“Those poor widdle settwers fweeing Iswamic oppwession have no chwice but to oppwess those evil oppwessing Iswams”

Though I think as much as they try to weasel word it, the public aren’t buying it. In most Leftist circles settler and colonizer are synonyms, and “settler colonialism” is literally used to denote when the colonizing population move in en masse with the express intent to replace the Indigenous population, compared to other forms of colonialism like resource or labour exploitation. In Canada at least, another textbook settler colonial country that’s just as bad as if not worse than Israel, I’ve noticed that settler tends to have a pretty similar negative connotation as colonizer even among liberals. Dictionaries can define it however the hell they want but language has its true meaning inside the minds of humans, not formal definitions on a book written by the ruling class.