Despite its continuous attempts to present itself as a national liberation movement for Jews, however, its reality reveals that it is a settler movement based on displacing the indigenous population and replacing them with settlers, just as colonial powers did in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today, as global awareness of the "Israeli" occupation crimes grows, it has become necessary to re-examine the ideological roots of Zionism, and understand how Jewish religious texts were distorted to legitimize a racist colonial project. Analyzing the relationship between Zionism and contemporary Western thought also helps reveal the political and intellectual alliances that supported this project at the expense of Palestinian rights.
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