international law as it pertains to displaced Palestinians, they would need the permission of a parliamentary majority to do so. The Nation State Law, 2018 In July 2018, the Knesset passed the long debated Basic Law: Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people (hereafter Nation State Basic Law), constitutionalizing the superiority of the Jewish people and, inter alia, entrenching Jewish settlement as a national value and the principle that Israel is open for Jewish migration. The consequence of which is the systematic inferiorization of Palestinians who are explicitly denied their right to self-determination within the Israeli regime, and excluded by omission and incompatibility from national priorities of settlement and return. This basic law functions to: optimize the opportunity for Jewish settlement, including its prioritization as a binding consideration within the legal system; diminish the space and conditions for viable Palestinian communities; and, in its practical effect, excludes the possibility of the return of Palestinian refugees as a foundational doctrine of the Israeli state. Through the combination of these laws and policies, the Israeli regime has effectively denied all forcibly displaced Palestinians their right to return. Denial of Residency in the oPt Following the displacement of over 400,000 Palestinians during 1967,83 the Israeli military carried out a census of remaining Palestinians. Any unregistered Palestinian following this census was denied residency status. The 1967 census recorded nearly one million Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,84 and 66,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem.85 Not included in the census were the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced during the 1967 War and those who were outside of the country for personal reasons such as study, work, or travel.86 83 BADIL, Survey 2013-2015, supra note 6, xxxiv . 84 Human Rights Watch, Forget About Him, He’s not Here. Israel’s Control of Palestinian Residency in the West Bank and Gaza, available at: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/ iopt0212webwcover.pdf. Also see: BADIL and COHRE, Ruling Palestine, A History of the Legally Sanctioned Jewish-Israeli Seizure of Land and Housing in Palestine (Geneva, Switzerland; Bethlehem, Palestine: COHRE - Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions; BADIL Resource Centre for Palestinian Rights and Refugee Rights, 2005), 125, available at: http://www.badil.org/phocadownloadpap/Badil_ docs/publications/Ruling%20Palestine.pdf 85 Yael Stein, The Quiet Deportation: Revocation of Residency of East Jerusalem Palestinians (Jerusalem: Center for the Defence of the Individual, 1998). 86 BADIL, Survey 2010-2012, supra note 6. 31