Index: Concepts, D

• Dahiyeh Doctrine — The Israeli army’s proclaimed strategy of disproportionate firepower against villages, named for Beirut’s razed southern suburb, in Makdisi’s Epilogue account.
• Dawra — The annual Ottoman tax-collection tour in Palestine, led by the governor of Damascus or his deputy a few weeks before Ramadan from the early eighteenth century.
• De-development — Sara Roy’s term, as Baconi applies it to Gaza: an economy contracting and infrastructure regressing under Israel’s isolationist policies, compounded by the post-2007 blockade.
• De-Zionization — Ayyash’s proposed process: Israeli Jews recognise Zionism replicated the Western colonial project in Palestine and become welcome residents in a historic homeland, with the state, nationalism and sovereignty reimagined away from Western colonial models.
• Decolonisation — In the 2012 Settler Colonial Studies Editors’ Introduction, the imperative goal a settler colonial praxis restores: the historic response to settler colonialism, aimed at decolonising the structure itself rather than targeting or accommodating its outcomes.
• Degeneration — The fin-de-siècle discourse of decay against which Oppenheimer argued in his early medical writings, while sharing Nordau’s organicism but not his diagnosis.
• Deindustrialization — The argument that European machine-made textiles killed Greater Syria’s textile sectors, which Doumani treats as a more complicated story of adaptation and restructuring.
• Delegitimization — The Israeli charge that BDS delegitimizes Israel, traced by Barghouti to a Tel Aviv think tank’s strategic-threat warning and answered by delegitimizing oppression, not a people’s existence; in Sharansky’s 2004 3D test, denial of Israel’s fundamental right to exist, itself anti-Semitism.
• Democratic Centralism — In the PFLP’s Strategy, the basic principle of relations within the revolutionary party, combining members’ democratic rights with minority submission, rank submission and absolute leadership power during execution.
• Demographic imaginary — Bernard’s term for literary depictions of the state/citizen bind as population composition, projecting polities more expansive than the ‘demographic problem’ allows.
• Demographic problem — The Israeli planners’ term, in Makdisi’s account, for wanting the land of the occupied territories without its non-Jewish people.
• Demographobia — Molavi’s term for the pathological fear of non-Jewish births shaping Israeli planning and debate.
• Denationalized sectarianism — Lybarger’s trajectory in which identity is constituted exclusively in religious sectarian terms, ignoring nationalism, illustrated by ‘Aziza and Leo in Chapter 4.
• Deterrence — In Siboni’s 2008 article, the purpose of the disproportionate strike: a lasting memory among decision makers, imposed through damage demanding long and expensive reconstruction; in Inbar and Shamir’s 2014 account, cumulative and only temporary against non-state actors.
• Diamond commodity chain — The transnational chain from African mining through London’s DTC and Antwerp/Amsterdam exchanges to consumers, as traced by De Vries.
• Diamond Deregulation — The British turn to “normalization” of Palestine’s diamond industry from late 1944: undoing the wartime monopoly and control through a regulated transition.
• Digital occupation — Naim’s term for Israel’s control of Gaza’s digital space, crossings and communications infrastructure.
• Discourse — Foucault’s notion of a systematic discipline of statements and limits, which Said uses in Orientalism to identify Orientalism.
• Disobedient Architecture — Lambert’s concept of building in defiance of colonial law as a necessity when ethics diverge from the law.
• Disproportionate Force — Siboni’s prescribed principle: force disproportionate to the enemy’s actions as the primary war effort, assets before launchers, punishment aimed at decision makers, civilian power centers and state infrastructure.
• Door-to-Door policy — Arrangement enabling Israeli trucks to load Palestinian goods directly from Area A factories, under Israeli security and surveillance requirements.
• Dual Regime — Grinberg’s term for the post-1967 political economy: democratic rules for Israelis, military rule for Palestinians, with the Histadrut and IDF closing political space on both sides.
• Dual Society Paradigm — Lockman’s name for the paradigm treating Arab and Jewish communities in mandate Palestine as separate, self-contained societies interacting only in conflict.