Index: Concepts, H

• Habsora — The Israeli army’s AI target-generation system, ‘The Gospel’, described by a former officer as facilitating a mass assassination factory.
• Hafrada — Hebrew for “separation”: the policy of dividing Israeli Jews and Palestinians into separate physical spaces and reserves.
• Hamula — The patrilineal clan, basis of collective solidarity, defence and collective tax and loan contracts in the villages of Jabal Nablus, and the family group whose collective agreement governs relocation in the Negev Bedouin planned towns.
• Harmfare Colonialism — Veracini’s footnote coinage for the Occupied Territories regime: solicitous rather than exploitative, yet repressive and more repressive.
• Hasbara — Israeli “explanation”/public diplomacy abroad, which Sharett is quoted saying cannot conceal the facts that penetrate deeply, above all the Arab refugee camps.
• Haskala — The Jewish Enlightenment, vehicle for Western liberal ideas whose proponents created a public space outside the kehilla and bridged to the modern political movements.
• Hate Studies — The field studying the human capacity to define, dehumanize or demonize an other, grounding Stern’s book and the Bard Center’s work.
• Hebrew Labour — The early colonists’ call to employ only Jews and buy only from Jews, still an active movement intimidating employers of Palestinians at Hever’s writing.
• Hebrew Law of Peace — The Yishuv community court system detailed by Ronen Shamir, resisted by the orthodox rabbinate and the British and faded after the 1922 Advocates’ Ordinance, read by Tucker as a missed opportunity.
• Hegemony — Gramsci’s cultural leadership by consent in civil society, which in Said’s Orientalism gives Orientalism its durability and strength.
• Helleno-Orthodoxia — The ethno-phyletist narrative equating Orthodoxy with the Greek nation, by which the Jerusalem hierarchy cast the Arab congregation as an institutional out-group.
• Hijab — Modesty dress whose rising adoption Dinero reads as a “portable tent” extending resettled Bedouin women’s mobility, with focus-group women explaining it as religiosity, fashion, custom and freedom to move.
• Holdover practices — Parkinson term for siege-era knowledge and routines worked into everyday postwar life.
• Hollow Citizenship — Amal Jamal’s term for citizenship emptied of substantive meaning in a nationalizing state, as surveyed by Molavi.
• Homeland Security Industry — The Israeli sector creating control technology for the occupation, whose companies rely on equipment tested on Palestinians to promote sales, in Hever’s account following Klein and Gordon.
• Homo meditarraneus — Oppenheimer’s term for Jews as a Mediterranean archetype, normalising Jewish history within antiquity’s merchant peoples.
• Homonationalism — Puar’s term for the universalised LGBT-rights framework binding movements to Stonewall-era identity politics, as used against pinkwashing.
• Hostipitality — Derrida’s term for hospitality parasitized by hostility, as Molavi applies it to the Jewish state’s welcome of its Palestinian-Arab citizens.
• Human Rights — Discourse al-Haq took up secondarily to the rule of law, credited with internationalising the local conflict and later criticised as an industry, in Welchman.
• Human shields — The strategy Debunking the Genocide Allegations attributes to Hamas: operating from civilian infrastructure and using civilians to increase casualties and international pressure.
• Humanitarian bias — The authors’ term for aid organisations’ disposition to believe alarmist conflict-party reports and meet factual challenge with moral outrage.
• Hunger Strikes — The 2011-2012 Palestinian prison hunger strikes, from Adnan’s individual strike to the April 17, 2012 mass strike, as an extreme form of nonviolence in Falk’s account.
• Hyperlegality — Hussain’s term, used by Lloyd via Makdisi’s hyperregulation: the exception by multiplication of laws and legal categories — 5,000 military orders — rather than law’s suspension.