Index: People

• Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad — Local commander of poor peasant origin whose killing in March 1939 was a crushing blow to the revolt.
• Abd al-Rahim Mahmud — Nationalist poet of the early 1930s whose 1935 poem to Amir Saud became part of the revolutionary heritage.
• Abu Is’af — Sha’b fighter Ibrahim ‘Ali al-Shaykh Khalil (1908–2002), leader of one of Galilee’s best fighting units, in Manna’s account.
• Abu Salma — Poet (Abd al-Karim al-Karmi) who chronicled the 1936 revolt and its abandonment by the Arab kings in verse.
• Adel Manna — Palestinian historian from Majd al-Krum, author of Nakba and Survival, whose own family was expelled to Ayn al-Hilwa and returned by sea in 1951.
• Adib Shishakly — The ALA’s Galilee commander who replaced Safad’s able defender and refused arms to Ghuwayr, later one of Syria’s rulers, in Pappe’s account.
• Aharon Cohen — Mapam leader who met Fu’ad Nassar, defended special treatment for League men, and commented on the Czech arms, in Manna’s account.
• Ahmad Abu-Laban — Jaffa Emergency Committee head who signed the 13 May 1948 surrender, won a Supreme Court release the authorities delayed for weeks, and emigrated to Jordan, in Manna’s account.
• Ahmed Abu Artema — Founder of the Great March of Return, quoted that Palestinians sought to “break from behind prison walls”.
• Ahmed al-Jabari — Hamas military leader assassinated on November 14, 2012 while negotiating a truce, whose killing Falk treats as the provocation opening the November 2012 attack on Gaza.
• Akiva Orr — Matzpen socialist, co-author with Moshe Machover of “The Class Character of Israel” (1969).
• Albert Hourani — Historian quoted by Said for the Middle Eastern minorities as closed communities, each a world sufficient to its members.
• Ali Abunimah — Author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine whose preface Falk quotes to open Part 4, and of One Country in Makdisi’s Coda.
• Ali Mustafa — Interviewer of Barghouti in Chapter 12 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, “‘Boycotts Work’”, in Barghouti’s book.
• Alice Walker — Author of the 2010 Foreword to Palestine Inside Out, framing the book as bearing witness to the truth, in Makdisi’s book.
• Alphonse de Lamartine — French writer whose 1833 Résumé politique cancelled Palestine’s resident Arabs by a future colonial wish, in Said’s reading.
• Alvaro de Soto — Former U.N. envoy to the Quartet whose leaked confidential report is a principal Coda source on the 2006 elections, Hamas’s isolation and the two-state solution’s erosion, in Makdisi’s account.
• Amin al-Hussaini — Hajj Amin al-Hussaini, the Mufti, head of the Arab Higher Committee and of the feudal-clerical leadership.
• Amin Jarjura — Nazareth lawyer and first-Knesset MK on the Nazareth Democratic list who defended the refugees’ right of return from the Knesset podium and called Nazareth’s takeover an occupation, in Manna’s account.
• Amir Abdullah — Amir of Transjordan, the leading figure of the surrounding Arab regimes that mediated the revolt’s end.
• Amira Hass — Israeli journalist quoted by Makdisi on the permit regime barring Jerusalem Palestinians from the West Bank and the Shin Bet’s collaborator recruitment.
• Amos Elon — Israeli author of a recent book about the Israelis, quoted by Said for the settlers’ blindness toward the Arabs and the purpose of Avoda Ivrit.
• Amos Oz — Israeli novelist whose “drowning man” plank Makdisi answers as the Zionist left’s case for unequal partition over equal sharing.
• Andrews — British District Commissioner of Galilee, whose assassination in Nazareth in September 1937 restarted the revolt.
• Angela Davis — Black academic whose Palestine solidarity led to the rescinding, then protest, of her Birmingham Civil Rights Institute award in 2019.
• Annie Levin — Co-author, with Sumaya Awad, of Chapter 1, “Roots of the Nakba: Zionist Settler Colonialism”.
• Anwar al-Sadat — President of Egypt, whose program Said treats as entirely Egyptian: attacking Israel’s monopoly of U.S. support rather than fighting Israel directly.
