Editing Zionism (section)

=== Zionism as settler colonialism ===
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Beyond characterizing it as a colonial movement, Zionism has been more recently described as a form of settler colonialism, with scholarly proponents of this paradigm including [[Edward Said]], Rashid Khalidi, [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Ilan Pappe]], [[Fayez Sayegh]], [[Maxime Rodinson]], {{Ill|George Jabbour|ar|جورج جبور}}, [[Ibrahim Abu-Lughod]], Baha Abu-Laban, {{Ill|Jamil Hilal|ar|جميل هلال}}, and [[Rosemary Sayigh]].{{sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=first section}}<ref>{{harvnb|Tawil-Souri|2016|p=}}{{pn|date=March 2025}} "Calling Israel a settler colonial regime is an argument increasingly gaining purchase in activist and, to a lesser extent, academic circles."</ref>

The settler colonial framework on the conflict emerged in the 1960s during the [[Decolonisation of Africa|decolonization of Africa]] and the [[Middle East]], and re-emerged in Israeli academia in the 1990s led by Israeli and Palestinian scholars, who challenged some of Israel's foundational myths.{{sfn|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=Conclusion}}{{efn|"The settler colonial paradigm, linked to Israeli critical sociology, post-Zionism, and postcolonialism, reemerged following changes in the political landscape from the mid-1990s that reframed the history of the Nakba as enduring, challenged the Jewish definition of the state, and legitimated Palestinians as agents of history. Palestinian scholars in Israel lead the paradigm's reformulation.{{harvnb|Sabbagh-Khoury|2022|loc=first section}}}} It built on the work of [[Patrick Wolfe]], an influential theorist of settler colonial studies who has defined settler colonialism as an ongoing "structure, not an event" aimed at replacing a native population rather than exploiting it.{{sfn|Wolfe|2006}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Forum on Patrick Wolfe |url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3437-forum-on-patrick-wolfe |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621043010/https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3437-forum-on-patrick-wolfe |archive-date=June 21, 2021 |access-date=April 26, 2022 |website=[[Verso Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=October 26, 2020 |title=What is at Stake in the Study of Settler Colonialism? |url=https://developingeconomics.org/2020/10/26/what-is-at-stake-in-the-study-of-settler-colonialism/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125221504/https://developingeconomics.org/2020/10/26/what-is-at-stake-in-the-study-of-settler-colonialism/ |archive-date=November 25, 2021 |access-date=April 26, 2022 |website=Developing Economics |language=en}}</ref>