Editing Colonization (section)

===Israel===

In the [[First Aliyah]], much of the [[Zionist]] settlement consisted of legal land purchases for agricultural colonies, or [[moshav]]ot, for wine and citrus production.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Halperin |first=Liora R. |title=The oldest guard: forging the Zionist settler past |date=2021 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-1-5036-2871-7 |series=Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |location=Stanford, California}}</ref>

According to [[Elia Zuriek]] in his book "Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit", Israeli settlements in the [[West Bank]] is an additional form of colonization.<ref>{{cite book|last=Zureik|first=Elia|title=Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vsf4CgAAQBAJ|year=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-34046-1|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vsf4CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=settler%20colonialism INTRODUCTION]}}</ref> This view is part of a key debate in the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]. Law professors [[Steven Lubet]] and Jonathan Zasloff describe the "[[Zionism as settler colonialism]]" theory as politically motivated, derogatory and highly controversial. According to them, there are important differences between Zionism and settler colonialism, for instance: (1) Early Zionists did not seek to transport European culture into Israel, they sought to revive the culture of an indigenous people of the land, the culture of their ancestors (e.g., they left their European languages behind and adopted a Middle Eastern/Semitic one: Hebrew); (2) No settler colonial movement ever claimed to be "returning home"; (3) Jews had already been living in the "colonized" region for thousands of years. Both professors also point out that the academic journal where Wolfe published his essay fails to mention the [[Muslim conquest of the Levant|Islamic military campaign that captured the region]] in the 7th and 8th centuries.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Is Israel Really a Settler Colonial State? |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-07-05/ty-article-opinion/is-israel-really-a-settler-colonial-state/0000017f-f46f-d497-a1ff-f6ef21fc0000 |access-date=2022-06-13}}</ref>