> The 49th article of the fourth Geneva convention is the usual answer to that question, but it is wrong. Israel does not "deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies", every single Jew in the West Bank got up and returned to or moved to the West Bank of their own accord.
While i agree it is not clear cut in the geneva convention, generally the argument is voluntary transfer is still a transfer. The prohibition is not just about preventing people from being moved against their will but also about preventing attempts to change the demographic composition of an area. See also what the red cross says about it https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule130
I'm not really here to argue these points, i don't necessarily even agree with all of them, i just think you're being a bit straw-many. Arguments are more powerful if you engage with the strongest form of the counter-argument, not the weakest.
> Arguments are more powerful if you engage with the strongest form of the counter-argument, not the weakest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerusal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamization_of_Jerusalem#Isla...
The Geneva conventions apply to states, not people. Furthermore, they protect people, not land, political entities, or political ambitions.
> Sometimes people also argue that the pipelining of Israeli law into settlements violates the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. I think the argument is that you can only distinguish between citizens and non-citizens on your own territory and thus the way Israeli law is applied in settlements but not outside them is a violation.
Israeli law applies to both Arab and Jewish Israeli citizens in the towns and cities in Area C. Yes, Arabs live in the cities in Area C. Not many, but they do exist and they have the exact same laws applied to them as do Jews.
The UN doesn't, so the anti-Israel bodies try to see what they can shoehorn in. Sometimes (as in these cases you've presented) it's easy to show why they're wrong. Sometimes you need a lawyer. ))