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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Misplaced Pages talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 22:45, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

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• Article history

• ... that according to one study, settler colonialism has been successful inside Israel, but not in the territories occupied in 1967? Source: "Israeli/Zionist settler colonialism was remarkably successful before 1967, and was largely unsuccessful thereafter... When we think about settler colonialism in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we need to direct our gaze both towards the West Bank, where it has manifestly failed, and towards Israel proper, where it succeeded." Veracini 2013
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Together We Live

Created by Buidhe (talk). Self-nominated at 07:33, 2 April 2022 (UTC).

• @Buidhe: Can we get other hook proposals? Reason: colonization (more recently; settler colonization in the past) is a valid frame to look at Zionism as, probably (?) the correct one, but the lead of the nominated article itself says that it is still not the dominant framing as of 2022. Thus, having a hook which states the view as fact is inaccurate to the subject. While the hook does credit itself to "one study", the phrasing at the moment still states the settler colonialism as pure fact and only the perspectives on its success as what the study is claiming. The other question is if the study in question was cherry-picked for the hook fact, as I do note a recent string of anti-Israel hooks. And, like I asked recently with hooks for even Russia, where there is conflict, we should look to neutrality and accuracy (taken in balance to each other). So is there nothing else to say on the topic? Maybe there is a hook to be made about kibbutzim as proto-settlements? I am surprised the article doesn't mention early IDF objectives to destroy and resettle Arab villages, but recognise it is a work in progress. Kingsif (talk) 11:13, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
  • Kingsif: I disagree that it states as fact, since it's clearly attributed to one study. As far as I can tell from the reading I've done, Zionism is undisputed as a form of settler colonialism by scholars of settler colonialism and was highlighted as such by the main pioneer in establishing the field, Patrick Wolfe. The journal Settler Colonial Studies has published a lot of articles about I/P but as far as I know, none that reject the paradigm. Rejection comes from outside this specific field of study; many scholars of the I/P conflict analyze it as a national or territorial conflict (although this is not mutually exclusive with settler colonialism). If you do a Google Scholar search, it's clear that the virtually all results discussing the topic (settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine) are using this analysis, so focusing on rejection would require cherry-picking. Obviously, the article is not complete and could be expanded a lot from the sources available. No one complained when I came up with a long string of hooks that reflected poorly on Germany, Turkey or Slovakia, so I think the same is true of any other country. (t · c) buidhe 18:32, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

• @Buidhe: As I said, the phrasing attributes the views on success to the study, treating the idea of settler colonialism happening there as a given and just something to be assessed. It would be like saying "that, according to one source, Russia's denazification of Ukraine has been successful, but only in the south and east" - this statement is true (Kremlin as the source), and it sounds like the source is just weighing in on the places of success, with "Russia's denazification of Ukraine" basically in wikivoice. I'm not comparing the two situations, but hope this analogy gets across how the "settler colonialism in Israel" statement does not seem to be coming from the study mentioned. I'm also not saying it's bad or wrong or anything, but that the article doesn't, at the moment, seem to support such certainty. Perhaps a little more expansion would make all well. Kingsif (talk) 20:28, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Otherwise; new enough, long enough, QPQ done. The ref section looks a little unusual, and again concerned about overall coverage. Sectioning also doesn't seem standard for history/ideology article? I presume the article will improve with expanding. Kingsif (talk) 13:30, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

OK, article has now been expanded and reorganized. If you don't like the original hook, how about:

• ALT1: ... that according to historian Rashid Khalidi, "Israel has been extremely successful in forcibly establishing itself as a colonial reality in a post-colonial age"?
• ALT2: ... that settler colonialism theorist Patrick Wolfe argues that "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"?
• ALT3... that the argument that the "Zionist national project has been predicated on the destruction of the Palestinian one" is related to a settler-colonial analysis of the conflict?

(t · c) buidhe 04:43, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the update, I think there are still some article issues, but, you know, better quality than a lot out there. Ideally, hooks shouldn't just be X says "quote", so alt3 is the best from that standpoint, but all of them are a little unwieldy. I acknowledge you're trying to work around my comments of stating as fact, so thanks for that. It is for these issues, though (lack of article quality and a suitable hook), that I would, personally, fail this nom. I don't want you to think that I'm out to stop your noms, though, because I'm not, so I'll offer this up for someone else to review. Sorry about that. Kingsif (talk) 10:24, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

OK, thanks for your opinion and pushing me to improve the article. When dealing with an abstract topic, I've found quotes to be a successful way of building hooks. (t · c) buidhe 17:03, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

From cursory look I have found at least three sources written by academic or printed in academic press that oppose the notion that presnted in the article ,,(p46-47) I think important to include them per WP:NPOV . I am willing to send full text version to anyone intersted --Shrike (talk) 12:09, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

I wouldn't add the first source because it's a news not academic source. Colonialism isn't the same thing as settler colonialism and the second source is about the former rather than the latter, not mentioning settler colonialism at all. The third source is about campus debates on Israel and does not discuss settler colonialism either, only mentioning it in a few quotes from other sources. Of course relevant criticism can be added (in fact it already exists in the article), but in order to avoid cherrypicking, I would only cite sources that are about settler colonialism of which there are many. (t · c) buidhe 16:22, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Buidhe, Kingsif, I am suspending this nomination because of active NPOV challenges (whose merits I do not assess but there is a banner and several largely unresolved talk page discussions) and a merge request which may substantially impact the quality and depth of coverage of this article. When these are resolved in either way, you may resume. (You may request third-party input for the talk discussions so that the NPOV concerns are settled for good). I also ask to start working on it because it's been hanging in the air for quite some time, and we have a backlog here. PS. I will close the talk page RfC and will look into closing other discussions if I think I will be accurate in doing so. Szmenderowiecki (talk) 18:18, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

• The tags have been removed per Misplaced Pages:Template_index/Cleanup#Best_practices_in_heavily_monitored_articles. There is no consensus that there are problems with the article or to institute changes proposed on the talk page. I don't agree that people should be able to block a DYK nomination when they cannot get consensus for their criticism or provide high-quality sources to back up proposed edits. (t · c) buidhe 19:58, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

• The "X" icon means that the nomination is to be closed as unsuccessful; suspending requires something else entirely, such as what I've used here. In any event, with the extant tags on the Historiography and Criticism sections, the article cannot be approved in its current state. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:31, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

• BlueMoonset The tags were added back still without any consensus that they belong there. How can some editors who don't like it just block a DYK and keep cleanup tags on an article when they cannot get consensus for any of their changes? (t · c) buidhe 16:46, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
• If it's worth anything, I think the article is accurate and, while I would like it to be broader, I would not have personally added orange tags. I don't have much time at the moment for Misplaced Pages, unfortunately, so I can't offer much more input or try to help work on the article. But if someone wanted to review it, as it is, and they approved it, I would not personally have objections to the approval. Kingsif (talk) 22:14, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

