• smotherlove@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    It kind of feels like you assume I disagree with you in spirit, but I don’t.

    Don’t mean to be too pedantic here, but in my opinion colonizer is semantically incorrect as it implies emigrating to distant lands. It’s imperialism, not colonialism.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The huge influx of Europeans and the tendency for those European descendants to hold positions of power and their self identification as part of “Western civilization” implies colonialism. Further, Asians and Africans that migrated to Israel are themselves settlers unless they literally came from the land between the river and the sea.

      Even founding Zionists like Vladimir Jabotinsky called it colonialism.