Index: People, J

• 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.
• Jabra Ibrahim Jabra — Bethlehem-born intellectual (1919-1994) quoted on the deliberate labelling of the dislodged as “refugees”.
• Jacob S. Shapiro — Israel’s first attorney general, Agranat’s 1933 bar-examination study partner, who lobbied for his Supreme Court appointment, in Lahav’s account.
• Jacob Talmon — Hebrew University historian whose praise of Ben-Gurion’s vindicated historical vision Peace, Peace rejects.
• 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.
• James McDonald — US envoy in Israel 1948-1951 whose memoir records the Anglo-American ultimatum forcing the Sinai withdrawal and Israel’s privately declared Western orientation.
• Jamie Allinson — Co-author, with Sai Englert, of “The enemy trinity” in From the River to the Sea.
• 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 — Editor of Light in Gaza (2022) and author of its Introduction; also author of Chapter 6, “Palestine in Tahrir”, in Awad & bean’s Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
• Jennifer Bing — Co-editor of Light in Gaza (2022) with Abusalim and Merryman-Lotze.
• Jerrold Nadler — Congressman named among pro-Israel Democrats who opposed the Antisemitism Awareness Act on constitutional and policy grounds.
• 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.
• Joachim Prinz — German Zionist rabbi, the ZVfD’s most strident volkist propagandist in the Third Reich’s first years, who held a Nazi state built on purity of nation and race could respect only Jews who saw themselves the same way.
• 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 Foster Dulles — US Secretary of State whose 1953 tour speech laid down an “impartial” pro-Arab-cultivation policy and who told the Senate in February 1956 the USA never seriously considered a military alliance with Israel.
• John Glubb — The Arab Legion’s British commander-in-chief, who dubbed the 1948 war the ‘Phony War’, in Pappe’s account.
• John Hagerty — American head of the Aid Administration in Israel whose signature controlled spending of the 1949 US loan, called in Peace, Peace “in effect the real finance minister of Israel”.
• 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.
• John Rose — Author of Israel: The Hijack State (1986), the Socialist Workers Party pamphlet arguing Israel is America’s watchdog in the Middle East.
• Jonathan Boxman — Co-author of Debunking the Genocide Allegations (2026), independent scholar and quantitative analyst.
• Jonathan Braverman — Co-author of Debunking the Genocide Allegations (2026), Israeli bar member and IHL lawyer.
• 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.
• Julian Amery — British Conservative MP who at the 1986 Suez anniversary conference called Operation Sinai “Europe’s Waterloo”.