Who is saying that? And by acknowledging that the land was bought pre-war you're also acknowledging that the (explicitly colonial) Zionist project pre-dates the Holocaust. So it has nothing to do with "nowadays", that was more than 100 years ago.
The commenter referenced 1947. And said from nowadays PERSPECTIVE about THAT time that it's a "bigoted state project". I just reminded them that the project got its population (50%+) from Jews that ran for their lives. So his NOWADAYS perspective about that time is crazy. As from the first moment, it was about protecting Jews.
The only other alternative at the time was the US, but with limited immigration after WW2, it was obvious it couldn't be the whole story.
If you have further disagreement, please explain why in the same sentence he wrote "bigoted state project" and 1947.
EDIT: you added "(explicitly colonial)" before Zionism. And I looked at your comment history...
Your are deliberately misreading stuff... good luck out there.
My last words to you are: At that time before WW2, this entire area was under the Ottomans, so making a government there for Jews (enclave) by BUYING land, is colonial, and not what you try to say which is: "Kill all natives, we are the superior race". Because who at that time thought he could overthrow the Ottomans? But you don't care.
It's bigoted because it's exclusionary state for Jews, most everyone else is second class, including people on defacto annexed lands in the rest of former Palestine. Other people are such a low-life dirt to this state, that they just bomb, kidnap, steal and kill whoever they want regardless of state soveregnty. No thought to how that may make population of other state feel. Today they just bombed yet another country that did not do anything to them, because why not.
If it was not bad optics, and europe would not have the power to really fuck them up by actually cutting trade and giving them their own medicine, they'd be bombing europe these days for all the imagined wrongdoings.
Nice fanfic. Now explain how Israel has 2M Palestinians citizens and they are in every place, from medical to judicial (including supreme court) to political.
A settler colonial apartheid state is bigoted by nature. I don't understand your defense outside of the word "bigoted" making you upset when you should be more upset at the rampant colonialism and genocide being done in the name of religion.
Are you really upset because the descriptions make you sad?
Your have 3 mistakes in describing Israel as "settler colonial apartheid" alone. I cannot help you. Maybe Wikis or LLMs will or [1] as a start.
I am only sad about HN level of discussion, and how smart people in tech leave their critical thinking, kicking it out the door when the "I-word" is in the article/comment.
Judges from ICJ may need your deep learnings too, since they describe Israel policies as apartheid, too.
And as far as settler-colonial goes. Establishing your pet state on other people's land while driving out the original population with terror and violence and death marches to the front lines, while stripping them of valuables along the way and using them as human shields as Israelis like to say these days, while settling former population's land and houses, is as settler and as colonial as a [Zionist] group can get, outside of actual state establishing actual colony somewhere.
OH, we looking at ICC and ICJ? Then sure. But then, you will surely agree to never let a Palestine state to be? As long as Hamas is in control, as, after all, look at their warrants- such bigots:
about immigration I found interesting learning that:
- before 1948, zionist agencies only allowed young fit pioneers and wealthy persons to immigrate. used a strict selection process that excluded sick, elderly, and poor.
- 1950, law of return, "immigration open to all jews", in reality filtered by early state authorities and the Jewish Agency that did exercise administrative, medical, and practical prioritization favoring ablebodied pioners or youth in certain periods, while being overwhelmed by the influx of impoverished refugees and holocaust survivors.
- socioeconomic situation forced the state to prioritize young, healthy, and productive immigrants due to resource constraints.
- the selective immigration (Aliyah Borer) involved officials prioritizing healthier family units during the massive 1950s migration waves.
- cultural and social hierarchy biases led the Ashkenazi establishment to place Mizrahi and Sephardic immigrants into peripheric areas and transit camps.
and after learning this, you understand that there was and there always will be discrimination and imho that's often the result of selfishness.
All of this just show young country with shaky economy that cannot help elderly and sick. Nothing changes. But because yout lenses are the same, you will never see it.
Just because you're running from war or genocide does not give you any rights elsewhere. Also in 47' jews were not running from anything but poverty and fears of the future. There was no genocide anymore.
