— Ethan B. Katz and Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel and Colette Zytnicki and Daniel J. Schroeter and Tara Zahra and David Feldman and Adam Mendelsohn and Susannah Heschel and Israel Bartal and Derek J. Penslar and Joshua Cole and Elizabeth F. Thompson and and Frances MalinoIt is tempting to classify Zionism as a form of settlement colonialism not only because of the large numbers of Jews who immigrated to Palestine but also because of the speed with which they indigenized, that is, became rooted in the land and came to think of it as their native land (as opposed to an abstract, distant object of desire, a “holy land” or “land of their ancestors” to which they would return in messianic days).
Replicated under Fair Use from Colonialism and the Jews (The Modern Jewish Experience) by Ethan B. Katz and Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel and Colette Zytnicki and Daniel J. Schroeter and Tara Zahra and David Feldman and Adam Mendelsohn and Susannah Heschel and Israel Bartal and Derek J. Penslar and Joshua Cole and Elizabeth F. Thompson and and Frances Malino.