Index: People, R

• 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.
• Rafael Eitan — Chief of staff until 1983 who integrated settlers into reserve patrol units, founded Tzomet and took the number two place on the Tehiya-Tzomet list, in Lustick’s account.
• 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.
• Rami Abdo — Chairman of EuroMed Monitor, whose hostage, rape-denial and burial-shroud statements Orbach et al. give as that organisation’s disregard for truth.
• Rana Barakat — Palestinian historian, author of “Is the sky crying?” in From the River to the Sea, on memory and the ongoing Nakba.
• Randolph Churchill — Journalist whose The Rise and Fall of Sir Anthony Eden (1959) is Chapter 7’s chief source for the French-Israeli collusion and the Dijon squadrons at Lydda.
• 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.
• Rebecca Ruth Gould — Author of “The war on Gaza and the war on free speech” in From the River to the Sea, on the reprisals against Palestine speech in Europe and North America.
• Reda Abu Assi — Gaza doctor whose testimony in From the River to the Sea describes seven wars of deteriorating medical services and a two-month-old orphan patient from Beit Lahia.
• Reema Saleh — Gaza daughter in exile in Lebanon whose family’s destruction in Jabalia camp she follows by phone, in From the River to the Sea.
• Refaat Alareer — Gaza educator at IUG and editor of Gaza Writes Back, author of the memoir chapter “Gaza Asks: When Shall This Pass?” in Light 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.
• Robert Henriques — Author of 100 Hours to Suez who carried a British Cabinet Minister’s September 1956 message welcoming an Israeli attack on Egypt to Ben-Gurion.
• Roger Marshall — Senator who would support the Antisemitism Awareness Act with an amendment striking the deicide example, which Stern calls an admission the legislation targets expression and belief.
• 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.
• Rosie Warren — Co-editor of From the River to the Sea (2023).
• Rudolf Kasztner — Hungarian Zionist negotiator with Eichmann in 1944 who secured the 1,685-person Bergen-Belsen transport, later a MAPAI spokesman, in Lahav’s account.
• 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.