# Palestinian self-determination > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Palestinian_self-determination > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Palestinian_self-determination.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_self-determination > Source revision: 1335105237 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Aspirations for increased autonomy This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Palestinian self-determination" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Part of a series on Palestinian nationalism Ideologies Arab nationalism Pan-Arabism Socialism Jihadism Islamic nationalism Left-wing nationalism Palestinianism Principles Anti-imperialism Anti-Zionism "From the river to the sea" Intifada Land laws Palestinian identity Right of return Right of armed resistance Self-determination Sumud Thawabit History Mandatory Palestine All-Palestine Protectorate McMahon–Hussein correspondence Nakba Naksa First Intifada Second Intifada Gaza war 2008 2012 2014 2021 2023 People Abbas Arafat Ashrawi Barghouti Darwish Deif Habash Haniyeh Hawatmeh al-Husseini Kanafani Khalidi Nidal Nusseibeh Sa'adat Said Sakakini Sinwar Tuqan Yassin Parties As-Sa'iqa Balad DFLP Fatah Fatah al-Intifada Hamas PFLP PFLP-GC PIJ PPSF PPSF (1991) PAF PLF PLF (1991) PPP RPCP Alliances Palestine Liberation Organization Alliance of Palestinian Forces Palestinian Joint Operations Room Related topics Antisemitism in Palestine (factions) Israeli–Palestinian conflict List of political parties in Palestine Palestinian political violence Palestinian refugees Zionism (opposing) Anti-Palestinian racism in Israel (opposing) Palestine portal v t e **Palestinian self-determination**, also known as "[Palestinianism](/source/Palestinianism)", refers to aspirations by [Palestinian nationalists](/source/Palestinian_nationalists) for increased [autonomy](/source/Autonomy) and [sovereign independence](/source/Sovereign_state)[1] as well as to the international right of [self-determination](/source/Self-determination) applied to [Palestine](/source/Palestine). Such goals are features of both the [one-state solution](/source/One-state_solution) and the [two-state solution](/source/Two-state_solution). In the two-state solution this usually denotes territorial integrity initiatives, such as resisting [occupation in the West Bank](/source/Israeli-occupied_territories#West_Bank), annexation efforts in East Jerusalem or [freedom of movement](/source/Palestinian_freedom_of_movement) along borders, as well as the preservation of important sites such as [Al-Aqsa Mosque](/source/Al-Aqsa_Mosque).[2] ## Overview Examples of modern Palestinian politicians who are proponents of Palestinian self-determination include [Saeb Erekat](/source/Saeb_Erekat).[3] In the one-state solution, Palestinian self-determination usually takes the form of calls for Palestinian reunification. Some Palestinian proponents of self-determination, such as [Edward Said](/source/Edward_Said), have drawn an analogy between [Zionism](/source/Zionism) and [colonialism](/source/Colonialism).[4] Other proponents of Palestinian self-determination, such as [Jamil Effarah](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jamil_Effarah&action=edit&redlink=1), have drawn an analogy between the conditions in the Palestinian territories and the [Bantustan](/source/Bantustan) land reserves in apartheid-era South Africa.[5] In "[Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept](/source/Toward_Nakba_as_a_Legal_Concept)," Palestinian human rights lawyer and legal scholar [Rabea Eghbariah](/source/Rabea_Eghbariah) writes that the denial of Palestinian self-determination is the purpose of the [ongoing Nakba](/source/Ongoing_Nakba).[6] ## See also - [Palestinian right to resist](/source/Palestinian_right_to_resist) - [Thawabit](/source/Thawabit) - [State of Palestine](/source/State_of_Palestine) - [Palestinian right of return](/source/Palestinian_right_of_return) - [Gaza genocide](/source/Gaza_genocide) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Dynamics of Self-determination in Palestine, P. J. I. M. De Waart - 1994, p 191 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** The Failure of the Two-State Solution, Hani Faris - 2013, p 177 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** The Way to Statehood, Corinna Metz - 2013, p 175 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism: between home and the world, Raul Rao, April 2007 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** THINK PALESTINE: TO UNLOCK US-ISRAELIS & ARABS CONFLICTS Vol. II, Volume 2, Jamil Effarah - 2013, p 47 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Eghbariah, Rabea](/source/Rabea_Eghbariah). "[Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept](https://columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/May-2024-1-Eghbariah.pdf)." *[Columbia Law Review](/source/Columbia_Law_Review)* 124, no. 4 (June 2024): 889-952. This article about the geographic region of Palestine is a stub. 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