Blood Libel #4 | “Zionism is colonialism and racism.”

Anti-Zionist:

Israelis are white. Palestinians are the true indigenous people.

Pro-Zionist:

Then why do the majority of Israeli Jews come from the Middle East and North Africa — not Europe?

Let’s look at the facts:

• Over 50% of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi — descendants of Jews ethnically cleansed from countries like Iraq, Yemen, Morocco, Egypt, and Iran.

• Jews have lived continuously in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, and Tiberias for thousands of years — long before Arabs arrived in the 7th century.

• The name Jew literally comes from Judea.

You can’t erase Jewish indigeneity just because some Jews have lighter skin.

Jews came home after centuries of exile and genocide — and they built a democracy.

So let’s be honest: This isn’t about race. It’s about trying to make Jews foreign in their own homeland.

Anti-Zionist:

Zionism is settler-colonialism.

Pro-Zionist:

Colonizers come from a foreign empire to exploit land. Which empire was Israel colonizing for?

Anti-Zionist:

Jews came from Europe.

Pro-Zionist:

So did many Arabs.

Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, returning to their ancestral homeland. Zionism isn’t colonialism — it’s decolonization. It’s the restoration of a persecuted people to their historic home.

Anti-Zionist:

Zionism is racist. It’s about Jewish supremacy.

Pro-Zionist:

So a people returning to their indigenous homeland after centuries of persecution and exile — that’s racism?

(They might reference the UN’s old “Zionism is racism” resolution.)

Pro-Zionist:

That 1975 resolution was repealed in 1991 because it was a disgrace. Zionism isn’t racism — it’s the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, no different than Armenian, Kurdish, or Palestinian nationalism.

Racism is about domination. Zionism is about survival — and self-determination.

And in Israel, Arab citizens vote, work, worship, and serve in government. There is no racial superiority in Zionism.

The only people saying one group must be erased or replaced are Hamas and their allies — not the Zionists.

So tell me again — who exactly is promoting racism? (See “One State Solution”)

Bottom line: Jews are the indigenous people of the land of Israel who were exiled by colonizing nations, including Arab nations thousands of years ago.

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BEYOND THE TALKING POINTS

Let me start with a brief video from the always brilliant Haviv Gur¹ reflecting on his conversation with a Harvard Student who told Haviv that he “can’t cross Harvard Yard without someone screaming at me ‘Zionism is colonialism’” and that he didn’t know the answer:

The idea that "Zionism is colonialism" isn’t just historically illiterate—it’s part of a broader ideological campaign to delegitimize Israel’s very existence and to dismantle the moral framework of Western democracy. One need look no further than the University of California to see how deeply this falsehood has infected academia.

Hundreds of academic workers, students, and faculty in Ethnic and Gender Studies across the UC system recently issued a statement in solidarity with the Palestinian people². But the statement is not a plea for peace. It is an unfiltered ideological manifesto, soaked in antisemitic tropes, revolutionary rhetoric, and a fanatical rejection of coexistence. In it they openly state:

We refuse any calls for ‘peace,’ which are just calls for the quiet submission of Palestinians to an early grave.

They are not seeking peace. They are seeking victory. And not victory over injustice, but over the very idea of Jewish sovereignty.

This is not merely about Israel. They link Zionism to the United States and call for the dismantling of the West as a whole:

As it attempts to reckon with its legacy as a land-grab institution, the University of California must also reckon with its complicity in ongoing settler-colonial projects in the United States and abroad.

This is not scholarship. It’s not decolonial critique. It is radical ideological warfare.

As many antisemites do, they use the word "colonialism" not as a historical claim as we discussed earlier — but as a rhetorical weapon. The authors deliberately erase the 3,000-year history of Jewish life in Israel. They ignore that Jews are indigenous to Judea and the Kingdom of Israel. They ignore that Hebrew, the liturgy, and the longing for Zion are embedded in Jewish identity. They ignore the persecution of Jews across the globe that made Zionism a necessity, not an imperial project.

Zionism is not colonialism. It is the national liberation movement of an exiled indigenous people returning home.

The UC letter doesn’t just invert reality—it manufactures a moral universe where:

• Terrorism is resistance,

• Genocide is self-defense,

• And truth is propaganda.

They deny atrocities on October 7th as "unsubstantiated accounts," perpetuating the vile blood libel that Jews fabricate their own suffering for sympathy. They frame the Hamas pogrom as a reasonable act of resistance. They call for an end to both Israel and America.

What does that have to do with decolonization? Everything and nothing. This isn't about freeing people from oppression. It's about justifying eternal violence under the guise of justice. It's about replacing coexistence with conquest.