All orange banners have been removed, so this is ready for a review. @Kingsif: are you or anyone else interested in reviewing this? Z1720 (talk) 18:04, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Comment Touch banners were removed but the problems were not got away article in current form is not DYK material I urge the reviewer to check the article for POV problems moreover the article is not new enough any longer so I am not sure its eligible at all per our policies --Shrike (talk) 10:41, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

• Shrike: you haven't commented on the talk page since 12 May, and you have barely touched the article. Engage with it if you like, but don't just harang at DYK. Iskandar323 (talk) 11:29, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Comment This article has a serious problem of neutrality, as many editors have already pointed out on the article's talk page. It somewhat ignores that this entire paradigm is mostly promoted by activists and academics associated with the Palestinian side in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and almost entirely ignores the Jewish history of the land. Several sources that criticize this paradigm are repeatedly removed under the false claim that "settlement colonial movements" or "colonial-settler states" are unrelated to settler colonialism. It is claimed that prominent scholars who reject this paradigm do not have expertise in this area. As per WP:NPOV, this nomination should be suspended until these problems are solved and criticism is re-added. Tombah (talk) 10:06, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

• There are multiple concerns from multiple editors that the article in its current state does not properly adhere to NPOV. As this nomination has been open since April without significant progress towards addressing these concerns, it appears that the article will not be stable or adequately neutral enough for DYK any time soon. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:46, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
• I read the talk page, the RFC and the DYK nomination. It appears to me to be NPOV compliant. Those opposing the nomination do not point to a specific item of contention and some of it smacks of WP:IDONTLIKEIT. The article has multiple WP:RS to WP:V and participants in the discussions have had exactly four months to make any specific changes. The article uses the correct inline citations and it is long enough. It was also new enough on April 2, 2022. My reading of the article is that it is neutral and there are no POV tags atm. The article has been stable since July 11, 2022. It is plagiarism free, the qpq is done. I will accept ALT1 as confirmed and interesting. Bruxton (talk) 17:54, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Map

Does anyone know if there is a freely licensed version of one of the Palestine land loss maps like this one? (t · c) buidhe 08:04, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

I only know Template:Palestinian territory development Selfstudier (talk) 15:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Article tag

Hi Tombah, would you mind explaining why you added the article tag? What viewpoints present in reliable sources do you think are missing and what sources specifically should be cited in order to cover them? (t · c) buidhe 19:11, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

This controversial article needs a section on criticism of the concept, obviously. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a01:73c0:600:6b2b::11c2:1bc9 (talk) 19:19, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

You forgot to sign. I see some criticism in the article and in the lead, so what's missing that would justify adding a whole section? You say it is "controversial", based on what? Selfstudier (talk) 21:34, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Sorry for that, I should have done so earlier. Yes, a criticism appears in the lead, but only because I added it yesterday... Personally, I find it hard to believe that the whole criticism against that paradigm can be summed up in two sentences. As mentioned above, this is an (extremely) controversial topic, mainly put forward by scholars who are usually identified with one side of the conflict. If you are asking why it is so controversial, the answer is clear: the other side in the conflict, as explicitly stated in the article, completely rejects these claims. To portray a more balance picture, we need to make sure the criticism is described in much greater detail. Tombah (talk) 07:29, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Tombah Misplaced Pages is based on reliable sources. If you can't find any sources that cover settler colonialism versus Zionism from a perspective that it doesn't apply, such content can't be included in the encyclopedia. the other side in the conflict, as explicitly stated in the article, completely rejects these claims Public opinion is a poor guide to encyclopedic content; for example, most Turkish people reject the idea of an Armenian genocide and consider it anti-Turkish. But this point of view is mostly ignored on Misplaced Pages because it's not backed up by reliable sources. (t · c) buidhe 07:59, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

The entirety of the "criticism" in the Busbridge article is already quoted here, that Jewish Israelis object and consider it an attack on the legitimacy of the state and possibly antisemitic. Note that Busbridge does not say either of these things are true, and throughout the article engages in the paradigm and discusses the history of its use. KKK members reject that they are white supremacists too, so what? What is needed, if you want to have a critique disputing the applicability of the framing of Zionism as a settler colonial project, is reliable sources that actually dispute it. nableezy - 21:23, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

buidhe Generally, I would say I agree. But in this case, public opinion simply reflects the reality on the ground. Around 50-60% of Jewish Israelis today are Mizrahi Jews, the descendants of Jewish immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa. Many of them were expelled or evacuated from Arab and Muslim-majority countries. Is Iraq their metropole? or maybe Morocco? The same can be said about the founders of Zionism, most of them were European Jews who were persecuted in the Diaspora. Is there a reason to believe that David Ben Gurion, or Theodor Herzl, were sent by Russia or Austria-Hungary for colonial purposes? What drove them was finding a solution to rising antisemitism in Europe, which they believed would be the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. To sum up, the colonial claims are clearly controversial, to say the least, and leaving these points out would mislead our readers. nableezy, I am sure there are many scholarly articles which can further expand on these points. Few are already mentioned in this article: . Using them would be a great start. Tombah (talk) 21:58, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

The same can be said about the founders of Zionism, most of them were European Jews who were persecuted in the Diaspora.

Any evidence for this wild claim, which certainly contradicts my prosopographical profiles of the founders of Zionism. The overwhelming majority suffered no persecution. Nishidani (talk) 08:24, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Colonialism and Zionism would be a separate article. As Verancini wrote in the first issue of Settler Colonial Studies, "Colonialism and settler colonialism are not merely different, they are in some ways antithetical formations". Much of the rest of this statement has little or nothing to do with the arguments made by researchers of settler colonialism. Again, we need a reliable source specifically about settler colonialism to include such arguments. (t · c) buidhe 22:07, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

If you have sources that dispute anything our article says or offers a different view on this topic then you should bring them and add them where they fit. Waving to some imagined source that you are sure exists is not a valid reason to tag the article. nableezy - 23:48, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

@Nableezy That is incorrect... There is no "our" or "their" here. This is a collective responsibility of all editors (not just myself) to maintain balance in articles. As I already pointed before, there are already some sources cited on another Misplaced Pages which show the other side of this viewpoint. and until these sources are cited here as well, the template should stay. Tombah (talk) 05:43, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

What sources specifically? Please paste them here after checking that they are about settler colonialism specifically. Otherwise there is no basis for the tag. (t · c) buidhe 05:46, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

our article means Misplaced Pages's article, I didnt use our to not include you. And again, just waving to some source without showing that it is relevant is simply not an acceptable tactic. If there is some source that offers some critical view on the topic of this article, Misplaced Pages's article, that is actually related to the topic of the article, then present it. Otherwise I will be removing the tag from the article as lacking any foundation. Tags require a good faith effort to demonstrate the issue and address it. You have merely claimed one, and that is not sufficient. nableezy - 07:11, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

