Palestine

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Medinet Habu
Padiiset's Statue
Palestine

From Middle English Palestyne, from Old English Palestina, from Latin Palaestīna (“Roman province of Palestine”), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē, “Philistia and the surrounding region”), from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia, land of the Philistines”). The term P-l-s-t or P-r-s-t, found in five Ancient Egyptian inscriptions (beginning with one at Medinet Habu from circa 1170 BCE and ending with Padiiset's Statue inscription from circa 900-850 BCE) as the name of a people near Egypt, is traditionally taken to be cognate. Seven Assyrian inscriptions contain the word "Palas(h)tu" or "Pilistu", which is usually also taken to be cognate.

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Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.

2019 July 17, Talia Levin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:

A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.

(sometimes strictly) The West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.

2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:

The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.


Palestinian

Until Israel’s critics figure out how to acknowledge the pain and suffering resulting from Palestinian terrorism and exterminationist rhetoric, by pointing the Palestinians and the Arabs toward real change, they will fail to sway those Israelis and Jews that are ready to take a shot at reconciliation.

2009 September 27, “The New Israel Lobby”, in The New York Times:

We got a message back from Israel that they were withdrawing their troops immediately from Lebanon. We are notifying the Syrians and the Lebanese and demanding that they mutually participate in a cease-fire and withdrawal of the Palestinians back ten kilometers from the Israeli borders.

2011 [1977 September 24], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107:

An inhabitant of Palestine or someone descending from that area.

palestinez

inhabitant of Palestine or Arab of Palestinian descent


PNA

Palestinian National Authority
w:Palestinian National Authority

Initialism of Palestinian National Authority.


piastre

From French piastre, from Italian piastra (“plate of wood or metal; coin”), probably from Latin emplastra.

A form of currency currently used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern and East African countries of Egypt, Jordan (partly including Palestine), Lebanon, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria.


West Bank

→ German: Westbank

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Calque of Arabic الضِّفَّة الْغَرْبِيَّة (aḍ-ḍiffa(t) al-ḡarbiyya, literally “the west bank”), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River.

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الضِّفَّة الْغَرْبِيَّة

2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Smaller than Delaware, packed with 2.7 million people, the core of a proposed future Palestinian state, the occupied West Bank is partitioned by the Oslo Accords into zones of Palestinian and Israeli control.

A Palestinian territory on the west bank of the Jordan river, claimed by and under the partial administration of State of Palestine, and illegally occupied by Israel.

ヨルダン川西岸地区

ヨルダンがわせいがんちく

വെസ്റ്റ് ബാങ്ക്

vesṟṟŭ bāṅkŭ


Jerusalemite

I say this because, according to the old Jerusalemites, the building blocks of the world and its inhabitants were formed of the alphabet at the back of God's tongue when He pronounced the world […].

2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13:

Thousands of Jerusalemites gathered on the battl4ements to gawp at this show, admiring 'the beauty of their armour and admirable order of the men.'

2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem:

A residual mineral of the sands of Jerusalem, as with Trinitite.


prutah

en-noun

prutah (plural prutahs or prutot or prutoth)

prutahs (plural)
prutot (plural)
prutoth (plural)

A bronze coin, equivalent to the Roman quadrans, used in ancient Palestine.


Nakba

From Arabic نَكْبَة (nakba, “disaster, catastrophe”), from نَكَبَ (nakaba, “to make miserable”).

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2002, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Written statement,
The ongoing Nakba […] perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians since 1948 is characterized by a new form of Apartheid, including elements of the crime of Apartheid as defined in the […] [Apartheid Convention], colonialism and other forms of extreme racism practiced by Israel[.]

The Palestinian Nakba continues to this day, as Israeli practices and policies of evictions, home demolitions, deportations, settlement activities, wall-building as well as closure and siege in both the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip generate new waves of displaced persons.

2010 May 13, Saeb Erekat, “The Nakba continues”, in Ma'an News:

Brown University's Friday Night Jews (FNJ) […] began as an informal Shabbat dinner gathering in 2016, as a space for Jewish students who were feeling fed up with Hillel’s limitations regarding Israel/Palestine discourse, after the Brown/RISD Hillel rescinded sponsorship of a film screening by the Israeli nonprofit Zochrot, an organization that educates Jewish Israelis about the Nakba.

2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents:

Speaking as he met US secretary of state Anthony Blinken in Jordan, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said a “forced displacement” would amount to a “second Nakba”, or catastrophe.

2023 October 14, “Residents flee Gaza City in fear”, in FT Weekend, page 1:

The fracturing, dispossession and displacement of Palestinian society, following the declaration of Israel on what had been most of Mandatory Palestine, including the flight or expulsion of the majority of the Palestinian Arabs (some 700,000) and the destruction of their homes.