It’s a hateful letter filled with lies and vitriol that does nothing to advance peace and in fact explicitly calls for the continued “resistance”.

At its heart, the letter challenges the legitimacy of the nation state of Israel.

If you want to grasp the full narrative of the pro-Palestinian propaganda campaign... here it is... Unapologetically in all its glory.

Let's be clear, they explicitly do NOT call for peace... but the opposite!

We hold the ongoing, 75-year occupation and settler colonial violence to blame for all violent struggle that is currently taking place on Palestinian lands. More specifically, we join a growing international chorus of voices holding the Zionist Israeli government accountable for the violence that we have witnessed over the last several days.....

And don't think that their vitriol is limited to Isreal! They hate the United States as well.

As it attempts to reckon with its legacy as a land-grab institution, the University of California must also reckon with its complicity in ongoing settler-colonial projects in the United States and abroad.

They not only call for the end of Israel... they are calling for the end of the United States.

These ideas are not fringe. They are being taught, legitimized, and institutionalized in America's most powerful academic systems and backed by billions of dollars from Qatar. A Free Press investigation reveals that the Gulf state has spent almost $100 billion across Congress, colleges, think tanks, and corporations.

So when someone says, "Zionism is colonialism," understand what they mean. They are not debating policy. They are denying peoplehood. They are not arguing for a state. They are arguing for none.

And they are not alone. They are part of a global movement that has replaced liberation with destruction.

We must be clear: This is not a struggle over land. It is a struggle over truth. And we cannot let lies win.

Additional support for this truth can be found in:

• The 1922 League of Nations Mandate recognizing Jewish historical ties to the land.

• The UN Partition Plan of 1947 (Resolution 181), which legitimized a Jewish and Arab state side-by-side:

• Historian Benny Morris's work on the 1948 war, showing Arab states rejected partition and launched a war to destroy the nascent Jewish state:

This is the historical record. This is the moral clarity we must defend.

What the British Mandate Really Meant

The 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine was not a colonial imposition — it was an internationally recognized commitment to reestablish the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland. Far from being a European conquest, it codified the recognition that:

“The historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine… and the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country”

— League of Nations Mandate, Article 1

This was not a gift from the British Empire — it was the ratification of pre-existing Jewish indigeneity, codified into international law after centuries of diaspora longing and early Zionist return.

The Mandate included:

• The legal right for Jews to immigrate to and settle in Palestine (Article 6).

• Protection of the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities (Article 2).

• An explicit acknowledgment of the Zionist movement as the vehicle for national renewal.

The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement of 1919 — signed by Emir Faisal of the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann — expressed mutual Arab-Jewish support for these goals, provided that Arab independence elsewhere was respected. (Read the original text)

Even the United Nations Charter (Article 80) preserved these Jewish national rights when the UN succeeded the League.

So why the conflict?

The Mandate was rejected — not by Jews, but by rising Arab nationalists. Leaders like the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, rejected Jewish presence altogether, incited riots, and later aligned himself with Nazi Germany. (Learn more)

The British, facing violent unrest, eventually reneged on their commitments to the Jews, imposing immigration restrictions even during the Holocaust. But the legal foundation of Israel’s creation remained intact.

To call Zionism “colonial” is to invert this history. Zionism was not a European project — it was the liberation movement of an indigenous, dispersed people, returning home with international legitimacy and legal recognition.

We must be clear: This is not a struggle over land. It is a struggle over truth. And we cannot let lies win.

As I discussed in Blood Libel #18 | “Israel is an illegitimate state” it is a fact that Israel is one of the most legitimate nations in the world under International law.

If you want to really sharpen your understanding of the history of Israel and the Palestinian “Story” around “Zionism is Colonialism” listen to this talk by Haviv Rettig Gur “The Great Misinterpretation: How Palestinians View Israel”.