• ‘Arif al-‘Arif — Jerusalemite historian whose six-volume diary-based Al-Nakba: Nakbat Bayt al-Maqdis wal-firdaws al-mafqud 1947–49 Manna presents as a major early detailed work on the Nakba.
• Arik Sharon — General and minister of agriculture to whom Begin left the post-Camp David settlements project, quoted by Said from Ma’ariv, January 26, 1979, on roads and military infrastructure in the West Bank.
• Arnon Sofer — Haifa University professor and Sharon adviser who expected separation to produce “voluntary transfer”, in Makdisi’s account.
• Avi Shlaim — Israeli “new historian” whose work Makdisi draws on for Zionist awareness of the Arab presence, the 1948 military balance, the Jordanian agreement and Plan Dalet.
• ‘Awda al-‘Ashhab — League communist found in the Abu ‘Ujayla camp, imprisoned in Israel, and reunited with his smuggled-in family only in 1954 after a Knesset sit-in, in Manna’s account.
• Azmi Bishara — Palestinian intellectual credited with revolutionizing study of the Arab Question and resituating Palestine in its Arab dimension.
• Barack Obama — United States president whose AIPAC and Jerusalem speeches and “dishonest broker” diplomacy Falk treats as the exemplary case of American partisanship.
• Baruch Goldstein — Kiryat Arba settler who killed 29 Palestinians at prayer in Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque on 25 February 1994 and is venerated by Hebron’s settlers, in Makdisi’s account.
• Baruch Kimmerling — Israeli sociologist whose two contradictory Zionist imperatives frame Makdisi’s land thesis.
• Bechor Shitrit — Minister of police and minority affairs who repeatedly objected to expulsions of remainers — ‘Akka, ‘Ilabun, the border strip — while they went on, in Manna’s account.
• Ben Dunkelman — Canadian Israeli battalion commander who signed Nazareth’s surrender agreement and refused the 17 July 1948 order to expel its population, in Manna’s account.
• Ben-Zion Luria — The young Hebrew University historian whose proposal to the Jewish National Fund — a detailed registry of all Arab villages — set the Village Files project in motion.
• Benjamin Netanyahu — Israeli prime minister whose June 2009 speech, in Makdisi’s Epilogue, casts Palestinians as a mere “population” in the Jewish Homeland.
• Benny Morris — Israeli ‘new historian’ whose archive-based work Pappe credits with disproving ‘voluntary flight’ while charging him with a very partial picture that ignored atrocities and pre-15 May 1948 expulsions.
• Bernie Sanders — US senator who said he would consider cutting funds to Israel and defended the right to boycott for Palestinian rights.
• Bishop Hakim — Melkite bishop who helped hundreds of his sect settle anew, pressed Tarshiha to accept transfer, and made the return agreement with Palmon, in Manna’s account.
• brian bean — Co-editor of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, printed in lower case, co-author of its Introduction and Conclusion.
• Chaim Weizmann — Zionist leader who stated the complete similarity of Zionist and British interests in Palestine.
• Charles Orde Wingate — British officer sent to Haifa in 1937 to form the nuclei of Zionist striking forces.
• Constantine Zurayk — Author of Ma’na al-Nakba (late summer 1948), who coined the term al-Nakba for the Arab defeat in Palestine, in Manna’s account.
• Daniel P. Moynihan — U.S. Ambassador who vetoed the January 22, 1976 Security Council resolution on Palestinian self-determination the PLO had supported, in Said’s account.
• Daoud Kuttab — Palestinian writer whose ten-hour Ministry of the Interior queue with his daughter Makdisi recounts in “Insides”.
• Daphna Thier — Author of Chapter 4, “Not an Ally: The Israeli Working Class”.
• David Ben-Gurion — Zionist leader of the no alternative mobilisation, and a source on the Haganah’s British-backed training framework.
• Desmond Tutu — South African archbishop emeritus whose praise opens Barghouti’s book and who is quoted throughout its Introduction as a leading international endorser of BDS.
• Edmund Wilson — American man of letters whose Israel diary in Black, Red, Blond and Olive is Said’s second case of liberal identification with Zionism.
• Edward Said — Palestinian author of The Question of Palestine (1979).
