Thread by @NimerSultany

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: 🧵

https://x.com/Alonso_GD/status/1825933783482159534

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:

https://x.com/NimerSultany/status/1748661132464656875

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"