Seeing Israel in the context of European settler colonialism: it partly fits, and at the same time it doesn't.

The other colonial powers were looking mainly for profit and power, not for survival against murderous persecution. Morally that changes some things, but not everything: it does not entitle Zionists to oppress Palestinians, let alone to commit massive and repeated atrocities.

Keep in mind that colonization is not limited to European countries. Ancient empires practiced colonization — Rome, for instance. Nowadays, China is practicing settler colonialism in Tibet, and Indonesia in its half of New Guinea.

India's treatment of Muslims under its system of Hindu nationalism is not "colonization' in a territorial sense, but it has much in common.

[pol note or two about that]