Zionism as settler colonialism

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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. Zionism's founders and early leaders were a

Members of the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association in Palestine c. 1920–1925

Upon Israel's occupation of the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Israeli bulldozers cleared [he] what had been the Mughrabi Quarter, creating the Western Wall Plaza. Scholars have discussed such moves as examples of Israel's Judaization of Jerusalem and Israeli settler colonialism.

A graph by Neve Gordon showing the population shift from 1947 to 1951 in Israel–Palestine, plotted with the % of land controlled by what he calls the "Jewish establishment"

Hebrew graffiti spray-painted on a home in a-Sawiyah, Nablus District by Zionist settlers in 2018 reads "Kill or deport."

Israeli settlement

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Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies, are the civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories. They are populated by Israeli citizens, almost exclusively

Zionism as settler colonialism

…owners and Palestinian farmers. The kibbutz was also the prototype of Jewish-only settlements later established beyond Israel's pre-1967 borders. Map of Israeli settlements (magenta) in the occupied West Bank in 2025 Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann wrote in his autobiography that at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference he had…

Golan Heights settlements (1992)

Israeli soldiers searching a Palestinian in Tel Rumeida, 2012

Israeli settlers in the Ofra settlement, Israeli-occupied West Bank, 2012

Settlement area in the Gaza Strip (March 1999)