Index: Concepts, W

• Waqf — Islamic religious endowment; Palestine as inalienable Islamic trust in Lybarger’s Chapter 3 account of AMP’s implied framing.
• Warehousing — Jeff Halper’s term, in Hever’s use, for mass imprisonment and containment of impoverished people in controlled environments — the homeland-security industry’s product.
• Washington Consensus — The neo-liberal principles behind the 1985 Israeli stabilization that halted hyperinflation and weakened organised labour, on Grinberg’s account.
• Wasta — Connections, as described in Gaza under the Egyptian Administration, that differentiated civil servants’ enforcement by family and personal connections.
• Watchdog state — Israel’s role for US imperialism in the Middle East, in Chapter 2 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, from the Haaretz watchdog proposal to the post-Cold War partnership.
• Weaponized Architecture — Lambert’s thesis that architecture is inherently political and can be conceived or instrumentalized as a political weapon.
• Welfare Colonialism — Paine’s notion for the Canadian North: solicitous, liberal, non-exploitative colonialism in which colonisers still decide everything.
• Where’s Daddy? — Automated home-tracking system that alerted targeting officers when a marked person entered his family home, revealed in Abraham (2024).
• Whispering operations — The 1948 Intelligence Service report’s term for Jewish psychological-warfare operations intended to drive Arabs to flee, run as friendly advice and weighted at no more than 2% of the national migration.
• White supremacy — In Abraham’s chapter, with Zionism one of the two supremacist frameworks positioning Black and Palestinian bodies in a subordinate position requiring continual surveillance.
• Wissenschaft des Judentums — Nineteenth-century Jewish scholarship asserting Jewish intellectual authority against scientific antisemitism; Oppenheimer’s tradition.
• Witnessing — In Kelly, the practice by which tourists’ firsthand seeing is treated as evidence completing the Palestinian archive, while Palestinian narration of the same realities is treated as insufficient.
• World literature — Texts travelling beyond their culture of origin, in Damrosch’s sense, whose writers Bernard reads as expecting and exploiting reception as documents of the conflict.