Footnotes:

1. Haviv Rettig Gur is a veteran Israeli journalist and the Senior Analyst at The Times of Israel. Since 2005, he has reported on Israel’s politics, foreign policy, education system, and its relationship with the Jewish diaspora, with coverage spanning over 20 countries. A former combat medic in the 50th Battalion of the IDF’s airborne infantry, Haviv brings a deep understanding of the complexities facing Israel, shaped by both his professional and military experiences. He hosts a podcast entitled “Ask Haviv Anything”

2. Here is how they present their disinformation in making a case against the "Western Medias narrative" with regards to the "ongoing settler-colonial projects". Here is a statement to the University of California community that lays bare any illusion that these are people seeking peace. Instead, these people are calling for the dismantling of the current world order:

To the University of California Community,

We write this statement as academic workers, students, faculty, alumni, and affiliates in Ethnic and Gender Studies programs across the UC system in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle against a genocidal military occupation. As we witness the atrocities taking place in occupied Palestine, many of which have been ongoing for the last 75 years, we have watched as our campus leadership continues to ignore and/or disparage the struggle of Palestinian people for liberation and against their annihilation. We do not condone violence toward Palestinian students from Zionist supporters on UC campuses, which took place in the last few days and in past instances where pro Palestinian solidarity rallies, meetings, or events have taken place. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the UC’s failure to create a safe environment for Palestinian students and their supporters. For example, people at UCLA have been shoved, hit, spit on, called derogatory names and violently harassed by Zionist students. The climate at the UC system is so hostile that one student had a knife to their throat, which didn’t elicit any of the usual public safety emails, texts or notifications. It is evident, at this time, that the UC system privileges the protection of those communities that benefit from their multimillion dollar military investments.

We hold the ongoing, 75-year occupation and settler colonial violence to blame for all violent struggle that is currently taking place on Palestinian lands. More specifically, we join a growing international chorus of voices holding the Zionist Israeli government accountable for the violence that we have witnessed over the last several days. Gazans have been living in the world’s largest “open air prison,” where they are subjected to daily acts of violence by soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). To blame anyone other than the Zionist Israeli government and its settlers mischaracterizes this struggle and fuels the ongoing violence. Although international law states that Palestians’ have the right to defend themselves in their ancestral homelands, it is evident these rights only apply to some. To police Palestinian means of resistance and demand that they be perfect victims and resistant subjects is part of the genocidal campaign against Palestinians, and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the reality on the ground. The obsession in Western media and academia with ‘condemning Hamas’ relies on an equivocation of violence between the oppressor and the oppressed. The loss of innocent life anywhere for any reason is abhorrent. To claim that the loss of civilian life on ‘both’ sides is commensurate in scale (how many have died) or degree (where they might have to flee, access to humanitarian resources) is effectively a re-articulation of ‘All Lives Matter’ in a wartime context, a moral truism uttered to distract from the ongoing extermination of a people. Yet, all this must be placed in the context of Hamas’ formation and maintenance, which are directly linked to the state of Israel. Hamas is a result of the systematic annihilation of other Palestinian resistance groups, including the withdrawal of support for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, thus Israel is responsible for the retaliation of its own making. Without the occupation, Hamas would not persist. Without the systematic elimination of other resistance movements—some which may have been more palatable for the Western liberal, leftist, or supposedly decolonial academics—Hamas would not persist. In the words of Benjamin Netanyahu himself, without Israeli intervention, Hamas would not have survived. To equate Palestinian resistance with one group is to once more project imperial logics of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ actors onto a geopolitical reality that is far more complicated. We call for all UC campuses, departments, scholars and staff to recognize that the Israeli government, through the use of bureaucratic violence, police and military surveillance, and legal discrimination have long enacted an apartheid state in which Palestinian life is disposable and Palestinian land ripe for theft.

Let this be clear: Israel is an apartheid state. Since the 1948 Nakba, which resulted in the ethnic cleansing and forced removal of over 750,000 Palestinians from their own land and a redrawing of the Palestine/ Israel border, the Western world has been complicit in this colonial violence by refusing to name it as such. We, the undersigned, refuse to engage in the discourse of terrorism in regards to Palestinian struggle. We acknowledge that this fight for freedom is one against racist and ethnonationalist extremism. The virulent spread of disinformation—unsubstantiated accounts of sexual assault and mutilated children—parroted at the highest levels of government despite media retractions, is nothing more than the regurgitation of centuries-old orientalist, colonialist, and Islamophobic tropes which work to manufacture consent to flatten Gaza. In fact, much of the recent misinformation we saw in the media was a manipulation of the atrocities committed against Palestinians, such as the Sabra and Shatila massacres.’ As stated by the Israeli War Minister—the Israeli government believes they are fighting animals, not people. Dehumanization is a common practice of settler colonialism in order to justify deeming colonized people as disposable epistemically and ontologically.

