2. INTRODUCTION

The support of Western, colonial states has been central to the Israeli regime’s ability to commit crimes and perpetuate the ongoing Nakba¹ for over 77 years. States have long played a critical role in the advancement of the Zionist colonial project: from the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate (1922–1948)²; to the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan³ and the subsequent international recognition of the Israeli regime; to the Oslo Accords,⁴ the promotion of “peace plans,”⁵ and the two-state solution. In tandem, they have ensured the Israeli regime’s impunity by providing it with immense political backing and obstructing accountability at international institutions, including vetoing United Nations Security Council resolutions,⁶ in violation of their responsibilities under international law. At the domestic level, governments have cracked down harshly on Palestine solidarity movements, including by: employing police

Footnotes

1. BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BADIL) defines the ongoing Nakba as “the perpetual colonization enterprise and its pillars, which are maintained and upheld through a plethora of Zionist-Israeli policies, practices, and laws that perpetrate population transfers to alter the demographic and geographic composition of Mandatory Palestine.” BADIL, Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, 2019–2021 (Bethlehem: BADIL, 2022), xii, https://badil.org/cached_uploads/view/2022/10/31/survey2021-eng-1667209836.pdf.
2. See BADIL, Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine – Introduction, Working Paper No. 1 (Bethlehem: BADIL, February 2020), 15–18, link.
3. BADIL, “Take Your Symbolic International Solidarity Day and Give Us back Our Land and Our Rights: True Solidarity with Palestine Demands Concrete Actions,” press release, November 28, 2025, https://badil.org/press-releases/15588.html.
4. See BADIL, Palestinian Youth Perspectives on the Oslo Peace Process: Successes, Failures and Alternatives, Working Paper No. 27 (Bethlehem: BADIL, February 2020), xiii, link.
5. For example on Trump’s “Deal of the Century” see: BADIL, Trump’s so-called Vision/Deal of the Century: A move to end the Palestinian refugee issue through serious breaches of International Law, Position Paper (Bethlehem: BADIL, May 2020), https://badil.org/cached_uploads/view/2021/04/20/deal-of-the-century-refugee-issue-positionpaper-may2020-1618905452.pdf.
6. The US has vetoed 50 UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions critical against the Israeli regime. See Jewish Virtual Library, “U.N. Security Council: U.S. Vetoes of Resolutions Critical to Israel,” accessed May 3, 2025, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/u-n-security-council-u-s-vetoes-of-resolutions-critical-to-israel.