Thread by @NimerSultany

Is Zionism colonial or anti-colonial?

This propagandist ignores what Zionist leaders declared repeatedly throughout the history of Zionism.

Here are some examples of statements foregrounding the colonial nature of Zionism: 1/10

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Herzl in 1895: “We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country.” 2/10

David Ben-Gurion in 1915, NYC, compared the colonising activity of the Zionists to the white settlers in North America and South Africa 3/10 benyehuda.org/read/6104

In 1947, Chaim Weizmann appeared before the UN partition committee and compared the the Jewish Agency's activity to the East India Company, the instrument of British Imperialism 4/10

Weizmann also told UNSCOP that compared to other colonial projects the Zionist is the best in business 5/10

Similarly, the Zionist Herbert Morrison, MP for South Hackney, told the House of Commons on 24 Nov 1938 that the Zionists are first-class colonisers. 6/10

Similarly, the Anglo-American Commission in 1946 acknowledged the colonial character of the Jewish Agency declaring it is the most successful "colonial" project in history 7/10

The injustice of the Zionist programme was recognised at the early stages by external observes such as the American King-Crane Commission in 1919 which highlighted the denial of self-determination of the native population 8/10

Likewise, Foreign Minister Balfour, in a letter to the Prime Minister on 19 February 1919, acknowledged: “The weak point of our position of course is that in the case of Palestine we deliberately and rightly decline to accept the principle of self-determination." 9/10

King-Crane Commission also highlighted that such a colonial project can only achieved by coercion, subjugation, and violence against the natives.

Do not let them rewrite history. 10/10