• Ehud Barak — Labour prime minister from 1999 who committed to the law barring discussion of return and presented the Camp David plan Arafat refused, in Pappe’s account.
• Ehud Olmert — Prime minister in 2006 whose hitkansut policy Pappe calls the core of Zionism in a different garb: as much land as possible, as few Palestinians as possible.
• Elias Kusa — Haifa attorney for the expelled of al-Khisas and rebutter of the official account of the 1952 ‘Ara shootings, in Manna’s account.
• Elimelech Avnir — Head of the military government whose January 1949 report records 1,038 Galilee villagers expelled in surprise searches, 536 from Majd al-Krum, in Manna’s account.
• Eliyahu Sasson — Consultancy member whose divide-and-rule approach was overruled as the Consultancy moved to comprehensive ethnic cleansing, in Pappe’s account.
• Emile Habibi — Palestinian writer in Haifa and longtime Knesset member, whose ironic epistolary novel Said sets beside Kanafani’s work.
• Emile Tuma — Al-Ittihad editor and leading League opponent of partition, imprisoned in Lebanon and excluded from leadership until the early 1960s, in Manna’s account.
• Eyal Weizman — Writer on the architecture of occupation cited by Makdisi on the road system.
• Ezra Danin — The man who from 1943 systematised the Village Files with a new level of efficiency and supervised its informant network, and who, Pappe writes, would play a leading role in the ethnic cleansing.
• Fakhri Jaday — Jaffa pharmacologist who returned from Beirut by family reunification in 1950 and testified to the elite’s departure, in Manna’s account.
• Farid Haddad — Palestinian doctor memorialised in Said’s dedication, tortured to death in prison in 1961.
• Fauzi al-Qawuqji — The most prominent of the outside nationalist officers who entered Palestine in 1936 and declared himself commander in chief.
• Fayez Sayegh — Palestinian intellectual and diplomat (1922-1980), author of Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965), founder of the PLO Research Center, and presenter of Resolution 3379 in 1975.
• Folke Bernadotte — UN mediator who demanded the unconditional return of all the refugees and was murdered in September 1948; Resolution 194 is his posthumous legacy, in Pappe’s account.
• Fu’ad Nassar — League secretary who led its pro-partition turn, met Mapam’s Aharon Cohen, and edited the leaflet to Arab soldiers, in Manna’s account.
• General Eytan — Israeli chief of staff quoted by Said from Yediot Aharonot, January 19, 1979, on the Arabs of the Galilee as engaged in a process of conquest.
• General Gur — Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, whose May 1978 Al-Hamishmar interview on the invasion of Lebanon Said quotes in his Introduction.
• George Antonius — Author of The Arab Awakening, cited by Sayegh for the 1919 documents and named by Said as the finest Arab study of the struggle for independence.
• George Ball — Establishment figure whose New York Times Op-Ed of April 1, 1979, Said takes to be making the point that serious discussion of the Palestinians is always postponed.
• George Eliot — English novelist whose Daniel Deronda (1876) Said reads as an assenting Gentile legitimation of Zionism that takes no account of Palestine’s inhabitants.
• George Habash — Physician in Lydd’s hospital during its July 1948 massacre, whose experiences there drove him to guerrilla warfare and to found the PFLP, in Pappe’s account.
• George Hanna — Lebanese socialist writer whose November 1948 book frankly named Russia’s imperial interest in endorsing partition, in Manna’s account.
• Ghassan Kanafani — Palestinian writer and PFLP spokesman (1936-1972), author of the essay and the story in the first source.
• Golda Meir — Senior Zionist leader who visited Haifa’s emptied homes in April 1948 and met King Abdullah in Amman on 13 May 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Haidar Eid — Co-author with Barghouti of Chapter 8 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, the open letter to Nadine Gordimer, in Barghouti’s book.
• Haim Orbach — Western Galilee intelligence officer who negotiated Majd al-Krum’s surrender and twice intervened to stop killings there, in Manna’s account.
• Hal Draper — American socialist whose “socialism from below” names the editors’ socialism in Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
• Hana Shalabi — Hunger striker who followed Adnan, whose forty-three-day strike ended in three years’ coercive exile to Gaza.
