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Palestinian right of return: The legal key to undoing the Zionist conquest

Joseph Massad

Middle East Eye

Wed Dec 04 2019

...Undoing Israel's racist system

In contrast with Palestinians, whose right of return is affirmed in international law and UN resolutions, there are no international documents or laws that guarantee a Jewish “right of return” to Palestine or Israel. Neither the Balfour Declaration of 1917 nor the UN Partition Plan of 1947 spoke of any rights for Jews to "return" to Palestine. Only Israeli ideological claims and Israeli law grants them such a right.

Palestinian right of return: The legal key to undoing the Zionist conquest
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