Index: People, L

• 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.
• Lee Mordechai — Byzantine historian whose Witnessing the Gaza War database compiles the allegations reviewed in Debunking the Genocide Allegations.
• Leila Farsakh — Political scientist at the University of Massachusetts Boston, author of Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel (2005), arguing the occupation’s political economy is colonial through land expropriation and imposed dependency.
• Lenni Brenner — Anti-Zionist Jewish author of Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (1983) and The Iron Wall.
• Levi Eshkol — Finance Minister who called refugee return a “time-bomb” against the State’s existence, in Peace, Peace’s survey of Mapai’s 1961 line.
• 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.
• Louay Odeh — Jerusalem-born prisoner freed in the 2011 Shalit exchange and exiled to Gaza, central to Abusalama’s chapter.
• Louis D. Brandeis — Progressive and Zionist leader and first Jewish US Supreme Court justice, whose formula reconciling American and Zionist loyalty formed Agranat, and who lost the 1921 Split to Weizmann, in Lahav’s account.