Index: Organizations, P

• PACBI — The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, formed in April 2004, whose boycott call preceded and fed into the 2005 BDS Call, in Barghouti’s account.
• Palestine Arab Workers Society — Palestinian Arab labour organisation founded in Haifa in spring 1925 from the railway union secession, aspiring to be the Arab national counterpart of the Histadrut, and named by Mansour among the most developed beginnings of labour organisation in Palestine.
• Palestine Communist Party — The party whose failure to Arabise left the mass movement to the feudal-clerical leadership.
• Palestine Conciliation Commission — The three-member UN committee (France, Turkey, United States) that led the return endeavour and investigated Dawaymeh, in Pappe’s account.
• Palestine Diamond Exchange — The Tel Aviv diamond bourse company founded in March 1946 under Ben Schafferman, of 180 importers, manufacturers and traders.
• Palestine Diamond Manufacturers’ Association — The PDMA, Palestine’s diamond manufacturers’ association created in Netanya in 1940 under Ben-Ami, a private monopoly under close government control and sole importer of rough diamonds.
• Palestine Exploration Fund — British body whose scientific quarterly reports carried accounts of Palestine’s fertility and habitation into the late nineteenth century.
• Palestine Human Rights Information Center — Jerusalem human rights organization established in 1986 by the Arab Studies Society, with a more activist agenda than al-Haq.
• Palestine Labor League — The Histadrut’s auxiliary organisation for Arab workers (1932), run by Jewish officials under Eliyahu Agassi, whose Haifa and Jaffa campaigns Lockman traces through 1936.
• Palestine Land Society — The society that publishes Salman Abu Sitta’s Nakba documentation, including The Palestinian Nakba 1948 and the Atlas of the Nakbah (2005).
• Palestine Legal — United States legal organization defending Palestine activism, which recorded over 400 complaints in three weeks after 7 October 2023 with six staff attorneys, in From the River to the Sea.
• Palestine Liberation Army — The PLO’s official military force, with three original brigades and 6,000-10,000 soldiers in Lebanon at the June 1982 invasion in Parkinson’s account.
• Palestine Liberation Organization — The organisation created in 1964 by which, in Sayegh’s account, the Palestinian people reasserted its corporate personality and seized the initiative for liberation.
• Palestine Manufacturers’ Association — The PMA, the loose umbrella organization of Jewish industrialists in Palestine since the early 1920s, one arm of the Yishuv’s triangular thread.
• Palestine Open Maps — Palestinian open-source mapping project displaying villages and cities under their original Arabic names.
• Palestine Potash Company — Jewish-owned Dead Sea potash company whose 1930 concession required a “reasonable” proportion of Arab labor, testing Hebrew labor in 1944-45, in Lockman’s Chapter 7 notes.
• Palestine Railways — The mandatory government railway agency, one of Palestine’s largest employers and one of the few employing Arabs and Jews side by side, in Lockman’s account.
• Palestine Research Center — The PLO’s Beirut research centre (founded February 1965), whose theorisation of Zionist settler colonial racism underlies Resolution 3379 and SNCC’s 1967 Palestine article, in Feldman’s account.
• Palestine Return Centre — London centre that published Abu Sitta’s Palestinian Right of Return (second and revised edition, May 1999) and his 1998 Register and map.
• Palestine Strategy Study Group — Palestinian strategists convened by the Oxford Research Group in 2007-2008, authors of Regaining the Initiative (August 2008).
• Palestinian American Medical Association — Association of volunteer physicians whose claims of systematic killing of children by IDF snipers Debunking the Genocide Allegations Chapter 3 sets out to refute.
• Palestinian Authority — The Oslo-created government that, in Makdisi’s account, polices Palestinians on Israel’s behalf while Israel retains borders, airspace, water, the registry and taxation.
• Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research — Ramallah-based polling organisation (PCPSR) headed by Khalil Shikaki whose Gazan teams carried out the family survey with Michael Spagat.
• Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics — Palestinian statistics bureau whose expenditure tables and agricultural census underlie figures contested in Debunking the Genocide Allegations.
• Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — Gaza human rights organization established in 1995 under Raji Sourani, succeeding the GCRL as ICJ affiliate.
• Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies — MADAR, the forum at which Walid Habbas is a researcher.
• Palestinian Legislative Council — Council that never considered the PLO’s 2012 draft citizenship law grounded in Lausanne, due to the complexities of conferring citizenship on a fragmented population, in Bawalsa’s account.
• Palestinian Museum — The Birzeit museum opened by Taawon in 2016 as a museum without borders for a transterritorial, stateless nation.
• Palestinian National Council — The Palestinian parliament in exile, to which the PLO and the National Fund are accountable, whose Cairo deliberations of spring 1977 Said joined.
• Palestinian National Guard — Uniformed IDF collaborator militia in Ain al-Hilweh whose anonymity spurred a civilian anticollaborator network, in Parkinson’s account.
• Palestinian National Salvation Front — 1985 anti-Arafat coalition whose local members cooperated with the PLO in camp defence during the War of the Camps, in Parkinson’s account.
• Palestinian Red Crescent Society — Palestinian medical organization whose nine hospitals and twelve clinics in Lebanon Parkinson describes as among the PLO’s social anchors.
• Palmach — The mobile Zionist striking forces which, in Sayegh’s account, Britain trained in Palestine.
• PALMAH — The Hagana’s elite military formation, in whose top ranks Ahdut Ha’avoda members played leading roles, in Lockman’s account.
• Peace Now — The Israeli ‘peace camp’ movement whose guidelines shaped Pax Americana and Oslo while always evading 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Permanent Mandates Commission — The League’s largely advisory mandates body, with Lugard as Britain’s first representative, in Banko’s account.
• Personal Investigation Bureau — Egyptian Administration office in Gaza, mandated in 1960, that centralised individual criminal records and issued certificates of conduct.
• Phalange — The Lebanese Christian militia founded by Pierre Gemayel in the 1930s, armed by Israel and the force that carried out the Sabra and Shatila massacre, in Rose’s account.
• Physicians for Human Rights — Boston-based medical human rights organization that sponsored Derrick Pounder’s visit in the al-Mtour case.
• Po’alei Tziyon — The largest prewar socialist-Zionist party, built on Borokhov’s synthesis of Marxism and Zionism, which split after the First World War into right and left wings.
• Po’alei Tziyon Smol — Far-left Zionist party, heir to the SWP’s Zionist segments, which won the railway workers’ union in 1924 and pressed for Arab admission to the Histadrut and “separation of functions”.
• Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine — The Democratic Front (DPF), an offshoot of the PFLP and a principal rival of Fateh in Said’s account, born in 1969 and the first to articulate the transitional program the PLO adopted in 1974.
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — Kanafani’s organisation (PFLP), publisher of Al Hadaf and of his 1970 pamphlet.
• Popular Movement for One Democratic State on Historic Palestine — The 2013 movement for one democratic state on historic Palestine.
• Pro-Israel lobby — The adapting force behind US anti-boycott legislation in Kenney-Shawa’s brief, whose pressure Morningstar is said to have caved to.
• Progressive List for Peace — Mi’ari’s 1983 list, Hadash’s rival on a shared two-state platform.