connections between apartheid and colonialism as practiced by the Israeli regime constitutes one of their most consequential shortcomings.10 AlHaq’s recent report addresses this substantial omission by detailing how the two forms of domination function in relation to one another in Mandatory Palestine, namely that apartheid is a tool of colonialism.11 The shifting discourse, while a development deserving of recognition, is not sufficient in and of itself to realize and guarantee the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. Rather, it demands that stakeholders specify an appropriate course of action for dismantling the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime and advance such an approach in tangible ways. As such, the forthcoming series of working papers outlines a comprehensive approach for rights-based decolonization over all of Mandatory Palestine, which is the only suitable and just solution for the liberation of Palestine. This Introduction Paper is the first of a five-paper series on Decolonization: The Case of Palestine. While this paper will establish the intended framework for decolonization, the subsequent papers in the series will constitute an in-depth exploration of the required actions, processes and means for achieving complete decolonization in Mandatory Palestine. The series aims to provide a comprehensive rights-based decolonization approach that addresses the fundamental and inalienable political, economic, social, and cultural rights of the Palestinian people in a decolonized Palestine. The Decolonization Series is thus guided by the following question: What does rights-based decolonization in Palestine look like in concrete terms? To answer this question, the series necessarily contends with Israel’s system of domination — colonization and apartheid — in tandem with forcible transfer. 10 BADIL, ‘Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 2019-2021’ (2022) X Survey of Palestinian Refugees & IDPs [hereinafter BADIL, Survey of Palestinian Refugees 2019-2021] <https://www.badil.org/cached_uploads/view/2022/10/31/survey2021eng-1667209836.pdf> accessed 5 April 2023. 11 Al-Haq, Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism (Al Haq 2022) <https://www.alhaq. org/cached_uploads/download/2022/11/29/israeli-apartheid-webversion-1-page-viewoption-01-1669748323.pdf> accessed 5 April 2023. 4