UNGA Resolutions Addressing Israel’s Colonization and Apartheid Policies There are a number of UN General Assembly resolutions that explicitly address Israeli policies as those of colonization and apartheid. For example, the Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories in 1974 demanded that Israel “desist forthwith from the annexation and colonization of the occupied Arab territories as well as from all [its] policies and practices”, including the establishment of Israeli colonies and the transfer of an alien population to them, the destruction, confiscation, and expropriation of Palestinian property, land, and natural resources, the forcible displacement and deportation of Palestinians and the denial of their right to return, and the mass arrests and ill-treatment of the Palestinian population, among many others.61 Similarly, UNGA Resolution 34/44 of 1979 condemned all governments “ which do not recognize the right to self-determination and independence of all peoples still under colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation, notably the peoples of Africa and the Palestinian people”.62 UNGA Resolution 38/17 of 1983 additionally reaffirmed “the inalienable right of the […] Palestinians people and all peoples under foreign and colonial domination to self-determination, national unity and sovereignty without foreign interference”, condemned the “continued violations of the human rights of the peoples still under colonial domination and alien subjugation, […] [including] the denial to the Palestinian people of their inalienable national rights”.63 1.2. Israeli Policies of Forcible Transfer While the above constitutes the four historical periods in which Palestinians have experienced mass displacement, Israel has since developed a set of policies to induce the ‘silent transfer’ of Palestinians. These forcible transfer policies are implemented all throughout Palestine with varying degrees of application, 64 dependent on the extent of Israel’s colonial control and the advancement of its colonial project in each distinct area. Essentially, while the policy is the same, the tools and mechanisms driving the 61 Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories, UNGA Res A/RES/3240(XXIX) A-C (29 November 1974), arts 3 and 7 <https://documentsdds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/738/42/IMG/NR073842.pdf ?OpenElemenT> accessed 3 October 2022. 62 Importance of the Universal Realization of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination and of the Speedy Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples for the Effective Guarantee and Observance of Human Rights, UNGA Res A/RES/34/44 (23 November 1979), art 12 <https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/ GEN/NR0/376/71/IMG/NR037671.pdf ?OpenElement> accessed 3 October 2022. 63 Importance of the Universal Realization of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination and of the Speedy Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples for the Effective Guarantee and Observance of Human Rights, UNGA Res A/RES/38/17 (22 November 1983), arts 3&15 <https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/ RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/444/09/IMG/NR044409.pdf ?OpenElement> accessed 3 October 2022. 64 BADIL, Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine - Introduction (BADIL 2014) <http://www.badil.org/ phocadownloadpap/Badil_docs/publications/wp15-introduction.pdf> accessed 3 October 2022. 12