• Hanna Naqqara — Lawyer who returned to Haifa by plane on 10 August 1948 and became a pillar of Maki’s defence of survivors’ rights, in Manna’s account.
• Hannah Arendt — Writer quoted by Said on the solution of the Jewish question producing a new category of refugees, the Arabs.
• Harold H. Saunders — Assistant Secretary of State whose June 12, 1978 testimony Said calls the clearest statement of current U.S. policy, organized around peace and moderation.
• Herbert Samuel — The Zionist Jew, in Sayegh’s wording, appointed by Britain as its first High Commissioner in Palestine.
• Hillel Cohen — Israeli researcher on the Arabs in Israel, author of a study of the present absentees and a book on Arab collaborators under military rule, in Manna’s survey.
• Hind al-Husseini — Jerusalemite who founded Dar al-Tifel al-Arabi in 1948 for the children orphaned at Deir Yassin and thousands more.
• Hugh Stockwell — British commander of the Northern Sector who removed the Haifa buffer and advised its Palestinian leaders to leave, in Pappe’s account.
• Ibrahim Abu-Lughod — Palestinian thinker whose analysis (accommodation, rejection, then revolution and hope) Said presents as the best overview of the Palestinian segments together.
• Ibrahim Tuqan — Nationalist poet who exposed the land-selling leadership in verse from 1929.
• Ilan Pappe — Israeli historian, one of the ‘new historians’ of the 1980s, whose The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine accuses the Zionist leadership of his own society of a planned ethnic cleansing, as his own J’Accuse.
• Ilhan Omar — Minnesota congresswoman treated as the most visible face of Black solidarity with Palestine and an early BDS endorser in Congress.
• Ismail Haniyah — Gaza-based Hamas leader named as head of its political bureau who backed the Syrian people’s Intifada in early 2012.
• Israel Koenig — Northern district commissioner whose secret 1976 Koenig Report on handling the Arabs in Israel Said quotes at length.
• Israel Shahak — Israeli professor quoted by Said for the reckoning of almost four hundred Arab villages destroyed completely.
• Israel Zangwill — Zionist writer who formulated the slogan of a land without people, for a people without land, in Said’s account.
• Issar Harel — The colonel who supervised the intelligence officers’ operations in 1948, later the first person to head the Mossad and the Shabak.
• Izz al-Din al-Qassam — Syrian-born organiser in Haifa whose November 1935 movement Kanafani treats as the revolt’s real start.
• Jabr Ma’di — Druze leader of Yarka whose 1948 help to villagers made him an electoral asset of al-Zu’bi’s slate in the 1950s, in Manna’s account.
• Jacqueline Sfeir — Co-author with Barghouti of Chapter 9 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, on UNESCO’s double standards over the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization, in Barghouti’s book.
• Jawaher Abu Rahmah — Palestinian woman who died from tear-gas inhalation on the first day of 2011 as a spectator at a Bil’in demonstration, in Falk’s wall-protests post.
• Jehad Abusalim — Author of Chapter 6, “Palestine in Tahrir”, in Awad & bean’s Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, applying Kanafani’s three-enemies framework to the Arab uprisings.
• Jibra’il Bishara — Tarshiha communist memoirist whose memoirs record Tarshiha’s return, census and January 1949 expulsion, in Manna’s account.
• Jimmy Carter — President of the United States, first president to speak seriously of the Palestinian people, who signed the Egyptian-Israeli treaty on March 26, 1979, in Said’s account.
• Joe Levin — Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder whose 2017 keynote on alt-right campus recruiting is excerpted in Stern’s Appendix C.
• John Dugard — Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, quoted and cited in Makdisi’s book.
• John Glubb — The Arab Legion’s British commander-in-chief, who dubbed the 1948 war the ‘Phony War’, in Pappe’s account.
• John Mearsheimer — The expert on the Israel lobby in the United States whom Barghouti quotes on diverging United States and Israeli interests and on the difficulty of defending an apartheid state in the liberal West.
• Joseph Weitz — Director of the Jewish National Land Fund from 1932, whose 1940 diary entry for transfer of all the Arabs Said quotes as the voice of the Zionist consensus.
• Kenneth S. Stern — Lawyer, Rosenberg Foundation executive director and AJC antisemitism expert (1989-2014) who was lead drafter of the EUMC working definition and testified against its campus codification in 2017.
