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Perhaps nit-picking, but one could say that Israel was created on the back of European antisemitism in general. Some who arrived pre-WW2, and then a much greater influx after the Holocaust and later another great influx with the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries. I can't feel any ill will towards the individual Jew who gave up on Europe and fled to British Palestine, I would probably have done the same myself. But I don't agree that much with your disconnect from Eurpoean colonialism. In the early days of the influx of European Jews, the average European had a pretty condescending attitude to the native population of their colonies. My argument would be that echoes of that attitude may have been some of the reason for how Jews and Arabs got off on the wrong foot. But where people of European descent elsewhere have (at least to some extent) started to see the error of their ways, I guess Chris Froome could be an example of a fairly well integrated white Kenyan, many Israelis have doubled down with religious and fatalistic rhetoric that has only served to deepen the divide.
Source: My personal take on a couple of Amos Oz novels as well as 'My promised land' by Ari Shavit.
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Yeah, it's obviously an oversimplification of complicated situations. Zimbabwe was taken over and ruled wholly by a minority coloniser at the peak, but towards the end of its few hundred years of colonial power and history, for mainly economic exploitation. It gained it's independence as the empire wained and other countries seeked independence. Israel isn't just a case of colonised Palestinians removing a minority rule and gaining independence, there's a full country of people who remember, either personally, or from parents or grandparents' stories, fleeing genocide for a place specifically created as a safe haven for Jews, hence the right to exist stuff being important to them. Unfortunately this history doesn't seem to instill empathy in the actions of the Israeli state towards the Palestinian people, and the stuff happening now is horrific, but it's not the same as integrating some rich white families in a place with a fair amount of space in return for independence.
snottyotter
There are analogues, but those countries were colonised and subjugated by global colonial superpowers (at the time), Israel was created on the back of the holocaust as a safe haven for surviving Jews. The power balance may have shifted more towards the colonial power now, but it's creation and why is still within living memory.