Published in 1965 as the first publication of the PLO Research Center in Beirut, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Palestinian scholar and diplomat Fayez A. Sayegh is a landmark analysis of Zionism as a form of settler colonialism.

Sayegh argues that Zionism, like other European colonial movements, sought not to exploit the indigenous population but to replace it, and that racial exclusion and expulsion were built into the project from the start. Decades before settler-colonial studies became a field, this short text laid out its central argument for Palestine. Sayegh later helped draft UN Resolution 3379.