The notion that a colonialist Zionism exists merely in the hallucinations of leftist professors and the chants of their wayward students ignores a crucial source—the very words of Zionists themselves. But Herzl, Jabotinsky, and Ben-Yehuda were of a time when it was still possible for the West to propagate an untrammeled image of a noble colonialism. That is no longer the case. We say “colonialism” and an American colonel replies, “I have come to kill Indians…. Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice.” We say “colonialism” and Cecil Rhodes strides across an entire continent. We say
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