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#Prof. Yuval Shany: {{tq|for Yuval Shany, a professor of international law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, dealing with the establishment of Israel as a colonial enterprise is “a significant category error.” It cannot apply to a conflict involving “two indigenous peoples.”}} Roger Cohen, "Who’s a ‘Colonizer’? How an Old Word Became a New Weapon," ''The New York Times'', 2023.
#Prof. [[Yoav Gelber]]: {{tq|The comparison [of Zionism] with colonialism fails to adequately explain the Zionist phenomenon. Zionism is indeed a colonizing enterprise, but it is not colonialist.}} Yoav Gelber, "Is Zionism Colonialism?", in ''The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920-2020'', p. 228.
#Prof. Urial Abulof: "I find the “Zionism (Israel) = colonialism = apartheid” equation factually false, intellectually lazy, morally wrong and practically counterproductive." Urial Abulof, "‘Colonialism’? ‘Apartheid’? Interrogating the language of Israel-Palestine," ''The Hill'', 2023.
#Prof. [[Tuvia Friling]]: {{tq|The Jewish settlement of Palestine moved capital in the opposite direction from that characteristic of colonial projects. It invested Jewish capital in the country, and did not extract resources and profits so as to send them elsewhere, to empires or outside investors, private and institutional.}} Tuvia Friling, ''Handbook of Israel: Major Debates'', p. 864.
#Prof. [[Sylvia Barack Fishman]]: {{tq|The foundational image of Israel—as a white colonialist power oppressing Palestinians who—unlike Jews—are persons of color—is racial (and racist) “fake news.”}} Sylvia Barack Fishman, "Erasure and Demonization: Antisemitism and Anti‐Zionism in Contemporary Social Movements", p. 15.
#Prof. [[Steven Lubet]] & Prof. Jonathan Zasloff: {{tq|The insistence on framing Zionism as a colonial project has always been a stretch at best.}} Steven Lubet and Jonathan Zasloff, "Is Israel Really a Settler Colonial State?", ''Haaretz'', 2021.
#Prof. [[Shalom Lappin]]: {{tq|The view of Israel as a European settler state is a particularly crude violation of the historical record... They are neither European nor colonialist.}} Shalom Lappin, "We Shall Be as a City on a Hill", in Alan Johnson, ''Mapping the New Left Antisemitism'', p. 198.
#Prof. [[Ran Aaronsohn]]: {{tq|up until the establishment of Israel, Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel should be described as a kind of colonization rather than colonialism.}} Ran Aaronsohn, "Settlement in Eretz Israel — A Colonialist Enterprise? 'Critical' Scholarship and Historical Geography", ''Israel Studies'', Vol. 1, No. 2, 1996, p. 223.
# Dr. Ingo Elbe: {{tq|The accusation of colonialism against Zionism as such ignores the fact that Jews have always resided in the area that was named ‘Palestine’ by the Romans, that they had a special cultural connection to Eretz Israel, and that their ‘civilizing mission’ (which only partially existed alongside a ‘positive Orientalism’) was primarily directed at the Jewish people itself.}}"Postcolonialism, Antisemitism, and Israel"
#Prof. [[Robbie Sabel]]: {{tq|Zionism lacked major elements that constitute colonialism. The Jewish immigrants to Palestine were imbued and motivated by the belief that they were returning to their ancestral home.}} Robbie Sabel, ''International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict'', p. 43.
#Prof. [[Moshe Lissak]]: {{tq|The use of the term "colonialism" is of course not accidental... It is precisely through means of comparison that one may prove that... they did not develop into actual colonial situations.}} Moshe Lissak, "'Critical' Sociology and 'Establishment' Sociology in the Israeli Academic Community", ''Israel Studies'', 1:1, 1996, pp. 271-286.
#Prof. [https://www.anselm.edu/faculty-directory/joseph-spoerl Joseph S. Spoerl]: {{tq|Left-wing anti-Israel activists, following in the footsteps of Soviet propagandists, associate Israel with imperialism, colonialism, racism, and global capitalism, applying to the Jewish state a host of classical antisemitic tropes that in the past were used to refer to “international Jewry.”}} Joseph S. Spoerl, "Antizionism and Antisemitism", ''Bustan: The Middle East Book Review'', Vol. 16, No. 1, 2025, p. 24.
