> I’m sure the people of Israel would have loved to maintain ties with their homeland but they have been run out of Europe and the Middle East. so where is this Jewish homeland that the colonists in Israel are maintaining ties to?

Much better.

I personally wouldn’t call Israel a European colonization effort. I don’t think Jews really had a homeland per se. AFAIK they were a nation without any land. It seemed like Israel was part reparations for the holocaust and part installing a strategic ally in the Middle East.

Maybe that’s a thin line.

I can absolutely see how someone could make that argument, though, when framed like this:

A fairly western style country, funded by wealthy western countries, taking and keeping hold of some land in a very not western style part of the world.