"We discuss the arrival of Zionists to Palestine with the Hebrew term aliyah (ascend; plural: aliyot). Aliyot are nearly always described as 'waves of immigration.'
"This mischaracterizes things. When you immigrate someplace,
you join or articulate to the sovereignty (the organized society: nation, tribe, kingdom etc.) you find upon arrival.
"Settlers do not.
Settlers carry their own sovereignty with them, which challenges the indigenous sovereignty.
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Successful settler colonies displace or exterminate the indigenous sovereignty.
"Alternately put, when the British built colonies on Turtle Island*, they 'brought Britain with them,' creating settler colonies and displacing the Powhatan sovereignty and Powhatan people they encountered in what the settler society calls Virginia.
"This simultaneous increase of British - later American - and decrease of indigenous sovereignty is how Turtle Island is transformed into 'North America' through the past 500 years.
"The processes of establishing, perpetuating and extending settler colonies is called settler colonialism."
A Primer on the Colonialism of Israel's Settlers