· all meaningful and practical measures to bring an end to Israel’s colonial-apartheid policies that deliberately aim to delegitimize the Palestinian peoples’ struggle and deprive them of their access to political participation, including: its murder, arrest, torture, and harassment of Palestinians who engage in political participation, its violent suppression of legitimate resistance and the policies of collective punishment that come with it, its criminalization of Palestinian CSOs, its de-politicization of the Palestinian educational curriculum and the withholding of funding and building permits to Palestinian schools, and its overarching policies of isolation, fragmentation, and segregation of the Palestinian people; The Palestinian leadership (PLO), political factions, and national civil society organizations to conduct transparent and democratic processes to address the obstacles impeding on the political participation of Palestinian youth. Such processes should activate the role of Palestinian youth and handle the following concerns: o Palestinian youth’s reluctance to participate in existing official and semi-official frameworks and bodies; o The lack of confidence among youth in current organized political parties and frameworks; o Youth’s decreasing trust in the possibility of achieving the realization of national and/or socio-economic rights through international organizations; o The dwindling interest in Palestinian public affairs and the dominance of individualism both as a culture and as a behavior; o Women’s declining participation in avenues for political participation that require visibility in the public sphere; o Youth’s strong desire to democratize the Palestinian political system and society; o The Palestinian division, including repression of freedoms and exclusion of youth under the pretext of dubious agendas; o The lack of a national strategy for liberation; o Youth’s desire to dismantle of the quota scheme within Palestinian political system. xxi