Index: Concepts, A

• Abeyance — Feldman’s dynamic in Gaza by which questions of legitimacy, consent and coercion remained suspended, through deferral and distraction, permitting rule to persist.
• Academic boycott — PACBI’s institutional boycott of Israeli academic institutions for their complicity, not a boycott of individuals, in Barghouti’s account.
• Academic freedom — The principle ideas are evaluated on their merits in the university; the test Stern applies to anti-antisemitism measures, and a principle Barghouti also invokes for the opposite conclusion on boycott.
• Administrative Detention — Imprisonment without disclosed charges or trial, renewable six months at a time on secret evidence, against which Falk’s hunger strikers protest.
• Affiliation — Said’s term for modern bonds replacing filiation, which Bernard stresses reproduce coercive family authority rather than escaping it.
• Anti-boycott legislation — Bills, orders and certification requirements penalizing boycotts of Israel, treated by Kenney-Shawa as a First Amendment assault and a template for wider protest restrictions.
• Anti-Democratic Catch — Grinberg’s postcolonial problem: independence actors design the new state’s institutions to keep their own power, blurring boundaries and blocking democratic opening.
• Anti-Zionism — In JVP’s statement, a loose term for criticism of Israeli state policies and/or moral, ethical or religious criticism of a Jewish nation-state, with a Jewish history as long as Zionism itself, not to be conflated with antisemitism.
• Antisemitism — Hatred of Jews; in Stern’s testimonies, defined for data collection by selection of Jews as victims, and at its most dangerous a two-element conspiracy theory; in Sharansky’s 2004 article, re-aimed at the Jewish state as a “new anti-Semitism” to be exposed by the 3D test.
• Apartheid — Sayegh’s comparison term for the discrimination practised against the Arabs who remained in the settler-state after 1948.
• Arab Orthodox Movement — The movement of Arab Orthodox clergy and laypeople demanding Arabic-speaking churchmen, regional disbursement of church dues and a community say against the Greek hierarchy of the Jerusalem Patriarchate.
• Arab Question — The single matrix of authoritarianism, colonialism’s legacy, social justice and the conflict with Israel facing the Arab people.
• Arab Reaction — In the PFLP Strategy, the fourth enemy force: Arab feudalism and capitalism, an offshoot of world imperialism whose interests depend on imperialism’s persistence.
• Arabisation — The Palestine Communist Party’s unachieved programme of becoming a party of the Palestinian Arab masses.
• Architectural Stockholm Syndrome — Lambert’s term for Palestinian bourgeois housing imitating Israeli settlements and ratifying the status quo.
• Architecture of the everyday — Al Qudwa’s framework for participatory self-build housing with common materials in Gaza, against donor prototypes.