As a fellow Jew, I agree, but it’s worth noting. I wouldn’t ever call someone an antisemite for referring to someone as a lizard-person, because at this point no one intends it that way. I have a friend who’s pretty receptive to social justice issues and mentioned it to her recently just as an interesting point of conversation.

The reptilian conspiracy theory can be considered at least antisemitism-adjacent, which makes its popularity with respect to Zuckerberg… interesting.

Colony is a bit of a misnomer. Zionist settlers did what they did largely independently, facilitated first by Ottoman bureaucracy, and then British. The British attempted to assuage both sides over the course of their retreat from the region during the interwar & WWII period, but failed and ended up angering both. They imprisoned and executed Zionist fighters during their mandate in the region; Irgun bombed Britain’s mandatory headquarters in the King David Hotel in 1946. The Zionists were left behind not as a European colony, but as an independent nation that wholeheartedly believes in Israel as its homeland. Indeed, Zionists were supplied with weapons by the Soviets during the 1948 war; it was only later that Israel was embraced as a Western ally. Apartheid is more accurate, but still not perfect, because the Dutch didn’t have a 3000 year old holy site in South Africa. This is far deeper and more intractable than any typical colonial conflict, dystopian in many ways for many years now.