Index: Concepts, R

• Racial liberalism — Feldman’s name for the U.S. state’s official commitment to African American integration, Jewish assimilability and liberal international governance, displacing Arab and Palestinian critiques of Zionism.
• Racial Palestinianization — Goldberg’s concept, adopted by Molavi, for Palestinians treated as a despised and demonic racial group within a racial state.
• Racial relationality — Feldman’s relational approach to race, connecting racialisation processes beyond the nation-state rather than comparing static groups.
• Racial Self-Segregation — The first corollary of Zionist racial identification in Sayegh: separation from non-Jewish societies and regrouping alone in Palestine.
• Racialisation of religious communities — Shihade’s term for the Israeli state’s conversion of religious affiliation into national and ethnic categories: Judaism as an ethnic-national category, the remaining Palestinians as Christians, Muslims and Druze under the label ‘Israeli Arabs’.
• Racism — In Sayegh, a congenial, essential and permanent trait of the settler-state, aiming in Palestine at racial elimination rather than hierarchical coexistence.
• Rassenhygiene — The German term for eugenics, a physician-led discourse embraced by Oppenheimer in a positive, socially malleable form.
• Recolonisation — Belich’s concept, extended by Veracini: a settler project’s renewed dependence on external support, eroding settler autonomy and indigenisation.
• Reflective habit — Feldman’s term for Gazan civil servants’ habits of belief, formed in contemplation of duty, respectability and good work, as part of bureaucratic authority.
• Reiterative authority — Feldman’s account of bureaucratic authority produced circularly in Gaza through repetitions of filing, accumulation of documents and civil servants’ habits, without conferring regime legitimacy.
• Relational History — Lockman’s approach grasping Arab and Jewish histories in Palestine through their mutually formative interactions and shared larger processes.
• Relational plasticity — Parkinson’s term, from neuroplasticity, for the malleability of social relationships that lets militants reshape ties to organizational ends.
• Religious status quo — The religion-and-state arrangements defined by Ben-Gurion’s 1947 letter to Agudat Yisrael, held in place by proportionality, segmental autonomy and mutual veto, in Dowty’s account.
• Religious turn — The shift since the 1990s, in Palestine and in Palestinian Chicago, toward Islam (and reactively Christian sectarianism) as a primary framework of solidarity and identity.
• Remainers — Manna’s subject: the Palestinians who were not expelled in 1948 or who returned, 156,000 by the summer 1949 consensus figure, whose struggle to remain ran to 1956 and beyond.
• Repertoires of violence — The routine claim-making practices of violence, in Wood’s definition as used by Parkinson, whose localized forms distinctly reshape militant social networks.
• Report-Back — The genre of post-trip delegate accounts Kelly analyzes, in which witnessing functions as an alibi for research and Palestinians are converted from statistics to humans.
• Representation — Said’s name for Zionism’s speaking for Palestine and the Palestinians, blocking Palestinian self-representation, and the liberal West’s acceptance of mediated Arabs.
• Resistance Poetry — The poetry and popular poetry that mobilised the villages and attacked the land-selling leadership.
• Responsibility to Protect — The R2P norm, invoked for Libya in 2011 and, in Falk’s account, geopolitically withheld from Gaza.
• Reterritorialization — Deleuze and Guattari’s term as Beinin applies it to the Rome Group of Egyptian Jewish communists in Paris: the group itself standing for the lost Egyptian territory.
• Revolutionary consensus — Hawari’s term for consensus (ijmaa’) derived from the people under colonial conditions, modelled on the early PLO, the First Intifada and BDS, as the basis of a shared Palestinian future vision.
• Right of Return — The refugees’ right acknowledged in Resolution 194, centred in Palestinian nationalism and excluded by Israel’s peace axioms as a ‘non-starter’, in Pappe’s account.
• Right to the Ruin — Lambert’s concept that destroyed villages were denied even ruins, and a ruin can be political testimony of existence.
• Righteous Fury — Pappé’s term, adopted by Lloyd: the settler’s rage as a constant of Zionist dispossession — legitimation of violence, shield from opinion, measure of siege mentality.
• Rule of Law — Originating frame of al-Haq founders in their 1977-79 ICJ correspondence, answering Israel rule-of-law self-presentation.
• Rules-based international order — Spencer Ackerman’s term for the substitution of international law with American hegemony, binding adversaries while the US and its clients opt out.
• Rural middle class — Doumani’s term for the well-to-do villagers of Jabal Nablus who mediated merchant capital, ran salam networks and partnerships, and eroded the subdistrict chiefs from within.