• Khader Adnan — West Bank baker whose sixty-six-day hunger strike against administrative detention in early 2012 opens Falk’s Prison Resistance cluster.
• Khaled Mashaal — Hamas leader whose December 2012 Gaza rally speech Falk weighs against his interview record of readiness for a long-term hudna and peaceful means.
• Khalil Tuma ‘Abbud — Al-Rama law student who returned to Haifa in 1952 as a “new immigrant” aboard a Libyan Jewish emigration ship, in Manna’s account.
• Khury Petersen-Smith — Author of Chapter 9, “Cops Here, Bombs There”, on Black–Palestinian solidarity in Awad & bean’s Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
• Laila el-Haddad — Palestinian writer whose attempt to enter Gaza through Rafah from Egypt, with her parents and two-year-old son, is told in Makdisi’s “Outside In” as the reverse of el-Farra’s exit.
• Lee Bollinger — Columbia University president whose 2007 statement against the UCU boycott is printed in full in Stern’s Appendix B.
• Linah Alsaafin — Palestinian writer whose essay on the obsession with non-violence Falk engages and largely accepts in his solidarity post.
• Lisa Taraki — Co-author with Barghouti of Chapter 6 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, on the British academic boycott, in Barghouti’s book.
• Mahmoud Abbas — Arafat’s fellow Oslo negotiator and successor as Israel’s Palestinian partner after 2005, in Makdisi’s account.
• Mahmoud Darwish — Palestinian poet of Identity Card, the poem Said calls the closest thing to a Palestinian national poem.
• Mahmoud Sarsak — Palestine National Football Team member held as an “unlawful combatant” whose hunger strike continued after the May 2012 settlement.
• Malcolm X — Black American leader whose anticolonial writings on Palestine, including “Zionist Logic” (1964), are treated in Petersen-Smith’s chapter.
• Mano Friedman — Minorities ministry representative in Safad who helped spare Jish yet delivered Kufr Bir’im’s evacuation order a week after counting its people, in Manna’s account.
• Marc Lamont Hill — Black academic fired by CNN the day after his November 28, 2018 UN speech for Palestinian solidarity.
• Martin Indyk — United States special envoy appointed by Kerry in July 2013; Falk treats the appointment as proof the mediation framework is partisan.
• Martin Luther King — Civil rights leader whose “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and presence at Ghana’s independence exemplify Black internationalism.
• Marwan Barghouti — Imprisoned Fatah leader whose two-state terms (1967 borders, East Jerusalem capital, full Resolution 194, all settlements removed) Falk contrasts with the American conception.
• Mas’ad Qassis — Catholic notable of Mi’lya brought back from Lebanon by Bishop Hakim into the Knesset in 1951, whose refusal to yield his seat in 1956 showed the bishop’s grip on the Democratic list, in Manna’s account.
• Maxime Rodinson — Writer quoted by Said tying Zionist indifference to the natives to European supremacy, and the imperialist connection to Palestine being inhabited by another people.
• Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta — Interviewer of Barghouti in Chapter 16 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, whose Refusing to Be Enemies interviewees all endorsed some form of BDS.
• Menachem Begin — Israeli premier from May 1977, former Irgun head, whose admitted Deir Yassin terrorism Said presents as transmuted into statesmanship by the liberal consensus.
• Meron Benvenisti — Former deputy mayor of Jerusalem quoted by Makdisi: the post-1967 boundaries incorporated “a maximum of vacant space with a minimum of Arabs”.
• Michael Ben-Yair — Former Israeli attorney general quoted by Barghouti (2002) describing Israel as a colonial society that established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories.
• Michel Mitri — Jaffa Arab workers’ federation president assassinated by the Mufti’s group in the early 1930s.
• Michelle Alexander — Author of The New Jim Crow whose 2019 column “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine” declared “my conscience leaves me no choice”.
• Mohamed Morsi — Egyptian president who brokered the November 2012 Gaza ceasefire, in Falk’s assessment the key diplomatic figure of that ceasefire.
• Mohammad Jalud — Izbat Jalud farmer cut off from his plot by the wall in 2003 and caught in the seam-zone gate-assignment trap of 2004–2005, in Makdisi’s account.
