Summary
Israel’s 1952 citizenship law, presented in Chapter 14 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions as creating a two-tier system of nationality and citizenship and as the instrument by which the 1948 refugees were denationalized (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, PDF p.194-195).
Details
- Under the law Jews hold both nationality and citizenship, while Palestinian citizens of Israel hold only citizenship, the rights attached to Jewish nationality being of a higher order (PDF p.194-195).
- Refugees were excluded from citizenship under the law, “denationalized” and made stateless in violation of the law of state succession, and their land was confiscated (PDF p.195).
- The approximately 150,000 Palestinians who remained after the 1948 Nakba were placed under a military regime from 1948 to 1966, similar to the regime in the occupied territory (PDF p.195).
Related pages
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, Law of Return, Apartheid Convention, Jewish National Fund, Apartheid