Sentence:  In modern times, our colonial present burst forth in Palestine in the early twentieth century as an evolving <WSD>settlerist</WSD> project led by the Zionist movement which had to interlace its statist aspirations, first with Ottoman imperialism and then with the British, eventually supplanting them with a specific variety of internal settler colonialism. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Asserting the rights and privileges of settlers over others (such as indigenous people).