and the Making of Political Culture |date=2022 |publisher=] |page=190}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Masalha|2012|p=2}}: "...for decades Zionists themselves used terms such as 'colonisation' (hityashvut) to describe their project in Palestine."</ref><ref name="IWprimary">{{Cite web |last=Jabotinsky |first=Ze'ev |author-link=Ze'ev Jabotinsky |date=4 November 1923 |title=The Iron Wall |url=http://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910151619/https://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf |archive-date=10 September 2024 |quote="Colonisation can have only one aim, and Palestine Arabs cannot accept this aim. It lies in the very nature of things, and in this particular regard nature cannot be changed...Zionist colonisation must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population."}}</ref> ], in a 1902 letter to ], described the Zionist project as "something colonial". Previously in 1896 he had spoken of "important experiments in colonization" happening in Palestine.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herzl |first=Theodore |author-link=Theodore Herzl |title=The Jewish State |date=1968 |publisher=Dover |pages=85–96}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Theodor Herzl: From Europe to Zion |date=2012 |publisher=] |pages=100–1}}</ref>{{Sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=Conclusion}} ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Max Nordau {{!}} Zionism, Co-Founder, Critic {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Nordau |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> in 1905 said, "Zionism rejects on principle all colonization on a small scale, and the idea of 'sneaking' into Palestine".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Nordau |first1=Max Simon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmELAAAAIAAJ |title=Zionism and Anti-Semitism |last2=Gottheil |first2=Gustav |date=1905 |publisher=Fox, Duffield |pages=30 |language=en}}</ref> Major Zionist organizations central to Israel's foundation held colonial identity in their names or departments, such as ], the ], and ]'s colonization department.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stein |first=Kenneth W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qYxGDgAAQBAJ&dq=jewish+agency+colonization+department&pg=PT97 |title=The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 |date=1 March 2017 |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-4696-1725-1 |language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Sayegh|2012|p=}}{{Pn|date=August 2024}}
In contrast to classical ], in settler colonialism the focus is on eliminating rather than exploiting the original inhabitants of a territory. Commonly cited cases of settler colonialism include the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=92}} As theorized by ], settler colonialism is a structure, not an event. Settler colonialism operates by processes including physical elimination of the native but also can encompass projects of assimilation, segregation, miscegenation, religious conversion, and incarceration.{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=95}}
==Incidence==
In 1905, jobless Jewish settlers invented the idea of ] arguing that all Jewish-owned businesses should only employ Jews.{{sfn|Svirsky|2021|pp=80–81}} Zionist organizations acquired land that was restricted so it could never pass into non-Jewish ownership.{{sfn|Svirsky|2021|p=81}} Later on the ]—collectivist, all-Jewish agricultural settlements—developed to counter plantation economies relying on Jewish owners and Palestinian farmers. The kibbutz was also the prototype of Jewish-only settlements later established beyond Israel's pre-1967 borders.{{sfn|Svirsky|2021|p=81}} In 1948, ] from the area that became Israel.{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=96}} Arnon Degani argues that ending military rule over Israel's Palestinian citizens in 1966 shifted from colonial to settler-colonial governance.{{sfn|Degani|2015|p=84}}


In 1905, some Jewish immigrants to the region promoted the idea of ], arguing that all Jewish-owned businesses should only employ Jews, to displace Arab workforce hired by the ].{{Sfn|Svirsky|2021|pp=80–81}} Zionist organizations acquired land under the restriction that it could never pass into non-Jewish ownership.{{Sfn|Svirsky|2021|p=81}} Later on, ]im—collectivist, all-Jewish agricultural settlements—were developed to counter plantation economies relying on Jewish owners and Palestinian farmers. The kibbutz was also the prototype of Jewish-only settlements later established beyond Israel's pre-1967 borders.{{Sfn|Svirsky|2021|p=81}}
According to ], Israel's settler colonialism manifests in immigration policies that promote unlimited immigration of Jews while denying family reunification for Palestinian citizens. Wolfe adds, "Despite Zionism's chronic addiction to territorial expansion, Israel's borders do not preclude the option of removal (in this connection, it is hardly surprising that a nation that has driven so many of its original inhabitants into the sand should express an abiding fear of itself being driven into the sea)."{{sfn|Wolfe|2006|p=401}}


In 1948, ] from the area that became Israel, and 500 Palestinian villages, as well as Palestinian-inhabited urban areas, were destroyed.{{Sfn|Collins|2011|p=170}}{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=96}} Although considered by some Israelis to be a "brutal twist of fate, unexpected, undesired, unconsidered by the early pioneers", some historians have described the Nakba as a campaign of ].{{Sfn|Collins|2011|p=170}}
Salamanca et al. state that Israeli practices have often been studied as distinct but related phenomena, and that the settler-colonial paradigm is an opportunity to understand them together. As examples of settler colonial phenomena they include "aerial and maritime bombardment, massacre and invasion, home demolitions, land theft, identity card confiscation, racist laws and loyalty tests, ], the ], cultural appropriation, dependence on willing (or unwilling) native collaboration regarding security arrangements".{{sfn|Salamanca ''et al.''|2012|p=2}}


