settler colonial states, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.14 This ideology set fertile ground for the culmination of the Nakba between 1947-1949 which caused the forcible displacement of between 750,000 to 900,000 Palestinians, and the modern-day perpetuation of the Ongoing Nakba,15 where more than 65 percent of the Palestinian people have become forcibly displaced persons.16 1.1. Failed Racial Elimination = Adoption of Racial Domination However, given that the Zionist-Israeli regime was unsuccessful in completely achieving its vision of separate existence and its corresponding goal of total Palestinian elimination in the late 1940s, a logic of racial domination has been deployed by the regime – that of apartheid.17 It is no surprise that Israel has created an apartheid regime considering that, as suggested by Virginia Tilley, a system of apartheid is implemented to “serve a group’s survival agenda by physically excluding other groups – a policy that has little to do with the nature of others except that they are, by definitions, others.”18 In other words, such a group believes that it is unable to survive with others in its midst, and thus finds it absolutely necessary to dominate them regardless of the illegal or unjust implications. Israel, as a regime that seeks an overwhelming Jewish 14 Haifa Rashed and Damien Short, ‘Genocide and settler colonialism: Can a Lemkin-inspired genocide perspective aid our understanding of the Palestinian situation?’ (2012) 16(8) The International Journal of Human Rights 1142-1169 <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/ 10.1080/13642987.2012.735494> accessed 5 April 2023. 15 BADIL has used the terminology of Ongoing Nakba since its creation in 1998. For one of its earlier publications on the Ongoing Nakba, see BADIL, ‘Ongoing Nakba’ (2006) 29 al-Majdal <https://www.badil.org/cached_uploads/view/2021/05/06/al-majdal-29-1620308707. pdf>. For more recent discussions on the Ongoing Nakba, see BADIL, Survey of Palestinian Refugees 2019-2021 (n 10). 16 BADIL, Survey of Palestinian Refugees 2019-2021 (n 10). 17 BADIL, ‘Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 2013-2015’ (2015) VIII Survey of Palestinian Refugees & IDPs <http://www.badil.org/phocadownloadpap/ badil-new/publications/survay/Survey2013-2015-en.pdf>. 18 Virginia Tilley (ed), Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Pluto Press 2011), xiv. 6