48 Arab

Palestinian slang term referring to Arabs who reside within Israel


Gazan

Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas's overzealousness and repression.

2009 January 8, Nicholas D. Kristof, “The Gaza Boomerang”, in The New York Times:

A native or inhabitant of Gaza (Gaza City or the Gaza Strip in general).


Gaza Strip

/ˌɡɑːzə ˈstɹɪp/

A region in Palestine between Egypt and Israel.

Газзә сызыгы

Ğazzä sızığı


al-Quds

From Arabic الْقُدْس (al-quds, “the Holiness”), short for مَدِينَة الْقُدْس (madīna(t) al-quds, “City of the Holiness”).

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(chiefly used by Muslims and Arabs) Synonym of Jerusalem.


Bethlehemite

Faris, the only Bethlehemite in the cast, was striding along with a tour-guide air, visibly pleased to have us on his turf.

2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 218:


Jerichoite

(rare) A Jerichoan: a native or inhabitant of Jericho.


Jerichoan

Jerichoan walls; a Jerichoan fall


East Jerusalem

The portion of Jerusalem controlled by Jordan between 1948 and 1967.


Palestinianism

Palestinian nationalism; advocacy of Palestinian independence and autonomy.

(countable) Something that is peculiar to the Palestinian identity.

The study of Palestinian history, anthropology or archeology.


Nakba Day

The US and UK are expected to stay away from the UN General Assembly’s first-ever commemoration of Nakba Day on May 15. Israel called on UN member states to shun the event held 75 years after Arab armies attacked the nascent Jewish state on that same day in 1948.

2023 May 8, Lahav Harkov, Tovah Lazaroff, “UK and US to shun UN 'Nakba Day' event as Israel calls for boycott”, in The Jerusalem Post:

A Palestinian annual holiday on the 15th of May to commemorate the Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their homes.


Palestinianist

A proponent of Palestinianism, Palestinian nationalism.


Apartheid Wall

(derogatory, geopolitics) A separation barrier built by the Israeli government in the West Bank

Muro do Apartheid

a separation barrier built by the Israeli government in the West Bank


East al-Quds

(chiefly used by Muslims and Arabs) Synonym of East Jerusalem


Fakestinian

It seems the displaced Egyptians and other Fakestinians camping in
Gaza should return to their Cairo cesspools and leave honest Jews in
peace.

2010 April 23, William Grosvenor, “EXPOSING THE JEWISH LIES & MYTHS”, in soc.culture.australian (Usenet):

What is this '"Palestinian" [sic] culture' of which you speak? There is
certainly an Arab culture - or cultures, even. But the Fakestinians are
thieving, whining, lying, murdering bastards and have no 'culture' other
than stealing what is not theirs, and killing the rightful owner if he
resists.

2011 March 23, Yitzhak Isaac Goldstein, “The US Does The Right Thing ...”, in alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet):

lol You are full of shit, the war was between the common denominator, i.e. Moslems*, and Christians. *Many of whom were Fakestinians the Christians foolishly let in as "refugees" from Fakestine. And yes, many Christians are idiots/de facto globalists, you only have to look at the Catholic Church to see that.

2019 January 5, fffurken, “New Democrat/Palestinian Congresswoman is a filthy-mouthed cunt”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):

So, you also like to suck up to the fakestinians, classical leftard

2020 April 14, Dono., “SRT critique”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet):


Fakestinian

en-adj

Fakestinian (comparative more Fakestinian, superlative most Fakestinian)

more Fakestinian (comparative)
most Fakestinian (superlative)

A picture is worth a thousand words, and this cartoon of Fakestinian
"land", from some ignorant loon's blog, is worth a thousand words on
typical Fakestinian bopkess^([sic]), and the antisemitic mental defectives who
shovel it.

2008 August 8, dsha...@hotmail.com, “How gaining land by defensive war works for Zionists”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

Obama Signs Executive Order Allowing Mass Fakestinian Immigration To The U.S.

2009, Felix von Keudell, The Internet: The Book of Revelations Vol. 1, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC:

'... since Obama is an advocate of the principles of democracy, it
should be clear to him that someday the Fakestinian majority in Jordan
will take over the reins in Jordan and establish a formal Fakestinian
state there'

2011 May 23, Yitzhak Isaac Goldstein, “A Fakestinian State is an Illusion...”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):

2018 May 18, Joe Cooper, “Media Coverage of the Israeli-Fakestinian Clash Is Built on a Myth”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):


Irgun

Borrowed from Hebrew ארגון (irgún, “organization”).

(historical) A Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948.