In the aftermath of the Nakba, Palestinian land was expropriated on a large scale and ] were encircled in specific areas.{{Sfn|Gordon|Ram|2016|p=22}}{{Sfn|Jamal|2017|pp=60–61}} Arnon Degani argues that ending military rule over Israel's Palestinian citizens in 1966 shifted from colonial to settler-colonial governance.{{Sfn|Degani|2015|p=84}} After the Israeli capture of the Golan Heights in 1967, there was a nearly complete ethnic cleansing of the area, leaving only 6,404 Syrians out of about 128,000 who had lived there before the war. They had been forced out by campaigns of intimidation and forced removal, and those who tried to return were deported. After the Israeli capture of the West Bank, about 250,000 of 850,000 inhabitants fled or were expelled.{{Sfn|Gordon|Ram|2016|pp=22–23}}
==Historiography==
According to ], the characterization of Zionism as colonial "is probably as old as the Zionist movement".{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=94}} One influential early analysis was that of Palestinian writer ] in his 1965 essay "Zionist Colonialism in Palestine", which was unusual for the pre-1967 era in specifying Zionism as a form of settler colonialism.{{sfn|Behar|2020|p=221}}{{sfn|Sayegh|2012|p=206}} Sayegh later drafted the UN's "]" resolution.{{sfn|Sayegh|2012|p=206}} After Israel assumed control of all of Mandatory Palestine in 1967, settler-colonial analyses became prominent among Palestinians.{{sfn|Behar|2020|p=227}} In Israel, the ], a movement that emerged in the 1980s, were associated with colonial analysis.{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=94}} Along with explicitly settler colonial analysis, another persistent view is that the "Zionist national project has been predicated on the destruction of the Palestinian one".{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=94}}


==Discussion==
Scholars of settler colonialism have analyzed Zionism's external supporters, either private organizations or various states (such as the United Kingdom, France, or the United States), as a metropole.{{sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=The Settler Colonial Paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian Context}} A settler-colonial analysis has been used to explain the positive relationship between Israel and other settler-colonial states such as the United States and Australia.{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=96}} According to Martin Braach-Maksvytis, Germany invested in Israel after losing its colonies and that this relationship later became a kind of "redemptive proxy colonialism".{{sfn|Anonymous|2021|p=375}}
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Proponents of the paradigm of Zionism as settler colonialism include ], ], ], ], ], ], George Jabbour, ], Baha Abu-Laban, Jamil Hilal, ], and Amal Jamal.{{Sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=first section}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tawil-Souri |first=Helga |date=2016 |title=Response to Elia Zureik's Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.38.4.0683 |url-status=live |journal=Arab Studies Quarterly |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=683–687 |doi=10.13169/arabstudquar.38.4.0683 |issn=0271-3519 |jstor=10.13169/arabstudquar.38.4.0683 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609085442/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.38.4.0683 |archive-date=9 June 2022 |access-date=9 June 2022 |quote=Calling Israel a settler colonial regime is an argument increasingly gaining purchase in activist and, to a lesser extent, academic circles.}}</ref>{{Sfn|Jamal|2017|pp=71–73}}
Although settler colonialism is an empirical framework, it is associated with favoring a ].{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=104}} Rachel Busbridge argues that settler colonialism is "a coherent and legible frame" and "a far more accurate portrayal of the conflict than the picture of Palestinian criminality and Israeli victimhood that has conventionally been painted".{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|pp=92–93}} She also argues that settler colonial analysis is limited, especially when it comes to the question of ].{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=93}}


The settler colonial framework on the ] emerged in the 1960s during the ] and the ], and re-emerged in Israeli academia in the 1990s led by Israeli and Palestinian scholars, particularly the ], who refuted some of Israel's foundational myths and considered the ] to be ].{{Sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=Conclusion}}<ref>{{Harvnb|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=first section}}: "The settler colonial paradigm, linked to Israeli critical sociology, post-Zionism, and postcolonialism, reemerged following changes in the political landscape from the mid-1990s that reframed the history of the Nakba as enduring, challenged the Jewish definition of the state, and legitimated Palestinians as agents of history. Palestinian scholars in Israel lead the paradigm's reformulation."</ref>{{Sfn|Jamal|2017|pp=47–48}} This coincided with a shift from supporting a ] to a ] that constitutes a state for all citizens equally, which challenges the Jewish identity of Israel.{{Sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=Conclusion}}
Anthropologist Anne de Jong says that early Zionists promoted a narrative of binary conflict in order to deflect criticisms of settler colonialism.{{sfn|de Jong|2018|p=364}} In 2013, historian ] argued that settler colonialism has been successful in Israel proper but unsuccessful in the territories occupied in 1967.{{sfn|Veracini|2013|p=38}} Historian ] argues that all other settler-colonial wars in the twentieth century ended in defeat for colonists, making Palestine an exception: "Israel has been extremely successful in forcibly establishing itself as a colonial reality in a post-colonial age".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Introduction: Historical Landmarks in the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine |journal=Institute for Palestine Studies |url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/225947 |language=en}}</ref>