One added, more to come. Tombah (talk) 08:35, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

I removed the tag, if you have justified criticism to add, then add it rather than placing a tag to no useful purpose.Selfstudier (talk) 09:24, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

All the usual pro-Israel criticism (applied to any subject at all), antisemitism, BDS, blah blah, even a computer scientist. Is that the sum result of all the trawling? Can we get on with doing a proper article now? Selfstudier (talk) 11:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

All the new sources are respected scholarly publication or university press so I don't see any problems. Shrike (talk) 12:37, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Really? The hysterical screed by Judea Pearl is a slapdash tirade and not academic, since the author has no specialized knowledge of what he writes about. None of the standards adhered to in his professional area of research are respected. But I'm not going to fuss about it.Nishidani (talk) 13:04, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

If Indiana University Press found him good to print that he probably did meets some standards Shrike (talk) 13:23, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

The book is published by Indiana University Press, correct, but he is well outside his area of expertise. Why exactly is a computer scientist relevant here? The contribution is entirely personal opinion, not anything scholarly. nableezy - 16:28, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

The biggest issues with the new "criticism" section are 1) original research and 2) due weight. For #1, I checked the sources and found:

• Lissak: no mention of settler colonialism
• Pearl: no mention of settler colonialism
• Hirsch: exactly one mention of settler colonialism, no in-depth engagement with what settler colonial theorists are actually arguing, which is very different from the strawman he is going after
• Norwood: no mention of settler colonialism
• Troen: no mention of settler colonialism

On the due weight front, I went through the first thirty results on Google scholar for "settler colonialism" Zionism and found that literally none of the sources within the first 30 results are criticising the application of settler colonial theory to Zionism. Misplaced Pages should reflect the vast majority of reliable sources on the topic; writing a long criticism section by cherrypicking sources that are opposed is not in keeping with due weight. (t · c) buidhe 17:29, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

I started looking in first source its clearly discussed and refuted "However, in practice, the unique circumstances that predominated during the Ottoman period led them, according to Shafir, tochose between two alone: the model of "plantation colonialism," with a split market of the type found in the southern United States or South Africa,and that of "pure settlement colonialism," which completely pushes the natives out of the labor market...". I will look in other sources too Shrike (talk) 17:46, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

I don't know what "settlement colonialism" is. This article is about settler colonialism, which is a very specific thing. (t · c) buidhe 17:54, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Which exactly the same thing Shrike (talk) 18:01, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

(t · c) buidhe 18:02, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Unless these sources tackle specifically the 'settler colonialism' thesis, they don't belong here, and should be removed. On Buidhe's analysis above, this would apply to most of them. Nishidani (talk) 21:09, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Well, this is really getting out of hand... settler colonialism and settlement colonialism are exactly the same thing. Our own article on "Settler colonialism" mentions the word "settlement" countless times, and mentions that "settler colonialism" contrasts with "exploitation colonialism"... Well, it's not hard to see which of the two "settlement colonialism" is identical to. Hopefully in a few years, when time travel is actually possible, we would be able to go back in time to the early Middle Ages, and ask the Old English speakers how did they come up with this interesting language. Tombah (talk) 11:21, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

(Opinion) https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-why-slamming-israel-as-a-settler-colonial-state-is-such-a-useless-insult-1.9999205

"Calling Israel a settler colonial state is correct and helpful analytically" & "Settler-colonialism is not a "colonialism that has settlers."" Anyway, it is obvious that your additions are not exactly well researched.Selfstudier (talk) 11:45, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Well, I'm not sure how this opinion article helps this discussion anyway. Tombah (talk) 11:54, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Besides, you should check the sources again. David Hirsh uses the phrase "settler-colonialism" (with an hyphen), and Stephen H. Norwood mentions colonial-settler. Judea Pearl uses the term "White settlers", which redirects to Settler colonialism. All of these terms are clearly synonyms. Tombah (talk) 11:38, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

To all those wittering on about 'settlement colonialism', please see Ngrams and understand that there is no contest in terms of usage. Iskandar323 (talk) 11:46, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

This proves what? Yes, settler-colonialism is the more widespread term. It doesn't mean other terms can't be used. And again, the sources cited use their own naming, but all refer to the same thing - settler-colonialism. This discussion is getting pointless, and I really think we are all wasting our time on this. Can we conclude it already? Tombah (talk) 11:54, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Well, as noted by @Buidhe, we would still need a source saying that the two terms mean the same thing to claim as much. Iskandar323 (talk) 12:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Judea Perl is a world class philosopher, much more prominent than Moshé Machover for example, whose views on same subject are regularly added by involved parties. Tritomex (talk) 23:13, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

That seems completely made up. Pearl, not Perl, is a computer scientist and an expert on any number of computer science related topics, among them AI and probabilities and statistics. He however has no expertise on the topics of Zionism or settler colonialism. Machover likewise has no academic expertise on these topics. nableezy - 03:46, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

And what about Noam Chomsky? Do we consider him as an expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict? Tombah (talk) 11:28, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

More than Judea Perl, yes. Noam Chomsky is actually a 'world class philosopher' and has written prolifically on US policy in Israel-Palestine. Iskandar323 (talk) 11:39, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Okay, got it. Tombah (talk) 11:56, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Not 'more than'. Chomsky is an historian of the I/P conflict, and has written many books, thoroughly researched and footnoted, on the topic going back to 1974 (Peace in the Middle East? a very balanced account) at least. All are thoroughly researched and documented by not only the academic literature but with sourcing from Hebrew newspapers. Pearl is a leading figure in his field, but has no competence in the topic. He is plainly out of his depth.Nishidani (talk) 12:10, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

As for Norwood and Hirsh, its obvious that they are experts in this fields and that their arguments refers to "Settler colonialism" As For Pearl, he is a rewarded intelectual, philosopher and public figure and his attributed remarks on this question are fully acceptable. You dont need to be a historian to have a notable view on this subject, nor this criteria applied anywhere in other article's with similar or same thematic. Tritomex (talk) 07:56, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

The concept of deferring to "subject-matter experts" is a criteria that applies whenever articles get into the nitty gritty. Pearl is not renowned for any sort of historical or political insight. His accolades are purely based on his work as a computer scientist. Writing opinion pieces in sympathetic publications does not make one a subject-matter expert. Iskandar323 (talk) 08:09, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Notability has nothing to do with reliability, nor does it have anything to do with article content. Pearl is notable, that is why we have an article on him. He is not an expert on this topic however, no more than say Alan Dershowitz would be. Beyond that, even if he were an expert, his use here would still be SYNTH as he does not discuss settler colonialism. Chomsky isn't cited anywhere on this page as far as I can tell, making that whataboutism somewhat perplexing. nableezy - 09:27, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Tombah you have the WP:ONUS here completely backwards. The onus to achieve consensus is on the one seeking to include disputed material. I reverted based on ARBPIA, but now I am reverting based on OR/SYNTH issues, and per ONUS you need to demonstrate that there is consensus to include, not shift that onus on to me. nableezy - 08:17, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

