Index: Concepts, C

• Capitalist Collectivity — De Vries’s term for the PDMA as a collective of capitalists sharing a common corporate good under its president.
• Catastrophe Zionism — Lahav’s polarity of Zionism as safe haven against repetition of catastrophe, against utopian Zionism’s model state, structuring Agranat’s jurisprudence.
• Center of life — The mid-1990s regulation, in Makdisi’s account, stripping Jerusalem Palestinians of residency if Jerusalem has not always continuously been their “center of life”; 8,269 stripped between 1967 and 2006.
• Ceremonial law — Mendelssohn’s public, collective, rule-bound ritual practice, as Tucker reads it: legislation revealed as laws and rules of life, each performance a singular historical event and a transforming repetition.
• Certainty mirage — The fallacy in Debunking the Genocide Allegations by which the sole sovereign body’s data become the reference point despite reasons to doubt them.
• Christian Zionism — The larger, predominantly Christian-supported Zionism, often antisemitic and Islamophobic, expanding through the US evangelical movement and the Global South.
• Civil religion — The appropriation of traditional religious symbols as national identity in Israel, in Liebman and Don-Yehiya’s account as Dowty presents it, making religion more visible in public life while diluting its content.
• Civilian Militarism — Kimmerling’s cognitive dimension of militarism in Amar-Dahl: military mindsets internalised by government, elites and society, granting the military priority as warrantor of national security.
• Closure system — The checkpoints, roadblocks and closures that broke the West Bank into three sections and ten enclaves, in Makdisi’s account.
• Colonial Calculus of Veracity — Kelly’s term for the calculus positioning only tourists and delegates as truth-telling witnesses while Palestinian narrators are constructed as unreliable and made to require corroboration.
• Colonial Capitalism — Beinin’s characterization, following Abdel Malek and Owen, of Egypt’s social formation from the mid-nineteenth century to 1956, against the comprador/national-bourgeoisie model.
• Colonial fantasies — Zantop’s concept, used by Peretz: colonial literature’s psychological groundwork, adapted by German Zionists to imagine a place between Europeans and the peoples of the Middle East.
• Colonial modernity — In Ayyash’s account, modernity as a Western phenomenon inseparable from colonization and slavery, the framework within which liberal Zionism separates the civilization of the West from what the West does.
• Colony Industries — The lower-tech, labour-intensive traditional industries in colony industrial zones, sustained by subsidies, lower taxes and exploitable Palestinian labour, in Hever’s account.
• Commoditization of land — The conversion of state (miri) land in Jabal Nablus into traded private property through usufruct sales, mortgages and salam defaults, well advanced before the 1858 land code.
• Communitarian citizenship — Rocco’s formulation, as Banko uses it, under which rights follow membership in a historically specific community, held by Palestinian Arabs as inherent rights to the state by birth or descent.
• Communitarianism — Beinin’s term for the Ottoman millet identity of Jews and other non-Muslims — protected religious community, autonomous institutions, cultural symbiosis within hierarchy — as it blended with nationalism in Egyptian Jewish practice.
• Community services — Feldman’s term for education and religious services that elaborated civic ideals, defined public mores and policed propriety for a bounded collective client in Gaza.
• Condensation — Grinberg’s term (following Gil Eyal) for the multi-class party repertoire that merges distinct class agendas into one collective identity, concealing class conflict.
• Conquest of Economics — Wolfe’s generalisation of the Conquest of Labour: the all-encompassing subversion of market rationality by non-profit capital, prioritising Hebrew labour over productive labour, which he calls a Nakba-in-waiting.
• Conquest of Labour — The Histadrut and Mapai aim, in Mansour’s 1937 account, of penetrating Jewish labour into every sphere of work and expelling Arab workers to create vacancies for immigrants; in Wolfe’s account, a policy begun by Hapoel Hatzair in 1905, institutionalised by the WZO and JNF, and the centrepiece of a wider conquest of economics.
• Consensual Democracy — The 2006 Future Vision’s demanded system for Israel: extended elite coalition, equal proportional representation, mutual veto and self administration between the two groups, Jews and Palestinians.
• Consociationalism — Lijphart’s model of power-sharing democracy (grand coalition, segmental autonomy, proportionality, mutual veto) that Dowty finds in Israeli practice and in traditional Jewish politics.
• Constructive Socialism — The Labor Zionist/WZO strategy of building socialism by political control of land, labor and capital and a segregated Jewish economy under Hebrew Labor.
• Constructivism — The 1920s labour-Zionist doctrine that the organised Jewish working class itself, not stychic processes, would realise Zionism by constructing a self-sufficient labour-controlled Jewish economy.
• Contrapuntalism — Said’s method, borrowed from classical music, for thinking together discrepant, intertwined histories, elaborated by Feldman as method, ethical comportment and exile.
• Conveyor system — The Palestine diamond industry’s chain of specialized work stages (Shitat Ha-Sharsheret), in which each worker learned one phase only and training fell from three years to three months.
• Copycat legislation — The reuse of anti-BDS laws as templates against fossil-fuel and firearms boycotts, in Kenney-Shawa’s brief.
• Crisis of confidence — The 1948 Intelligence Service report’s term for the collapse of Arab confidence in Arab strength, ranked third among the causes of the migration at 10% of villages.
• Crisis services — Feldman’s term for temporary food and shelter services, defined as exceptional, through which Mandate and Administration government extended obligation while holding legitimacy in abeyance.
• Cultural boycott — PACBI’s institutional cultural boycott of Israel, modelled on South Africa’s and directed against complicity and Brand Israel, in Barghouti’s account.
• Cultural Zionism — Ahad Ha’am’s current of gradual Hebrew cultural settlement as a centre for the Diaspora, in Amar-Dahl’s account.
• Culture of Nothingness — In the Future Vision culture paper, the national nothingness the Israeli system promotes through non-recognition and imposed curricula.
• Cumulative Deterrence — Deterrence as Israel’s thinking presents it in Inbar and Shamir: not absolute, but cumulative, postponing each round of violence, maintained by destroying and denying capabilities.
• Cybercide — Aouragh’s term for the material side of Israel’s digital occupation: warfare, surveillance and destruction directed at Palestinian communications and Internet infrastructure.