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Seeing Israel in the context of European settler colonialism:
it partly fits, and at the same time it doesn’t.

The other colonial powers were looking mainly for profit and power,
not for survival against murderous persecution. Morally that changes
some things, but not everything: it does not entitle Zionists to
oppress Palestinians,
let alone to commit massive andrepeated atrocities .

Keep in mind that colonization is not limited to European
countries. Ancient empires practiced colonization — Rome, for instance.
Nowadays, China is practicing settler colonialism in Tibet,
andIndonesia in its half of New Guinea .

India’s treatment of Muslims under its system of Hindu nationalism
is not “colonization’ in a territorial sense, but it has much incommon .

[pol note or two about that]