This article is violation WP:NPOV and WP:DUE. It promotes a fringe theory that is seen by many as anti-Semitic. And without the criticism section, as it is written now, this article is the most one-sided piece on English Misplaced Pages. Tombah (talk) 08:31, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Just saying so does not make it true. Please see WP:FRINGE, it does not in any way describe the content of this article, and it cannot be used to describe what actual expertise say about a topic. And see Misplaced Pages:Criticism for how criticism sections are generally used by users with strong opinions seeking to shoehorn in their POVs. We say who sees it as anti-semitic in the article already. The "by many" part of that is however untrue. nableezy - 09:30, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Sources

A potentially useful source which is not cited in the current article or the one on settler colonialism is the 2006 article by Bashir Abu-Manneh in New Formations Volume 2006 Issue 59 called "Israel in US Empire". A copy is stored on the University of Kent archive here.

A source which is cited in the current article, but not in the one on settler colonialism is Elia Zureik's "Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine, Brutal Pursuit" (2016, Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict). A full copy of the book is available at the cdn.lbryplayer.xyz domain.

Some other sources making references which are perhaps of interest:

1. "Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict" (2015) by John B. Judis:

Page 82.4 / 970 of the electronic edition:

"Ben-Gurion and the socialist Zionists wanted to avoid being seen as colonialists, but they ended up replacing the colonialism of the European settler in Africa who exploited the native laborers with the colonialism of the European settler in North America who displaced rather than employed the Native Americans who lived on the lands they coveted. Moreover, in justifying their displacement of Arab labor, the Zionists invoked the same arguments that European settler colonialists had used in Australia, Africa, and North America: they were putting to good use lands the Arabs had desolated."

With regard to "Zionists the same arguments that European settler colonialists had used", examples found elsewhere in the book include:

Page 65.0 / 970:

"Herzl’s appeal was geopolitical but also cultural, reflecting the widespread European justification of imperialism as an instrument of civilization. The new state, he promised, “should there form a part of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism.” The writer Max Nordau, who would become Herzl’s second-in-command in the Zionist movement, agreed. “We will endeavor to do in the Near East what the English did in India. It is our intention to come to Palestine as the representatives of culture and to take the moral borders of Europe to the Euphrates.” ... But, like other Europeans during this age of imperialism, he viewed the natives in Asia, Africa, and Latin America as lesser beings who could be bought off—and, if that failed, subjugated."

Page 79.3 / 970:

"Gordon’s vision of a Jewish nation and state could be described as an ethnocracy. It excluded not only Arab labor but the Arab people themselves. Gordon acknowledged that Arabs had “a historical right to the country, just as we do,” but he claimed that the Jewish right “is undoubtedly greater.” “And what did the Arabs produce in all the years they lived in the country?” he asked. “Such creations, or even the creation of the Bible alone, give us a perpetual right over the land in which we were so creative, especially since the people that came after us did not create such works in this country, or did not create anything at all.”58 Gordon added: “Some hold that when we come to Palestine to settle upon the land, we are dispossessing Arabs who are its natural masters. But what does this term mean? If mastery of the land implies political mastery, then the Arabs have long ago forfeited their title.” Ahad Ha’am’s vision of Palestine left an opening for compromise with its existing inhabitants. Gordon’s did not; and Gordon’s vision of nationhood eventually superseded that of Ahad Ha’am. Ben-Gurion, Katznelson, and the socialist Zionists who arrived during the Second Aliyah still gave some adherence to international socialism, but they subordinated the dictates of the international class struggle to the attempt to create a Jewish state. Zeev Sternhell calls them “nationalist socialists.” Within nationalist socialism, there was still room for concern about Arab workers and their fate; and at intervals over their first thirty years in Palestine, some of the socialists would voice support for a more democratic or binational Palestine."

Page 294.8 / 970:

"Faced with an Arab challenge, backed up by Europe’s fascists and Nazis, Labor Zionists declared themselves victims of a “feudalist-imperialist” coalition. The Arab “savages” were now part of this “feudalist-imperialist” coalition led by Nazi Germany. Over the next decades, even after the Allied victory in World War II and the collapse of Western colonialism in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, Zionists and later Israelis would continue to view their conflict with the Arabs through this twin prism of higher versus lower races and democracy against fascism and Nazism. They continued to describe Arabs as savages and barbarians, and their leaders as the heirs of Hitler. That included the mufti after World War II, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, PLO leader Yasir Arafat, and Hamas’s Khaled Meshal. Such a view highlighted Zionism as a national liberation movement for oppressed Jewry and ally of the world’s advanced democracies and obscured its role as a settler-colonial movement that had displaced or driven out a native population."

Page 324.1 / 970:

"Declaring that “colonization on a large scale is the greatest work of national life,” Asher asserted that the Jews were following the example of the British in Southern and Central Africa and in Australia and New England who had turned “barren deserts … into places of habitation … The attempts of other nations in other parts of the world give us courage.”"

Page p368.8 / 970:

"One factor that may have encouraged this was the imperial mind-set with which many Americans and Europeans viewed Palestine’s Arabs. Herzl had displayed this mind-set in saying that Palestinian Arabs could be won over to Jewish rule by the prosperity that Jews would bring to Palestinians. More advanced peoples might covet self-rule, but primitives would be satisfied with bread on the table. Brandeis and his circle shared this view. Palestine’s Arabs, Wise wrote, “do not desire anything particularly except food. They are … in the depths of primitive life.” ... Americans, of course, didn’t have to look to Europe to acquire a hierarchical view of humanity that justified conquest. Americans had invoked the need to civilize savage races to justify Indian removal and Manifest Destiny. Brandeis and his circle viewed the Zionist settlers as “pioneers,” “pilgrims,” and “puritans” and the Arabs as “Indians.” The comparison was partly an apt one. America was the original settler colony where the immigrants displaced the native inhabitants and eventually established a state of their own. Brandeis saw it as justifying Jews displacing Arabs in Palestine. Until well after World War II, the rout of the Indians was seen as a triumph of civilization over savagery. In his Winning of the West, Theodore Roosevelt wrote of the Indian Wars that “the struggle could not possibly have been avoided. Unless we were willing that the whole continent west of the Alleghenies should remain an unpeopled waste, the hunting ground of savages, war was inevitable … It is wholly impossible to avoid conflicts with the weaker race.” Brandeis and other progressives saw the conflict between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine similarly."

