Index: Sources, S

• Orientalism (1978) — 1978. Edward W. Said, Orientalism: Orientalism in its three senses — academic discipline, East/West style of thought, and corporate institution for dominating the Orient — as a discourse held by hegemony; read in full (PDF p.1-378 of 378), including Balfour and Cromer, Sacy and Renan, Lane and the pilgrims, the latent/manifest distinction, Massignon and Gibb, the American latest phase and the four dogmas, the complete Notes and the Index.
• The Question of Palestine — Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine (1979): a Palestinian political essay for the American reader — the Palestinian experience of Zionism, the denial and reconstitution of Arab Palestine, the Balfour Declaration against the demographic facts, the liberal West’s hegemonic identification with Zionism and its representation of the Palestinians, Zionism from the standpoint of its victims, the PLO’s rise, and the Palestinian question after Camp David, with full Chapter Notes and Index. Read in full, PDF p.1-291 of 291.
• Culture and Imperialism — 1993. Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism: the expansion of Orientalism to the general relationship between culture and empire — imperial culture and the resistance it left out, contrapuntal readings of the novel, opera and poetry, and the closing account of American ascendancy, orthodoxy and migration; read in full (PDF p.1-407 of 407).
• Reflections on Exile and Other Essays — 2000. Edward W. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays: forty-six essays over thirty-five years framed by an Introduction on criticism and exile, closing with the lost-cause and between-worlds essays and the unpublished answer to Huntington’s clash of civilizations; read in full (PDF p.1-574 of 574).
• Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine — Omar Jabary Salamanca, Mezna Qato, Kareem Rabie and Sobhi Samour, “Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine”, Editors’ Introduction to Settler Colonial Studies 2, 1 (2012): the special issue’s programme — land as a zero-sum contest at Zionism’s centre, transfer as standing policy and discourse, the Nakba as continuing structure not singular event, the disuse of settler colonial analysis and the critique of occupation studies organised around the Green Line, and decolonisation restored as the imperative goal. Read in full, PDF p.1-8 of 8.
• Zionist Colonialism in Palestine — Fayez A. Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965), excerpts in Settler Colonial Studies 2, 1 (2012): Zionist colonisation as a distinctive settler colonialism, its 1917 alliance with British imperialism, the settler-state’s racism, violence and expansion, and the five-stage Palestinian response.
• Resolution 242 (1967) (22 November 1967) — 1967-11-22. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 242 (1967): inadmissibility of acquisition of territory by war, withdrawal from territories occupied in the recent conflict paired with termination of belligerency and secure and recognized boundaries, a just settlement of the refugee problem, and a Special Representative.
• Resolution 252 (1968) on measures to change the status of Jerusalem (21 May 1968) — 1968-05-21. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 252 (1968): Israel’s legislative and administrative measures tending to change Jerusalem’s legal status are invalid and cannot change it; rescission urgently called for.
• Resolution 338 (1973) (22 October 1973) — 1973-10-22. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 338 (1973): cease-fire in place within 12 hours, implementation of Resolution 242 in all its parts, and immediate negotiations under appropriate auspices.
• Resolution 446 (1979): Israeli settlements (22 March 1979) — 1979-03-22. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 446 (1979): determines Israeli settlements have no legal validity and establishes a three-member Commission on settlements.
• Resolution 465 (1980): Israeli settlements (1 March 1980) — 1980-03-01. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 465 (1980): accepts the settlements Commission’s conclusions, determines Israel’s change-measures a flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention, and calls for existing settlements to be dismantled.
• Resolution 476 (1980): Jerusalem (30 June 1980) — 1980-06-30. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 476 (1980): reconfirms Israeli measures purporting to alter Jerusalem’s character and status have no legal validity and are null and void.
• Resolution 478 (1980): The Basic Law on Jerusalem (20 August 1980) — 1980-08-20. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 478 (1980): censures the Basic Law on Jerusalem, determines it null and void, decides non-recognition and calls for diplomatic missions at Jerusalem to be withdrawn.
• Resolution 1397 (2002) (12 March 2002) — 2002-03-12. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 1397 (2002): affirming a vision of two States, Israel and Palestine, side by side within secure and recognized borders, demanding an immediate cessation of all acts of violence, and calling for implementation of the Tenet work plan and Mitchell Report recommendations.
• Resolution 1515 (2003) endorsing the Quartet Roadmap (19 November 2003) — 2003-11-19. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 1515 (2003): endorsing the Quartet Roadmap (S/2003/529), reaffirming the two-State vision of Resolution 1397 and calling on the parties to fulfil their Roadmap obligations in cooperation with the Quartet.
• Resolution 1860 (2009) on Gaza (8 January 2009) — 2009-01-08 — Resolution 1860 calling for an immediate, durable ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and unimpeded humanitarian assistance.
• Resolution 2334 (2016) on Israeli settlements (23 December 2016) — 2016-12-23 — Resolution 2334 reaffirming settlements have no legal validity and constitute a flagrant violation, demanding complete cessation and calling on States to distinguish.
• A Textbook Case of Genocide — Raz Segal, A Textbook Case of Genocide (Jewish Currents, Oct 13, 2023): Analysis article arguing Israel’s assault on Gaza is a textbook case of genocide, its intent proclaimed in Gallant’s complete-siege order and three of the Genocide Convention’s five acts being perpetrated. Read in full, lines 1-182 of 182.
• 3D Test of Anti-Semitism: Demonization, Double Standards, Delegitimization — 2004-10-21. Natan Sharansky, 3D Test of Anti-Semitism: Demonization, Double Standards, Delegitimization (Jewish Political Studies Review 16:3-4, Fall 2004; Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs): the originating statement of the “new anti-Semitism” aimed at the Jewish state and of the 3D test — demonization, double standards, delegitimization — for distinguishing it from legitimate criticism of Israel, closing with a prescribed policy of linkage against states that support anti-Semitism. Read in full: lines 1-634 of 634.
• Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects — Magid Shihade, Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects (2012): the Settler Colonial Studies 2, 1 essay arguing that communal conflict among the 1948 Palestinians is produced by the settler colonial state’s racialisation of religious communities and its policing, through the 1981 Kafr Yassif case and the Al-Maghar and Deit Jarir cases. Read in full, PDF p.1-16 of 16 (printed p.108-123).
• Disproportionate Force: Israel’s Concept of Response in Light of the Second Lebanon War — 2008-10-02. Gabi Siboni, Disproportionate Force: Israel’s Concept of Response in Light of the Second Lebanon War (INSS Insight No. 74, Institute for National Security Studies): a policy article prescribing a disproportionate strike against the enemy’s weak points as Israel’s primary war effort against rocket and missile threats from Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, with punishment aimed at decision makers, civilian power centers and state infrastructure to impose long reconstruction and create deterrence. Read in full: lines 1-553 of 553.
• Palestine: Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development — 1930-10. Sir John Hope Simpson’s report (Cmd. 3686) on immigration, land settlement and development: no margin of land for new agricultural settlement without intensive development under a Development Commission, and the Labour Schedule to be set by unemployment generally in Palestine.
• Palestinian Right of Return: Sacred, Legal, and Possible — Salman Abu Sitta, Palestinian Right of Return: Sacred, Legal, and Possible (Palestine Return Centre, London, May 1999, second and revised edition): the book-length case, from his 531-locality database (804,767 refugees in 1948; 17,166,831 dunums), that return is sacred, legal under Resolution 194 as return plus compensation and restitution, and feasible on his Areas A/B/C demography (154,000 rural Jews on the refugees’ land), with a Palestine Land Society custody transfer as the practical mechanism. Read in full, lines 1-1864 of 1864.
• The Palestinian Nakba 1948 — The Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine — Salman Abu Sitta, The Palestinian Nakba 1948 — The Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine (Palestine Land Society, London; 1st ed. 1998, 2nd ed. 2025): the Register (Section V of the book) as one 24-column table over 20 sheets — every depopulated locality with its date, 1948 population, land, operation and UNRWA-based refugee figures: 531 fully and 662 partially depopulated localities, 804,465 people, 17,184,463 dunums, 4,940,269 refugees in total estimated for 1998. Read in full, PDF p.1-20 of 20.
• Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge — SNCC Newsletter Vol. I, No. 4 (June-July 1967) — Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), “Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge”, SNCC Newsletter Vol. I, No. 4 (June-July 1967): an eight-page Atlanta newsletter reporting police violence against Black communities in Houston, Atlanta, Prattville and Boston, launching a Third World feature whose first instalment presents thirty-two documented facts on Palestine, and closing with its newly elected officers and programme, its San Francisco office raid and the concluded TSU eyewitness account. Read in full, PDF p.1-8 of 8.
• The Alexandria Protocol (7 October 1944) — 1944-10-07. The Alexandria Protocol: five Arab delegations agree a League of Arab States with an equal-footing Council, cooperation in economic, cultural and social matters, respect for Lebanon in its present frontiers, and a Palestine resolution treating the British pledges on immigration, land and independence as permanent Arab rights.
• Trilateral Statement on the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David (25 July 2000) — 2000-07-25. Clinton, Barak and Arafat, Trilateral Statement on the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David: the July 11-24, 2000 summit closed without agreement, with five guiding principles and no permanent-status terms stated. Read in full, lines 1-93 of 93.
• Arab Peace Initiative and Beirut Declaration (Beirut summit, 27-28 March 2002) — 2002-03-28: The Beirut summit texts (A/56/1026–S/2002/932): the Arab Peace Initiative (resolution 14/221), the other summit resolutions 14/222-242, the Final communiqué paras 1-50, the Beirut Declaration, the Statement on protecting innocent civilians, President Lahoud’s address and the chairmen list.
• Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern (2017) — Kenneth S. Stern, Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern (United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, November 7, 2017): the lead drafter of the EUMC working definition of antisemitism testifies against the proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act, arguing the definition was made for data collectors, not to target or chill campus speech, and that enshrining it in Title VI law would harm academic freedom, Jewish students and faculty. Read in full, PDF p.1-18 of 18.
• Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern (2025) — Kenneth S. Stern, Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern (United States Senate, Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, March 27, 2025): the IHRA definition’s lead drafter testifies against codifying IHRA for campus use and against funding threats against universities without due process, for a funded Office of Civil Rights and for education against binary thinking; Appendix A reproduces his September 17, 2024 Senate Judiciary testimony. Read in full, PDF p.1-43 of 43.
• The Sykes-Picot Agreement — 1916. The Franco-British agreement text: Arab state areas (a) and (b) with French and British priorities, blue and red direct-administration areas, an international administration for the brown area, and Haifa and Acre accorded to Britain.
• Syrian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement — 1949-07-20. Syria and Israel, Syrian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement (S/1353/Rev.1): general armistice, Demarcation Line midway between the certified truce lines delineated in 24 Annex I segments with its map reproduced, Demilitarized Zone between Line and boundary totally excluding both Parties’ forces, twelve-week withdrawal and reduction, defensive forces capped unit by unit in Annex IV with aircraft, naval forces and armour excluded, prisoners exchanged within twenty-four hours, five-member Mixed Armistice Commission at Jisr Banat Ya’qub and Mahanayim, joined letters fixing Samakh stationing.