Index: People, B

• 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.
• Basman Aldirawi — Gaza-based poet contributing poems and “Gaza 2050: Three Scenarios” to Light in Gaza.
• 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.
• Beni Katzover — Gush Emunim pioneering-elite leader and vanguardist in Lustick, who endorsed collective punishment and a return to the Sebastia system of struggle.
• Benito Mussolini — Founder of Italian Fascism, courted and lionised by Zionist leaders after his mid-1920s turn to pro-Zionism, in Brenner’s account.
• Benjamin Halevy — Jerusalem district judge who held Kasztner “had sold his soul to Satan” and sat on the Eichmann trial panel, in Lahav’s account.
• Benjamin Netanyahu — Israeli prime minister whose June 2009 speech, in Makdisi’s Epilogue, casts Palestinians as a mere “population” in the Jewish Homeland.
• Benjamin Shalit — Secular officer whose Who Is a Jew petition sought Jewish nationality registration for his children by a non-Jewish wife, in Lahav’s account.
• 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.
• Brigadier Clayton — British brigadier, liaison between the Foreign Office and the Arab League, presented in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace as the planner of the 1948 Arab invasion of Palestine.