Page p629.0 / 970:

"The Zionist leaders preferred that Arabs in a Jewish state become citizens of the Arab state. In that case, Ben-Gurion said, “we would be able to expel them.”"

2. "Dear Palestine, A Social History of the 1948 War" (2021) - Shay Hazkani:

"For many early Zionists, including the founding father of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, European settler colonialism — especially the German experience before the First World War — was a model. In the German case, the Colonization Commission (Ansiedlungskommission), set up in 1886 by Otto von Bismarck, worked to transfer lands from Polish to German ownership in Poznan and West Prussia in order to transform the demographic balance there and reduce the Slavs to a minority population, subdued and depoliticized. The commission bought large farms from Poles, divided them into small parcels, and settled German farmers on them. Arthur Ruppin, who headed the Palestine office of the Zionist Organization (ZO), was born in Poznan and explicitly sought to replicate this model to transform the demographic balance in Palestine in favor of the Jews. To centralize the purchase of Arab lands and prevent the resale of Jewish-owned land to Arabs, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) was established in 1901. By 1907 Ruppin helped set up the Palestine Land Development Company (PLDC) along the lines of the German Colonization Commission, and even hired a former official from the German commission as a special advisor. The PLDC aimed to create homogeneous groups of Jewish farmers and support new agricultural settlements. Many of those farmers were Jews from eastern Europe, where antisemitic violence intensified in the late nineteenth century."

    ←   ZScarpia   12:50, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

3. "Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century" (2005, Routledge) - Caroline Elkins, Susan Pedersen (eds.): The Introduction defines settler colonialism and outlines different types and variations. Chapter 2, "Settler Citizenship in the Jewish Colonization of Palestine", by Gershon Shafir, deals specifically with Palestine. In the introduction to Part 1, how later settler projects learned lessons from earlier ones, including Zionism from the French experience in Algeria, is noted.

4. "Colonialism and the Jews" (2017) - Ethan B. Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Mandel (eds.): A review of the book by John Strawson in Fathom Journal may be read here. As noted, in Part 3, the "the focus of the debate is whether the Yishuv can be mainly characterised as an example of settler-colonialism." Chapter 8 discusses Zionism in the context of the "emigrant colonialism" pushed by European states which came late to the race to establish colonies, a category which should perhaps be added to the article on colonialism. Something which is not mentioned much elsewhere, though straying from the subject of the current article, is how various European states pushed for the establishment of colonies for their 'surplus' Jewish populations, which in turn led them to support Zionists in their efforts to create a state for themselves in Palestine. The influence which the settler colonial activities of the German Settlement Commission in West Prussia had on Alfred Ruppin is mentioned on page 174.

"A Century of Settler Colonialism in Palestine: Zionism’s Entangled Project", an article in edition Fall/Winter 2017, volume xxiv, issue i of The Brown Journal of World Affairs by Tariq Dana and Ali Jarbawi of Birzeit University, may be read here.

Some Misplaced Pages articles on topics of potential interest: Palestine Jewish Colonization Association; Jewish Colonisation Association.

    ←   ZScarpia   23:32, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Criticism

Once again, this obviously controversial theory needs criticism, both in lead and article's body. And the sources we have are all relevant.

Lissak: mentions "settlement colonialist movements", "settlement colonialism"

Hirsch: mentions settler-colonialism (and yes, it's okay that this article touches on other criticism of Zionism.)

Norwood: mentions "colonial-settler state"

Troen: speaks about Israel, colonialism and "settler societies"

In any case, scholars who reject the theory that Zionism is a form of colonialism, also reject the comparison with settler colonialism - which is obviously a sub-category or a type of colonialism. This is just basic logic. Sources which refute the comparison of Zionism with colonialism should be also taken into account. Tombah (talk) 08:31, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

I think historiography section without criticism is clearly WP:UNDUE and should be removed. It present a narrow set of opinion slanted toward one POV Shrike (talk) 08:46, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Settler colonialism isn't a subset of colonialism, it's not even colonialism plus settlers. Colonialism is imperialist (eg the British Empire) exploiting of local labor while settler-colonialism looks to take the land and this is only one difference albeit an important one. Anyone may add relevant material to the historiography, if there is material expressing a different view, then add that. A historiography is obviously not some sort of anti-criticism. Selfstudier (talk) 09:06, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

The key points:

1. Original research: sources that don't verifiably mention the topic
2. Undue weight: the vast majority of sources on this topic don't engage in this type of criticism. A long section on it is clearly UNDUE
3. Cherry-picking: the section cherry-picks sources that either don't mention the topic or are about something else entirely
4. Violation of WP:ONUS: no consensus to include this material

Have yet to be addressed. The material may not be restored until all of them have been. (t · c) buidhe 09:34, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

First of all, I do believe that all the sources cited under the "criticism" section are actually referring to the same concept. The terms "Settler colonialism", "colonial-settler", "settler society" and "settlement colonialism" are all synonyms, and are used interchangeably in some sources. But, for some reason, the one source that did use the original naming (by Hirsch), was removed from this article as well. It almost seems like we are just trying to get rid of criticism. Are we falling prey for WP:IDONTLIKEIT?.

It's true, most sources do not engage in this type of criticism. Those who does are very explicit why: they completely reject this comparison and view it as another tool used to delegitimize Israel; others even claim this theory is anti-Semitic. Other sources try to refute the claims one by one, but they were deleted too. On the same time, one of the sources that appear at lead explicitly mention this theory is developed by scholars identified with one of the two sides. To me, it is clear this article violates WP:NPOV. Tombah (talk) 17:39, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

By cherrypicking I mean selecting sources that, assuming you are correct in your interpretation of them, just mention settler colonialism once and don't treat the subject in depth, while ignoring many other sources that do treat the subject (settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine) in depth.

