Index: Organizations

• Adalah — Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, publisher of the March 2007 Democratic Constitution, in Makdisi’s account.
• Addameer — Palestinian prisoner-support NGO whose reporting on administrative detainees Falk relies on in the Prison Resistance posts.
• AFL-CIO — US labor federation treated as complicit in Israeli apartheid through Israel bond investments and support for the Histadrut.
• Al-Subayh Arabs — Bedouin clan near Mount Tabur whose members under curfew in 1954 sought conversion to Christianity to lift the siege, in Manna’s account.
• AlQaws — AlQaws, Palestinian organization for gender and sexual diversity, linking queer liberation to a self-determined Palestinian society.
• Alstom — French conglomerate in the Jerusalem Light Rail consortium, excluded by Sweden’s AP7 fund over the project, in Barghouti’s account.
• American Association of University Professors — The AAUP, whose “On Academic Boycotts” report Barghouti critiques for privileging academic freedom while never censuring Israel, in Barghouti’s account.
• American Jewish Committee — United States Jewish organisation where Stern worked as antisemitism expert for 25 years and which helped create the EUMC working definition.
• Arab Executive Committee — The national body whose dissolution in August 1934 left six party groupings on the eve of the revolt.
• Arab Front — The Maki–nationalist front announced in ‘Akka and Nazareth on 6 July 1958 after the 1 May Nazareth confrontations, whose non-communist leaders resigned within six months, in Manna’s account.
• Arab Higher Committee — The committee formed on 25 April 1936 which rode, directed and called off the 1936 strike.
• Arab League — Regional body of Arab states which Palestinians turned to after the Nakba and which agreed a rejectionist stance toward Israel in 1967, in Awad & bean’s account.
• Arab Liberation Army — The all-Arab volunteer force (Jaish al-Inqath) established by the Arab League in December 1947, whose divided command and defensive posture, in Pappe’s account, left the Palestinians defenceless while providing a pretext for escalation.
• Arab Women’s Union — Jerusalem women’s organization established in 1929, active in protests and aid to fighters under the Mandate.
• Assa Abloy — Swedish owner of the Mul-T-Lock factory in the Barkan colony, whose 2008 relocation frames Barghouti’s tactic-versus-strategy argument on settlement products.
• Association of Forty — The organisation founded in 1988, the fortieth year after the Nakba, campaigning for Israel’s unrecognized Palestinian villages, in Makdisi’s account.
• Association of University Teachers — The British AUT, whose April 2005 boycott of Bar Ilan and Haifa Universities was reversed in May 2005 after an intimidation campaign, in Barghouti’s account.
• BDS National Committee — The BDS National Committee (BNC), formed in 2008, the Palestinian leadership and guiding force of the global BDS movement, in Barghouti’s account.
• Black Lives Matter — Movement named from the phrase coined after Trayvon Martin’s murder, central to the 2014-16 solidarity wave.
• Black Panther Party — US Black revolutionary organization that proclaimed support for the Palestinians’ struggle “one hundred percent” in 1970.
• Boycott from Within — Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within, the movement in Israel since 2009 that fully adopted the Palestinian BDS Call, in Barghouti’s account.
• B’Tselem — Israeli human rights organisation whose reports Makdisi uses on family unification, state land and collaborators.
• Canary Mission — Website filing online dossiers of professors asserted to be anti-Israel, cited by Stern as pressure on academics.
• Consultancy — The ad-hoc body around Ben-Gurion which, in Pappe’s account, plotted and designed the dispossession of the Palestinians, finalised Plan Dalet at the Red House on 10 March 1948, and supervised the ethnic cleansing’s execution.
• Druze — The religious community whose 500 ALA volunteers deserted to the Jewish forces in April 1948 and became the main vehicle for the cleansing of the Galilee, in Pappe’s account.
• Elbit Systems — Israel’s largest private military company, holder of 2014 and 2017 US contracts to militarize the US–Mexico border, in this book’s account.
• Fateh — The largest Palestinian grouping, basically Nasserite and pragmatic, which dominates the PLO as a majority group speaking for the Palestinian Question, in Said’s account.
• General Syrian Congress — The congress of elected representatives of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria whose unanimous 2 July 1919 resolution opposed Zionist pretensions and migration.
• General Union of Palestinian Women — Umbrella organization for Palestinian women’s groups founded in 1965, linking gender equality with national liberation.
