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This is exactly the black and white myth of colonization incorrectly being applied to Israel that people are talking about. If you are calling Israel a colonial state, while using this definition, how do you explain the 50% of Israelis who are not European in any way? Not to mention the fact that these so-called European Jews, who migrated to Israel were not in fact, originally European they were taken into Europe after being expelled from the levant, and forced into conditions in the pale of settlement, followed by genocide after genocide and massacres. This is very different than the colonization by the British French Portuguese, Spanish empires on other parts of the world, like what the boers did in South Africa as you mention

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h. netsky-chalter
h. netsky-chalter

Written by h. netsky-chalter

writer. be-er. looker for small truths. i live with ocd and write about it sometimes too.

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