Mandatory Palestine

(historical) A geopolitical entity under British administration, originally consisting of contemporary Israel, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank),, and the Gaza Strip which existed from 1920 to 1948.


Palestinophile

From Palestine + -o- + -phile or Palestino- + -phile.


Palestinophilic

Palestinophilic (comparative more Palestinophilic, superlative most Palestinophilic)

more Palestinophilic (comparative)
most Palestinophilic (superlative)

(Palestinology) Of or pertaining to Palestinophilia.


Palestinocentric

Palestinocentric (comparative more Palestinocentric, superlative most Palestinocentric)

more Palestinocentric (comparative)
most Palestinocentric (superlative)

Centred on or emphasizing Palestine or Palestinians


Palestinianness

The state or quality of being Palestinian.


From Arabic عَرَب 48 (ʕarab 48) or Arabic فِلَسْطِينِيُّو 48 (filasṭīniyyū 48). 48 refers to the Israeli state's year of founding, 1948, and the borders of Israel during that year.

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فِلَسْطِينِيُّو 48

(Palestine, Israel, slang) An Arab resident of Israel.


Greater Syria

A region in the Middle East consisting roughly of Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Jordan


Hebronite

A native or inhabitant of the Palestinian city of Hebron.


from the river to the sea

A calque of Arabic مِنَ ٱلنَّهْرِ إِلَى ٱلْبَحْرِ (mina n-nahri ʔilā l-baḥri, “from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea”), popularized among Palestinians by the Palestine Liberation Organization, from Hebrew בין הים לירדן (“between the [Mediterranean] sea and the Jordan [river]”); as seen in the platform of the right-wing Zionist Likud party in 1977; both referring to the geography of Palestine.

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مِنَ ٱلنَّهْرِ إِلَى ٱلْبَحْرِ

from the 􂀿Jordan􂁀 river to the 􂀿Mediterranean􂁀 sea

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בין הים לירדן

between the 􂀿Mediterranean􂁀 sea and the Jordan 􂀿river􂁀

The way out [of this cycle of violence] remains the same: a change of regime in Israel that brings equal rights for everyone from the river to the sea[.]

2023 November 5, Ilan Pappe, “Why Israel wants to erase context and history in the war on Gaza”, in Al-Jazeera, archived from the original on 2023-11-05:

We demand your emancipation
From the river to the sea!
We stand with your emancipation;
Your people will be free!

2023, Seth Staton Watkins (lyrics and music), “Oh Palestine, Oh Palestine”:

from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

(politics) A slogan expressing support for Palestinian self-determination.

From the river to the sea
Likud
Palestine Liberation Organization


sumud

From Arabic صُمُود (ṣumūd, “steadfastness; firmness, resistance”).

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Meari (2015) [...] introduc[es] the discourse of sumud. Sumud is
 a Palestinian anticolonial construct promoted by Palestinians living under the colonial order, which constantly subjects Palestinians to arrest, […] The discourse of sumud is the praxis of struggle […] Sumud embodies a radical alterity […] Sumud is the refusal to confess or reveal secrets to interrogators […]

2019 September 16, Carolyn Kagan, Mark Burton, Paul Duckett, Rebecca Lawthom, Asiya Siddiquee, Critical Community Psychology: Critical Action and Social Change, Routledge, →ISBN:

Steadfastness, as a Palestinian value; steadfast Palestinianness and resistance to colonization, arrest, etc by Israel.


Tal al-Rabi'

Borrowed from Arabic تَلّ اَلرَّبِيع (tall ar-rabīʕ), from a calque of Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív).

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تَلّ اَلرَّبِيع

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[Farfour's grandfather:] The land is called Tel Al-Rabi'. But unfortunately, the Jews called it "Tel Aviv" after they occupied it.[…]¶ [Farfour's grandfather:] Farfour, I am very tired. I feel that I am about to die. I feel very close to the land of Tel Al-Rabi'. I hope you will protect it.

2007 June 29, “Farfour, Hamas' Mickey Mouse Character, Is 'Martyred' in the Final Episode of the "Pioneers of Tomorrow" Children Show on Hamas TV”, in MEMRI TV, archived from the original on 2024-04-21:

“Why did [Doueiri] forget that this city was founded on the ruins of an Arab village called Tel Al-Rabi’, which was ethnically cleansed of its original inhabitants in 1949? Can he deny having ignored the tragedy which still impacts the original inhabitants of Tel Al-Rabi’ and Jaffa?” read a statement issued by the campaign.

2013 March 14, Elhanan Miller, “The Lebanese film that was ‘too Israeli’ for the Oscars”, in The Times of Israel, archived from the original on 2024-09-10:

A supposed settlement in Palestine, which some Palestinians allege was forcefully renamed and converted into the city of Tel Aviv by Israeli settlers.