Index: Organizations, M

• Mabahith — Idarat al-Mabahith al-‘Amma, the Egyptian Administration’s General Investigations Department in Gaza, whose files compiled reports on public and private life, public opinion and rumours.
• MachsomWatch — Israeli women’s organisation monitoring checkpoints in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, whose work documents ordinary violence in Lambert.
• Mada al-Carmel — Haifa-based Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Molavi’s institutional base and author of The Haifa Declaration (2007).
• Mafdal — The national-religious party, hostile to Oslo through the “promised land” ideology, which Peres courted with a promise not to vacate any settlements after Rabin’s assassination, in Amar-Dahl’s account.
• Magal — Homeland security company named by Hever with Elbit and Nice as relying on equipment tested on Palestinians to promote sales.
• Magen David Adom — Israel’s ambulance service, whose denial of admission to the International Red Cross Sharansky gives as the double-standards example of his 3D test.
• Maki — The Israeli Communist Party, joined by the National Liberation League’s Palestinian communists in October 1948, whose wartime cooperation with Israel Manna examines.
• Manufacturers Association of Israel — Israel’s strongest employers’ lobby, chaired by Shraga Brosh, which lobbied to protect colony businesses, in Hever’s account.
• Mapai — The dominant Labor party and central party of the Israeli system in the state’s first decades, vehicle of Ben-Gurion’s mamlachtiut, as Dowty presents it.
• Mapam — Zionist Marxist party: the League’s chief ally inside Israel in Manna’s account; in Peace, Peace, the party that called war-calling a crime yet took “full responsibility” for Operation Sinai rather than resign.
• Masos Regional Council — Regional council (Moatzah Masos) governing Segev Shalom, Aroer and K’seifa from 1988 until the towns split into separate municipalities in 1996.
• MATTIN — Centre for Applied Production Development, Charles Shammas’s experimental West Bank manufacturing venture testing direct export from the occupied territories.
• Matzpen — The Israeli Socialist Organization, whose members Machover and Orr wrote the 1969 class analysis of Israel used in Chapter 4.
• Middle East Children’s Alliance — Palestinian-rights organization founded in 1988 after Barbara Lubin’s solidarity delegation, funder of Break the Silence projects.
• Mizrachi — Religious-national party founded in 1902 after cultural Zionism’s incorporation at the Fifth Zionist Congress.
• Morningstar — Investment firm whose Sustainalytics ESG ratings drew anti-boycott pressure in 2022, in Kenney-Shawa’s brief.
• Moshav — The cooperative smallholders’ village, with the kibbutz a new subsidised settlement form overcoming the moshava model, in Lockman’s account.
• Mosque Foundation — The largest Palestinian-dominated mosque, in Bridgeview, whose Friday attendance rose from 75 in 1982 to nearly 2,000 a week in 1994.
• 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.
• Movement for the Whole Land of Israel — Elite secular ultranationalist organization founded two months after the Six Day War for permanent absorption of all the territories, eclipsed after 1973 by Gush Emunim, in Lustick’s account.
• Movement to Halt the Retreat in Sinai — Movement formed in 1981 to stop the Yamit evacuation or make it traumatic enough to inhibit any future evacuation, in Lustick’s account.
• 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; in Beinin’s, a current in which anti-Semitism was concentrated, charged with the 1948 Cairo bombings.
• Muslim-Christian Association — Association founded in 1918 in Jaffa and Jerusalem that organised the first Palestinian Arab Congress and claimed rights for Palestinian Arabs as nationals, in Banko’s account.
• Muslim Community Center (Chicago) — North Side Chicago mosque community, primarily South Asian, whose youth programs formed Sara and modeled AMP’s interethnic Islamic advocacy.