Rachel Busbridge contends that the subsequent popularity of the idea of Zionism as settler colonialism is inseparable from frustration at the stagnation of the two-state process and resulting Western left-wing sympathy for ]. She writes that a settler colonial analysis "offers a far more accurate portrayal of the conflict than...has conventionally been painted".{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|pp=97–98}} ] argues that such zero-sum calls are "a gift that no occupying power and no colonizing settler movement deserves."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ibish |first=Hussein |url=http://www.americantaskforce.org/what%E2%80%99s_wrong_onestate_agenda_html |title=What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda? |date=2009 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-9785-6141-3 |access-date=9 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309205024/http://www.americantaskforce.org/what%E2%80%99s_wrong_onestate_agenda_html |archive-date=9 March 2024}}</ref>
== Criticism ==
Portrayal of Zionism as a colonial movement is rejected by most Israeli Jews, and perceived either as an attack on the ] or a form of antisemitism.{{sfn|Busbridge|2018|pp=97–98}} Some critics highlight aspects such as Zionism's non-exploitation of indigenous labor or lack of a ] as reasons not to consider it a colonial movement.{{sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=The Settler Colonial Paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian Context}}


The peer-reviewed journal ''Settler Colonial Societies'' has published three special issues focused on Israel/Palestine.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Penslar |first=Derek Jonathan |title=Zionism: an emotional state |date=2023 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-8135-7612-1 |series=Key words in jewish studies |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |chapter=2: Zionism as Colonialism}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=Explore Articles |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rset20 |journal=Settler Colonial Societies |via=]}}</ref>{{clarify|reason=What did it say about the topic?|date=December 2024}}
In his book "Contemporary Left Antisemitism", sociologist ] describes the comparison between Zionism and settler colonialism as a selective ] method aimed at demonizing Israel. He wrote: "It is difficult to understand how anybody could believe that ] and in ], recovering from starvation and from existences as non-humans in ], were thinking of themselves as standard bearers of 'the European idea'".<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Hirsh |first=David |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1011418661 |title=Contemporary Left Antisemitism |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-138-23530-4 |pages=193-194 |oclc=1011418661 |quote="A clear illustration of the selective method of antizionism is its portrayal of Israel as nothing but a colonial enterprise in the image of white European settler-colonialism... It is difficult to understand how anybody could believe that Jews in the refugee camps in Europe and in British Cyprus, recovering from starvation and from existences as non-humans in concentration camps, were thinking of themselves as standard bearers of 'the European idea'"}}</ref> ] believes the colonial settler thesis is put forth by ] groups who are consistently hostile to Israel and who trivialize and often propagate anti-Semitic sentiment.<ref name=":1" />


The portrayal of Zionism as settler colonialism is strongly rejected by most Zionists and ], and is perceived either as an attack on the ], a form of antisemitism, or historically inaccurate.{{Sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=The Settler Colonial Paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian Context}}<ref name="Troen"/>{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|pp=97–98}} International law professor ] has stated that labelling Israel's establishment as a colonial enterprise is "a significant category error". Sociology professor ] refers to colonialism as "the go-to term for total pollution" of Israel's legitimacy.<ref name="Cohen"/>
According to sociologist ], the most significant weakness of the settler colonial thesis is the failure of its adherents to recognize that Zionism is a national movement, "the most comprehensive expression of the modern national movement of the Jewish people … to create a political entity in what was defined by all parts of the Jewish people as their historical territory." Since the Zionist movement was both a national movement and a settlement movement at the same time, Lissak concluded it could not, by definition, be a colonial settlement movement. Lissak argued that ] ideology, which led the settlement project, prevented the Land of Israel from developing colonialist symptoms, though such potential did exist in the ].<ref>Moshe Lissak, "'Critical' Sociology and 'Establishment' Sociology in the Israeli Academic Community: Ideological Struggles or Academic Discourse?" ''Israel Studies'' 1:1 (1996), 247-294. </ref>

===Indigeneity===
Some critics highlight ideas such as the putative non-exploitation of ] labor by Zionists as a reason not to consider it a colonial movement.{{Sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=The Settler Colonial Paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian Context}} Historian ] suggests that Zionism does not meet the definition of colonialism since it did not involve "an imperial power acquiring political control over another country, settling it with its sons, and exploiting it economically".<ref name="Morris"/>{{better source needed|reason=This is a book review, but there must be books by Morris we can draw from?|date=December 2024}} Historian ] states that "colonialism is irrelevant to the Zionist experience" because most Jewish immigrants came as refugees, and Zionists did not seek to "dominate the local population".<ref name=":2"/>

Historian ] says, "The Palestinians share common experiences with other indigenous peoples who have had their narrative denied, their material culture destroyed and their histories erased or reinvented by European white settlers and colonisers."{{Sfn|Masalha|2012|page=88}} This paradigm has gained significant traction among left-leaning activists at universities.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Schedulers |first=Jennifer |date=22 January 2024 |title=What Is 'Settler Colonialism'? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/arts/what-is-settler-colonialism.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240122111015/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/arts/what-is-settler-colonialism.html |archive-date=22 January 2024 |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="Cohen"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kirsch |first=Adam |date=26 October 2023 |title=Campus Radicals and Leftist Groups Have Embraced the Idea of 'Settler Colonialism' |url=https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/campus-radicals-and-leftist-groups-have-embraced-the-deadly-idea-of-settler-colonialism-b8e995be |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823102214/https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/campus-radicals-and-leftist-groups-have-embraced-the-deadly-idea-of-settler-colonialism-b8e995be |archive-date=23 August 2024 |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=]}}</ref> According to '']'', the ] has sought to reframe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from "a clash between two ]" to "a generational ] against 'settler colonialism'".<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 October 2024 |title=Has the war in Gaza radicalised young Palestinians? |url=https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/10/03/has-the-war-in-gaza-radicalised-young-palestinians |access-date=5 October 2024 |newspaper=] |issn=0013-0613}}</ref>

