Index: Organizations, K

• Kach — Meir Kahane’s Israeli movement, which campaigned to rid the country of its Arab population and won a Knesset seat in 1984, in Lustick’s account.
• Karaite Jews of America — Nonprofit established in July 1983 by the Egyptian Karaite community of the San Francisco Bay Area, with synagogues in San Francisco (1991) and Daly City (1994).
• Karaites — The Karaite Jews of Egypt, rejecters of the Talmud some 5,000 strong in 1948, the most thoroughly Arabized element of Egyptian Jewry, organized under their majlis milli and served by the newspaper al-Kalim.
• Kav Laoved — Israeli workers-rights organisation monitoring mistreatment of Palestinian and migrant workers, whose reports Hever uses for continuing exploitation.
• Kehilla — The organized self-governing Jewish community of the Diaspora, whose voluntaristic, pluralistic bargaining politics Dowty treats as the seedbed of Israeli democracy.
• Kibbutz — The collective settlement institution whose celebratory accounts, for Said, repress the Arab reality of confiscated land and excluded membership.
• Komitee für den Osten — Wartime committee chaired by Oppenheimer pursuing a German-backed Jewish autonomy in Poland and linking Jewish to German imperial interests.