Index: Sources, B

• The Balfour Declaration — 1917-11-02. Balfour’s Cabinet-approved letter to Lord Rothschild favouring a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, with the civil and religious rights proviso for existing non-Jewish communities.
• The Balfour Declaration (UNISPAL reproduction) — 1917-11-02. UNISPAL reproduction of the same Balfour letter, headed United Kingdom / Foreign Office, delivered under a San Remo resolution label the file does not contain; wording differs from the Avalon reproduction at the object and an apostrophe after religious.
• The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947 — Lauren Banko, The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947 (Edinburgh University Press, 2016): Palestinian nationality and citizenship were invented under the Mandate through contested British legislation that framed citizenship as legal and apolitical and favoured Jewish immigrants, answered by Arab communitarian citizenship, diaspora claims and citizenship as an active practice through the Revolt. Read in full, PDF p.1-289 of 289 in parts 1-6 of 6.
• Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights — Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket Books, 2011): the Palestinian civil society BDS Call’s programmatic case — a rights-based, nonviolent, Palestinian-led global movement insisting on the three irreducible rights (ending the 1967 occupation, full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and refugee return under Resolution 194) while prescribing no one-state or two-state formula. Read in full, PDF p.1-341 of 341 in parts 1-5 of 5 (front matter and praise, Introduction, Chapters 1-16 in full, the Conclusion, Appendices 1-4 in full, the Notes in full, Acknowledgments/Sources, Index, and back matter including the Copyright Page).
• The Case for Palestinian Nationality — Nadim Bawalsa, The Case for Palestinian Nationality (Al-Shabaka, Sep 29, 2022): policy brief arguing exiled Palestinians hold a right to Palestinian nationality under the Treaty of Lausanne, denied by British and Israeli manipulation of citizenship, and proposing forums, a population registry and a nationality law through the PLO. Read in full, lines 1-428 of 428.
• The Geneva Accord: A Model Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement (Draft Permanent Status Agreement, 1 December 2003) — 2003-12-01. Israeli and Palestinian signatories, The Geneva Accord: A Model Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement: a draft Permanent Status Agreement on the June 4th 1967 lines with reciprocal 1:1 swaps, 30-month withdrawal, a non-militarised Palestine under an IVG and Multinational Force, divided Jerusalem sovereignty, and a five-option refugee settlement with UNRWA phased out in five years. Read in full, PDF p.1-22 of 22.
• Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine — Peter Beinart, Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine (Jewish Currents, July 7, 2020): essay arguing the two-state solution has failed and liberal Zionists should abandon separation for equality, a Jewish home rather than a Jewish state, through confederation or a democratic binational state. Read in full, lines 1-292 of 292.
• The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora — 1998. Joel Beinin, The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (University of California Press, 1998): the Egyptian Jewish community after 1948 — its heterogeneity of rite, origin, class and citizenship, the neo-lachrymose conception and its Arab mirror, Operation Susannah, and the dispersion to Israel, France and the United States — against both the Zionist and Egyptian national narratives. Read in full in 7 parts, lines 1-5066 of 5066 (Introduction, Chapters 2-9, the closing interview with Jacques Hassoun, plates, abbreviations and bibliography).
• Rhetorics of Belonging — Anna Bernard, Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine (Liverpool University Press, 2013): a defence of national allegory as reading and writing practice for Palestinian and Israeli writers in world circulation, centred on the demographic imaginary and citizenship.
• Zionism in the Age of the Dictators: A Reappraisal — Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators: A Reappraisal (Croom Helm / Lawrence Hill, 1983): Zionism’s founding doctrine of accommodation to anti-Semitism, its Blut und Boden race ideology and Negation of the Diaspora, German Zionism in Weimar, the WZO and Italian Fascism, the ZVfD’s 1933 offers to collaborate with Nazism, and the Jewish anti-Nazi boycott and the Ha’avara agreement. Read in full, PDF p.1-68 of 68.