Zionism: a history of colonisation

Zionism is a European colonial ideology that from its inception proposed the establishment of a state for the Jewish people in Palestine. Zionism emerged in Central and Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century. Its founder was the Austro-Hungarian journalist of Jewish origin Theodor Herzl, who took advantage of the anti-Semitic wave that swept Europe in those years to advance the colonisation of Palestine under the British Mandate.

Zionism accepted and inverted the values of the racist thesis of the essential otherness of the Jewish condition and the incompatibility of nations. For Zionism, Jewish existence in a non-Jewish society is a problem, and the solution is the same as that advocated by anti-Semites: the construction of a Jewish society separate from gentile society (Izquierdo, 2006: 4-5).
Zionism emerged in the context of, and influenced by, European nationalist ferment, whose promoters would instrumentalise the biblical paradigm of "the promised land - the chosen people" as a mobilising slogan for the Jewish community in the Diaspora, based on the logical nationalist discourse of the time and with a clear political objective: to take over the entire Palestinian territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

While occupation and colonisation are undoubtedly root causes of violence, it is also true that they are primarily symptoms of Zionism, which is undoubtedly the main driving force on which the vast majority of Israeli society and its rulers are based as the current and hegemonic ideology in Israel.

The colonial character of Zionism is essential from the 19th century to the present day. Zionism has been and remains a colonial ideology and movement. As was common at the time, Zionism also took the colonial movement as a point of reference and, in fact, ended up seeking the support of European imperialism and colonial expansion.
Currently, the objectives of recent Israeli governments and of the hegemonic ideology in the Israeli state, Zionism, have maintained from their origins three fundamental signs of identity: (ultra)nationalism, racism (ethnicism and ethnocracy of the Zionist state) and colonialism (Basallote, 2010).

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