[Gamblor]

-If not for the Jewish immigration those people would still have their homes.

Please, andy, that is a terrible argument because it ignores the decades in between and host of other factors.

The fact remains that the jewish immigration began in the 19th century, and the Arab intransigence to that immigration, founded in anti-semitism and xenophobia, led to the violence that led to the UN-mandated separation of the two peoples that led to the the War of Independence 5 decades later, that led to the people not having their homes. Chad Gadya.

A colony is a land settled or conquered by an outside nation and controlled by it.

Let's use the google definition (google search: colony definition): "a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government"

The settlers maintained no ties with their homelands and did not remain nationals of their home state.

The Jews defined themselves as a nation, albeit an unusual one without a land. They colonized Palestine.

Using the definition above, no they didn't.