#Prof. [https://www.uel.ac.uk/about-uel/staff/john-strawson John Strawson]: {{tq|The use of the term “colonialism” by BDS supporters is not historiography but political rhetoric.}} John Strawson, "Word Crimes; Reclaiming The Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", ''Israel Studies'', Vol. 24, No. 2, 2019.
#Prof. [https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/staff/ivo-ritzer/index.php Ivo Ritzer]: {{tq|The accusation of colonialism against Zionism as such ignores the fact that Jews have always resided in the area... speak against the accusation of colonialism.}} Ivo Ritzer, ''On the Critique of Identity'', pp. 164-165.
#[[Dara Horn]]: {{tq|A thick paper trail shows how the KGB adapted its propaganda by explicitly rebranding Zionism as “racism” and “colonialism,” beginning half a century ago, when those terms gained currency as potent smears.}} Dara Horn, "WHY THE MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE IN AMERICA FALL FOR ANTI-SEMITIC LIES", 2024.
#Prof. [[Bernard Harrison]]: {{tq|It [Israel]... did not come into being as a result of any European project of colonialism.}} Bernard Harrison, "Political Antisemitism and the IHRA", in Alan Johnson, ''Mapping the New Left Antisemitism'', p. 251.
#Prof. [[Yehoshofat Harkabi]]: {{tq|Colonialism means living by exploiting others, But what could be further from colonialism than the idealism of city-dwelling Jews who strive to become farmers and laborers?}} Yehoshofat Harkabi, ''Palestinians and Israel'', p. 6.
#[[Robi Friedman]]: {{tq|And thirdly, as already stated, I do not think Zionism is ‘colonialize’ in a Fanonian sense.}} Robi Friedman, "Response to Erica Burman", ''Group Analysis'', 2025.
#Prof. [[Evyatar Friesel]]: {{tq|Equally misconceived is the denigration of Zionism as a colonialist enterprise – a clear case where ideological delusion pushes aside any knowledge of historical facts.}} Evyatar Friesel, "Zionism and Jewish statehood as expressions of Jewish modernisation", 2024.
#[[Dore Gold]]: {{tq|Decades later, Britain and the rest of the League of Nations considered Jewish rights in Palestine beyond their power to bestow because those rights were already there to be accepted. Thus in the mandate document, the League of Nations gave recognition to "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine." In other words, it recognized ''a pre-existing right''. It did not create that right. It also called for "reconstituting" the Jewish peoples national home. And the rights recognized by the League of Nations were preserved by its successor organization, the United Nations, which in Article 80 of its charter acknowledged all rights of states and peoples that existed before 1945. Nevertheless, in recent years, the effort to portray Israel as a colonialist entity has expanded}} Dore Gold, "The Myth of Israel as a Colonialist Entity", ''Jewish Political Studies Review''.
#Prof. [[Derek J. Penslar]]: {{tq|The movement was not, in and of itself, a form of colonial practice... Zionism lacked the evangelical qualities of European colonialism.}} Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism, colonialism and Postcolonialism", ''Journal of Israeli History'', 20:2-3, p. 96.
#Prof. [[Daniel Boyarin]]: {{tq|Herzl's Zionism... is almost, but not quite, colonialism... Zionism was not to produce wealth for a mother country.}} Daniel Boyarin, "The Colonial Drag", p. 256.
#Prof. [[Benny Morris]]: {{tq|Colonialism is commonly defined as... By any objective standard, Zionism fails to fit this definition... Zionism was different from typical European colonialism.}} Benny Morris, "The War on History", ''Jewish Review of Books''.
#Prof. [[Alexander Yakobson]] & Prof. [[Amnon Rubinstein]]: {{tq|Efforts to describe and hence discredit Zionism as a colonialist phenomenon are based on a fairly clear (although generally not explicitly expressed) ideological view.}} Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein, ''Israel and the Family of Nations''.
