A diasporic national movement necessarily becomes settler-colonial to achieve territorial sovereignty

Evidence

But Zionism’s fateful conflictual consequence is that the fulfillment of the national goal could have been achieved only by following a settler-colonial course, as described above. The fundamental issue here is that Zionism, as a national movement, could not have achieved the typical goal of national movements – that is, territorially based sovereignty and statehood – without being a settler-colonial project, whether implemented in Palestine or elsewhere. This is because it was forging a nation from a people who were scattered worldwide and not concentrated in any one territory. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 477

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes settler-colonial nationalism from liberation nationalism by the necessity of territorial displacement of others.
• XREF: connects to: Territorial sovereignty over a diaspora required settler colonization. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 477

Broader Connections

• Territorial sovereignty over a diaspora required settler colonization. #corroborates (0.95) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 477