Index: Concepts, B

• B Generation — Grinberg’s generational class that led J14: aged 25-35 in 2011, named for Beth/home and the discriminatory B Generation wage agreements, read as Standing’s precariat.
• Backstage labor — Parkinson’s term for logistic, intelligence, medical, finance and human-resources work that sustains militant organizations without necessarily involving a weapon.
• Bantustans — Henry Siegman’s term, quoted by Makdisi, for the enclosed Palestinian territories Israel’s settlement enterprise is producing, Gaza the first in the series.
• Bare Life — Agamben’s term, as Lloyd presents it, for those concentrated in the camp, deprived of rights to the point that any act toward them would no longer appear as a crime.
• BDS movement — The global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign modelled on South Africa’s, presented by Makdisi as citizens’ answer to occupation and as an emerging alternative Palestinian leadership.
• Bedouin identity — The Negev Bedouin self-definition re-formed under forced sedentarization in Dinero’s Chapter 5: the “bedouin” label collapsing, “Israeliness” becoming an identity of youth, wealth and success.
• Bildungsroman — The novel of formation, in its classical, late, dissensual and political variants, as Bernard reads Said’s Out of Place.
• Binary thinking — The good-versus-bad, us-versus-them thinking Stern, from hate studies, calls the enemy of critical thinking in the campus Israel/Palestine conflict.
• Binationalism — A single civic state protecting Palestinian and Israeli individual and collective rights, as surveyed in Farsakh (ed., 2021).
• Biopolitics — Foucault’s application of political power in daily life, as Lambert uses it for the administrative reorganization of Palestinian life.
• Bitachon — Security, the meta-term Ben-Gurion made an obsession overshadowing all other issues, used in Pappe’s account to cover and justify core policies including the policy against the Palestinian population.
• Black–Palestinian solidarity — The solidarity between the Black US struggle and Palestinian freedom, from the Black Power era to Ferguson and 2020.
• Black Power’s Palestine — Feldman’s name for post-civil rights Black cultural production engaging Palestine, from SNCC in 1967 to David Graham Du Bois.
• Brand Israel — Israel’s government image campaign, launched in 2005, using culture as a hasbara tool of the first rank, in Barghouti’s account.
• Broadcasts myth — The untrue story that Arab broadcasts ordered Palestinians to flee in 1948, refuted by Kurzman and Morris.
• Burden of proof fallacy — The double standard in Debunking the Genocide Allegations treating civilian and NGO sources as true until proven false and state and military sources as false until proven true.
• Bureaucratic competence — Feldman’s account of good civil service work in Gaza as technical coping, socially differentiated service and ethical self-cultivation, developed over a career.