Index: Organizations, J

  • J Street — US liberal Zionist organization, self-described as pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy, and Ayyash’s case study in US liberal Zionism.
  • Jarrar clan — Rural clan of the Jenin district and Sanur fortress, the undisputed leading clan among Jabal Nablus’s subdistrict chiefs until the 1820s.
  • Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs — Jerusalem center (JCFA) that republishes Sharansky’s 3D Test article, originally in its Jewish Political Studies Review; its current footer names it the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
  • Jewish Agency — Zionist executive that appointed the Colony Police groups’ seconds in command and raised the railway defence; a later JCFA author block names Natan Sharansky its Chairman.
  • Jewish Colonial Trust — The Zionist bank whose reopening Herzl won from von Plevhe in 1903 on condition Zionism confine itself to emigration, in Brenner’s account.
  • Jewish Colonization Association — Association that in 1901 acquired a very large tract in Tiberias from the Sursuq family, forming a core of contiguous Jewish-owned land.
  • Jewish Currents — Publication that first published the Gaza doctors’ testimonies, the West Bank dispatches and Khalil Abu Yahia’s piece republished in From the River to the Sea.
  • Jewish Defense League — Meir Kahane’s “Jewish Power” organisation, styled on the Black Panther Party, in Feldman’s account of post-1967 Jewish toughness.
  • Jewish Home — Extremist settler party whose young, social-discourse leadership won 12 seats in January 2013 as the right’s newborn-star party.
  • Jewish National Fund — Zionist colonisation fund established in 1901, and one of the enforcers of Jewish labor only in Sayegh’s account.
  • Jewish Orient Colonization Society — JOCG, founded by Oppenheimer with Trietsch, promoting cooperative settlement in Palestine and its adjacent countries.
  • Jewish Underground — The machteret network of Gush Emunim mainstream activists responsible for the mayors and Islamic College attacks and the Temple Mount plot, uncovered in April 1984, in Lustick’s account.
  • Jewish Voice for Peace — US organization, key BDS partner leading the Deadly Exchange campaign against US–Israeli police exchanges, which in its 2018 statement Our Approach to Zionism unequivocally opposes Zionism.
  • Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs — Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, formed after the 1973 war to shape U.S. defense officials’ thinking on Israel’s security, in Christison’s account.
  • Johar Company — Nablus-based company around which Arab diamond merchants pressed for non-Jewish entry into the diamond industry.
  • Joint List — The 2015 electoral alliance of Hadash, Balad and smaller parties.
  • Joint Palestine Survey Commission — Commission whose Report of the Experts (Strahorn’s soil survey, Mead and his Associates on the Federation, Campbell on the Jewish settlements) Simpson’s 1930 report relies on throughout.
  • Judah L. Magnes Museum — Museum from which the Development Corporation for Israel records were transferred to the Bancroft Library in 2010.
  • Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation — Foundation working on understanding hatred and antisemitism, especially on college campuses, directed by Kenneth Stern.