Zionism’s core rationales were Judaized colonial doctrines

Evidence

Israel also became a doppelganger of the colonial project, specifically settler colonialism. Many of Zionism’s basic rationales were thinly veiled Judaizations of core Christian colonial conceptions: Terra Nullius, the claim that continents like Australia were effectively empty because their Indigenous inhabitants were categorized as less than fully human, became “A land without a people for a people without a land”—a phrase adopted by many Zionists and that originated with nineteenth-century Christians. Manifest Destiny became “land bequeathed to the Jews by divine right.” “Taming the wild frontier” became “making the desert bloom.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 976

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the settler-colonial dynamics in the reader’s prior material on Drake’s voyages and colonial land seizures — same Terra Nullius mechanism across contexts. — connects to: Zionism is settler-colonial nationalism, not national liberation. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 474; Rational or moral correction from inside cannot touch Zionism’s founding religious claim — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 563; Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 435 (+4 more)
• SHARE: The etymological origin of ‘a land without a people’ with nineteenth-century Christians rather than Zionists is worth sending to anyone into Israel-Palestine history.