Index: Concepts, U

• Umma — The transcultural Islamic community, orienting horizon of Palestinian Islamism’s claim to sovereignty in Palestine centered on Jerusalem.
• Universal jurisdiction — National courts’ authority over grave crimes regardless of place or nationality, from piracy through Nuremberg to the ICC, as Falk sets it out.
• Unrecognized villages — The dozens of Palestinian villages inside Israel the state does not officially recognise, home to about 10 percent of Palestinian Israelis, with no grid, water, schools or building permits, in Makdisi’s account.
• Urbicide — The 1948 annihilation of the political, social, cultural and economic centres of the indigenous society, beyond expulsions and building destruction, in Pappé’s 2012 account.
• ‘Urf — The unwritten customary law of peasant society in Jabal Nablus, applied by clan elders and subdistrict chiefs, distinct from urban shari’a.
• U.S. imperial culture — Feldman’s concept for the crucible in which U.S. territorial expansion, racial domination and war-making are codified, naturalised and contested.