Zionism as settler colonialism

Zionism and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Population shift between 1947–1951 in the Israel–Palestine case compared to land controlled by what Neve Gordon calls the "Jewish establishment" Zionism as settler colonialism is the paradigm that views Zionism and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as a form of settler colonialism . Patrick Wolfe , an influential theorist of settler colonial studies, considered Israel an example and discussed it in his essay "Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native". Other scholars who have used a settler-colonial analysis of Israel/Palestine include Edward Said , Rashid Khalidi , Fayez Sayegh , Maxime Rodinson , George Jabbour, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod , Baha Abu-Laban , Jamil Hilal , and Rosemary Sayigh . The settler colonialism paradigm as applied to the Israel–Palestine case has been increasingly developing in the twenty-first century. The paradigm's reformulation is led by Palestinian scholars in Israel. The current conceptual framework emerged in response to shifts in the political landscape in the mid-1990s that "reframed the history of the Nakba as enduring" in a process led by Palestinian scholars in Israel. The use of this paradigm has increased in recent years among activists, and "to a lesser extent" within academic circles. The characterization of Zionism as a settler colonial movement is interpreted by many Israeli Jews as a form of antisemitism denying what they see as their historic connection to the land . This is further reflected in the Israeli state's public diplomacy efforts , responding to what it considers attacks on its legitimacy . Calling Israel a settler colonial regime is an argument increasingly gaining purchase in activist and, to a lesser extent, academic circles. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).¹