Once again Zionists seek to deny that Zionism is a settler colonial movement, but early Zionists and British commissions of inquiry were clear about the colonial nature of Zionism: 🧵
Zionist leaders like Ben-Gurion and Weizmann were clear about the colonial nature of their project and the historical examples that resembled their colonising activity, see:
During the British Mandate over Palestine, the British set up several commissions of inquiry to examine causes of violence in Palestine. All these commissions described it as a conflict between colonists and natives.
Let us start with the Palin report of April 1920: natives v. "Jewish colonial enterprise" "native population"
The Haycraft 1921 report: "Jewish colonies", "the colony" of Kfar Saba, of "Petach Tikva"
The Shaw Report 1929: colony, colony, colonies, colonies...
The Shaw Report 1929: "the problem of Jewish colonisation in Palestine"
The Hope Simpson Report 1930: "Zionist colonisation", "Zionist colonies"
Peel report 1937: "colonists"
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