determination, the Zionist-Israeli regime (Israel) has necessarily sought, and continues to seek, the erasure of the Palestinian people, turning them into a ‘no people’ consisting of displaced stateless individuals that are unqualified to exercise their right to self-determination. To that end, the ensuing 73 years since Israel’s creation have shown Israel adopting evolving and varying means of forcible transfer policies to fragment and isolate Palestinians, subjecting them to different political and legal systems, weakening their physical continuity and thereby undermining their national cohesion, collective identity, and overall, their peoplehood.3 In addition to undermining the Palestinian peoplehood to, in turn, erode their right to self-determination, Israel denies it altogether both explicitly and through non-recognition of it. This was most recently evidenced in the 2018 Nation State Law which states that “[t]he exercise of the right to national selfdetermination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people,”4 thus denying the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and reaffirming Jewish-Israeli exclusivity of self-determination on the whole of Mandatory Palestine. This conception has also been reflected in the Oslo peace process. The 1993 Oslo Accords stated the process’ intentions of reaching a final settlement based on United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, none of which refer to the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.5 As a result, the Oslo peace process, which has shaped the contemporary mainstream discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian ‘conflict,’ has prompted a denial of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. Non-recognition is arguably equivalent to denial, 2 3 See BADIL’s Forced Population Transfer series: BADIL, Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine - Introduction, working paper no. 15 (March 2014); BADIL, Denial of Residency, working paper no. 16 (April 2014); BADIL, Discriminatory Zoning and Planning, working paper no. 17 (December 2014); BADIL, Installment of a Permit Regime, working paper no. 18 (December 2015); BADIL, Suppression of Resistance, working paper no. 19 (December 2016); BADIL, Denial of Access to Natural Resources and Services, working paper no. 20 (September 2017); BADIL, Land Confiscation and Denial of Use, working paper no. 21 (October 2017); BADIL, Denial of Reparations, working paper no.22 (October 2018). BADIL, Segregation, Fragmentation, and Isolation, working paper no. 23 (February 2020). All papers available at: https://www.badil.org/en/ publication/research/working-papers.html 4 See Basic Law: Israel – the Nation State of the Jewish People, 5778-2018, unofficial translation by Dr. Susan Hattis Rolef, available at: https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/Documents/BasicLawsPDF/ BasicLawNationState.pdf; BADIL, The Nation State Law: The Culmination of 70 Years of Israeli Apartheid and Colonization (Bethlehem: BADIL, October 2018), available at: https://www.badil.org/cached_uploads/ view/2021/04/20/nationstatelaw-positionpaper-badil-oct2018-1618905362.pdf. 5 See BADIL, Palestinian Youth Perspectives on the Oslo Peace Process: Successes, Failures, and Alternatives, working paper no. 27 (Bethlehem: BADIL, August 2021), available at: https://www.badil.org/cached_uploads/ view/2021/09/15/wp27-pal-youth-vs-oslo-eng-1631700884.pdf