Index: Concepts, P

• Palestinian Arab diaspora — The mahjar and its emigrants (muhājarīn), especially in Latin America, as major makers of a counter-definition of Palestinian citizenship linked to Arab nationality, in Banko’s account.
• Palestinian Archipelago — Lambert’s metaphor for the Oslo-divided West Bank: Areas A and B as islands in an ambient Area C sea, movement filtered by reefs.
• Palestinian extended family — Muhawi and Kanaana’s definition of the Palestinian family as extended, patrilineal, patrilateral, polygynous, endogamous, and patrilocal, generating the behaviour in the folktales.
• Palestinian folktale — The hikaye or xurrafiyye: a predominantly women’s art form told at winter-evening family gatherings, in Muhawi and Kanaana’s account.
• Palestinian liberation theology — Politicized Christian framework adapting liberation theology to Palestine, via Sabeel, in Lybarger.
• Palestinian nationality — The legal nationality formed under the Treaty of Lausanne in 1924, argued in Rethinking Statehood to remain intact despite Israel’s 1952 denationalization.
• Palestinian rejectionism — Nimer’s name for the enduring, racist trope painting Palestinians as unreasonable and rejectionist, weaponized from the Mandate period through the peace process to after October 7, 2023.
• Pansemitism — The Altneuland vision, fullest in Radler-Feldman, of Zionism open to Arab integration on a claimed Semitic kinship between Jews and Arabs.
• Parkour — In Lambert’s Gaza chapter, a practice subverting imposed architecture by intensifying bodily movement until organization becomes irrelevant.
• Partition — The paradigm dividing the land between two national states that Farsakh (ed., 2021) argues has dominated international attempts to resolve the conflict and must be transcended.
• Peace Ideology — Zuckermann’s term in Amar-Dahl for Israel’s depoliticized, fetishistic talk of peace that is never put to the test of paying its price.
• Peasant Revolt — Kanafani’s characterisation of the 1936-39 revolt in substance and leadership.
• People’s Liberation War — In the PFLP Strategy, the protracted war from guerrilla warfare to a popular liberation war by the masses under working-class leadership, overcoming the enemy’s technological superiority.
• Periphery pact — Israel’s mid-1950s pact with Ethiopia, Turkey and the Shah’s Iran, encouraged by Dulles, as part of its watchdog offer to the West, in Rose’s account.
• Permanent revolution — Trotsky’s theory, drawn on by Jabra Nicola, that liberation struggles must challenge local capitalist classes.
• Permanent temporality — The limbo of refugee exile, suspended in space and time awaiting a denied return, in Abusalama’s chapter in Light in Gaza.
• Permanent war — Analytic, in Feldman’s reconstruction, making visible state violence exceeding the civil rights consensus, in Israel and the United States.
• Philology — The new comparative philology from which, in Said’s account, modern Orientalism took its technical characteristics and its laicized religious impulse.
• Pinkwashing — Israel’s foregrounding of supposed gender liberalism to distract from its human rights record and accuse Palestinian society.
• Place attachment — The identity-forming bond with land formed through interaction with it, used by Abu Mezied for Palestinian agrarian practice in Gaza.
• Plasticity of race — Oppenheimer’s neo-Lamarckian term for race as malleable within one or two generations.
• Policy of Opacity — Avner Cohen’s term in Amar-Dahl for Israel’s nuclear posture of neither confirming nor denying, sustained by taboo, censorship and exclusion of public debate.
• Political Space — Grinberg’s concept for the dynamic opening and closure of symbolic representation of social forces by political actors mediating between state and civil society.
• Political Zionism — Herzl’s current of a sovereign Jewish state obtained by diplomacy, ending diaspora life, in Amar-Dahl’s account.
• Politics of deflection — Falk’s name for Israel’s repertoire of techniques — anti-Semitism charges, auspices attacks, the “terrorist” label, diplomatic and geopolitical diversion — for shifting the gaze away from the merits of the dispute.
• Politics of fragmentation — Falk’s name for Israel’s inward moves — minority/diaspora/PA–Hamas divisions and West Bank cantonization — designed to weaken Palestinian resistance and induce despair.
• Politics of Inclusion — Hever’s closing alternative: grassroots, non-violent resistance recruiting dissatisfied Israelis and reconnecting with Palestinian citizens of Israel, over state-building by internal exploitation.
• Politics of language — Falk’s argument that neutral diplomatic vocabulary obscures the occupation’s annexationist character, and that the time has come to “call a spade a spade”.
• Politics of monopoly — Doumani’s term for the Acre rulers’ system of implanting themselves as middlemen between foreign merchants and cotton-growing villages, cornering the surplus and controlling prices.
• Politics of notables — Hourani’s 1968 framework of native elites mediating between inhabitants and the Ottoman centre, which Doumani supplements with interior merchants’ economic mediation.
• Politics of Supply — De Vries’s term for the London arena of the PDMA, the MEW and the DTC against the COFDI-Belgian lobby, on which Palestine’s rough-diamond lifeline depended.
• Politics of verticality — Weizman’s term for splitting one territory into layered three-dimensional territories of control in the West Bank.
• Polygyny — Practice the folktales, in Muhawi and Kanaana’s reading, denigrate far beyond its incidence in life, setting co-wives and half-brothers against each other.
• Population registry and family unification — Israel’s retained control of the registry, identity cards and family unification that decides Palestinian residence, in Makdisi’s account.
• Post-Zionism — The phase proposed after the 1993 Declaration of Principles that abandons the conviction that Jews can live meaningful lives only in Israel, in Beinin’s account.
• Postcolonial Jewish Studies — The genre, following Piterberg, in which Pappé’s 2012 article analyses East European Jews as victims of internal colonialism who rapidly became colonialist victimisers in Palestine.
• Power targets — The army’s category for high-rises and public buildings bombed to harm civil society and exert civil pressure on Hamas.
• Preaccumulation — Wolfe’s term for the aggregate historical endowment settlers imported ready-made from centuries of Eurocolonial history, whose global renewability outmatched the Native stock’s local fixity.
• Precarity — In Abraham’s chapter, the common condition of precariousness, premature death and surveillance in which the African American and Palestinian subject positions meet.
• Present Absentees — The label for Palestinians expelled from their villages in 1948 who remained inside Israel as internal refugees, barred from returning to their houses and lands, in Manna’s account.
• Process Jurisprudence — The 1950s American legal-process school of judicial restraint that Agranat used to justify not deciding Shalit, in Lahav’s account.
• Provisional Palestinian nationality — The interim status Britain devised for Jewish immigrants before a nationality law existed, while Arabs remained former Ottoman subjects categorised as ex-enemy aliens, in Banko’s account.
• Psychoanalytic innocence — Sheehi and Sheehi’s term for psychoanalysis’ displacement of material reality through neutrality, dialogue and universalism, in service of settler-colonial violence.
• Pure settlement — Shafir’s “separatist method of pure settlement”: the labour-Zionist model, adopted by 1914, of a homogeneous settler society excluding indigenous labour, which Lockman argues could not have succeeded without coercion, displacement and state power.