Israeli Historian ] suggests that Zionism was the repatriation of a long displaced indigenous population to their historic homeland, and that Zionism does not fit the framework of a ] as it "was not part of the process of imperial expansion in search of power and markets".<ref name="Troen">{{Cite journal |last=Troen |first=S. Ilan |author-link=S. Ilan Troen |date=2007 |title=De-Judaizing the Homeland: Academic Politics in Rewriting the History of Palestine |journal=Israel Affairs |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=872–884 |doi=10.1080/13537120701445372 |s2cid=216148316}}</ref> Palestinian-American historian ] states that settler-colonial projects are usually "extensions of the people and of the sovereignty of the mother country", whereas Zionism is an independent "national movement" whose means were nevertheless "explicitly settler-colonial".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spaeth |first=Ryu |date=23 September 2024 |title=The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ta-nehisi-coates-new-book-message-israel-palestine-complicated.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240929000354/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ta-nehisi-coates-new-book-message-israel-palestine-complicated.html |archive-date=29 September 2024 |access-date=24 September 2024 |website=] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Khalidi |first=Rashid |author-link=Rashid Khalidi |date=5 July 2024 |title=Rashid Khalidi: Violent Settler Colonialism Caused This War |url=https://jacobin.com/2024/05/rashid-khalidi-settler-colonialism-palestine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926142200/https://jacobin.com/2024/05/rashid-khalidi-settler-colonialism-palestine |archive-date=26 September 2024 |access-date=24 September 2024 |magazine=] |language=en-US}}</ref>

With his wife Carol Troen, a former applied linguist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Troen writes that the concept of Palestinian indigeneity is a recent addition to the "linguistic arsenal of lawfare" used to deny Israel's legitimacy. They suggest this frames Israel as inherently settler colonial and as "reprehensible in its exploitation of the indigenous".<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Troen |first1=S. Ilan |author-link=S. Ilan Troen |last2=Troen |first2=Carol |date=2019 |title=Indigeneity |journal=] |publisher=] |volume=24 |issue=2 |page=17–32 (17) |doi=10.2979/israelstudies.24.2.02 |issn=1084-9513 |s2cid=262013035}}</ref> Cohen and ], a humanitarian law scholar, describe the ] as one between two indigenous groups.<ref name="Cohen">{{Cite news |last=Cohen |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Cohen |date=10 December 2023 |title=Who's a 'Colonizer'? How an Old Word Became a New Weapon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/europe/colonialist-word-gaza-ukraine.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713145214/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/europe/colonialist-word-gaza-ukraine.html |archive-date=13 July 2024 |access-date=10 December 2023 |work=] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>{{undue inline|reason=Too much hinges on this one op-ed. What makes it notable? Better to quote Shany directly if we can and rely on scholars rather than op-eds. See |date=December 2024}}

===Metropole===
Some scholars have stated the lack of an imperial power to benefit from exploiting the region, means a colonial paradigm does not apply.<ref name="Morris">{{Cite news |last=Morris |first=Benny |author-link=Benny Morris |date=Spring 2020 |title=The War on History |url=https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/7210/the-war-on-history/# |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711010544/https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/7210/the-war-on-history |archive-date=11 July 2024 |work=Jewish Review of Books}}</ref> Other scholars have stated that Israel's external supporters, either private organizations or various states (such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany,{{Sfn|Anonymous|2021|p=375}} Australia,{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=96}} or the United States), may function as a ] (defined as the ] of a ]).{{Sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=The Settler Colonial Paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian Context}}

In 1967, the French historian ] published ''Israel: A Colonial Settler-State?'' (originally published in French). In it, she describes Europe as a whole as the metropole of Israeli settler colonialism.<ref name="Rodinson">{{Cite book |last=Rodinson |first=Maxime |url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dhoppe/KFUPM/Israel%20fait%20colonial.pdf |title=Israel: A Colonial Settler-State? |date=1967 |publisher=Monad Press |isbn=978-0-9134-6048-1 |edition=1973 |location=New York |oclc=673646 |access-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201095119/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dhoppe/KFUPM/Israel%20fait%20colonial.pdf |archive-date=1 February 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> ], who describes ] as a colonial state, states that Jewish settlers could only expel the British in 1948 because they had their own colonial relationships inside and outside Israel's new borders.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Veracini |first=Lorenzo |date=2007 |title=Settler Colonialism and Decolonisation |url=http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol6no2_2007/veracini_settler.htm |journal=Borderlands |publisher=] |volume=6 |issue=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330030659/http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol6no2_2007/veracini_settler.htm |archive-date=30 March 2020 |quote=Israel could celebrate its anticolonial/anti-British struggle exactly because it was able to establish a number of colonial relationships within and without the borders of 1948.}}</ref> He suggests, however, that the possibility of an Israeli disengagement is always latent and that this colonial relationship could be severed if a ] is reached which includes the "accommodation of a Palestinian Israeli autonomy within the institutions of the Israeli state".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Veracini |first=Lorenzo |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt18fs3dn |title=Israel and Settler Society |date=2006 |publisher=] |location=London |doi=10.2307/j.ctt18fs3dn |access-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610150506/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt18fs3dn |archive-date=10 June 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Scholar ] says that Israel cannot be considered colonialist because it was not an "imposed power" and its creation "was endorsed by the United Nations". Cohen states that Israel's "very diverse, multihued society" includes many Jews who fled persecution in the Middle East and Europe, and who had no metropole they could flee to, unlike most settler colonial societies.<ref name="Cohen" />

