İsrail’i Yerleşimci Kolonyalizm Tarihine Yerleştirmek

Although the concept of colonialism is defined as the occupation, processing and exploitation of a foreign land and the settlement of immigrants, different types of colonialism have emerged in practice. Classical colonialism refers to the form of colonialism in which any land is colonized, the exploited resources are moved to the colonial center (metropole), and there are no intentions and activities of settling and acquiring a homeland in the colony. Settler colonialism differs from classical colonialism in terms of settling in the targeted lands, making them their homeland and taking ownership. Practices of acquiring homeland, displacement, dispossession, renaming, exile and genocide/ethnic cleansing are used to construct settler colonialism. The most important example of settler colonialism today is Israel. This research seeks answers to the questions of what classical colonialism and settler colonialism are and what the differences are between them, what practices led to settler colonialism, and why Israel is a settler colonial formation. One of the current debates in the literature is whether Israel is a settler colonialist state. This study argues that classical and settler colonialism differ from each other in terms of practices of homeland acquisition, displacement, dispossession, renaming, exile, genocide/ethnic cleansing, that Israel is a settler colonialist formation with all its characteristics, that Israel's existence is unthinkable without settler colonialist practices. It is also argued that today Israel represents even more advanced stages of settler colonialism as a formation that transcends settler colonial practices, adds new concepts and methods to it and expands it.