majority as a non-negotiable strategy to securing its existence as a ‘Jewish state’, operates with this logic. Hence, it works to maintain all forms of domination, including demographic, political, cultural, and juridical, by Jewish-Israelis over the Palestinian people as the ‘other’ group that exists in Mandatory Palestine. Therefore, since its creation in 1948, Israel has developed an intricate web of illegal policies and practices to secure its status as a ‘Jewish state’ and to grant special privileges to Jewish-Israelis. As most recently evidenced by the Jewish Nation-State Basic Law, this status is now inscribed in Israeli law whereby Jewish-Israelis are granted preferential treatment based on a Zionist-constructed doctrine of ‘Jewish race’.19 Such laws have necessarily been premised on the domination, segregation, fragmentation, and isolation of the Palestinian people as well as the suppression of any resistance or existence that allegedly threatens the Israeli vision of a ‘Jewish state’. Simultaneously, Israeli laws, such as the Law of Return,20 Nationality Law,21 and the Absentee Property Law,22 have been used to denationalize Palestinians, confiscate Palestinian land and properties, forcibly displace and transfer Palestinians, prevent their repatriation, discriminate against them, and impose Zionist-Israeli sovereignty over the whole of Mandatory Palestine.23 Spanning across all areas of Palestinian life, including nationality, property, land, and natural resources, these 19 Basic Law: Israel - The Nation-State of the Jewish People, 5778-2018 (originally adopted in 5778-2018, last amended 1 May 2022) <https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/documents/ BasicLawsPDF/BasicLawNationState.pdf> accessed 5 April 2023; see also BADIL, The Nation State Law: The Culmination of 70 Years of Israeli Apartheid and Colonization (Position Paper, BADIL 2018) <https://www.badil.org/cached_uploads/view/2021/04/20/nationstatelawpositionpaper-badil-oct2018-1618905362.pdf> 20 Law of Return (1949-1950) 5710 <https://www.adalah.org/uploads/oldfiles/Public/files/ Discriminatory-Laws-Database/English/36-Law-of-Return-1950.pdf> accessed 5 April 2023. 21 Nationality Law (1952) 5712 <https://www.adalah.org/uploads/oldfiles/Public/files/ Discriminatory-Laws-Database/English/37-Citizenship-Law-1952.pdf> accessed 5 April 2023. 22 Absentees’ Property Law (1950) 5710 <https://www.un.org/unispal/document/autoinsert-209845/> accessed 5 April 2023. 23 BADIL, Forced Population Transfer – Introduction (n 2). 7