• Mona el-Farra — Gaza doctor whose February 2007 exit attempts through Erez and Allenby Bridge, rescued only by Irish embassy intervention, open Makdisi’s “Outside In”.
• Mordechai Maklef — Carmeli Brigade operations officer who orchestrated the cleansing of Haifa with orders to kill any Arab encountered, later Israeli Chief of Staff, in Pappe’s account.
• Moses Hess — Early Zionist idealist whose Rome and Jerusalem (1862) shares Eliot’s language of restoration, French patronage and civilising mediation.
• Moshe Carmel — Northern front commander who ordered Nazareth’s expulsion in July 1948 and, on 31 October 1948, ordered his units to purify the occupied Galilee and help its residents leave, in Manna’s account.
• Moshe Dayan — Israeli leader whose April 1969 remarks state that Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages that are not there either.
• Moshe Kalman — Palmach deputy battalion commander who led the Sa’sa attack of 14–15 February 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Moshe Machover — Israeli-British academic and activist quoted by Barghouti against the symmetric “peace activists” image of the conflict, in Barghouti’s book.
• Moshe Sharett — Ben-Gurion’s second-in-command and the Jewish community’s ‘foreign minister’, who in a 1938 lecture himself described a land purchase accompanied by ‘transfer of population’.
• Mostafa Omar — Author of Chapter 3, “The National Liberation Struggle: A Socialist Analysis” (originally 2002).
• Muhammad Abu al-Hayja — Civil engineer of Ayn Hawd al-Jadida and founder of the Association of Forty, testifying in Makdisi’s account to life in an unrecognized village within earshot of Ein Hod.
• Muhammad Dahlan — Fateh figure whose U.S.- and Israeli-armed Gaza militia was used to destabilize the Hamas government until Hamas’s June 2007 crackdown, in Makdisi’s account.
• Muhammad Haydar (Abu Jamil) — Majd al-Krum diarist known as Abu Jamil, whose 1950–51 diaries Manna uses as a documentary source for the village, in Manna’s account.
• Muhammad Nimr al-Hawwari — Lawyer and al-Najjada founder who returned to Nazareth with Israel’s consent and wrote an indictment of the mufti, the Arab states and the Arab Rescue Army, in Manna’s review.
• Muhammad Nimr ‘Awda — Mandate communist expelled from the party in 1940 for “nationalist deviation,” accused by al-Ittihad of recruiting emigrants to Libya, in Manna’s account.
• Musa al-‘Alami — Jerusalem attorney whose The Lesson of Palestine assigned primary responsibility to Britain and first sketched the war’s two-stage division, in Manna’s account.
• Nada Elia — Author of Chapter 8, “Multiple Jeopardy”, on gender and liberation in Palestine in Awad & bean’s Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
• Nadine Gordimer — South African Nobel laureate and anti-apartheid writer addressed in Barghouti and Eid’s open letter for attending a government-sponsored Israeli writers’ festival, in Barghouti’s account.
• Nagib Mahfouz — The leading Arab novelist, who made the Palestinian emergence the climax of his 1973 novel Love in the Rain, in Said’s account.
• Nawal El Saadawi — Egyptian feminist who refused Betty Friedan’s attempt to censor Palestine from her 1985 Nairobi conference speech.
• Nelson Mandela — South African anti-apartheid leader whose refusal to renounce armed struggle, solidarity with Palestine and inspiration for Barghouti’s prison letter Falk takes as the model for the legitimacy struggle.
• Nur Masalha — Scholar whose Expulsion of the Palestinians shows, in Pappe’s recap, how deeply rooted the concept of transfer was in Zionist political thought.
• Nuri al-Said — Iraqi statesman who mediated in 1936 and spoke at London in 1939 as a declared friend of Britain.
• Omar Barghouti — Author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (2011), who advocates a unitary secular democratic state on a track separate from the BDS movement itself, in his account.
• Paulo Freire — Brazilian educator whose Pedagogy of the Oppressed supplies Barghouti’s Introduction epigraph and the Conclusion’s opening quotation on praxis.
• Rachel Corrie — American peace activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah, remembered by Falk in his 2012 Cairo speech as a witness the world system failed.