The only source that, according to your analysis, deals with the topic substantially is Lissak. I don't know if the author is notable, but the idea that nationalism and colonialism are mutually exclusive is not a mainstream view, otherwise what is American nationalism or Afrikaner nationalism? German nationalism was key to the development of the German colonial empire both in Europe and Africa. (t · c) buidhe 01:53, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Again those papers/books were printed in respectable academic journals making them WP:DUE and WP:RS also without the proper criticism the article is incomplete and not WP:NPOV, your argument seems to me like WP:IDONTLIKEIT --Shrike (talk) 09:00, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Having a respectable publisher does not guarantee inclusion. Nor is criticism required in an article for completeness, you can always find someone to criticize something, the question is whether the criticism is part of a meaningful inquiry or more like....nah. I don't understand the reference to Idontlikeit, don't like what, specifically? What's "proper criticism"? Criticism you approve of? tool used to delegitimize Israel; others even claim this theory is anti-Semitic Really? They say the same thing about apartheid allegations, BDS and pretty much anything else they don't like. I suggest taking the sources you want to include one by one and see where we get to. Selfstudier (talk) 09:21, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

As Buidhe notes, the real WP:DUE issue is whether sources cover the subject in depth. Minor references in WP:RS are not necessarily due. Iskandar323 (talk) 11:16, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Wider NPOV concerns

This article has multiple NPOV notices on it, which is not surprising. What is surprising is how the people disputing the neutrality of this article ignore the elephant in the room. The entire assumption of settler colonialism as an ongoing system of oppression, rather than an event or process, is controversial. Someone on this talk page thought it was obvious, beyond dispute, that American nationalism and Afrikaner nationalism were forms of colonialism. Many people would dispute that. The idea that the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc. existing and not returning their entire territories to their native minorities is a form of ongoing colonialism in 2022 is something that many people would disagree with. The idea that South Africa, a country where the black majority has the majority of the power in the Government of South Africa and in most provincial governments, is suffering settler colonialism in 2022 by Afrikaners, or white South Africans more broadly, is controversial.

The fact that nobody seems to raise the obvious point that the framework of settler colonialism (as settler-colonial studies define it) is itself controversial, yet assumed true without justification, is representative of a political bias that needs to be examined. And even if you accept the framework that countries that were formed by settler colonialism (the uncontroversial definition of it) are still settler colonies by the virtue of their continued existence, it is unclear how it applies to Israel and Palestine. Jewish people were the original inhabitants of the Holy Land before Arabs settled there. Of course, defenders of Zionism as settler colonialism have heard that, and they have responses to it. But the fact the only concession to opponents of the Zionism as settler colonialism framework is that some people view it as antisemitic is not enough.

Of course, many people, especially Western leftists sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, believe strongly in this framework, and it is a legitimate framework to examine Israeli and Palestinian histories and present realities. This article should remain to describe this framework. However, it still assumes a multitude of controversial beliefs that are treated as obvious truth in this article. For example, by describing Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States as settler colonial states without any hesitation. This article should be rewritten to avoid treating the framework of settler colonialism as undisputed truth, and it should mention the perspectives of people who believe that the foundation of the State of Israel or even the settlements in the West Bank are forms of "decolonization". StuckEarlier (talk) 01:23, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

It seems to me that disputing the entire premise of settler colonialism doesn't belong in this article but instead in settler colonialism. However, I'm skeptical that such criticism is all that prominent in reliable sources since I can't find it through generic searches. Furthermore, I do not think that South Africa and the US having experienced colonialism is a "seriously contested assertion". Are there any RS that dispute this? (t · c) buidhe 01:41, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

It is relevant to this article because it describes the Anglosphere countries are settler colonial states without any hesitation, and it accepts this framework as inherently valid. I never said that what is now South Africa and the US never experienced colonialism (they obviously did), just that it is debatable if they are currently experiencing colonialism in the 2022nd year of the Common Era.

As for reliable sources, the History section of the article, "Israel and the apartheid analogy" cites Seeking Mandela saying that comparing Israel to South Africa under the rule of the National Party leaves the question of when and how "settlers" become indigenous open. Are white Americans, or even black Americans, Hispanic Americans, or other non-native Americans, still "settlers" in 2022? Many people would say yes, but I wouldn't say it is undisputed. The book also raises the point that many people see Zionism as a form of "returning home", decolonization, if you will. StuckEarlier (talk) 02:26, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

The article says "Commonly cited cases of settler colonialism include the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand", which is undoubtedly true. No start or end dates given, that's your assumption. (t · c) buidhe 02:59, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

"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." Israel wasn't established (1948) until after the American Indian Wars ended (1924) and the Australian frontier wars (1934).

Idk. Maybe you (or someone else) could just add a note about how some Jewish Israelis think they are the ones decolonizing their ancestral homeland or something of that nature. StuckEarlier (talk) 03:05, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

@StuckEarlier Take a look at the history of this article and you will find what you were looking for. For example:

Computer scientist and philosopher Judea Pearl wrote that “misrepresenting Israel as a ‘white settler-colonialist society’ has become a cornerstone of BDS ideology and propaganda.” When reading such claims, he asks readers to consider whether they can recall any of the following: an example of white settlers moving into a country they thought was the birthplace of their history; an example of white settlers speaking a language spoken in the land before the language spoken by its contemporary residents; An example of settlers whose holidays commemorated historical events in the land to which they moved; A case of settlers naming towns by the names by which they were known by in ancient times, rather than after New York, New Amsterdam, and New Wales (Israeli towns are not called "New Warsaw," "New Berlin," or "New Baghdad"), and an example of colonizers writing poems, prose, lore, and daily prayers depicting their homecoming journey for 80 generations. Pearl, Judea, "BDS and Zionophobic Racism", Anti-Zionism on Campus, Indiana University Press, p. 229, retrieved 2022-04-27

Tombah (talk) 06:54, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

@Tombah: Sorry to edit your comment, especially on a heated topic, but don't put ref tags on talk pages. Just leave your source as text in or just under your comment. — LlywelynII 22:49, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Judea Pearl is not a serious source for this subject matter, per previous discussion, I see no reason to raise that again. As for some Jewish Israelis think they are the ones decolonizing their ancestral homeland or something of that nature, displacement of populations over the centuries is a commonplace and currently, those being displaced are Palestinian and it was not Palestinians that displaced Jews in the dim and distant past afaik. Of course, nowadays, such displacement and replacement by settlers is illegal.Selfstudier (talk) 07:39, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

On a purely personal level, I agree with you, somewhat. I don't think Zionism is a form of decolonization. (Then again, I don't think the US or Australia are settler-colonial states in 2022 either.) But that is irrelevant to my feelings about this article, which I still believe promotes a biased narrative. Even in the article Israeli settlement, Israel's and its defenders' legal arguments are described. StuckEarlier (talk) 14:29, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

As I said in the previous section, let's take these arguments/sources one by one and see where we end up, the problem was mainly caused by haphazardly adding this and that such that the "criticism" section became larger and larger and then not substantively addressing the complaints about these additions. I haven't gone into the historiography in any detail, typically, good sources would address both sides of the argument anyway.Selfstudier (talk) 14:44, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

We'll wait and see. I can't edit the article, obviously, so I trust that these concerns will be dealt with by those can edit the article in a way that is consistent with Misplaced Pages policies. If that doesn't happen, I might be back on this talk page. StuckEarlier (talk) 15:09, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Bear in mind that debate doesn't end with accusations and denials, but goes on to counter-denials and so on. There were responses to the type of reasoning used by Judea Pearl, above, for example. Searching Google Scholar using terms such as "settler+colonialism"+zionist+denial" helps to turn up sources. For example, "Zionism Then and Now", Saree Makdisi:

"What further distinguishes Zionism as a settler colonial movement is that, unlike many of the advocates of earlier colonial projects, who produced unabashed and often brutally frank statements of support for the kinds of violence that colonialism necessarily involves, the best known contemporary advocates of Zionism go out of their way to repackage what they stand for in more palatable terms. This has involved a nearly complete denial and rewriting of the history of the Zionist conflict with the Palestinians, thus standing the well-documented evidentiary record on its head. So powerful is this denial, such is the extent of the self-indoctrination that it generates, that it even enables, for example, the construction – without even a trace of irony – of a so-called Museum of Tolerance (in fact a kind of shrine to Zionism) right on top of what had been, until 1948, the most prominent Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem (Makdisi 2010b)."

