Acronyms

AAUG Association of Arab-American University Graduates AAWO Alliance Against Women’s AFFP American Friends of Free Palestine AFSC American Friends Service Committee ASU American Servicemen’s Union AZYF American Zionist Youth Foundation BARU Bay Area Union BDS Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement CIA Central Intelligence Agency CLP Communist Labor Party CONAME Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East CPME Committee for a Progressive Middle East CPSU of the CPUSA Communist Party of the United States of America; Communist Party USA CRV Committee of Returned Volunteers CSMEL Committee to Support Middle East Liberation DSA Democratic Socialists of America DSOC Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation FOR Fellowship of Reconciliation FSLN Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional

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JA Jewish Agency JLP Jewish Liberation Project JPF Jewish Peace Fellowship JUJ Jews for Urban Justice LNS Liberation News Service MERIP Middle East Research and Information Project MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology NAARPR National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression NAM NLG National Lawyers Guild OAS Organization of Arab Students OL October League PDFLP Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP–GC Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine—General Command PFOC Prairie Fire Organizing Committee PHRC Palestine Human Rights Campaign PLO Palestine Liberation Organization PSC Palestine Solidarity Committee RCPUSA Revolutionary Communist Party USA RZA Radical Zionist Alliance SANE National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference SDS Students for a Democratic Society SDUSA Social Democrats USA SI Socialist International SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SPA Socialist Party of America SUNY State University of SWP Socialist Workers Party TWWA Third World Women’s Alliance UCLA University of California at Los Angeles USYC United States Youth Council UVA University of Virginia VVAW Vietnam Veterans Against the War Acronyms xi

VVAW/WSO Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier Organization WAI Women Against Imperialism WPP WRL War Resisters League WSP Women Strike for Peace WSU Wayne State University WUO Organization WWP YAWF Youth Against War and Fascism YCPDME Youth Committee for Peace and Democracy in the Middle East YIPME Youth Institute for Peace in the Middle East YPSL Young People’s Socialist League YSA Young Socialist Alliance This page intentionally left blank THE MOVEMENT AND THE MIDDLE EAST This page intentionally left blank