#[[Tom Segev]]: {{tq|Historian Tom Segev states that "colonialism is irrelevant to the Zionist experience" because most Jewish immigrants came as refugees.}} Jennifer Schuessler, "What Is ‘Settler Colonialism’?", ''The New York Times'', 2024.
#Prof. [[Yoav Gelber]]: {{tq|The comparison [of Zionism] with colonialism fails to adequately explain the Zionist phenomenon. Zionism is indeed a colonizing enterprise, but it is not colonialist.}} Yoav Gelber, "Is Zionism Colonialism?", in ''The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920-2020'', p. 228.
#Prof. Urial Abulof: "I find the “Zionism (Israel) = colonialism = apartheid” equation factually false, intellectually lazy, morally wrong and practically counterproductive." Urial Abulof, "‘Colonialism’? ‘Apartheid’? Interrogating the language of Israel-Palestine," ''The Hill'', 2023.
#Prof. [[Tuvia Friling]]: {{tq|The Jewish settlement of Palestine moved capital in the opposite direction from that characteristic of colonial projects. It invested Jewish capital in the country, and did not extract resources and profits so as to send them elsewhere, to empires or outside investors, private and institutional.}} Tuvia Friling, ''Handbook of Israel: Major Debates'', p. 864.
#Prof. [[Sylvia Barack Fishman]]: {{tq|The foundational image of Israel—as a white colonialist power oppressing Palestinians who—unlike Jews—are persons of color—is racial (and racist) “fake news.”}} Sylvia Barack Fishman, "Erasure and Demonization: Antisemitism and Anti‐Zionism in Contemporary Social Movements", p. 15.
#Prof. [[Steven Lubet]] & Prof. Jonathan Zasloff: {{tq|The insistence on framing Zionism as a colonial project has always been a stretch at best.}} Steven Lubet and Jonathan Zasloff, "Is Israel Really a Settler Colonial State?", ''Haaretz'', 2021.
#Prof. [[Shalom Lappin]]: {{tq|The view of Israel as a European settler state is a particularly crude violation of the historical record... They are neither European nor colonialist.}} Shalom Lappin, "We Shall Be as a City on a Hill", in Alan Johnson, ''Mapping the New Left Antisemitism'', p. 198.
#Prof. [[Ran Aaronsohn]]: {{tq|up until the establishment of Israel, Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel should be described as a kind of colonization rather than colonialism.}} Ran Aaronsohn, "Settlement in Eretz Israel — A Colonialist Enterprise? 'Critical' Scholarship and Historical Geography", ''Israel Studies'', Vol. 1, No. 2, 1996, p. 223.
# Dr. Ingo Elbe: {{tq|The accusation of colonialism against Zionism as such ignores the fact that Jews have always resided in the area that was named ‘Palestine’ by the Romans, that they had a special cultural connection to Eretz Israel, and that their ‘civilizing mission’ (which only partially existed alongside a ‘positive Orientalism’) was primarily directed at the Jewish people itself.}}"Postcolonialism, Antisemitism, and Israel"
#Prof. [[Robbie Sabel]]: {{tq|Zionism lacked major elements that constitute colonialism. The Jewish immigrants to Palestine were imbued and motivated by the belief that they were returning to their ancestral home.}} Robbie Sabel, ''International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict'', p. 43.
#Prof. [[Moshe Lissak]]: {{tq|The use of the term "colonialism" is of course not accidental... It is precisely through means of comparison that one may prove that... they did not develop into actual colonial situations.}} Moshe Lissak, "'Critical' Sociology and 'Establishment' Sociology in the Israeli Academic Community", ''Israel Studies'', 1:1, 1996, pp. 271-286.
#Prof. [https://www.anselm.edu/faculty-directory/joseph-spoerl Joseph S. Spoerl]: {{tq|Left-wing anti-Israel activists, following in the footsteps of Soviet propagandists, associate Israel with imperialism, colonialism, racism, and global capitalism, applying to the Jewish state a host of classical antisemitic tropes that in the past were used to refer to “international Jewry.”}} Joseph S. Spoerl, "Antizionism and Antisemitism", ''Bustan: The Middle East Book Review'', Vol. 16, No. 1, 2025, p. 24.
