Index: Concepts, J

• Jewish Code — Kimmerling’s term, in Amar-Dahl’s account, for the Jewish cultural code equating religious and national identity that limits Israeli democracy to the framework of Zionist hegemony.
• Jewish Fundamentalism — In Lustick’s definition, a style of political participation in which uncompromisable transcendental imperatives drive rapid, comprehensive reconstruction of society — in Israel, Gush Emunim, Kach and allied secular ultra-nationalists seeking Jewish rule over the whole Land of Israel and advancement of redemption.
• Jewish Labour Only — The slogan and policy excluding Arab labour (and goods) from the settler economy.
• Jewish republicanism — Tucker’s tradition of Jewish publicness: heterogeneous collectives formed around common, continuously reinterpretable law, in which Israel’s Jewishness lies in its methods of generating a civil collective, not its citizens’ identities.
• Jewishness — Silverman’s analytical category, used by Peretz: the relationship between constructed ideals of the ‘Jewish’ and the ‘not-Jewish’, not fixed religion, ethnicity or culture.
• Jinn — Creatures of fire in Palestinian folk belief as Muhawi and Kanaana present it, capricious and capable of good and harm, who take human roles in the tales.
• Joint Organization — The question of how Arab and Jewish workers in mixed workplaces should be organised, central to the Histadrut’s debates, in Lockman’s account.
• Judaization — The policy of converting Arab land and areas into Jewish ones, Judaizing territory coterminously with de-Arabizing it, in Said’s account.