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> If you Google “Zionism and settler colonialism,” for example, what you get is a Wikipedia article automatically anchored to the very top of the Google search results, with its own knowledge panel to the right. A fringe concept that would have only shown a smattering of unfocused articles just two years ago

I'm just going to stop you right there. Zionism and settler colonialism has been a hot-topic international issue for the past 100 years following the Balfour declaration in 1917. Then it was brought up again in the past 40 years as Zionist political action has annexed the Golan Heights and condoned the harassment of it's natives with the support of the IDF and Israeli judicial system.

So it's not just "a fringe concept" that has only come into the spotlight recently. It is literally the single most salient detail concerning the legitimacy of Israel as a nation and the respect they have for the borders of their neighbors. It deserves search results, it is an inherently important part of Israel's identity since it's founding and even the modern way it's policy functions today.