belonging to the Palestinian people as recognized in international law. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship have existed in their lands prior to the creation of Israel in 1948 and have remained there since. Their engulfment into the state of Israel and subsequent possession of Israeli citizenship is a result of Israeli colonization and not an indicator of surrendering their Palestinian national and collective rights. Recognizing this factuality, the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime implements policies and practices aimed at limiting their influence, ignoring their national rights, and severing their collective identity and national awareness, including: fragmenting and isolating Palestinian cities and villages, de jure labelling Palestinians as an “Arab minority in Israel”, restricting and/or criminalizing their communication with Palestinian and Arab residents of “enemy states,”30 and prohibiting Palestinian schools in Palestine 1948 from discussing the Palestinian narrative or even recounting the historical facts of the displacement of the Palestinian people, known as the Nakba.31 In addition, the enduring presence of the Palestinian population in 1948 Palestine is perceived as a threat to the ideological framework of Israel’s religious ethnonationalistic colonial project, hence their categorization as an ‘ethnic minority.’ As an entity that defines itself as a Jewish state where nationality is based on being Jewish32 - the religious ethnicity that Zionism has situated at the center of the Israeli colonial project – anyone that exists in that geographical space and is not Jewish is regarded as a danger to this constructed vision of ethnic homogeneity. Irrespective of these attempts, Palestinians in 1948 belonged to the same people as those elsewhere and have only been savagely ripped apart from other Palestinians, often belonging to the same family, as a result of the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime. To practically allow for Palestinians with an Israeli citizenship to partake in Palestinian self-determination, it is essential to recognize and act upon the recognition that Mandatory Palestine, as a whole, constitutes a territory “of a colonial type.” Mandatory Palestine therefore qualifies as a non-self-governing 30 Adalah, “Prohibitng Contact with Enemy Aliens: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel, November 2009, available at: https://www.adalah.org/uploads/oldfiles/newsletter/eng/nov09/Haneen%20enemy%20 English%20final.pdf 31 Adalah, “The Prohibition on Teaching the Nakba in the Arab Education System in Israel,” September 2010, available at: https://www.adalah.org/uploads/oldfiles/newsletter/eng/sep10/docs/Sawsan%20 Nakba%20English%20final.pdf 32 See Nation State Law; BADIL, The Nation State Law, in supra 2. 12