===Replacement===
Scholar Amal Jamal, from ], has described Israel as the result of "a settler-colonial movement of Jewish immigrants", stating that Israel has continued to strengthen "exclusive Jewish control" of the land and its resources, while diminishing Palestinian rights and denying Palestinian self-determination.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jamal |first=Amal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pWLCpqnsoLQC&pg=PA48 |title=Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel: The Politics of Indigeneity |date=2011 |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-1368-2412-8 |page=48 |access-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814042942/https://books.google.com/books?id=pWLCpqnsoLQC&pg=PA48 |archive-date=14 August 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

According to Israeli academics ] and Moriel Ram, the incompleteness versus completeness of ethnic cleansing in the territory occupied by Israel has affected the different forms that Israeli settler colonialism has taken in the West Bank versus the Golan Heights. For example, the few remaining Syrian Druze were offered Israeli citizenship in order to further the ], while there was never an intention to incorporate West Bank Palestinians into the Israeli ]. Another example is the ] compared to the unitary Israeli law imposed in the Golan Heights.{{Sfn|Gordon|Ram|2016|p=26}}

According to ], Israel's settler colonialism manifests in immigration policies that promote unlimited immigration of Jews while denying family reunification for Palestinian citizens. Wolfe adds, "Despite Zionism's chronic addiction to territorial expansion, Israel's borders do not preclude the option of removal (in this connection, it is hardly surprising that a nation that has driven so many of its original inhabitants into the sand should express an abiding fear of itself being driven into the sea)."{{Sfn|Wolfe|2006|p=401}}

Salamanca ''et al.'' state that Israeli practices have often been studied as distinct but related phenomena, and that the settler-colonial paradigm is an opportunity to understand them together. As examples of settler colonial phenomena they include "aerial and maritime bombardment, massacre and invasion, home demolitions, land theft, identity card confiscation, racist laws and loyalty tests, ], the ], cultural appropriation, dependence on willing (or unwilling) native collaboration regarding security arrangements".{{Sfn|Salamanca ''et al.''|2012|p=2}}

==Historiography==
According to the Israeli sociologist Uri Ram, the characterization of Zionism as colonial "is probably as old as the Zionist movement".{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=94}} John Collins states that studies have "definitively established" that "the architects of Zionism were conscious and often unapologetic about their status as colonizers whose right to the land superseded that of Palestine's Arab inhabitants".{{Sfn|Collins|2011|p=174}} Other settler colonial projects did not lay out their plans for dispossessing and eliminating the inhabitants in detail and in advance.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Makdisi |first=Saree |date=2017 |title=Elimination as a Structure: Tracing and Racing Zionism with Patrick Wolfe |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/663325/summary |url-status=live |journal=American Quarterly |volume=69 |issue=2 |pages=277–284 |doi=10.1353/aq.2017.0021 |issn=1080-6490 |s2cid=149255739 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610150505/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/663325/summary |archive-date=10 June 2022 |access-date=12 May 2022}}</ref> One early analysis was that of Palestinian writer ] in his 1965 essay "Zionist Colonialism in Palestine", which was unusual for the pre-1967 era in specifying Zionism as a form of settler colonialism.{{Sfn|Behar|2020|p=221}}{{Sfn|Sayegh|2012|p=206}} Sayegh later drafted the UN's "]" resolution.{{Sfn|Sayegh|2012|p=206}} After Israel assumed control of the whole ] in 1967, settler-colonial analyses became prominent among Palestinians.{{Sfn|Behar|2020|p=227}} In Israel, the ] movement which emerged in the 1980s was associated with colonial analysis.{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=94}} Along with explicitly settler colonial analysis, another persistent view is that the "Zionist national project has been predicated on the destruction of the Palestinian one".{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=94}}

Although settler colonialism is an empirical framework, it is associated with favoring a ].{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=104}} Rachel Busbridge argues that settler colonialism is "a coherent and legible frame" and "a far more accurate portrayal of the conflict than the picture of Palestinian criminality and Israeli victimhood that has conventionally been painted".{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|pp=92–93}} She also argues that settler colonial analysis is limited, especially when it comes to the question of ].{{Sfn|Busbridge|2018|p=93}}

