Professors Alan Johnson and Leila Farsakh on Whether Israel is a Settler-Colonial State

The claim that Israel is a “settler-colonial” state—created by foreign conquerors who displaced and dominated the native population—is a staple of pro-Palestinian commentary. This Friday, Leila Farsakh, a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and author of the new book, Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination an…