Revisiting the ‘Recognition’ of the Palestinians’ Right to Self-Determination: Peoples as Territories
Journal: Groningen Journal of International Law
Year: 2020

‘[B]ehind every Palestinian there is a great general fact: that he once – and not so long ago– lived in a land of his own called Palestine, which is now no longer his homeland.’ The question of whether the Palestinian people, as a people, are entitled to exercise the right to external self-determination has been highly controversial over the years. Divided scholarly research, particularly regarding the attitude of the State of Israel which, at time of writing, has not yet explicitly recognized t