Index: Organizations, B

• BADIL — Palestinian NGO named, with Zochrot, among the proponents of transitional justice for the Nakba in Rethinking Statehood in Palestine.
• Bard Center for the Study of Hate — Bard College centre directed by Kenneth Stern, working to increase the serious study of human hatred and ways to combat it, and academic home of the Nexus project.
• 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.
• Bearing Witness — Project behind the Bearing Witness – Gaza Document, presented as the foundational, evolving archive of the reality in Gaza since October 7, with damage, starvation and healthcare reports and an evidence archive of testimonies and statements.
• Bedouin Authority — State body created in 1986 with direct jurisdiction over Negev Bedouin daily life and a monopoly on their planning and development, compared to the US Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• Bedouin Development Authority — Separate state agency created to deal with the Bedouin ‘problem’ and their ‘encroachment’ on ‘state’ land, with the Bedouin Education Authority.
• Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies — Bar-Ilan University strategic-studies center whose director Efraim Inbar and senior researcher Eitan Shamir authored the 2014 ‘Mowing the Grass’ article.
• Bezalel — Jerusalem arts and crafts school founded with CEP and German Jewish cooperation, teaching handicrafts under a programme of Jewish national art.
• BIMKOM — Planning organization long involved in Bedouin concerns, whose speaker briefed Bustan’s 12 July 2007 Unplugged tour in Segev Shalom.
• Birzeit University — Palestinian university whose Abu-Lughod Institute for International Studies is Magid Shihade’s teaching institution.
• Bishtawi family — Nablus merchant family whose brothers As’ad and Sa’id Bishtawi are Doumani’s Chapter 5 case study of wealth concentration and vertical integration in soap production.
• 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.
• Black Panthers (Israel) — The Mizrahi resistance movement of 1971-1973 centred on Musrara, Jerusalem, which won recognition but not political representation.
• Bnei Akiva — Religious Zionist youth movement with 25,000-30,000 members whose graduates formed a major recruitment pool for Gush Emunim, in Lustick’s account.
• Bodenkulturverein — Berlin association (1897) promoting agriculture among Germany’s Jews, with Oppenheimer on its board.
• 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.
• Break the Silence Mural Project — Bay Area Jewish women artists’ collective that painted murals with Palestinian artists in Ramallah from 1989.
• Brit Shalom — Binationalist association that pursued explicit and equal recognition of the two nations in Palestine independent of numbers, as Dowty presents it.
• Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre — The monastic confraternity ruling the Church of Jerusalem, through which Greek dominance of the Patriarchate was reproduced.
• B’Tselem — Israeli human rights organisation whose reports Makdisi uses on family unification, state land and collaborators.
• Bund — Jewish socialist movement seeking Jewish autonomy in existing places of residence through a democratized kahal, along non-Zionist lines, as Dowty presents it.
• Bustan — NGO working on Negev Bedouin rights whose Negev Unplugged tours Dinero treats as the leading example of voluntourism in the Negev.