Anthropologist Anne de Jong says that early Zionists promoted a narrative of binary conflict between two competing groups with equally valid claims in order to deflect criticisms of settler colonialism.{{Sfn|de Jong|2018|p=364}} In 2013, historian ] argued that settler colonialism has been successful in Israel proper but unsuccessful in the territories occupied in 1967.{{Sfn|Veracini|2013|p=38}} Historian ] argues that all other settler-colonial wars in the twentieth century ended in defeat for colonists, making Palestine an exception: "Israel has been extremely successful in forcibly establishing itself as a colonial reality in a post-colonial age".<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Introduction: Historical Landmarks in the Hundred Years' War on Palestine |url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/225947 |url-status=live |journal=Institute for Palestine Studies |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620182759/https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/225947 |archive-date=20 June 2021 |access-date=23 April 2022}}</ref>

Elia Zureik's ''Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit'', updates his earlier work on colonialism and Palestine and applies ]'s work on ] to colonialism, arguing that ] plays a central role and that surveillance becomes a tool of governance. It also analyses the dispossession of indigenous people and ], including sociological, historical and postcolonial studies into an examination of the Zionist project in Palestine.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Elia Zureik |title=Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine:Brutal Pursuit |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-3156-6155-1 |pages=49–94 |chapter=Chapter 2:Zionism and Colonialism |quote=The Zionist project can be best described as a cumulative, colonial enterprise that has continued unabated since its inception}}</ref> Sánchez and Pita argue that Israeli settler colonialism has had far more severe effects on the indigenous Palestinian population than the ] by the Spanish and Mexican populations in the Southwest of the United States in the wake of the ] which ended the ].{{Sfn|Sánchez|Pita|2014|p=1050}} Most scholars who have addressed Israeli settler colonialism have not discussed the Golan Heights.{{Sfn|Gordon|Ram|2016|p=26}}

Sociologist ] suggests that "in tracing the settler colonial paradigm ... Israeli critical sociology, albeit groundbreaking, has suffered from a myopia engendered through hegemony."{{Sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=Critical Sociology}} She states that "until recently, most Israeli academics engaged in discussing the nature of the state ignored its settler colonial components", and that scholarship conducted "within a settler colonial framework" has not been given serious attention in Israeli critical academia, "perhaps due to the general disavowal of the colonial framework among Israeli scholars."{{Sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=Critical Sociology}}


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==Further reading== ==Further reading==
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Population shift from 1947–1951 in Israel–Palestine, plotted with the % of land controlled by what Neve Gordon calls the "Jewish establishment"

Zionism has been described by several scholars as a form of settler colonialism in relation to the region of Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This paradigm has been applied to Zionism by various scholars and figures, including Patrick Wolfe, Edward Said, Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky. Zionism's founders and early leaders were aware and unapologetic about their status as colonizers. Many early leading Zionists such as Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky described Zionism as colonization.

The settler colonial framework on the conflict emerged in the 1960s during the decolonization of Africa and the Middle East, and re-emerged in Israeli academia in the 1990s led by Israeli and Palestinian scholars, particularly the New Historians, who refuted some of Israel's foundational myths and considered the Nakba to be ongoing. This perspective contends that Zionism involves processes of elimination and assimilation of Palestinians, akin to other settler colonial contexts similar to the creation of the United States and Australia.

Critics of the characterization of Zionism as settler colonialism, such as Benny Morris, Yuval Shany and Ilan Troen, argue that it does not fit traditional colonial frameworks, seeing Zionism instead as the repatriation of an indigenous population and an act of self-determination. This debate is part of the broader tensions over the historical and contemporary narratives surrounding the founding of the State of Israel and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Concepts

Map of Israeli settlements (magenta) in the occupied West Bank in 2020
Main article: Settler colonialism

In contrast to classical colonialism, in settler colonialism the focus is on eliminating, rather than exploiting, the original inhabitants of a territory. Commonly cited cases of settler colonialism include the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. As theorized by Patrick Wolfe, settler colonialism is an ongoing "structure, not an event" aimed at replacing a native population rather than exploiting it. Settler colonialism operates by processes including physical elimination of native inhabitants but also can encompass projects of assimilation, segregation, miscegenation, religious conversion, and incarceration. Commentators, such as Daiva Stasiulis, Nira Yuval-Davis, and Joseph Massad have included Israel in their global analysis of settler societies. Ilan Pappé describes Zionism and Israel in similar terms.

Background

Many of the fathers of Zionism themselves described it as colonialism, such as Vladimir Jabotinsky who said "Zionism is a colonization adventure". Theodore Herzl, in a 1902 letter to Cecil Rhodes, described the Zionist project as "something colonial". Previously in 1896 he had spoken of "important experiments in colonization" happening in Palestine. Max Nordau in 1905 said, "Zionism rejects on principle all colonization on a small scale, and the idea of 'sneaking' into Palestine". Major Zionist organizations central to Israel's foundation held colonial identity in their names or departments, such as Jewish Colonisation Association, the Jewish Colonial Trust, and The Jewish Agency's colonization department.

