Index: Concepts, S

• Salam — The advance-purchase moneylending system by which Jabal Nablus merchants secured agricultural commodities, above all olive oil, for manufacture and investment.
• Sarha — Shehadeh’s drifting walks in Ramallah’s hills, presented by Lambert as joyful, transgressive bodily resistance.
• Scientific Socialism — In the PFLP Strategy, the working class’s theory, with which the revolutionary party organizing workers and peasants must be armed.
• Seam zone — The closed military area between the wall and the 1949 Armistice Line, almost 10 percent of the West Bank, in Makdisi’s account.
• Sectarianization — Process by which Palestinian Chicago identity organised along religious-sectarian lines as secular nationalism lost hegemony, in Lybarger’s Chapter 4.
• Secular Democratic State — The PLO’s idea of a secular, democratic state in Palestine for Muslims, Christians and Jews, which Said calls the true novelty and revolutionary force of the Palestinian movement.
• Secularism — In Lybarger’s ideal-typical usage, any orientation that resists, rejects, demotes, ignores or suspends the prior claim of religious authority; in Palestine, multisectarian unity under the nation.
• Security Myth — Grinberg’s term in Amar-Dahl for the belief that Arab hostility incarnates Jewish history as suffering and persecution, depoliticizing the conflict as the work of the “new Goyim”.
• Sedentarization — The transition of nomads to permanent settlement, which for the Negev Bedouin Dinero and Boneh describe as a state-driven process with reluctant participants, not a natural one.
• Self-determination — The fundamental right at the centre of Said’s Chapter Three, made difficult by exile and dispersion because it requires a clearly seen self to determine.
• Separation — The 1990s Israeli policies favouring segregation over exploitation: PA population management, blanket closures, the Separation Wall and the Gaza siege, in Hever’s account.
• Separation wall — The West Bank wall as Makdisi, following the ICJ, calls it: built mostly inside the occupied territory and fragmenting Palestinian space.
• Settler Colonialism — The transformation of the Mandate into Zionist settler colonialism, climaxing in the mid-1930s.
• Shrinking the conflict — Goodman’s 2018 approach, debunked by Habbas as a revised economic-peace model entrenching occupation.
• Shtetl — The mostly Jewish small towns of the Pale of Settlement, whose excluded existence Zionism detested as exilic and reproduced as settler enclaves in Palestine, in Pappé’s 2012 account.
• Shtetl Colonialism — Pappé’s 2012 title concept: the shtetl’s exclusion traded for a new gated exclusion in Palestine, the indigenous people cast, unlike Europe’s gentiles, as foreign to the land itself.
• Siege — The method of warfare whose laws Debunking the Genocide Allegations expounds from the US and UK manuals and Article 23 of Geneva Convention IV.
• Siege Mentality — The settler colony’s hardening psychology in Lloyd, following Memmi: perpetual guard behind the iron wall, militarising further as it appropriates.
• Slave Markets — The Israelis’ nickname for post-1967 day-labour gathering places where contractors picked Palestinian workers for a day with no benefits, mostly dismantled by closures and permits.
• Small-stone specialization — Palestine’s specialization in cutting small stones (Sand and Melees) in Belgium’s prewar slot, making it dependent on De Beers’s small-stone reserves through the DTC.
• Social infrastructure — Parkinson’s term for the overlap patterns between quotidian kinship, marriage, friendship and community networks and formal organizational hierarchies.
• Socialism — As defined by the editors of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction: workers’ collective democratic control of their labour and its value, realized from below against “socialism from above” and Stalinist stagism.
• Sociological Jurisprudence — The theory that law is grounded in culture and society, against legal formalism, which formed Agranat at Chicago and structured his judging, in Lahav’s account.
• Solidarity Tourism — Kelly’s term for travel animated by guides’ desire to cultivate solidarity and tourists’ desire for connection to a movement: in Palestine a fraught anticolonial strategy of inviting tourists to come, learn, and go home.
• Split Corporatism — Grinberg’s model combining neo-corporatism and dual labor markets as complementary forms of capitalist domination in Israel.
• State-building — The donor project of building state institutions into which, in Farsakh (ed., 2021), Palestinian self-determination was confined after Oslo, and whose neo-Weberian theory Hanieh criticizes.
• State-Capital Pact — De Vries’s reciprocal pact between state and diamond industry, formed under the Mandate in 1940 and reproduced by the state of Israel in spring 1948.
• State of Exception — In Lloyd’s account, the permanent condition, constitutive of settler colonies, in which law’s suspension or proliferation governs Palestine — Agamben’s topology supplemented by the colonial genealogy and hyperlegality.
• State Terrorism — Falk’s name for Israel’s doctrine of disproportionate force against civilian infrastructure and for the occupation itself, maintained by daily violations of international humanitarian law.
• Stateless Citizenship — Molavi’s framework: Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel are excluded through their inclusion in its citizenship regime, remaining stateless despite citizenship.
• Status Quo (Holy Places) — The Ottoman-established arrangements regulating the Christian communities’ custodianship rights over the Holy Places, ratified at Paris (1856) and Berlin (1878).
• Strategic location and strategic formation — Said’s paired devices in Orientalism for studying a writer’s position toward the Orient and how groups of texts acquire authority.
• Sufism — The mystical, music-embracing current of Islam Jubran made the basis of a pluralist Muslim identity against suburban reformism, in Lybarger’s Chicago material.
• Sulha — Palestinian local conflict-management method used by communities that cannot rely on the Israeli security structure or courts, whose first step is a Hudna and whose proper procedure requires naming and apology by those responsible, in Shihade’s account.
• Sumoud — Steadfastness: Palestinian resistance as perseverance against erasure; “our mere existence is resistance”.
• Sumud — Steadfastness: persisting physically and culturally in the land under occupation, the feminized role in Palestinian nationalist iconography.
• Surrounding Arab Regimes — Kanafani’s second enemy: the regimes of the surrounding Arab states, which curbed and ended the revolt.
• Symbolic Violence — Bourdieu’s term as Grinberg uses it: domination by ignoring, non-recognizing or misrecognizing the subordinated.
• Syncretic secularity — The hybrid form produced when religious and secular orientations intersect through crossing social circles (Eipper 2011, via Lybarger).