Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012

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273 Index Italic page numbers denote illustrations. AACI (Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel), 69 absentee properties, 56, 60–61, 87 absorption (klitah), 39, 69–70 Abu Medain, tomb of, 139 activism: housing rights, 31, 222, 225–28, 242–45, 247–53; human rights, 137n29 aestheticization of politics, 140 Algeria, 20n27 aliyah (Jewish immigration), 39, 66 Amiry, Suad, 201, 204n17 Ammunition Hill (Giv’at Hatachmoshet ), 76, 91n15, 98 ‘Anata neighborhood, 223, 229, 248–50 an-Nakba (expulsions of Palestinians), 48 anti-Semitism: Balfour’s, 51; history of, 3 apartheid, 7, 180, 254 Aqabat Abu Medain (renamed Western Wall Street), 139 Arab homes. See Palestinian homes Arabic language: Hebrew compared to, 86, 96; recognizing sound of, 189 Arab infiltration, 55, 82, 82n4 Arab-Jewish relations, 206–9; binational state and, 45n17, 50n25; marriage and, 48; mixed Arab-Jewish residential life, 34; views on, 34, 35, 37, 39–50. See also intercommunal relations Arab quarter. See Moroccan Quarter Arab Revolt (1936-39), 40n8 Arabs: attitude toward, 104; cultural assumptions about, 210n21; in Jewish Quarter, 136, 136n26, 139; Palestinians compared to, 55, 76; separation of Jews and, 4, 23, 32, 41, 45, 48, 87, 120, 126, 137, 147, 182, 196, 218. See also Palestinians Arab terrorism, 147–48, 155, 174, 191, 209 Arab threat: discourses around, 182n3; gendered dimensions of policing, 194–95 Arab villages. See Palestinian villages Arafat, Yasser, 78, 104, 186, 235 Areas A, 227 Armenian Quarter, 131 Armenian tile, 58 Armistice Agreement (1949), 83n8, 127 Armistice Line, 80–81, 127 Asad, Talal, 6, 12 Ashkenazi Jews, 47 Ashraf (Palestinian man), 208 Assiwiyya village, 173n18, 174, 244 274 ◆ Index Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel (AACI), 69 Ayalon, Ami, 191n10 ‘Azmi, 216–18 Balfour, Alfred, 18, 51 Balfour Street, 47n20, 51 Balibar, Etienne, 153, 157 Baq’a neighborhood (renamed Geulim), 53 Baramki, Andoni, 77–79, 88, 90 Baramki, Gabriel, 78–79, 84–85, 87, 95, 100–102 Baramki, Suha, 79–80 Baramki house: appropriation and reconfiguration of, 77–79, 83, 89–105, 93, 97, 109; exteriors and façades of, 92–93, 93, 97; filled-in windows of, 81, 92, 96, 97, 99, 102; gazing across at, 84–85; interiors of, 94–96; Israel’s purity of arms in, 96, 98–100; as military post, 80–81, 83; plaque at, 94; return to, 100–102; size and location of, 80, 92. See also Tourjeman Army Post; Tourjeman Post Museum Barthes, Roland, 98, 144 Bedouin, Jahalin, 239–42, 251 Begin, Menachem, 107 Beit Arabiya house, 248, 253 Beit El, 245 Beit Hanina village, 230n9 Ben-Ami, Shlomo, 49 Ben-Gurion, David, 22n28 Ben Gurion Airport, 29, 195 Benjamin, Walter, 140, 235 Ben Moshe, Etan, 124 Benvenisti, Meron, 61n37, 121, 125; on Moroccan Quarter, 118–19, 126–27; New York Times interview of, 108; on Tourjeman Army Post, 89–90 Benziman, Uzi, 123 Bethlehem, 128, 197, 232 Bhabha, Homi, 54–55 Bible: Book of Joshua, 125, 237n16; Hebrew messages on Palestinian homes, 58–60; references to, 22–23 binational state, 45n17, 50n25 Bisharat, Hanna, 55 Bisharat family and property, 55–61, 59, 60 blackness, 216–18 blending: definition of, 204–5; examples of, 209–12; limits of, 212–13 body, techniques of, 199–201 bombings: of buses and public places, 184–92, 185n4, 202n16; civilians killed by, 182; King David Hotel, 33, 38; in Musrara neighborhood, 145–48, 147n2, 151–56, 153n6, 177–79; suicide, 186–87, 191n11, 201–2, 202n16 Book of Joshua, 125, 237n16 Bourdieu, Pierre, 44, 200 Breaking the Silence, 198 Brecht, Bertolt, 110, 122, 181 bribes, 201 British colonialism: Arab Revolt against, 40n8; Jerusalem and, 30, 34–50, 48n23, 222; Palestine under, 6–7, 6n9, 11, 18; Talbieh neighborhood during, 45–50 British Land Ordinance of 1943, 7n9, 136n25 British Mandate: end of, 10, 34, 36, 38n5; final years of, 47–48 British School of Archaeology, 26, 26n29 B’Tselem (human rights organization), 188 Index ◆ 275 Buber, Martin, 49n25; home of, 66 Burqan, Muhammed, 137 Burqan v. Minister of Finance, 137 buses, 197; bombings of, 184–92, 185n4, 202n16 Bush administration, 190 capitalism, 12, 20, 20n27 Cesaire, Aime, 121 chauvinism, 23, 40, 149–50, 149n3, 153, 164, 177 checkpoints: Mandelbaum Gate, 83, 84; profiling, security and, 195–99; role of, 181, 203, 227; throughout West Bank, 198 Christians: concerns of, 17, 117, 132, 135, 136; on intermarriage, 48; Mariam, 84–85; travel restrictions for, 111; treatment of, 149 Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 9n13 citizenship...