• Golani Brigade — Israeli brigade whose soldiers perpetrated ‘Illut’s two massacres of 16 July 1948 and murdered ‘Ilabun’s martyrs at the end of October 1948, in Manna’s account.
• Gush Emunim — The settler movement Said names as the vanguard of the growing Israeli settler population in the West Bank after Camp David.
• Haganah — The Zionist armed force built up under British supervision during the revolt.
• Haifa University — Israeli university Barghouti presents as institutionally racist and complicit, sponsoring demographic scholarship and exonerating David Bukay, in Barghouti’s account.
• Hamas — The movement whose 2006 rise Makdisi attributes to its distance from PA corruption and Oslo discourse and its revival of a Palestinian language of self-determination.
• HaMoked — Israeli human rights organisation cited by Makdisi, with B’Tselem, on Jerusalem birth registration, and for its assistance to Mona el-Farra at Erez.
• Hebrew University — Israeli university Barghouti presents as built in part on 3,345 dunums confiscated from Palestinians in 1968 in occupied East Jerusalem, in Barghouti’s account.
• Histadrut — The Jewish labour federation that dominated the Jewish labour movement and enforced Jewish labour only.
• Hizballah — Lebanese Shia resistance movement that ended Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000, distinguished by Makdisi from Hamas against Remnick’s “ideological allies” framing.
• Human Rights Watch — NGO whose Separate and Unequal report on West Bank discrimination Falk welcomes for its facts while faulting its language as too moderate.
• Independence Party — Party of Auni Abd al-Hadi, founded in 1932, the left pole of the national leadership.
• Institute for Palestine Studies — Independent Arab research institute (est. 1963), copyright holder and original publisher of Nakba and Survival.
• International Court of Justice — The Hague court whose July 2004 Advisory Opinion on the wall Makdisi adopts, terminology included.
• IPSO — the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization, whose UNESCO support Chapter 9 charges as double standards.
• Irgun — Underground Zionist organisation whose existence, in Sayegh’s account, Britain condoned, and which later turned against the British.
• Islamic Jihad — Palestinian faction with which Adnan and Shalabi are associated, whose own abandonment of violence against civilian targets Falk records.
• Israel on Campus Coalition — Mainstream Jewish campus organisation whose 2016-2017 report and disruption data supply Stern’s campus figures.
• Israeli League of Human Rights — Israeli body whose diffused information on abuses against Arabs, documented from Israeli journals, never saw the light of day in the United States, in Said’s account.
• Jewish Agency — Zionist executive that appointed the Colony Police groups’ seconds in command and raised the railway defence.
• Jewish National Fund — Zionist colonisation fund established in 1901, and one of the enforcers of Jewish labor only in Sayegh’s account.
• Jewish Voice for Peace — US organization and key BDS partner leading the Deadly Exchange campaign against US–Israeli police exchanges.
• Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation — Foundation working on understanding hatred and antisemitism, especially on college campuses, directed by Kenneth Stern.
• Kibbutz — The collective settlement institution whose celebratory accounts, for Said, repress the Arab reality of confiscated land and excluded membership.
• Lehavot Haviva — Kibbutz living on al-Jalama’s lands since 1951 whose members blew up the village’s houses in 1953 to defeat a Supreme Court return order, in Manna’s account.
• Maki — The Israeli Communist Party, joined by the National Liberation League’s Palestinian communists in October 1948, whose wartime cooperation with Israel Manna examines.
• Mapam — Zionist Marxist party, the League’s chief ally and defender inside Israel, with two interim-government ministers, in Manna’s account.
• Matzpen — The Israeli Socialist Organization, whose members Machover and Orr wrote the 1969 class analysis of Israel used in Chapter 4.
• Mossawa — The Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel, on whose complaint the attorney general ordered an investigation of Haifa’s David Bukay, in Barghouti’s account.
• Movement for Black Lives — Coalition whose 2016 Vision For Black Lives platform called Israel’s war on Palestinians a genocide and demanded an end to US aid.
• Muslim Brotherhood — Egyptian movement whose untrained volunteers made up almost fifty per cent of Egypt’s 10,000 troops in May 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Nation of Islam — Black American movement in which Malcolm X developed his international outlook, inspired by Nasser’s Egypt.
• National Defence Party — Raghib al-Nashashibi’s party, the leadership’s right wing and Transjordan’s legal representative in the movement.
• National Liberation League — Palestinian communist organisation whose Haifa and Galilee leaders chose cooperation with Israel in 1948 and united with Maki that October, in Manna’s account.
