Index: Organizations, U

• UN-OCHA — U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, source of Makdisi’s infrastructure and weekly-briefing material.
• UN Watch — Geneva-based NGO Falk presents as the spearhead of the defamation campaign against him and of the charge that UN solidarity with Palestine unfairly singles out Israel.
• UNESCO — UN cultural agency that admitted Palestine to membership (107-14, as Falk gives the vote), prompting a threatened United States defunding Falk urges other states to offset.
• UNICEF — UN children’s agency whose 1999 Iraq survey is a central subject of Chapter 6 of Debunking the Genocide Allegations.
• Unified National Leadership of the Uprising — Coalition of unions, student groups, collectives and factions that led the First Intifada through decisions and a rotating leadership, in Hawari’s account.
• Union of Palestinian Women Associations — Women’s organization based at Chicago’s Arab Community Center that mobilized immigrant women on the national question and against patriarchal norms.
• Union of Railway, Postal and Telegraph Workers — Railway workers’ union founded as the Jewish Railway Workers’ Association in 1919, briefly a joint Arab-Jewish union in 1924–25 before its Arab members left over its Zionist affiliations.
• Unit 101 — Ariel Sharon’s special IDF unit that carried out the Qibya raid under Operation Shoshanna in October 1953.
• Unit 8200 — Elite Israeli intelligence unit whose commander authored The Human-Machine Team and whose Data Science and AI center built target machines, in Abraham (2024).
• United Arab List — Ra’am, the Islamic movement’s list debuting in the 1996 Knesset elections.
• United Nations Emergency Force — The UN force created on 7 November 1956 whose stationing Israel first barred, then made the condition of its withdrawal and of Eilat navigation.
• Universal School — Large co-educational Islamic school in Bridgeview embracing the Mosque Foundation’s reformist, umma-wide program.
• University and College Union — British union whose 2007 vote advancing an academic boycott of Israel Bollinger denounced, with over 400 American presidents signing.
• UNRWA — The UN agency for Palestinian refugees whose nonpolitical paternalism, for Said, held survival just short of political independence.
• UNSCOP — The UN Special Committee on Palestine, whose members, in Pappe’s account, had no experience in solving conflicts and little knowledge of Palestine, and which recommended the partition that became Resolution 181.
• US Campaign for Palestinian Rights — US coalition of over three hundred groups, founded 2001, that turned from Washington lobbying to grassroots BDS campaigning after 2005.
• United States House Committee on the Judiciary — House committee that held the November 7, 2017 hearing on examining anti-Semitism on college campuses.
• United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — Senate committee that held the March 27, 2025 hearing “Antisemitic Disruptions on Campus” at which Stern testified.
• United States Senate Judiciary Committee — Senate committee before which Stern gave his September 17, 2024 hate-crimes testimony, reproduced as Appendix A of his 2025 testimony.
• Usrat al-Ard — Palestinian nationalist group inside Israel (founded 1958, family of the land), the first Palestinian Arab group to call for a separate Palestinian state, in Said’s account.