#Prof. [https://www.uel.ac.uk/about-uel/staff/john-strawson John Strawson]: {{tq|The use of the term “colonialism” by BDS supporters is not historiography but political rhetoric.}} John Strawson, "Word Crimes; Reclaiming The Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", ''Israel Studies'', Vol. 24, No. 2, 2019.
#Prof. [https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/staff/ivo-ritzer/index.php Ivo Ritzer]: {{tq|The accusation of colonialism against Zionism as such ignores the fact that Jews have always resided in the area... speak against the accusation of colonialism.}} Ivo Ritzer, ''On the Critique of Identity'', pp. 164-165.
#[[Dara Horn]]: {{tq|A thick paper trail shows how the KGB adapted its propaganda by explicitly rebranding Zionism as “racism” and “colonialism,” beginning half a century ago, when those terms gained currency as potent smears.}} Dara Horn, "WHY THE MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE IN AMERICA FALL FOR ANTI-SEMITIC LIES", 2024.
#Prof. [[Bernard Harrison]]: {{tq|It [Israel]... did not come into being as a result of any European project of colonialism.}} Bernard Harrison, "Political Antisemitism and the IHRA", in Alan Johnson, ''Mapping the New Left Antisemitism'', p. 251.
#Prof. [[Yehoshofat Harkabi]]: {{tq|Colonialism means living by exploiting others, But what could be further from colonialism than the idealism of city-dwelling Jews who strive to become farmers and laborers?}} Yehoshofat Harkabi, ''Palestinians and Israel'', p. 6.
#[[Robi Friedman]]: {{tq|And thirdly, as already stated, I do not think Zionism is ‘colonialize’ in a Fanonian sense.}} Robi Friedman, "Response to Erica Burman", ''Group Analysis'', 2025.
#Prof. [[Evyatar Friesel]]: {{tq|Equally misconceived is the denigration of Zionism as a colonialist enterprise – a clear case where ideological delusion pushes aside any knowledge of historical facts.}} Evyatar Friesel, "Zionism and Jewish statehood as expressions of Jewish modernisation", 2024.
#[[Dore Gold]]: {{tq|Decades later, Britain and the rest of the League of Nations considered Jewish rights in Palestine beyond their power to bestow because those rights were already there to be accepted. Thus in the mandate document, the League of Nations gave recognition to "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine." In other words, it recognized ''a pre-existing right''. It did not create that right. It also called for "reconstituting" the Jewish peoples national home. And the rights recognized by the League of Nations were preserved by its successor organization, the United Nations, which in Article 80 of its charter acknowledged all rights of states and peoples that existed before 1945. Nevertheless, in recent years, the effort to portray Israel as a colonialist entity has expanded}} Dore Gold, "The Myth of Israel as a Colonialist Entity", ''Jewish Political Studies Review''.
#Prof. [[Derek J. Penslar]]: {{tq|The movement was not, in and of itself, a form of colonial practice... Zionism lacked the evangelical qualities of European colonialism.}} Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism, colonialism and Postcolonialism", ''Journal of Israeli History'', 20:2-3, p. 96.
#Prof. [[Daniel Boyarin]]: {{tq|Herzl's Zionism... is almost, but not quite, colonialism... Zionism was not to produce wealth for a mother country.}} Daniel Boyarin, "The Colonial Drag", p. 256.
#Prof. [[Benny Morris]]: {{tq|Colonialism is commonly defined as... By any objective standard, Zionism fails to fit this definition... Zionism was different from typical European colonialism.}} Benny Morris, "The War on History", ''Jewish Review of Books''.
#Prof. [[Alexander Yakobson]] & Prof. [[Amnon Rubinstein]]: {{tq|Efforts to describe and hence discredit Zionism as a colonialist phenomenon are based on a fairly clear (although generally not explicitly expressed) ideological view.}} Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein, ''Israel and the Family of Nations''.
#[[Tom Segev]]: {{tq|Historian Tom Segev states that "colonialism is irrelevant to the Zionist experience" because most Jewish immigrants came as refugees.}} Jennifer Schuessler, "What Is ‘Settler Colonialism’?", ''The New York Times'', 2024.
