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        1. After two decades of saying it was "antisemitic" to claim Israel is like Apartheid South Africa, now pro-Zionists argue it's antisemitic to say Israel is like the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, a settler colony. Perplexing.
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        It is precisely the city on a hill, outpost in a hostile neighborhood, "made the desert bloom in ways the natives couldn't," blessed by God vision that Israelis were pitching to Americans for the prior 75 years. That story? That's settling the Wild West, Manifest Destiny.
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      It's not hard to find these terms both shaping Israel's own visions and being used to rally Euro-American support for them, from a century before Israel's independence to the present.
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    If you want a compelling and nuanced exposition of this, read Edward Said's essay "Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims." For a historical narrative, read Rashid Khalidi's "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017."
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