American Jews: "Settlers"

I guess there's no escaping it.

Jews are "settlers", with or without a 'Green Line' with Israel or with America:

McConnell found that Touro is owned in a charitable trust set forth 250 years ago by its founders, some of the nation's first Jewish settlers,

Of course, that could mean that according to American Jews, especially the more liberal and progressive who insist that their concerns come first, maybe being a 'settler' is not that pejorative?

Or, perhaps, it is pejorative and they will not like being so termed?

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