The settler colonialism paradigm, when applied to Israel, becomes absurd indeed. Jews are Indigenous to the land of Israel, with a continuous presence spanning over three millennia. That is a far cry from the experience of other so-called settler colonial states, which involved strangers laying claim to foreign territories. Rather than being driven by a metropole or mother country, the return of Russian and East European Jews to their ancestral land in the nineteenth century was largely in response to the persecution and antisemitism experienced in those nations.