• Raghib al-Nashashibi — Head of the National Defence Party and the leading figure of the leadership’s right wing.
• Raji Sourani — Palestinian human rights lawyer of the Palestine Center of Human Rights, singled out by Falk in his Acknowledgments among those who influenced his views and touched his heart.
• Rashid Hussein — Palestinian poet memorialised in Said’s dedication, who left Israel in 1966 and died in the United States in 1977.
• Rashid Khalidi — Scholar whose Brokers of Deceit (2013) Falk cites as the authoritative documentation of U.S. partisanship as mediator.
• Rashida Tlaib — Palestinian American congresswoman, with Ilhan Omar one of the first sitting House members to endorse BDS.
• Rasmea Odeh — Former Palestinian political prisoner whose torture, forced confession and later deportation from the US are recounted in Elia’s chapter.
• Razan Najjar — Paramedic shot by an Israeli sniper on June 1, 2018 while tending wounded Great March of Return protesters in Gaza.
• Reinhold Niebuhr — American theologian, Said’s first case of liberal identification with Zionism, for his 1947 partition letter and 1946 Spectator article.
• Remi Kanazi — Author of the Afterword, “It’s Time to Move”, in Awad & bean’s Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
• Richard Falk — Author of Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope and UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine, March 2008-March 2014, whose stance is that of a “truthful observer and a progressive interpreter”.
• Richard Goldstone — Justice who chaired the U.N. fact-finding mission on the 2008-2009 Gaza war, in Makdisi’s Epilogue account.
• Ronnie Kasrils — Former South African cabinet minister and ANC leader whose praise opens Barghouti’s book and whose Guardian writing is quoted against the economic-unfeasibility argument against boycotting Israel.
• Rustum Bastuni — Mapam MK from Haifa, a 1949 returnee and al-Mirsad editor dropped by his party after criticising its Zionist contradictions, in Manna’s account.
• Sabri Jiryis — Author of The Arabs in Israel, invoked by Said on the Emergency Defense Regulations’ abuses.
• Sa’id Salih al-Asadi — Sha’b fighter (1918–1997) who lived in Ayn al-Hilwa yet returned to Galilee dozens of times to meet his wife in a cave, in Manna’s account.
• Salam Fayyad — Prime minister appointed by Abbas in June 2007 after the unity government’s dissolution, whose list had won barely 2 percent in 2006, in Makdisi’s account.
• Saliba Khamis — Nazareth League leader who offered cooperation to Shitrit, organised Arab labour under the military governor, and received a pistol and car, in Manna’s account.
• Salman Abu Sitta — Compiler of the Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine (Section V of his The Palestinian Nakba 1948) and author of the Atlas of the Nakbah (2005).
• Sam Bahour — Al-Bireh businessman, born in Ohio, whose family-unification application has been pending since 1994 and who was ordered out in 2006, in Makdisi’s account.
• Sami Taha — Haifa Arab workers’ federation president assassinated by the Mufti’s men on 12 September 1947.
• Samira Aliyan — Jerusalem-born Palestinian whose Jerusalem residency was revoked under the “center of life” regulation when she came to renew her husband’s permit, in Makdisi’s account.
• Saree Makdisi — Author of Palestine Inside Out, a U.S. teacher of English literature and one-state proponent who writes on Palestine from a declared standpoint of justice, not nationalism, in Makdisi’s account.
• Saul Bellow — Novelist whose To Jerusalem and Back rests on an Israeli expert’s representation of the Arabs, in Said’s account.
• Sayf al-Din al-Zu’bi — Nazareth-district broker who had worked with the Jewish National Fund and became a prominent collaborator leader after the city’s occupation, in Manna’s account.
• Shafiq Abu ‘Abdu — Damun Palestinian installed in Sha’b to keep its original inhabitants out, who had earlier intervened to halt the Majd al-Krum massacre, in Manna’s account.
• Shakib Wahhab — Druze battalion leader whose withdrawal at Husha and al-Kasayir under agreement with the Zionist side Manna calls an important Galilee juncture.
• Shira Robinson — Researcher combining Israeli archives, Arab sources and eyewitness interviews on the Palestinian minority after 1948, in Manna’s survey.