In 1905, some Jewish immigrants to the region promoted the idea of Hebrew labor, arguing that all Jewish-owned businesses should only employ Jews, to displace Arab workforce hired by the First Aliyah. Zionist organizations acquired land under the restriction that it could never pass into non-Jewish ownership. Later on, kibbutzim—collectivist, all-Jewish agricultural settlements—were developed to counter plantation economies relying on Jewish owners and Palestinian farmers. The kibbutz was also the prototype of Jewish-only settlements later established beyond Israel's pre-1967 borders.

In 1948, 750,000 Palestinians fled or were forcibly displaced from the area that became Israel, and 500 Palestinian villages, as well as Palestinian-inhabited urban areas, were destroyed. Although considered by some Israelis to be a "brutal twist of fate, unexpected, undesired, unconsidered by the early pioneers", some historians have described the Nakba as a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

In the aftermath of the Nakba, Palestinian land was expropriated on a large scale and Palestinian citizens of Israel were encircled in specific areas. Arnon Degani argues that ending military rule over Israel's Palestinian citizens in 1966 shifted from colonial to settler-colonial governance. After the Israeli capture of the Golan Heights in 1967, there was a nearly complete ethnic cleansing of the area, leaving only 6,404 Syrians out of about 128,000 who had lived there before the war. They had been forced out by campaigns of intimidation and forced removal, and those who tried to return were deported. After the Israeli capture of the West Bank, about 250,000 of 850,000 inhabitants fled or were expelled.

Discussion

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Proponents of the paradigm of Zionism as settler colonialism include Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Fayez Sayegh, Maxime Rodinson, George Jabbour, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Baha Abu-Laban, Jamil Hilal, Rosemary Sayigh, and Amal Jamal.

The settler colonial framework on the Palestinian struggle emerged in the 1960s during the decolonization of Africa and the Middle East, and re-emerged in Israeli academia in the 1990s led by Israeli and Palestinian scholars, particularly the New Historians, who refuted some of Israel's foundational myths and considered the Nakba to be ongoing. This coincided with a shift from supporting a two-state solution to a one-state solution that constitutes a state for all citizens equally, which challenges the Jewish identity of Israel.

Rachel Busbridge contends that the subsequent popularity of the idea of Zionism as settler colonialism is inseparable from frustration at the stagnation of the two-state process and resulting Western left-wing sympathy for Palestinian nationalism. She writes that a settler colonial analysis "offers a far more accurate portrayal of the conflict than...has conventionally been painted". Hussein Ibish argues that such zero-sum calls are "a gift that no occupying power and no colonizing settler movement deserves."

The peer-reviewed journal Settler Colonial Societies has published three special issues focused on Israel/Palestine.

The portrayal of Zionism as settler colonialism is strongly rejected by most Zionists and Israeli Jews, and is perceived either as an attack on the legitimacy of Israel, a form of antisemitism, or historically inaccurate. International law professor Yuval Shany has stated that labelling Israel's establishment as a colonial enterprise is "a significant category error". Sociology professor Jeffrey C. Alexander refers to colonialism as "the go-to term for total pollution" of Israel's legitimacy.

Indigeneity

Some critics highlight ideas such as the putative non-exploitation of indigenous labor by Zionists as a reason not to consider it a colonial movement. Historian Benny Morris suggests that Zionism does not meet the definition of colonialism since it did not involve "an imperial power acquiring political control over another country, settling it with its sons, and exploiting it economically". Historian Tom Segev states that "colonialism is irrelevant to the Zionist experience" because most Jewish immigrants came as refugees, and Zionists did not seek to "dominate the local population".

Historian Nur Masalha says, "The Palestinians share common experiences with other indigenous peoples who have had their narrative denied, their material culture destroyed and their histories erased or reinvented by European white settlers and colonisers." This paradigm has gained significant traction among left-leaning activists at universities. According to The Economist, the Palestinian diaspora has sought to reframe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from "a clash between two national movements" to "a generational liberation struggle against 'settler colonialism'".

Israeli Historian S. Ilan Troen suggests that Zionism was the repatriation of a long displaced indigenous population to their historic homeland, and that Zionism does not fit the framework of a settler society as it "was not part of the process of imperial expansion in search of power and markets". Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi states that settler-colonial projects are usually "extensions of the people and of the sovereignty of the mother country", whereas Zionism is an independent "national movement" whose means were nevertheless "explicitly settler-colonial".

With his wife Carol Troen, a former applied linguist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Troen writes that the concept of Palestinian indigeneity is a recent addition to the "linguistic arsenal of lawfare" used to deny Israel's legitimacy. They suggest this frames Israel as inherently settler colonial and as "reprehensible in its exploitation of the indigenous". Cohen and Yuval Shany, a humanitarian law scholar, describe the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as one between two indigenous groups.

Metropole

Some scholars have stated the lack of an imperial power to benefit from exploiting the region, means a colonial paradigm does not apply. Other scholars have stated that Israel's external supporters, either private organizations or various states (such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, or the United States), may function as a metropole (defined as the homeland of a colonial empire).

In 1967, the French historian Maxime Rodinson published Israel: A Colonial Settler-State? (originally published in French). In it, she describes Europe as a whole as the metropole of Israeli settler colonialism. Lorenzo Veracini, who describes Israel as a colonial state, states that Jewish settlers could only expel the British in 1948 because they had their own colonial relationships inside and outside Israel's new borders. He suggests, however, that the possibility of an Israeli disengagement is always latent and that this colonial relationship could be severed if a one-state solution is reached which includes the "accommodation of a Palestinian Israeli autonomy within the institutions of the Israeli state".