Also, "When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism" - Nadim N. Rouhana, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (eds.). Chapter 3 "Religious Claims and Nationalism in Zionism: Obscuring Settler Colonialism" - Nadim N. Rouhana:

"This chapter examines how nationalism, religious claims, and settler colonialism enmesh within Zionism, and demonstrates how their interaction played a major role for Israeli academia and politics in sidelining or obfuscating settler colonialism as an appropriate frame of analysis for Zionism's encounter with the Palestinians. The chapter will make three main arguments: first, that while settler colonialism is an obvious framework for analyzing and understanding the unfolding of the Zionist project in Palestine, the framework has been obscured by highlighting the connection between Jewish nationalism and religious claims; second, that the steady rise in religious encroachment into institutions and public sphere in Israel is rooted in the need for legitimation (grounded in religious claims) in face of rising Palestinian resistance to the expansion of the settler-colonial project from Israel to the West Bank; and third, that while secularization was possible in other settler-colonial contexts such as South Africa, Nothern Ireland, and North America, it is impossible to achieve secularization within a Zionist regime. Rather, for secularization and democratization to take place, Israel has to recognize the settler-colonial reality of the Zionist project, a recognition that will make it possible to free Israeli Jewish nationalism from religionism and work towards decolonization."

    ←   ZScarpia   15:32, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, to me it seems that just the usage of these search keywords ("settler+colonialism"+zionist+denial") is another indication for how biased this article is... The word "denial" itself somewhat implies rejection of something true, and in that case, the view that Zionism is indeed a form of settler colonialism. Also, the keyword "Zionist" is not needed here. Scholars of all backgrounds, not only Zionists, might have something to say about this theory. Tombah (talk) 06:42, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Those are just search terms @Tombah, for illustrative purposes in talk; it does not indicate anything about the article. Iskandar323 (talk) 07:03, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

The point of the search was find, on Google Scholar, criticisms of Zionist repsonses to allegations of "colonial settlerism". Hopefully you're not trying to argue that searching for such responses is illegitimate. If you find the search term offensive, fine, I'll try again with one more acceptable ... BUT, in return, I'll ask you not to write anything here which is offensive to me.     ←   ZScarpia   12:58, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Well, obviously the current name is a ridiculous WP:POVFORK that needs to be moved to something more neutral.

Beyond that, 1st, why isn't this entire article's content at something visible and neutrally phrased like Zionism or Israeli settlement? 2nd, if the answer is that the creators have accumulated so much helpful neutral scholarship on the topic that you're splitting out from the main article, why isn't this page linked with a hatnote as the expansion of one of its sections? 3rd, why is this entire article not linked from any other page on this topic at all, trying to grow without outside input? Stinks to high heaven even before it headlines with a "chart" involving exactly 4 data points. Someone marked the WPISRAEL link as "low importance" for an article questioning its legitimacy but marked the WPPALESTINE link as "Mid"? C'moooooooon. — LlywelynII 22:48, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Edit: Striking Pt 3 as unfair. The article isn't being discussed at WPISRAEL or WPPALESTINE and there isn't a RFC here but I had gotten the link list for the talk page. There are minor but legitimate links to 50+ pages, which is fair enough. — LlywelynII 22:58, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

POV fork of what? Selfstudier (talk) 22:55, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Any arrangement of words in the current title to begin with. Any arrangement of those words with Israel(i) and Palestine/Palestinian after that. — LlywelynII 22:58, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

If you say something is a POV fork then you need to point to the article it is a POV fork of. Selfstudier (talk) 23:02, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

A, I just did.

B, based on the current lede at Settler colonialism the current title is "Zionism as a Perpetuation of Genocide". No, that is not remotely neutral. If the lede of Settler colonialism is wrong, feel free to fix that first. Look at any of the other section main links from Settler colonialism. Make this title look more like any of them. — LlywelynII 23:04, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

The article Settler colonialism has a section Settler colonialism#Palestine, Zionism and Israel which includes a link out to this article as main. Are you saying that this article does not qualify as a spinout article? Or that it is a POV fork of the section? I assume you do not mean that it is a POV fork of the entire settler colonialism article since that is obviously not the case. Selfstudier (talk) 23:12, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

As above, even within the terms of that page, this is an extremely POVy way of discussing the relevant topic. The only other page remotely like this is Settler colonialism in Canada, which is a historical treatment of the existence of some people showing examples of settler colonialism. This page is framing the entire idea of Israeli existence as settler colonialism. If you don't see how far that is from NPOV, I don't know how I could help you see it. The best thing for it is to just bring in more people. Maybe scholarship really is just treating it as neutral to call Zionism genocide these days and I was out of the loop; maybe someone else will be more able to AGF and get these problems sorted. — LlywelynII 23:19, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Re: why isn't this entire article's content at something visible and neutrally phrased like Zionism or Israeli settlement? Because this isnt about Israeli settlements, it is about the wider Zionist project. This is a child article to Zionism and a child article to settler colonialism. Zionism is some 62 kB of readable prose, including this in its entirety would make up over 10% of the combined article. As this is a notable topic in its own right, given the abundance of sources discussing it, we split that off in to its own article. You appear to not understand the chart at all, and this rant is completely decoupled from any of our policies. Disliking what reliable sources say does not make this "POVy". nableezy - 23:54, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

RFC for "Zionism as settler colonialism"

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We need a whole bunch more eyes on this article, its framing, and its intervention in other Misplaced Pages articles on this topic if any of y'all have better blood pressure medicine or deeper knowledge of this topic than I do. It may be fine that the current lede of settler colonialism involves accusations of genocide or that this title is completely differently formatted for every other section link coming off of settler colonialism. I really don't know and I do appreciate that the current editors on this new page have been formatting well and finding sources to build their page. An intro "graph" of exactly 4 data points seems like an excellent example of how lazy and partisan "sources" on this topic can be, however, and I'd be much more comfortable with wider community involvement from both sides plus plenty of neutrals. — LlywelynII 23:15, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

