This article deconstructs the conceptual tools employed by the Palestinian national movement to diagnose the Palestinian condition. It traces the transformations of contemporary political and academic discourses, from labeling the Palestinian condition as ‘colonialism’ in the 1950s and then re-packaging it as ‘occupation’ in post-Oslo era.  Consequently, the article explains the impact of the absence of academic-epistemic frameworks in the field of colonial studies on the political field. To achieve this goal, the article is divided into three parts: Part I reads through theoretical frameworks to qualify colonial structure/ the structure of colonialism; Part II analyzes the concept of ‘Total Violence,’ that has been used to analyze communal violence but never to analyze colonial state violence; while Part III examines the impact of merging academia into the political realm.