ABSTRACT
The Colonialist Paradigm is hardly original or innovative. Attempts to portray Zionism as a colonialist movement are as old as the Zionist movement and they have accompanied the Arab-Jewish conflict from its inception. Zionist diplomacy preceded Zionist historical writing by a generation at least, and influenced historians rather than was affected by them. In the eyes of Raz-Krakotzkin, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem symbolised Zionist Colonialism. Derek Penslar has found several similarities as well as significant differences between the Zionist movement and national movements in India and South East Asia. In the 1930s, most Zionist leaders realised that attaining a majority in the whole of the country was questionable in view of Arab opposition and British fluctuation under Arab pressure. Economic theories of colonialism and sociological theories of migration movements are also inadequate when applied to the Zionist experience.
