colonial-apartheid laws alter the geographic and demographic character of Palestine, and ultimately preclude the Palestinian people from exercising their inalienable rights to self-determination and return.24 1.2. Indivisibility of Colonization, Apartheid, and Forcible Transfer in the Israeli Regime When considering Israeli laws, policies, and practices, it is often impossible to distinguish between policies that are associated with colonization and others that are associated with apartheid or forcible transfer. This is because they exude characteristics of all three that work together to dominate, subjugate, suppress, exploit, and displace the Palestinian people. To clarify, as per the definitions in the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (Decolonization Declaration) and the Apartheid Convention, respectively, they are tools of domination aimed at the “partial or total disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of a country”25 and are simultaneously committed “for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them”26 “in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination.”27 24 See 3236 (XXIX). The Question of Palestine (22 November 1974) UNGA Res A/ RES/3236(XXIX) <https://undocs.org/A/RES/3236%20(XXIX)> accessed 5 April 2023; BADIL, Palestinian Self-Determination: Land, People, and Practicality (Working Paper No. 28, BADIL 2021) <https://www.badil.org/cached_uploads/view/2021/11/15/wp-28-selfdetermination-1636973309.pdf>. 25 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, UNGA Res 1514 (XV) (14 Dec 1960) [hereinafter Decolonization Declaration] < https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/152/88/PDF/NR015288.pdf ?OpenElement> accessed 5 April 2023. 26 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (30 November 1973) A/RES/3068(XXVIII), art 2 <https://www.un.org/en/ genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.10_International%20Convention%20 on%20the%20Suppression%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20 Apartheid.pdf> accessed 5 April 2023. 27 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (17 July 1998) 2187 UNTS 90, art 7(2)(h) <https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/RS-Eng.pdf> accessed 5 April 2023. 8