Meet the Israelis Who Some Claim are White Colonizers

Zionism is Not Colonialism

  1. Every colonial enterprise represented or derived from an existing mother country or group of countries – Zionism did not.
  2. No other colonial enterprise viewed itself as returning to its homeland – Zionism did.
  3. No other modern colonial enterprise was driven by the desire of the colonizers to escape persecution and discrimination – Zionism was.
  4. No other colonial enterprise viewed its colonial ambition as being part and parcel of their national cultural, psychological and moral renewal – Zionism did.
  5. No other colonial enterprise satisfied itself with only one colony – Zionism did.
  6. No other colonial enterprise desired so passionately to settle a land devoid of natural resources – Zionism did.
  7. No other colonial enterprise desired to create an independent state (all the others saw themselves as dependent colonies of the mother country) – Zionism did.
  8. No other colonial enterprise desired to create an entirely new society – Zionism did.
  9. In other words, Zionism is unique (just like the rest of Jewish history) and thus the Middle East conflict is unique.
--From IsraelSeen


Some contemporary observations on the state of the land when Jewish settlement began in earnest in the mid-nineteenth century.

This book, written in Latin in 1695, describes the region called Palestine at that time.

Author Adriani Relandi was a geographer, cartographer, traveler, philologist.
He understood many languages, including Arabic, Ancient Greek and Hebrew.

He described nearly 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible, and made an approximate census according to settlements.

He notes:

 1. Palestine is mostly empty, abandoned, sparsely populated. The main population is concentrated in Jerusalem, Acre, Safed, Jaffa, Tiberias and Gaza.

 2. The majority of the population is Jewish; almost everyone else is Christian. A very small part is Muslim, mostly Bedouin...
 (Relandi refers to Muslims as nomadic Bedouins who come to cities only as seasonal workers in agriculture or construction.)

 3. The only exception is Nablus, inhabited by about 120 members of the Muslim Natsha family and approximately 70 Samaritans.

 4. About 5,000 people live in Jerusalem; almost all Jews, and a few Christians.

 5. The names of most of the settlements are of Jewish origin, and some have Greek or Roman Latin names. Apart from the city of Ramla, there is no Arab settlement whose original name is Arabic.

 Place names derived from Jewish, Greek or Latin are usually adapted into Arabic and meaningless...

 6. Approximately 550 people live in Gaza, half of whom are Jews and half are Christians.

Jews were successful in agriculture, especially vineyards, olives and wheat, while Christians were engaged in trade and transportation..."

Peter Baum & John Abeles quoting from: https://archive.org/details/gri_hadrianirela00aree/page/n6/mode/1up