Article - Israeli Demographic Engineering Across Colonized Palestine

The Israeli regime subjects Palestinians across colonized Palestine to an intricate system of demographic control. Through its strategic fragmentation of the Palestinian people and a body of apartheid laws, Israel continually revokes Palestinians’ residency rights, denies them family unification across the Green Line and beyond, strips them of Israeli citizenship, and secures their deportation.

How has Israel engineered and implemented these policies? What are their implications for the Palestinian people? How can they be challenged?

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