Index: Concepts, L

• Labor Institutional Complex — Grinberg’s name for the Histadrut-party complex of ties that prevented institutional change and opening to new actors, surviving until 1995.
• Labor Zionism — The synthesis of socialism with Jewish nationalism that built the yishuv from the bottom up and opted for “socialist separatism” on the Arab question, as Dowty presents it.
• Labour Immigrants — The replacement workforce imported under permits when separation severed Palestinian employment: 202,000 estimated, most without permits, in Hever’s figures.
• Lavender — The Israeli army’s AI program that rated Gazans 1-100 and at its peak generated 37,000 people as potential human targets, in Abraham (2024).
• Lawfare — The Israeli hardline label for Palestinian and civil-society reliance on international law, which Falk treats as a backlash acknowledging the legitimacy struggle’s strength.
• Legitimacy struggle — Falk’s name (replacing “legitimacy war”) for the Palestinian grand strategy of nonviolent soft power, international law and morality, and global solidarity.
• Lesser Evil — Logic, in Weizman’s Thanato-tactics as excerpted by Lambert, by which accepting imposed lesser choices naturalizes domination; Arendt’s radical negation is invoked.
• Levantinism — The Levantine/Mediterranean hybrid identity Jacqueline Kahanoff articulated and Gormezano-Goren novelized, detested by Israel’s Ashkenazi cultural establishment and revalorized by Egyptian Jewish writers after 1977.
• Liberal imperialism — The Altneuland circle’s promoted form of empire: careful treatment of indigenous populations linked to domestic reform and minority integration in Germany.
• Liberal negotiation theory — The US post-Cold War negotiation framework underpinning the MEPP, whose good-faith, equality and timeline requirements Razek argues it fails under military occupation.
• Liberal peace — The state-building proposition that liberalized political and economic structures defuse conflict, as presented by Hanieh in Farsakh (ed., 2021).
• Liberal socialism — Oppenheimer’s utopian ‘third path’ between capitalism and communism, centred by German biographies and his influence on Ludwig Erhard.
• Liberal Zionism — In Ayyash’s account, the dominant Zionist current descended from Labor Zionism that provides the Zionist project with a veneer of enlightened, Western, democratic politics while holding the 1948 conquest righteous and justifiable.
• Liberation of Palestine — The telos of Sayegh’s five-stage Palestinian response, seized as an initiative with the creation of the PLO in 1964.
• Limited expansion — The British principle, set by Frederick Mathias in 1940, that Palestine’s diamond industry develop only within strict limits so as not to threaten Belgium’s recuperation.
• Linkage Policy — Sharansky’s prescription that relations with states supporting anti-Semitism be linked to that support, on the Helsinki Group model of linking Soviet relations to human rights.
• Logic of Elimination — Wolfe’s name for settler colonialism’s cultural logic: a sustained institutional tendency to supplant the indigenous population, prior to any distinction among settler societies.