We strongly condemn the University of California's attempt to reproduce Western media’s narrative of ongoing violence in Palestine, which includes the victimization of Israeli women and children to manufacture consent for intervention and further violence against Palestinians. As scholars working at the intersection of Ethnic and Gender Studies, the current moment recalls for us the femonationalist rhetoric used to justify war with Afghanistan, when media outlets in government institutions called for U.S. intervention to save innocent women and children from terrorist forces. This statement recognizes and condemns the weaponization of this moment by other ethnonationalist and nativist movements like the Hindutva (or Hindu nationalism) to further Islamophobia and violence against Kashmiris (living under Indian settler colonial occupation) as well as Indian Muslims, who are facing an ongoing genocide in India. As they continue to rely on the circulation of Israeli and Western mis-and-disinformation, we reject their legitimization of such violence. We urge the community to practice critical media literacy when consuming mainstream media stories of violence against women and children committed by Palestinian resistors which serve to frame Palestinian freedom fighters as evil, monstrous “terrorists.” These justifications are ahistorical and erase the violence that racialized women and children face daily under occupation. Similarly, to globally label Palestinian rebels as rapists marginalizes a real, ongoing pattern of gendered violence against Palestinian women by Israeli Defense Forces as part of its ongoing occupation for the past 75 years. Are Palestinian women and girls not worthy of empathy, too?

As academic workers and educators, it is our duty to speak up about the injustices that we teach our students, despite the concerted, hostile climate of repression and doxxing being cultivated by Zionists, which is happening with the license of our university leadership. We ask, how can a community of scholars and university workers, in good moral conscience, teach our students to recognize patterns of propaganda and genocide but remain silent while these very patterns are being repeated by mainstream media and campus communications? We challenge the way Palestinian freedom struggle has been talked about under the rubric of terrorism while Israeli occupation and military violence goes unchecked with impunity and backed by billions of U.S. dollars, which includes UC funding. It is this narrative that has not allowed for the critical analysis needed to understand the Palestinian struggle as part of a legacy of anti-colonial, anti-apartheid, anti-capitalist fights for freedom. As it attempts to reckon with its legacy as a land-grab institution, the University of California must also reckon with its complicity in ongoing settler-colonial projects in the United States and abroad. Land acknowledgements are not enough if they are empty signifiers. For the last decade, UC students in the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement have complied evidence of the UC’s complicity as an extension of war and policing through its technologies, weapons, and tactics that are spread throughout Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, Mauna Kea, Somalia, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, native nations and reservations, Akwesasne of the ​Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) Nation​, Chumash lands, San Diego, U.S. border lands, and Los Angeles. Through its University of California Retirement Plan (UCRP)—the UC’s main investment vehicle—the UC has some of its largest holdings in the investment management firm BlackRock, the world’s largest investor in weapons manufacturing and fossil fuel and Lockheed Martin, the largest defense contractor in the world and a top supplier of both the US military and police forces. Corporations like BlackRock and Lockheed Martin profit from the military and the police’s slaughter of Black and brown civilians around the world. As we write this, Lockheed Martin stock is experiencing its best day in years amid the conflict – a big payday for the UC whose investments directly fuel military aggression and war crimes against innocents in Gaza and beyond. This statement is nothing less than a call for Palestinian liberation. We refuse to use “both side” statements that equate the colonizer with the colonized. To equate the violence of the settler colonial project of Israel and by extension the U.S. and the West with Palestinian resistance is to intentionally forget the last 75 years of occupation–we as scholars refuse to do so and practice, in spite of the university, the act of bearing witness. We remember and become accomplices to liberation. At this time, we refuse any calls for “peace” which are just calls for the quiet submission of Palestinians to an early grave. As Kwame Ture taught us, peace is not liberation. We call on all UC faculty, students, affiliates, and organizations to divest from ethnic cleansing, occupation, and apartheid at the hands of the government of Israel now.

Signed,

William I Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UCSB Lane Zajac, UCLA faculty Students for Justice in Palestine UCSB Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA UCR SJP Bears For Palestine at UC Berkeley Mauna Kea Protectors UCSB Maga Miranda, UCLA Jorge Cruz, UCLA Sophia Sambrano, UCLA Bri Reddick, UCSB Radhika Marwaha, UCSD Kimberly Soriano, UCSB and UCLA Alumn Muhammad Yousuf, UCSD Kristian E. Vasquez, UCSB Alex Mireles, UCSB Sneha George, UCR Juliana Dunn, UCSB Milla Wu, UCSB Cristina Awadalla, UCSB Dylan Kupsh, UCLA Myra Gissel R. Durán, UCLA Alum Ruth Camilla, UCB Alum Bryan I. Cantero, UCLA Tiffany Virgen, UCLA Alum D D’Acquisto, UCSC Alum Corina Martinez, UCSC Alum Iris Craige, UCSC/UCLA Alum Alessandra P. 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