Israel the Settler-Colonialist State

Fuck you. This isn't hard.

More specifically, the idea proliferates that Israel was a colonialist state from its beginnings. There are small merits to this question, but they're frankly miniscule. Some important Zionist thinkers and leaders proudly called the settling of the Yishuv (pre-Israel Palestine) colonialist among many other things, including socialist, but that was hardly a universal view. Surely the Yishuv had a number of points in common with colonialists, but Jews did not go to Israel to profit off Israel's natural resources - of which Israel has very little, or wage slavery - since nearly the whole point of Zionism was to enable Jews to work the land of their ancestors. Jews went to Israel because there was nowhere else they could freely settle. Imperialism and slavery existed everywhere long before modern white civilizations implemented it, and sometimes on just as large a scale. As I've said many times, Jews suffered from white people 1500-2000 years before 95% of people of color knew what a white person is. In the context of the time, what is remarkable was how little Israel had in common with colonialism.

The reason Israel is considered a colonial state is that the modern far left still sees the world through the aftereffects of modern European imperialism, but European imperialism is basically over except for in Europe itself where Russia is doing its damndest to resurrect its Soviet empire. Israel is one of the very few places where a (quite debatably) white country has anything in common with colonialism, and therefore is the only place where the modern far left can think they've caught white people red-handed in an imperial venture. Never mind that the extreme backbone of the Israeli right is Mizrachi (Middle Eastern) Jews, making up 50% of Israel's population, ejected from Middle Eastern lands in its own Naqba, and incontrovertibly people of color in their very appearance.

The place Israel could be a settler colonialist state is in, obviously, the settlements. This is the only place in Israeli history where the accusation rings true. For obvious reasons. That is the only place, and that is why the settlements must end, and those who live there must and will eventually be forcibly removed in the population transfers that will be an inevitable end to this conflict in which both sides are, by modern technical standards, ethnically cleansed.