Most Palestinians live in exile from their historic homeland because they, or their family, were forced to leave through Israel’s recurrent waves of ethnic cleansing. All these Palestinians, wherever they live, are prevented by Israel from exercising their legally enshrined right of return to the land, homes, and property from which they were uprooted. On 11 December 1948, the UN general assembly adopted resolution 194, affirming this right to return, with the support of the UK government. With Lubnah Shomali (Advocacy Unit Manager of BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights); Nidal Betare (Syrian-Palestinian writer); Basma El Doukhi (PhD candidate at the University of Kent, third-generation Palestinian refugee); and Sawsan Samara (Palestinian activist with BDS Jordan).