Index: Concepts, I

• Identitarian model of belief — Tucker’s term for the logic, from Locke to Butler, in which beliefs are individuals’ inalienable self-expression and a belief’s limits follow from its holder’s identity.
• Illegalism — Ehud Sprinzak’s term, in Dowty’s presentation, for respect for the law as a matter of expediency rather than a basic value, carried from traditional Jewish politics into Israeli life.
• Iltizam — Ottoman tax farming, interwoven with timar holdings in eighteenth-century Jabal Nablus and held as investment by leading families, in Doumani’s account.
• Imaginative geography — Said’s term for the arbitrary designation of familiar space as “ours” and unfamiliar space as “theirs”, through which the Orient was drawn as Europe’s complementary opposite.
• Imagined Democracy — Grinberg’s term for a democracy imagined but unrealizable because part of its population is denied equal rights and representation.
• Imagined Peace — Grinberg’s term in Amar-Dahl for Oslo-era peace imagined apart from concrete political action while occupation and settlement expansion continue.
• Imperial boomerang — The return of colonial violence and control technologies as repression of subaltern subjects in the colonial motherlands.
• Imperial Connectivity — De Vries’s term for Palestine diamond workers’ sense of belonging to an imperial network tying them to African diamond miners.
• Imperialism — British imperialism in Palestine, and imperialism as a worldwide colonising body in Kanafani’s thought.
• Indigeneity — The question of who is indigenous to Palestine, whose Zionist engagement — the native as alien who usurped the homeland — Pappé argues in 2012 remained steadfast from the early 20th century to the present.
• Indigenisation — In Veracini, the settler collective’s process of making itself indigenous, essential to a legitimate settler claim and prevented by recolonisation.
• Indigenous Sovereignty — In Nabulsi, the embodied Palestinian claim to land never ceded, grounded in ongoing Indigenous presence, which the Zionist settler colonial project aims to extinguish through elimination and fragmentation.
• Infiltrators — The Israeli label for Palestinian refugees who crossed back to their homes after 1948, fought through arrest, military courts and renewed expulsion, in Manna’s Chapter 4 account.
• Inner colonization — German settlement of farmers in Prussia’s Polish territories, which Penslar argued Oppenheimer transplanted to Zionist settlement of Palestine.
• Internal Colonialism — Elia Zureik’s model of the post-1948 order for Arabs in Israel, as presented by Molavi.
• Intersectionality — The interweaving of oppressions, learned by BDS from Black feminists, requiring intersectional resistance.
• Inverted funnel — The methodological failure in which a few biased sources are fragmented into a large seemingly reliable corpus, in Debunking the Genocide Allegations.
• Iron wall — Jabotinsky’s 1923 strategy of building a Jewish state behind unassailable military power, as presented by Avi Shlaim.
• Islamicization — The process, in Dinero, by which resettled Negev Bedouin, denied identification with the state’s national identity, express identity increasingly in Muslim terms — “Muslim” rising from 8.8 to 49.6 percent of Segev Shalom identity labels, 1996-2007.
• Islamofascism — Discursive term suturing Islam to authoritarianism, whose post-9/11 neoconservative genealogy Feldman traces through the 2006 Lebanon war and Podhoretz’s World War IV.
• Israeli-Arab — The de-Palestinianized civic identity Molavi treats as a tool of Israeli hostipitality, conditional on accepting Jewish domination.
• Israeli Incorporation Regime — Molavi’s term for Israel’s system of differentiated legal placement and citizenship that incorporates Palestinian-Arab citizens through exclusion.