Index: People, I

• I. F. Stone — American journalist whose report on the 5 April 1956 Gaza market-square shelling is quoted at length in Peace, Peace.
• Ian S. Lustick — Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, former State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research analyst for Israel-West Bank affairs, and author of For the Land and the Lord (1988).
• 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.
• Israa Mohammed Jamal — Rafah writer and mother, author of “Let Me Dream” in Light in Gaza.
• Israel Barzilai — Mapam minister who opposed the Sinai invasion proposal yet announced full responsibility for it, and restated Mapam’s refugee position in the 1961 Cabinet.
• 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.