Tell that to these guys https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Colonisation_Association https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Colonisation_Associat... Sources

Tell that to these guys https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Colonisation_Association https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Colonisation_Associat... Sources from the early Zionist movement are replete with discussion of colonization. It's only now when the connotation (not the reality) of the term has changed that Israel supporters try to pretend it never happened.