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Zionism Then and Now

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Studies in Settler Colonialism

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For the most part, when we speak of settler colonialism today, we are referring to colonial projects that took place in the distant past: sixteenth-century America; seventeenth-century Ireland; eighteenth-century Africa or Australia. There is, however, one form of enduring settler colonialism from the twentieth century. I refer, of course, to Zionism.

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Makdisi, S. (2011). Zionism Then and Now. In: Bateman, F., Pilkington, L. (eds) Studies in Settler Colonialism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306288_16

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