Jews came in peacefully buying land, as is their right. https://medium.com/non-violence/zionist-jews-did-nothing-wrong-make-turks-pay-reparations-for-oppressing-arab-tenant-farmers-41285f9716bf However, traditional Islamic law does not allow non-Muslims to own land, and so extremist local Muslims began attacking. Jews were not illegitimately colonizing; they were just buying land, which is a human right.