Index: Organizations, A

• A Land for All — Group promoting confederalism, cited by Beinart for reciprocal-citizenship return and settlement proposals.
• Abd al-Hadi family — Arraba-based family that rose under the Egyptian occupation and whose headquarters’ destruction in 1859 ended rule by native sons in Jabal Nablus.
• Abna’ al-Balad — Sons of the Village movement (1972), nationalist advocate of a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.
• Abu-Basma — The 2000 agreement and council for nine additional recognized Bedouin settlements beyond the first seven planned towns, with mixed agricultural neighbourhoods and convertible lots.
• Action Committees — Non-official factory bodies created by leftist activists in 1960-1965 to compete with Mapai-controlled workers’ councils; their revolt is Grinberg’s Chapter 4 mo(ve)ment.
• 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.
• ADRID — Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced in Israel, organizer of the annual March of Return to a destroyed 1948 village.
• AFL-CIO — US labor federation treated as complicit in Israeli apartheid through Israel bond investments and support for the Histadrut.
• Agudat Yisrael — Party of the non-Zionist Orthodox (haredi) community, which joined Israel’s provisional government in 1948 on the basis of the religious status quo and has accepted no ministerial post since leaving in 1952, in Dowty’s account.
• Ahavat Po’alim — Po’alei Tziyon Smol factions’ merged Arab-Jewish solidarity organisation of May 1930, dissolved by the mandatory government that July.
• Ahdut Ha’avoda — Po’alei Tziyon’s right-wing Palestinian successor party, co-founder of the Histadrut in 1920 and adopter of Ben-Gurion’s joint-organization policy.
• American Israel Public Affairs Committee — The formal pro-Israel lobby formed in 1951 under I. L. Kenen, core of Eban’s U.S. public efforts and publisher of Myths and Facts and the Near East Report, in Christison’s account.
• Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research — Research institute that published the English translation of the 1948 Intelligence Service report and the 2019 Silencing report on DSDE concealment of documents in archives.
• Al-Ard — Palestinian nationalist movement in Israel from 1958 whose electoral list was banned in Yeredor (1965), in Lahav’s account.
• Al-Haq — First Palestinian human rights organization, founded 1979 as Law in the Service of Man, the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists.
• Al-Ittihad — Arabic newspaper of the Communist Party, which published Kufr Yasif’s struggle and Emile Habibi’s article calling on all Arabs to follow the village’s example.
• Al Mezan — Gaza human rights organization, one of the three preeminent core Palestinian human rights organizations, directed by former al-Haq researcher Issam Younis.
• Al-Shabaka — Palestinian policy network, publisher of Kenney-Shawa’s 2022 anti-boycott brief, describing itself as the only global Palestinian think tank.
• 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.
• Alternative Information Center — Jerusalem centre at which Shir Hever is a researcher, given in his byline and biographical note.
• Amal — Lebanese Shi’i party trained in part by Fatah’s Force 17 in the 1970s and leader of the 1985-1988 War of the Camps against the Palestinian camps, in Parkinson’s account.
• Amana — Gush Emunim’s settlement organization, begun in 1976, which in 1980 announced that for all intents and purposes it was Gush Emunim, in Lustick’s account.
• AMCHA Initiative — Israel advocacy organisation central to Title VI complaints, course-cancellation demands and faculty campaigns in the Palestine Legal/CCR 2015 report, including a blacklist of more than 200 Middle East Studies professors.
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee — Civil-rights organization advocating for Arab Americans as a cross-national ethnic group, with a Chicago chapter Palestinian secular activists helped build.
• 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 Civil Liberties Union — US civil liberties organization (ACLU) named by Kenney-Shawa as a resource against anti-boycott legislation.
• American Friends Service Committee — Quaker organisation that ran Gaza refugee relief in 1949-50 and published Light in Gaza through its Gaza Unlocked work.
• American Jewish Committee — United States Jewish organisation where Stern worked as antisemitism expert for 25 years and which helped create the EUMC working definition.
• American Legislative Exchange Council — Conservative drafting organization (ALEC) that, in Kenney-Shawa’s brief, drafts anti-BDS bills for lawmakers on behalf of corporate interests.
