Index: People, S

• S. Yizhar — Writer and Mapai MK whose story Khirbet Khizeh is quoted as the sharpest literary protest against the 1948 expulsions.
• Sabri Jiryis — Author of The Arabs in Israel, invoked by Said on the Emergency Defense Regulations’ abuses.
• Saddam Hussein — Iraqi ruler whose regime’s falsified infant-mortality data and Oil-for-Food gains form Chapter 6’s case study.
• Sai Englert — Co-editor of From the River to the Sea (2023) and co-author of its Chapter 18, “The enemy trinity”.
• Sa’id Salih al-Asadi — Sha’b fighter (1918–1997) who lived in Ayn al-Hilwa yet returned to Galilee dozens of times to meet his wife in a cave, in Manna’s account.
• Salam Fayyad — Prime minister appointed by Abbas in June 2007 after the unity government’s dissolution, whose list had won barely 2 percent in 2006, in Makdisi’s account.
• Salem Al Qudwa — Gaza architect in Light in Gaza arguing for the architecture of the everyday and “permanence as resistance” in housing reconstruction.
• Saliba Khamis — Nazareth League leader who offered cooperation to Shitrit, organised Arab labour under the military governor, and received a pistol and car, in Manna’s account.
• Salman Abu Sitta — Compiler of the Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine (Section V of his The Palestinian Nakba 1948) and author of the Atlas of the Nakbah (2005).
• Sam Bahour — Al-Bireh businessman, born in Ohio, whose family-unification application has been pending since 1994 and who was ordered out in 2006, in Makdisi’s account.
• Sam Cohen — Owner of Ha Note’a Ltd who made the first overtures to Nazi Germany in 1933 and signed the one-million-Reichmark agreement from which the Ha’avara grew.
• Samar Saeed — Author of “Ink, gas and water” in From the River to the Sea, on Jordanian mobilization against the Wadi Araba Treaty and the gas deal.
• Samera Esmeir — Author of “The end of colonial government” in From the River to the Sea, on the desire not to govern Palestinians.
• Sami Taha — Haifa Arab workers’ federation president assassinated by the Mufti’s men on 12 September 1947.
• Samira Aliyan — Jerusalem-born Palestinian whose Jerusalem residency was revoked under the “center of life” regulation when she came to renew her husband’s permit, in Makdisi’s account.
• Sammy Smooha — Sociologist of Israel’s communal and ethnic cleavages whose work is the chief source for Dowty’s Chapter 7 on the Ashkenazi-Sephardi split.
• Sara Besaiso — Gaza youth witness in From the River to the Sea whose neighbourhood was bombed with white phosphorus and who was evacuated three times.
• Sarah Zaidi — Researcher whose 1995 FAO Iraq infant-mortality survey and 1997 correction are Chapter 6’s central case in Debunking the Genocide Allegations.
• Saree Makdisi — Author of Palestine Inside Out, a U.S. teacher of English literature and one-state proponent who writes on Palestine from a declared standpoint of justice, not nationalism, in Makdisi’s account.
• Saul Bellow — Novelist whose To Jerusalem and Back rests on an Israeli expert’s representation of the Arabs, in Said’s account.
• Sayf al-Din al-Zu’bi — Nazareth-district broker who had worked with the Jewish National Fund and became a prominent collaborator leader after the city’s occupation, in Manna’s account.
• Shafiq Abu ‘Abdu — Damun Palestinian installed in Sha’b to keep its original inhabitants out, who had earlier intervened to halt the Majd al-Krum massacre, in Manna’s account.
• Shahd Abusalama — Author of “Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Permanent Temporality” in Light in Gaza, on exile, prisons and humanitarianism.
• Shakib Wahhab — Druze battalion leader whose withdrawal at Husha and al-Kasayir under agreement with the Zionist side Manna calls an important Galilee juncture.
• Shimon Peres — Ben-Gurion’s 1956 envoy to France who, in the 1999 introduction to Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, denied the Sèvres collaboration for 30 years before celebrating it in 1986.
• Shira Robinson — Researcher combining Israeli archives, Arab sources and eyewitness interviews on the Palestinian minority after 1948, in Manna’s survey.
• Shireen Akram-Boshar — Author of Chapter 2, “How Israel Became the Watchdog State”.
• Shlomo Aviner — One of Gush Emunim’s most prolific ideologues, author of “Messianic Realism”, on the theonomous scale of values and instinctual gentile enmity, in Lustick’s account.
• Shlomo Goren — Former Army Chief Rabbi and Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi who, in Lustick’s Chapter 6, led the halachic move to eliminate restrictions on Jewish entry onto the Temple Mount.
• Shlomo Shmelzman — Holocaust survivor and citizen of Israel whose hunger-strike letter against the bombing of West Beirut in August 1982 opens Rose’s Lebanon chapter.
• Shmuel Mikunis — Israeli Communist Party secretary in the interim government who travelled with Habibi to Belgrade and Prague and led the Jewish side of the Maki merger, in Manna’s account.
• Shmuel Shnitzer — Maariv writer whose “Peace with Nasserism?” (1958) states the irrational-hatred doctrine and the higher-culture argument.
• Shmuel Tamir — Gruenvald’s lawyer in the Kasztner trial, who turned the defense into an indictment of MAPAI and the Yishuv leadership, in Lahav’s account.
• Shulamit Aloni — Former Israeli education minister quoted by Barghouti stating Israel is no different from racist South Africa.
• Simcha Flapan — Historian Pappe quotes among the first to note Plan Dalet’s significance, and on how the Jewish leadership would itself have rejected the UNSCOP map had the Palestinians accepted it.
• Simon Agranat — Chicago-born justice of Israel’s Supreme Court (1948–1976) whose Kol ha-Am and Mandelbrot opinions founded liberal, progressive jurisprudence in Israel, in Lahav’s biography.
• Soheir Asaad — Haifa-based Palestinian interviewed in From the River to the Sea on ‘48 silence after the Unity Intifada and building a liberation infrastructure.
• Spencer Ackerman — Author of “What the rules allow” in From the River to the Sea, on the rules-based international order as American exceptionalism.
• Stephen Wise — Leading American Zionist rabbi and American Jewish Congress head who first held back the anti-Nazi boycott, then denounced the Ha’avara as the Golden Orange, and finally endorsed it at Lucerne in 1935.
• Subhi al-Ayyubi — Jaffa attorney expelled from Jaffa to his Jaljuliyya plantation by military order, rejected by the Supreme Court in 1950, who emigrated to Libya, in Manna’s account.
• Suhail Taha — Author in Light in Gaza on Gaza’s fifteen-year electricity crisis as a political condition.
• Sumaya Awad — Co-editor of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction and co-author of its Introduction and of Chapter 1 on the Nakba.
• Sylvain Lévi — French Orientalist who spoke for the Zionist delegation in 1919 and conceded incoming Jews would tend to dispossess Palestine’s Arabs.