Index: Concepts, N

• Nakba — The Palestinian term for the catastrophe of 1948, which in Pappe’s account leaves out the actor and may thereby have contributed to the denial of the ethnic cleansing.
• Nation in Arms — Ben-Eliezer’s model of close civil-military fusion, which Amar-Dahl sets against the civilianisation paradigm and for which Peres argues in David’s Sling.
• National allegory — Jameson’s term as Bernard reclaims it: a structural tendency of writing where unrealized national liberation determines everyday experience, not only a metropolitan reading habit.
• National narration — The representation of the nation in narrative, treated by Bernard as both reading and writing practice, restored to the state and citizenship.
• Negation of the Diaspora — Shelilat ha’galut: the Zionist doctrine that exile existence itself caused anti-Semitism and made Diaspora Jews parasitic and abnormal, in Brenner’s account.
• Neo-dhimma — Beinin’s term for the post-1948 Egyptian state–Jewish community relationship framed as mutual obligation and equity under the dhimmi/millet legacy, as an alternative to citizenship discourse.
• Neo-lachrymose conception of Jewish-Arab history — Mark Cohen’s term for the gloomy representation of Jewish life under Islam as unbroken oppression from Muhammad to 1948, whose leading exponent is Bat-Ye’or and whose Israeli sources and Arab mirror-image Beinin dissects.
• Neoconservatism — The movement of originally liberal intellectuals whose Cold War frame promoted Israel as a vital ally and Palestinian nationalism as a Soviet invention, in Christison’s account.
• New Anti-Semitism — In Sharansky’s 2004 article, anti-Semitism aimed at the Jewish state rather than the Jewish people or religion, hiding behind legitimate criticism of Israel and advanced in the name of human rights.
• New Jew — The figure sustaining the Conquest of Labour in Wolfe’s account: the incoming Zionist remade through Jewish-only labour, boycotting Native labour and produce.
• NGO-ization — The donor-patronage and neoliberal transformation of Palestinian civil society that, in Hawari’s brief, de-politicized language and constrained imagined possibility.
• Niche Market — The segregated Palestinian market inside Israel — small agricultural, commercial and service sectors serving mainly Palestinians — in Shehadeh’s study as Hever cites it.
• No-Partner Myth — The post-2000 national myth, born of the Second Intifada in Grinberg’s account, that Israel had “no partner for peace” and no choice but to continue fighting.
• Non-alignment — Israel’s declared early foreign-policy formula, argued to have been double bookkeeping over a private pro-American orientation, abandoned in 1950-1951.
• Non-expulsion — Manna’s term for the cases in which Palestinians were allowed to remain in northern Palestine, which he argues were the result of high-level Israeli orders and policy, not chance.
• Normalization — Joint Palestinian-Israeli relations or projects that give a false impression of normalcy despite colonial oppression, and the two PACBI conditions against it, in Barghouti’s account.