• National Military Organisation — Jabotinsky’s armed organisation, counted at 3,000 men in 1937 alongside the Haganah.
• PACBI — The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, formed in April 2004, whose boycott call preceded and fed into the 2005 BDS Call, in Barghouti’s account.
• Palestine Communist Party — The party whose failure to Arabise left the mass movement to the feudal-clerical leadership.
• Palestine Conciliation Commission — The three-member UN committee (France, Turkey, United States) that led the return endeavour and investigated Dawaymeh, in Pappe’s account.
• Palestine Exploration Fund — British body whose scientific quarterly reports carried accounts of Palestine’s fertility and habitation into the late nineteenth century.
• Palestine Land Society — The society that publishes Salman Abu Sitta’s Nakba documentation, including The Palestinian Nakba 1948 and the Atlas of the Nakbah (2005).
• Palestine Liberation Organization — The organisation created in 1964 by which, in Sayegh’s account, the Palestinian people reasserted its corporate personality and seized the initiative for liberation.
• Palestinian Authority — The Oslo-created government that, in Makdisi’s account, polices Palestinians on Israel’s behalf while Israel retains borders, airspace, water, the registry and taxation.
• Palestinian National Council — The Palestinian parliament in exile, to which the PLO and the National Fund are accountable, whose Cairo deliberations of spring 1977 Said joined.
• Palmach — The mobile Zionist striking forces which, in Sayegh’s account, Britain trained in Palestine.
• Peace Now — The Israeli ‘peace camp’ movement whose guidelines shaped Pax Americana and Oslo while always evading 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine — The Democratic Front (DPF), an offshoot of the PFLP and a principal rival of Fateh in Said’s account, born in 1969 and the first to articulate the transitional program the PLO adopted in 1974.
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — Kanafani’s organisation (PFLP), publisher of Al Hadaf and of his 1970 pamphlet.
• Quasi-Police Force — The British-backed Zionist police forces (Quasi-Police Force, then Colony Police) that trained the Haganah.
• Russell Tribunal on Palestine — People’s tribunal whose November 2011 Cape Town session was to assess apartheid charges against Israel, defended by Falk against Goldstone.
• Stern Group — Underground Zionist organisation whose existence, in Sayegh’s account, Britain condoned, and which later turned against the British.
• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee — SNCC, whose August 1967 paper “The Middle East Crisis” framed Israel in colonization and Third World revolt.
• Students for Justice in Palestine — Student organization whose campus divestment activism forms a base of the US Palestine movement.
• Ta’ayush — Israeli-Palestinian solidarity movement bringing aid to besieged communities south of Hebron against settler violence, in Makdisi’s account through David Shulman’s Dark Hope.
• Tal’at — Collective of Palestinian women formed in 2019, linking women’s emancipation to national liberation, in Awad & bean’s account.
• UN-OCHA — U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, source of Makdisi’s infrastructure and weekly-briefing material.
• UN Watch — Geneva-based NGO Falk presents as the spearhead of the defamation campaign against him and of the charge that UN solidarity with Palestine unfairly singles out Israel.
• UNESCO — UN cultural agency that admitted Palestine to membership (107-14, as Falk gives the vote), prompting a threatened United States defunding Falk urges other states to offset.
• University and College Union — British union whose 2007 vote advancing an academic boycott of Israel Bollinger denounced, with over 400 American presidents signing.
• UNRWA — The UN agency for Palestinian refugees whose nonpolitical paternalism, for Said, held survival just short of political independence.
• UNSCOP — The UN Special Committee on Palestine, whose members, in Pappe’s account, had no experience in solving conflicts and little knowledge of Palestine, and which recommended the partition that became Resolution 181.
• United States House Committee on the Judiciary — House committee that held the November 7, 2017 hearing on examining anti-Semitism on college campuses.
• Usrat al-Ard — Palestinian nationalist group inside Israel (founded 1958, family of the land), the first Palestinian Arab group to call for a separate Palestinian state, in Said’s account.
• Veolia — French conglomerate in the Jerusalem Light Rail consortium, sued at Nanterre and the target of the Derail Veolia campaign, in Barghouti’s account.
• World Zionist Organization — The quasi-state apparatus established at Basel in 1897 to supervise Zionist colonisation, later recognised by Britain as a representative Jewish Agency.
• Zochrot — Israeli NGO that signposts destroyed Palestinian villages where Jewish settlements or JNF forests now stand, in Pappe’s Epilogue.