• American Muslims for Palestine — Organization fusing Islam with Palestinian nationalism in the US diaspora, examined in Lybarger through its 2013 conference and Nakba commemoration.
• American Palestine Committee — Pro-Zionist Gentile organisation chaired by Senator Robert Wagner from 1941.
• American Studies Association — U.S. scholarly association whose December 2013 boycott resolution Feldman treats as the breaching of Said’s “America’s Last Taboo.”
• American Zionist Emergency Council — Silver’s 1943 grass-roots lobbying organisation for Jewish statehood in Palestine.
• Amnesty International — Human rights organisation whose Gaza genocide report and 44 percent local-production claim are a principal target of Debunking the Genocide Allegations.
• Anti-Defamation League — U.S. Jewish organisation whose swastika-epidemic cataloguing, The New Anti-Semitism (1974) and denunciations of SNCC’s 1967 article Feldman records.
• Aqsa School — Girls’ Islamic school beside the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation, named for al-Aqsa, averaging 300 mostly Palestinian students a year.
• Arab American Action Network — Chicago social service organization that replaced the Arab Community Center, surviving the secular centers’ closure by accommodating the religious turn.
• Arab Community Center (Chicago) — The markaz: secular-left, pan-Arab anchor of Chicago’s Southwest Side Palestinian enclave since the early 1970s, later replaced by the AAAN.
• Arab Democratic Party — Arab party founded by Abd el-Wahhab Darawshe for the 1988 elections, presenting itself as a potential coalition partner; counted on as a blocking-majority vote in 1992 without being taken into government.
• 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 Labour Federation — The Jaffa Arab labour federation of Mansour (Secretary) and Michel Mitri (President), about 7,000 members in Mansour’s 1937 account.
• 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 Legion — Transjordanian force under British command stationed in Palestine in 1946, whose soldiers some Hashomer Hatza’ir kibbutz members befriended against the Yishuv’s nonfraternization policy, in Lockman’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 Nationalist Movement — Socialist pan-Arab movement founded at AUB by Habash, Haddad and al-Hindi (dated 1951/1952 in Parkinson), from which the PFLP split in 1967.
• Arab Union of Railway Workers — Name used from 1930 by the PAWS’ Haifa railway component, which cooperated and competed with the Jewish-led railway union through 1936.
• Arab Women’s Union — Jerusalem women’s organization established in 1929, active in protests and aid to fighters under the Mandate.
• Arab Workers’ Congress — Arab labour federation formed in August 1945 by the Jaffa, Jerusalem and Gaza PAWS branches, along with eight others, aligned with the National Liberation League.
• Arab Workers’ Society — Nashashibi-backed Arab labour organisation founded in 1934, which under Michel Mitri in Jaffa led the counter-campaign against Hebrew labor in 1934-36, in Lockman’s account.
• Arafat family — Nablus textile-merchant family traced over a dozen generations in Doumani’s Chapter 2, whose peasant clientele networks knit city and hinterland in Jabal Nablus.
• Arkansas Times — Little Rock newspaper whose 2018 suit over Arkansas’s anti-boycott law produced the Eighth Circuit ruling upholding the law.
• ASHTAR Theatre — Gaza theatre company whose Said al-Mishal Foundation home was destroyed by Israeli warplanes on August 9, 2018.
• ASPCJE — Association pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel des juifs d’Egypte, founded in Paris in 1979 to preserve Egyptian Jewish heritage; publisher of Nahar Misraïm.
• 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 Arab American University Graduates — Scholarly organization of academics of Arab descent in the United States, established at the end of 1967, treated by Feldman as a nascent Arab American studies and a counterpoint to Orientalism.
• 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.
• Avukah — Zionist student organisation founded in 1925 whose Chicago chapter Agranat chaired and whose 1928 convention defeated his kibbutz-partnership project, in Lahav’s account.
• Azazmeh — One of the seven pre-1948 Negev Bedouin macro-tribes, in the southern Negev Highlands, the tribe providing the focus of most of Dinero’s monograph.