Index: Organizations, O

• Occupied Enemy Territory Administration — OETA South, the British military administration in southern Syria from December 1917 to mid-1920 that kept Ottoman laws in place, in Banko’s account.
• Olive Tree Campaign — JAI and Alternative Tourism Group planting and harvesting program that brings tourists to support farmers on threatened land, in Kelly.
• One Democratic State Campaign — The ODSC, organising since 2018 for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/Israel.
• OPEC — The oil-producing countries’ cartel whose 1973 oil-boycott Rose treats as the most serious challenge ever to Western control of Middle East oilfields.
• Or Commission — Commission formed November 8, 2000 to investigate the October 2000 clashes in which thirteen Palestinian citizens were killed.
• Organization of the Victims of Anti-Jewish Persecution in Egypt — Organization initiated by Sami ‘Atiyah in 1958 to register Egyptian Jews’ property claims in Israel; 4,000 files by 1978.
• Orr Commission — The 2003 official commission first acknowledging Israel’s creation as a Jewish state inherently produced unequal treatment of Palestinian citizens.
• Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem — The Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, ruled by the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre under a Patriarch with almost absolute power, whose Greek hierarchy’s domination the Arab Orthodox movement contested.
• OSPAAAL — Organization of Solidarity for the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, whose declaration of solidarity with Palestinians against Zionist aggression is on the cover of the 2012 Settler Colonial Studies special issue, cited by its editors as evidence the convergence of movements is not new.
• Oxford Research Group — London peace and security think-tank which convened the Palestine Strategy Study Group with EU funding.