That legacy continues today across the Zionist political spectrum, further indicating how and why the continued genocide of the Palestinian people cannot simply be limited the current actions of the Netanyahu regime, but rather how it sits on a much longer colonial trjectory.
Benzion Netanyahu was originally born on 25 March 1910 as Benzion Mileikowsky, changing his name to Netanyahu (meaning 'God has given') when arriving in Palestine in 1920. European Jewish settlers would often change their names as a means of masking their European origins.
Professor al-Arian highlights how the founding principles of Revisionist Zionism - now in power in 'Israel' - requires belief in territorial maximalism, and thus the exclusion of all Arabs.
Central to the expert report by @DrSamiAlArian is how the current Likud Party, under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, has its political ideology informed by his father Benzion, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founders of Revisionist Zionism.
As we approach Nakba Day on 15 May 2025, it is important to note and understand how Zionism is itself, an ideology that is rooted in a particular form of European settler colonialism, one that was informed to a great extent by fascism.
While Sai Englert's work shows the trajectory of Zionist thinking learning from settler colonialism during the period of European colonisation, what is less known, is the extent to which Revisionist Zionism is heavily influenced by fascism.
Building on the work of Dr Sai Englert, Professor @DrSamiAlArian's report focuses on how Zionism as an ideology, has always had maximalist expansionist goals, ones that have always sought the complete displacement of the Palestinian people.
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The purposeful displacement of the Palestinian people and their cantonement in a suffocating small open air concentration camp, for Dr Englert, led to a cocktail of conditions that resulted in the attacks on 7 October 2023 - a day that cannot be divorced from setterl colonialism.
Benzion Netanyahu was deeply influed by Ze'ev Jabotinsky and his book 'The Iron Wall' which continues to find salience in the current Likud Party. Benjamin Netanyahu fully accepts the role tha Jabotinsky's writings have had in informing his politics and beliefs.
The settler colonial identity of the Zionist state cannot be denied, as it drew so heavily on colonisation as a model for its own existence. This would be crystallised in the thinking and works of Zeev Jabotinsky - the ideological forebear of Benjamin Netanyahu.