• Shireen Akram-Boshar — Author of Chapter 2, “How Israel Became the Watchdog State”.
• Shmuel Mikunis — Israeli Communist Party secretary in the interim government who travelled with Habibi to Belgrade and Prague and led the Jewish side of the Maki merger, in Manna’s account.
• Shulamit Aloni — Former Israeli education minister quoted by Barghouti stating Israel is no different from racist South Africa.
• Simcha Flapan — Historian Pappe quotes among the first to note Plan Dalet’s significance, and on how the Jewish leadership would itself have rejected the UNSCOP map had the Palestinians accepted it.
• Subhi al-Ayyubi — Jaffa attorney expelled from Jaffa to his Jaljuliyya plantation by military order, rejected by the Supreme Court in 1950, who emigrated to Libya, in Manna’s account.
• Sumaya Awad — Co-editor of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction and co-author of its Introduction and of Chapter 1 on the Nakba.
• Sylvain Lévi — French Orientalist who spoke for the Zionist delegation in 1919 and conceded incoming Jews would tend to dispossess Palestine’s Arabs.
• Tawfiq Tubi — Arab communist leader who co-led the League into Maki, coordinated in Haifa during its fall, and became a Knesset member in 1949, in Manna’s account.
• Tawfiq Zayyad — Palestinian poet of the remnant community whose Baqun (We Shall Remain) expresses staying on the land.
• Teddy Kollek — Mayor of Jerusalem quoted by Makdisi on the 1978 Master Plan’s demographic purpose and, after leaving office, on East Jerusalem’s sewerage being installed for fear of cholera.
• Theodor Herzl — Quoted in the essay from his Selected Works on seizing land and evacuating the poor inhabitants.
• Tom Segev — Israeli historian/journalist whose 1949: The First Israelis exposed repression of the remainers and whose Gate of the Sun review Manna attacks, in Manna’s account.
• Toufic Haddad — Author of Chapter 5, “The Price of ‘Peace’ on Their Terms”.
• Uri Avnery — Israeli writer and peace activist quoted by Barghouti warning of fascism, and criticized for his quota proposal on refugee return, in Barghouti’s book.
• Vladimir Jabotinsky — Revisionist Zionist whose 1923 essay “The Iron Wall” Makdisi quotes as the open early statement of colonisation against the native population’s will.
• Wadi al-Bustani — Lebanese-born poet in Palestine who first warned against the Balfour Declaration and replied to al-Risafi in verse.
• Yasir Arafat — Leader of Fateh and the PLO, the first Palestinian leader to grasp all the major factors affecting the Palestinians and to hold sway over the detail of Palestinian life, in Said’s account.
• Yehoshafat Harkabi — Israeli chief of military intelligence and Arabist whose Arab Attitudes to Israel Said calls canonical, whose 1967 Position of Israel supplies Chapter Three’s cultural-superiority passage, and whom Said’s notes call the principal propagandist in Israel against everything Arab and especially Palestinian.
• Yehoshua Palmon — Ezra Danin’s second-in-command, who in Pappe’s account took a personal interest in the post-occupation selection, interrogation and sometimes execution procedures.
• Yigael Yadin — Top-ranking officer in the Consultancy who recalled that the Village Files knowledge let the command conclude in November 1947 that the Palestine Arabs had nobody to organise them properly.
• Yigal Allon — A military member of the Consultancy, named by Pappe among the figures well grounded in the local ethos who joined its top-ranking officers and ‘Orientalists’.
• Yitzhak Rabin — A regional commander of the 1948 operations who operated in Lydd and Ramla and in the Greater Jerusalem area, in Pappe’s list of the perpetrators.
• Yitzhak Sadeh — Chief of the Palmach and a military member of the Consultancy; his wife Margot ran the Village Files project’s secret film laboratory in her house.
• Yossef Nachmani — Joseph Weitz’s most trusted colleague, who shared his view that taking all Arab land was a ‘sacred duty’ requiring a war of occupation, in Pappe’s account.
• Zeev Schiff — Israeli journalist whose Ha’aretz articles of January 14 and 16, 1979, Said quotes at length on Israeli security control under the Camp David autonomy.