​Zureik explores the nature of Zionism and its colonial practices, with the objective of demystifying the Zionist myth and narrative, claiming that Zionism, and its embodiment through colonial settlement in Palestine, is endowed with a uniqueness that sets it apart from European and Western colonialism. Zureik counteracts this narrative by exemplifying four distinct colonial characteristics of settler movements, including: control over the land and the sequestering of the native population in limited geographic zones that border the settlements; the use of a surveillance regime to track and monitor the private and collective lives of the colonized group; controlling the way of life through focusing on the demographic balance of society and the use of “national security” as a justification for the use of violence and force as tools to repress the indigenous population. Zureik points to Israel’s use of force and violence as tools to protect “the security of the state,” highlighting that the campaign of Zionist settlement has actually exceeded the scale of violence that was employed in other settler states, such as South Africa. The author maintains that Zionism is not only practicing discrimination and racism, but also attempting to hide this by resorting to the law, which appeals to the language of “equality” and the “general enforcement of the law” in accordance with liberal logic in a manner that is consistent with Israel’s liberal claims, all the while Israel continues to persecute Palestinians.