Scholar Yuval Shany says that Israel cannot be considered colonialist because it was not an "imposed power" and its creation "was endorsed by the United Nations". Cohen states that Israel's "very diverse, multihued society" includes many Jews who fled persecution in the Middle East and Europe, and who had no metropole they could flee to, unlike most settler colonial societies.

Replacement

Scholar Amal Jamal, from Tel Aviv University, has described Israel as the result of "a settler-colonial movement of Jewish immigrants", stating that Israel has continued to strengthen "exclusive Jewish control" of the land and its resources, while diminishing Palestinian rights and denying Palestinian self-determination.

According to Israeli academics Neve Gordon and Moriel Ram, the incompleteness versus completeness of ethnic cleansing in the territory occupied by Israel has affected the different forms that Israeli settler colonialism has taken in the West Bank versus the Golan Heights. For example, the few remaining Syrian Druze were offered Israeli citizenship in order to further the annexation of the area, while there was never an intention to incorporate West Bank Palestinians into the Israeli demos. Another example is the dual legal structure in the West Bank compared to the unitary Israeli law imposed in the Golan Heights.

According to Patrick Wolfe, Israel's settler colonialism manifests in immigration policies that promote unlimited immigration of Jews while denying family reunification for Palestinian citizens. Wolfe adds, "Despite Zionism's chronic addiction to territorial expansion, Israel's borders do not preclude the option of removal (in this connection, it is hardly surprising that a nation that has driven so many of its original inhabitants into the sand should express an abiding fear of itself being driven into the sea)."

Salamanca et al. state that Israeli practices have often been studied as distinct but related phenomena, and that the settler-colonial paradigm is an opportunity to understand them together. As examples of settler colonial phenomena they include "aerial and maritime bombardment, massacre and invasion, home demolitions, land theft, identity card confiscation, racist laws and loyalty tests, the wall, the siege on Gaza, cultural appropriation, dependence on willing (or unwilling) native collaboration regarding security arrangements".

Historiography

According to the Israeli sociologist Uri Ram, the characterization of Zionism as colonial "is probably as old as the Zionist movement". John Collins states that studies have "definitively established" that "the architects of Zionism were conscious and often unapologetic about their status as colonizers whose right to the land superseded that of Palestine's Arab inhabitants". Other settler colonial projects did not lay out their plans for dispossessing and eliminating the inhabitants in detail and in advance. One early analysis was that of Palestinian writer Fayez Sayegh in his 1965 essay "Zionist Colonialism in Palestine", which was unusual for the pre-1967 era in specifying Zionism as a form of settler colonialism. Sayegh later drafted the UN's "Zionism is racism" resolution. After Israel assumed control of the whole Mandatory Palestine in 1967, settler-colonial analyses became prominent among Palestinians. In Israel, the New Historians movement which emerged in the 1980s was associated with colonial analysis. Along with explicitly settler colonial analysis, another persistent view is that the "Zionist national project has been predicated on the destruction of the Palestinian one".

Although settler colonialism is an empirical framework, it is associated with favoring a one-state solution. Rachel Busbridge argues that settler colonialism is "a coherent and legible frame" and "a far more accurate portrayal of the conflict than the picture of Palestinian criminality and Israeli victimhood that has conventionally been painted". She also argues that settler colonial analysis is limited, especially when it comes to the question of decolonization.

Anthropologist Anne de Jong says that early Zionists promoted a narrative of binary conflict between two competing groups with equally valid claims in order to deflect criticisms of settler colonialism. In 2013, historian Lorenzo Veracini argued that settler colonialism has been successful in Israel proper but unsuccessful in the territories occupied in 1967. Historian Rashid Khalidi argues that all other settler-colonial wars in the twentieth century ended in defeat for colonists, making Palestine an exception: "Israel has been extremely successful in forcibly establishing itself as a colonial reality in a post-colonial age".

Elia Zureik's Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit, updates his earlier work on colonialism and Palestine and applies Michel Foucault's work on biopolitics to colonialism, arguing that racism plays a central role and that surveillance becomes a tool of governance. It also analyses the dispossession of indigenous people and population transfer, including sociological, historical and postcolonial studies into an examination of the Zionist project in Palestine. Sánchez and Pita argue that Israeli settler colonialism has had far more severe effects on the indigenous Palestinian population than the discriminations suffered by the Spanish and Mexican populations in the Southwest of the United States in the wake of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the Mexican–American War. Most scholars who have addressed Israeli settler colonialism have not discussed the Golan Heights.

Sociologist Areej Sabbagh-Khoury suggests that "in tracing the settler colonial paradigm ... Israeli critical sociology, albeit groundbreaking, has suffered from a myopia engendered through hegemony." She states that "until recently, most Israeli academics engaged in discussing the nature of the state ignored its settler colonial components", and that scholarship conducted "within a settler colonial framework" has not been given serious attention in Israeli critical academia, "perhaps due to the general disavowal of the colonial framework among Israeli scholars."

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