Why do we call them settlers and not invaders?
Religious nationalism is disgusting.
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Why do we call them settlers and not invaders?
Religious nationalism is disgusting.
Or terrorists?
They're people from (illegal) settlements. I think settler is an objectively correct word for them. I'm sure there are also other accurate terms.
The term comes from settler colonialism. It is different from normal colonialism because it tries murder or displace a population to replace it with people from the colonizing country.
However the term settler by itself does not do the situation justice, so colonist would be better fitting.
it should be perceived as defeat, in a just world that entire settler-colonial project would be dismantled immediately.
A political goal worth pursuing is banning "Israeli dual-citizenship" in countries that allow it, and charging citizens who have participated in the IDF with terrorism.