From Mandate to Military Rule: Is Israel a Colonial Power?

By Blake Alcott

In the case of Palestine, whether the outsiders are seen as the British, the Israelis or the United States, this criterion for declaring it today a ‘colony’, between the river and the sea, is perfectly fulfilled.

Apologists for Zionism and Israel in academia, media and politics deny that Palestine is now ‘colonized’, mainly on the grounds that there is no ‘mother country’ – no…