• Close as malformed An RFC ideally needs to be a neutrally worded question. If your objection relates to the name then you need an RM not an RFC. If your objection is to do with the content of the article Settler colonialism then you need to address that on that page, not here. I had understood your objection to be that this article is a POV fork in which case you should presumably be asking for merge/deletion. In addition, the RFCbefore is not at all clear. Selfstudier (talk) 23:22, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

That isn't actually true. Go ahead and reread the policy: WP:RFC. As far as the WP:POVFORK issue, yeah, that's still legitimate and a move is still necessary in my opinion. What's more important is getting more involvement and feedback on the page and its treatment of the topic by a wider number of people... y'know, like my RFC request just said. — LlywelynII 23:28, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

• Malformed RFC no clear, neutrally worded query to answer. (t · c) buidhe 23:37, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
• An RFC is required to have "a brief, neutral statement of or question about the issue", not a rambling diatribe that lacks coherence or even the most basic familiarity with the topic. If you think this is a POVFORK what article is it a POVFORK from? And what exactly are you proposing this RFC accomplish? nableezy - 23:49, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

• Comment: I personally don't see anything problematic in the use of RfC here--at least, certainly not to the extent of necessitating a procedural close. I estimate I've responded to a little over a thousand RfCs over the last decade or so, and in the last two years or so I've observed a kind of peculiar trend towards attempting to force any and every RfC prompt into a singular express question (or series of such), and there just isn't any such requirement for an RfC, nor has there ever been. It's true that it's highly advisable to try to refine the description of the feedback being sought as much possible, but there are plenty of scenarios when broader community input is valuable, even if you don't have a list of discrete questions to ask. Consider what the OP's options were here: they seem to be an outsider to this article's historical development, who has concerns (if I read them correctly) about neutrality and tone. Are either 1) leaping in to edit contrary to current consensus, or 2) going to a WikiProject and getting comparably limited/highly interested input from a narrow band of editors necessarily better approaches here than RfC? I'm certain the first is not, and I'm not sure about the second either.

All of that said, I do understand in part where my fellow respondents above are coming from as regards WP:RFCBEFORE: some additional degree of engagement with the regular editors here would have been appropriate and nice to see here, before judging the call for additional perspectives necessary. Also, even if a specific question is not required, at least some additional focus is necessary to make this discussion at all useful. But we're here now, so we might as well allow the community process to run: there's no strong argument for keeping the questions that the OP wants to raise constrained to just the regular editors and those of us already pinged, if it's just going to result in these parties needing outside help to resolve the dispute eventually anyway. For my part, a brief review of this and the root settler colonialism article does reveal what I would call a somewhat askew tone: both feel like they lean a little too much towards scholarly and arguably even persuasive tone as much as encyclopedic and objective. They foreground certain academics prominently, even in the leads, and their language in certain sections employs a sociological idiolect in places, when it should be looking to articulate to a general audience.

Even so, I don't think the regular editors here are going to have trouble finding sources that can defend the argument that Zionism has elements of colonialism: that's just not a very controversial observation in many parts of the world; either broadly or in social/policy research, you'll find no shortage of people who have some variation on that general belief--though needless to say, it's hardly a universal interpretation of Israeli policy either. So I do see the the validity of disparate arguments here: I don't think the RfC is procedurally self-invalidating and I do understand the general gist of what the Llywelyn is concerned about here (I think), but I also don't think the underlying content has any bad WP:WEIGHT issues from my cursory look through it so far: at most what is needed here is some tonal tweaks to make this read a little less social science text concentrating on particular scholarly threads and a little more encyclopedic and generalist. Those are my immediate observations anyway: I'll reiterate that I join with the other respondents above at least insofar as thinking the OP needs to at least be a bit more specific about particular content or issues, if this is going to go anywhere. SnowRise 02:49, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Nobody is opposed to additional perspectives, but this isnt an RFC, there is no request being made here. Its just "I dont like this article, comment below". What is the action being discussed here? The line An intro "graph" of exactly 4 data points seems like an excellent example of how lazy and partisan "sources" on this topic can be "seems like an excellent example" of an editor digging their heels into a topic they have no understanding of, and then being upset that their misunderstanding is not coddled. nableezy - 12:38, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

• Keep as valid request for comment to attract a broader authorship. The advice in WP:RFC to seek participation in the relevant WikiProjects will obviously bring more involved Wikipedians, rather than uninvolved ones. Keep in mind that WP:RFC is an information page, i.e., neither policy, not even a guideline (which most people treat as cast in stone no less than policy). Yes, RFC may be malformed, because, e.g., it can mix several issues making discussion unmanageable or the issue is presented in an incomprehensible way. In this case the issue is a singleton: the overall framing of the article. @LlywelynII: - please remove personal detail from declaring statement, for better understandability and phrase the criticisms thereof as examples what is wrong (in your opinion) with the article. You may move them into a "Comment" bullet. Loew Galitz (talk) 03:43, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Redlinked names in the lede

Clearly we cannot refer to random redlinked persons, especially in the lede. Fortunately in this case here is a remedy other than removal of these names: from a quick google search it appear to me they are reputable scholars. Please write bios for them. Loew Galitz (talk) 03:47, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Clearly we cannot refer to random redlinked persons, especially in the lede I think we can. There is no problem with redlinks if the redlink is apparently for persons that would meet the usual criteria for an article. They should not be removed in such a case. Someone will likely show up and create the article. Selfstudier (talk) 11:54, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Merge suggestion

This article and section Settler colonialism#Palestine, Zionism and Israel are widely divergent. I would not call this a "POV fork", but a regular sloppy content fork, which prevents us from well-formed, consistent development of the subject. The majority of the content of the section must be moved into the "main" article, while the section must be an extended summary of the subject, per WP:Summary style. Loew Galitz (talk) 04:19, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Can you even use that merger template for sections? Seems odd. Can't you just copy relevant content between the sections two, assuming no one objects? Iskandar323 (talk) 06:44, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

(So long as you provide attribution, templates for which exist at: WP:COPYWITHIN) Iskandar323 (talk) 06:44, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

If you want copy paste from the section to here, just go ahead and do it, pretty sure no-one will object. An editor here has already done the reverse thing previously. Then you need to reconcile the moved material with the material here as there should not be any contradiction. One needs to leave a summary at the other article along with a link out to this article as main. And done. Selfstudier (talk) 11:46, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Infographics

I removed the top image: it strikes an eye, but it is hardly encyclopedic, because it compares "apples and oranges", does not say which region it is applied to, and worst of all, it is taken from a tweet, which is hardly a peer-reviewed source. Loew Galitz (talk) 04:27, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Surely, it would be good to have an illustration, but I urge Wikipedians not to create charts, diagrams, etc. themselves, because it would amount to original research in a sensitive area. This was a common pastime in the olden days of Misplaced Pages, and until now from time to time we have to struggle with hand-made amateurish maps, tables, and charts. Loew Galitz (talk) 04:31, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

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