For decades, Palestinian civil society has been at the forefront of defending the rights of the Palestinian people in the face of Israel’s settler-colonial project. On top of these rights stands the right to self-determination, which encompasses various rights within the Palestinian context, including the right of refugees to return to their homeland and the right to preserve the Palestinian national identity and narrative. While Israeli authorities have targeted Palestinian CSOs located throughout Mandate Palestine, this paper primarily focuses on the campaign against CSOs based in the West Bank, including the eastern part of occupied and illegally annexed Jerusalem.